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{{Short description|Municipal City in Gangwon, South Korea}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Chuncheon
| native_name = {{lang|ko-Hang|춘천시}}
| settlement_type = [[Cities of South Korea|Municipal City]]
| translit_lang1 = Korean
| translit_lang1_type1 = [[Hangul]]
| translit_lang1_info1 = {{lang|ko-Hang|춘천시}}
| translit_lang1_type2 = [[Hanja]]
| translit_lang1_info2 = {{lang|ko-Hant|春川市}}
| translit_lang1_type3 = {{nowrap|Revised Romanization}}
| translit_lang1_info3 = Chuncheon-si
| translit_lang1_type4 = {{nowrap|McCune-Reischauer}}
| translit_lang1_info4 = Ch'unch'ŏn-si
| image_skyline = Chuncheon-01.jpg
| imagesize =
| image_caption = View of Soyang Bridge and Seoyang River
| image_map = Gangwon-Chuncheon.svg
| mapsize =
| map_caption = Location in South Korea
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = South Korea
| subdivision_type1 = [[Regions of Korea|Region]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Yeongseo, Gwandong]]
| population_blank1_title = Dialect
| population_blank1 = [[Gangwon Province (South Korea)|Gangwon]]
| area_total_km2 = 1116.43
| population_as_of = October ,2022
| population_total = 286,466
| population_density_km2 = 225
| parts_type = [[Administrative divisions of South Korea|Administrative divisions]]
| parts = 1 ''eup'', 9 ''myeon'', 15 ''dong''
| coordinates = {{coord|37|52|N|127|44|E|region:KR-42|display=it}}
| blank_name = [[Köppen climate classification|Climate]]
| blank_info = [[Humid continental climate#Hot/warm summer subtype|Dwa]]
| image_flag = Flag of Chuncheon.svg
| area_code = +82-33-2xx
| image_seal = 
| government_footnotes = 
| leader_party =
| leader_title = Mayor
| leader_name = Yuk Dong-han (육동한)
| leader_title1 =
| leader_name1 = 
}}
'''Chuncheon''' ({{Korean|hangul=춘천|hanja=春川市}}; {{IPA-ko|tsʰun.tsʰʌn}}; formerly romanized as '''Chunchŏn'''; literally ''spring river'') is the capital of [[Gangwon-do (South Korea)|Gangwon Province]] in [[South Korea]]. The city lies in the north of the county, located in a basin formed by the [[Soyang River]] and [[Han River (Korea)|Han River]]. There are some large lakes around the city, most notably [[Soyang Lake]] and [[Uiam Lake]] (or Uiam Dam). The area has small river islands, such as Sangjungdo, Ha-Jungdo, Bungeodo, and Wido.

It is a popular destination among east Asian tourists as it was featured in the popular Korean drama ''[[Winter Sonata]]'' (겨울연가). It is where the resort island of [[Namiseom]] is located.

==History==

The area now occupied by the city was first settled several thousands of years ago, in prehistoric times, as demonstrated by stone-age archaeological evidence in the collections of [[Chuncheon National Museum]] and [[Hallym University]] Museum. In 637 AD the city was called ''Usooju''. In 757 AD it was renamed ''Saku'' and again in 940 AD as ''Chunju'' ({{Korean|labels=no|춘주|春州}}) before receiving its current name in 1413. In 1896, Chuncheon became the capital city of [[Gangwon (historical)|Gangwon]] province. The city was largely destroyed during the [[Korean War]] in the [[Battle of Chuncheon]].

[[Uiam Dam]] on the Bukhan River was completed in 1967.<ref name="KimKongbogwan1978">{{cite book|author1=Young-kwon Kim|author2=Korea (South). Haeoe Kongbogwan|author3=Soo-jung Lee|title=A Handbook of Korea|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8IEJAQAAIAAJ|access-date=10 June 2013|year=1978|publisher=Korean Overseas Information Service, Ministry of Culture and Information|page=576}}</ref> In 1995 Chuncheon city was merged with the government of the surrounding Chuncheon county.

==Culture==
In the spring, the Chuncheon International Mime Festival is held, as well as the Spring Season Art Festival. In the summer, the [[Chuncheon Puppet Festival]] takes place. There is also a [[Makguksu]] festival; a cold noodle dish that originated in Chuncheon. Also celebrated in the summer is the International Animation Festival. The city has had its own annual [[marathon]] race since 1946; the [[Chuncheon Marathon]] is held every October. In winter, snow and ice festivals are organized. Currently, MAC Architects-Consultants Group Ltd. ({{Korean|명승건축그룹|labels=no}}) is building the [[Design and Arts Arcadia of Myungseung]] in Chuncheon.

