Gyeongju

Gyeongju is a coastal town in the far southeastern corner of North Gyeongsang Province in South Korea. It is the second one largest city with the aid of place in the province after Andong, masking 1,324 km2 with a populace of 264,091 people Gyeongju is 370 km southeast of Seoul, and 55 km east of Daegu. The city borders Cheongdo and Yeongcheon to the west, Ulsan to the south and Pohang to the north, even as to the east lies the coast of the Sea of Japan. Numerous low mountains outliers of the Taebaek variety are scattered across the metropolis.

Gyeongju became the capital of the ancient state of Silla, which dominated approximately two-thirds of the Korean Peninsula at its peak between the 7th and ninth centuries, for close to one thousand years. Later Silla was a rich and wealthy country ., and its metropolitan capital of Gyeongju was the fourth largest city in the global. A significant number of archaeological web sites and cultural residences from this period remain within the metropolis. Gyeongju is often called "the museum with out partitions".