According to the legend surrounding Cheongpyeongsa temple in Chuncheon-si, a man loved a princess so much that he became a snake and would not leave her alone. When she begged leave to collect rice from the temple, the snake let her go but then went looking for her, only to be struck dead by lightning. The princess then buried him at the temple.<ref>Cin Woo Lee [http://www.cnngo.com/seoul/visit/33-beautiful-temples-enlightenment-857401 "Simply stunning: 33 incredible Korean temples"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120417153903/http://www.cnngo.com/seoul/visit/33-beautiful-temples-enlightenment-857401 |date=17 April 2012 }} ''CNN Go''. 10 February 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2012</ref>

==Food==

The city was historically known as a chicken farming region, and is famous for "[[dak galbi]]", which translates as chicken ribs. It consists of chicken, sliced [[cabbage]], [[sweet potato]]es, ''[[tteok]]'' (rice cakes), and [[scallion]]s, mixed with a spicy sauce heavy on [[gochujang]]. It is usually cooked in a big iron pan in the center of the table, but the original method is over charcoal. Despite the name, the dish is traditionally made from leg meat, not ribs.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hansik.org/zh/restaurant/recommendRestaurantView.do?fboardId=1077 |title=Hansik.org |access-date=9 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402111658/http://www.hansik.org/zh/restaurant/recommendRestaurantView.do?fboardId=1077 |archive-date=2 April 2012 }}</ref> There is even a street in the city dedicated to restaurants serving the dish, with some 25 restaurants populating the area.<ref>[http://english.tour2korea.com/03Sightseeing/DestinationsByThemes/Depth04.asp?sight=Sightseeing&sightseeing_id=456&ADDRESS_1=15741&ADDRESS_2=14794&ThemeCode=Sightseeing_17&kosm=m3_2 Chuncheon's Dakgalbi (spicy stir-fried chicken with vegetables)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927192627/http://english.tour2korea.com/03Sightseeing/DestinationsByThemes/Depth04.asp?sight=Sightseeing&sightseeing_id=456&ADDRESS_1=15741&ADDRESS_2=14794&ThemeCode=Sightseeing_17&kosm=m3_2 |date=27 September 2007 }}, Tour2Korea.com, Retrieved on 14 April 2006</ref>

Also, the regional specialty [[Makguksu]] noodles are famed throughout the country.

==Tourism==
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===Festivities===

====Cultural festival====
[[Gim Yujeong]] munhakje is a literature festival that takes place in April every year in memorial of the novelist [[Gim Yujeong]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tour.chuncheon.go.kr/open_content/page/sub02/sub02.asp?Mcode=20105&cont_code=61&pmode=content_view |title=Tour.chuncheon.go.kr |access-date=24 April 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508114607/http://tour.chuncheon.go.kr/open_content/page/sub02/sub02.asp?Mcode=20105&cont_code=61&pmode=content_view |archive-date=8 May 2016 }}</ref> Uiam jae is another festival in April in which people worship [[Nongae]] who sacrificed herself for the country.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tour.chuncheon.go.kr/open_content/page/sub02/sub02.asp?Mcode=20106 |title=Tour.chuncheon.go.kr |access-date=24 April 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508120413/http://tour.chuncheon.go.kr/open_content/page/sub02/sub02.asp?Mcode=20106 |archive-date=8 May 2016 }}</ref> In May, the Chuncheon International Mime Festival gathers troupes from places including Denmark, Taiwan, Germany etc., to give theatre and dance performance.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tour.chuncheon.go.kr/open_content/page/sub02/sub02.asp?Mcode=20101 |title=Tour.chuncheon.go.kr |access-date=24 April 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508115358/http://tour.chuncheon.go.kr/open_content/page/sub02/sub02.asp?Mcode=20101 |archive-date=8 May 2016 }}</ref> Chuncheon art festival in July provides performers with opportunities to show off their talents and skills.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tour.chuncheon.go.kr/open_content/page/sub02/sub02.asp?Mcode=20107 |title=Tour.chuncheon.go.kr |access-date=24 April 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508114355/http://tour.chuncheon.go.kr/open_content/page/sub02/sub02.asp?Mcode=20107 |archive-date=8 May 2016 }}</ref> Chuncheon International Early Music Festival also takes place in July with a wide range of classical [[Music of Korea]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tour.chuncheon.go.kr/open_content/page/sub02/sub02.asp?Mcode=20112 |title=Tour.chuncheon.go.kr |access-date=24 April 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508124519/http://tour.chuncheon.go.kr/open_content/page/sub02/sub02.asp?Mcode=20112 |archive-date=8 May 2016 }}</ref> [[Chuncheon Puppet Festival]] showcases traditional puppet shows every August while traditional theatre plays are performed on Chuncheon International Theatre Festival in September<ref>{{cite web|url=http://citf.or.kr/english/|title=CITF|website=citf.or.kr|access-date=24 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160403142627/http://citf.or.kr/english/|archive-date=3 April 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chuncheon International AniTown Festival in September is a free event that enables participants to learn more about animation production.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gimc.or.kr/hb/eng/|title=GimC:Gangwon Information & Multimedia Corporation|website=gimc.or.kr}}</ref>

====Local festivals====
In August, visitors can enjoy traditional Chuncheon cuisines like [[Dak-galbi]] (spicy stir-fried chicken) and [[Mak-guksu]] (buckwheat noodles) during the [[Dak-galbi|Chuncheon]] Dakgalbi & Makguksu Festival.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mdfestival.com/ |script-title=ko:2018 춘천막국수닭갈비축제|website=Mdfestival.com}}</ref> The Soyang festival, which takes place in September, promotes the cultural history of the [[Soyang Dam]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tour.chuncheon.go.kr/open_content/page/sub02/sub02.asp?Mcode=20111 |title=Tour.chuncheon.go.kr |access-date=24 April 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508113824/http://tour.chuncheon.go.kr/open_content/page/sub02/sub02.asp?Mcode=20111 |archive-date=8 May 2016 }}</ref>

====Leisure sports festival====
There are three marathons in Chuncheon every year. The National inlineskate Chuncheon Marathon takes place in April while The Chosun Ilbo Chuncheon Marathon<ref>{{cite web|title=Tour.chuncheon.go.kr|url=http://tour.chuncheon.go.kr/open_content/page/sub02/sub02.asp?Mcode=20602|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325185844/http://tour.chuncheon.go.kr/open_content/page/sub02/sub02.asp?Mcode=20602|archive-date=25 March 2016|access-date=24 April 2016}}</ref> and the Lakeside Chuncheon Marathon Festival<ref>{{cite web|last=춘천호반마라톤대회|first=2018 함기용 세계제패기념 제15회|script-title=ko:2018 함기용 세계제패기념 제15회 춘천호반마라톤대회|url=http://hoban.wizrun.com/|website=hoban.wizrun.com}}</ref> are both held in October.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tour.chuncheon.go.kr/open_content/page/sub02/sub02.asp?Mcode=20603 |title=Tour.chuncheon.go.kr |access-date=24 April 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325190059/http://tour.chuncheon.go.kr/open_content/page/sub02/sub02.asp?Mcode=20603 |archive-date=25 March 2016 }}</ref> People participates in Chuncheon Open International Taekwondo Championships in June to compete for championship in the [[Korean martial arts]] [[Taekwondo]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.koreaopentkd.org/|title=koreaopentkd.org|website=Koreaopentkd.org}}</ref> Gangchon national MTB Challenge Competition September is a [[mountain bike racing]] festival.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tour.chuncheon.go.kr/open_content/page/sub02/sub02.asp?Mcode=20604 |title=Tour.chuncheon.go.kr |access-date=24 April 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325161400/http://tour.chuncheon.go.kr/open_content/page/sub02/sub02.asp?Mcode=20604 |archive-date=25 March 2016 }}</ref>

==Economy==
Chuncheon is the market center for agricultural produce from the surrounding area. The main products are rice and [[soybean]]s. Since the 1960s [[light industry]] has become dominant in the city. After the huge success of the TV drama ''[[Winter Sonata]]'', the city has also become a major "[[Korean Wave]]" (''Han-ryu'', {{lang|ko|한류}}) tourist destination, attracting visitors from around East Asia.<ref>[http://tour.chuncheon.go.kr/eng/sub02/sub02_06_05.html A promo page of Gangwon Drama Gallery] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20070927005743/http://tour.chuncheon.go.kr/eng/sub02/sub02_06_05.html |date=27 September 2007 }}, Chuncheon City, 2005</ref>

Legoland Korea is also under construction in Chuncheon. The first Legoland in Northeast Asia, it will be built in a 1.29 square kilometer parcel of land in Jungdo island and is expected to draw over a million tourists when it opens. It will be the largest Legoland in the world.<ref>{{cite web|title=Legoland to break ground in Korea|url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20140425000802|website=Korea Herald|date = 25 April 2014|access-date=16 April 2017}}</ref>

There are [[hydroelectric powerplant]]s in the area around Chuncheon. The [[Soyang Dam]] is the largest sand gravel dam in East Asia.<ref name="lifeinkorea">[http://www.lifeinkorea.com/Travel2/kangwon/366 Lake Soyang (Gangwon province)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070911082447/http://www.lifeinkorea.com/Travel2/kangwon/366 |date=11 September 2007 }}</ref>

==Population==
Per Korean census data, Chuncheon's population has grown steadily over the past half century.
{{Historical populations
| 1965 | 191,576
| 1970 | 209,821
| 1975 | 204,246
| 1980 | 210,985
| 1985 | 213,198
| 1990 | 217,869
| 1995 | 233,016
| 2000 | 251,991
| 2005 | 256,455
| 2010 | 272,739
| 2015 | 281,725
| 2020 | 284,645
| align = none
| source = [[Statistics Korea]] (1965-2015),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://kostat.go.kr/portal/korea/index.action|title=통계청|website=Kostat.go.kr|access-date=16 December 2021}}</ref> citypopulation.de (2020)<ref>[https://www.citypopulation.de/en/southkorea/cities/ Chuncheon population statistics]</ref>
}}

==Education==
;National Universities
*[[Kangwon National University]]
*[[Chuncheon National University of Education]]
*[[Korea National Open University]] Gangwon Campus
*Korea Polytechnic 3 University
;Private Universities
*[[Hallym University]]
*Hallym Sungsim University
*Songgok College

==Transportation==
[[Image:Chuncheonstation.jpg|200px|thumb|Chuncheon station, before reconstruction]]

As of June 2014, there are two train stations in the Chuncheon suburban area: the terminus of the [[Gyeongchun Line]], [[Chuncheon station]], and the busier [[Namchuncheon station]]. [[Gimyujeong station|Gimyujeong]], [[Baegyang-ri station|Baegyang-ri]], [[Gulbongsan station|Gulbongsan]], and [[Gangchon station|Gangchon]] stations, all located in rural Chuncheon, attract tourists. Gangchon is one of the most favorite recreational destinations for university students. The [[Gyeongchun Line]] is a [[double track]] [[rapid transit]] commuter train that connects to [[Yongsan station|Yongsan]], [[Cheongnyangni station|Cheongnyangni]] and [[Sangbong station|Sangbong]] stations in [[Seoul]]. On 21 December 2010, a new realignment of the Gyeongchun Line was opened, and several new or transferable stations have since been opened to replace the existing stations outside Chuncheon, such as [[Cheonmasan station|Cheonmasan]], [[Sinnae station|Sinnae]], and [[Byeollae station|Byeollae]].

There is the Gyeongchun Line subway in Chuncheon. If you use the Gyeongchun Line, you can get to Chuncheon in an hour and a half from Seoul.

Chuncheon is the northern terminus of the [[Korea Expressway Corporation|publicly funded]] [[Jungang Expressway]], and the main destination of the privately run [[Seoul–Yangyang Expressway|Seoul-Chuncheon Expressway]], as also known as Gyeongchun Expressway that connects to [[Seoul]] and [[Hongcheon]]-east.<ref>In contrast of private-owned Seoul-Chuncheon, The current line of Chuncheon Junction to East [[Hongcheon]] interchange is run by [[Korea Expressway Corporation|KEC]], publicly.</ref> As of 2017, the expressway has been extended to east coast city of Yangyang, thus renamed to Seoul-Yangyang Expressway. Chuncheon Bus Terminal connects to all major cities in mainland South Korea.

On [[National highways of South Korea|National roads-wise]], Chuncheon is also the main strategic destination that connects between [[Changwon]] to [[Cheorwon County|Cheolwon]] of Route (Number) 5, [[Incheon]] to [[Goseong County, Gangwon|Goseong]] of [[National Route 46 (South Korea)|46]], and [[Cheorwon County|Cheolwon]] to [[Yangyang]] of 56.

There are also river transport facilities in Soyangho (Lake Soyang), which connects to Cheongpyeongsa (청평사, Buddhist) temple.<ref name="lifeinkorea" />

==Climate==
Chuncheon has a monsoon-influenced [[humid continental climate]] ([[Köppen climate classification|Köppen]]: ''Dwa'')<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.climate-data.org/asia/south-korea/gangwon-do/chuncheon-4141/?amp=true|title=Chuncheon climate: Average Temperature, weather by month, Chuncheon weather averages|website=En.climate-data.org|access-date=16 December 2021}}</ref> with cold, dry winters and hot, rainy summers. The lowest measured temperature was {{convert|−27.9|°C|0}} (6 February 1969),<ref>[http://www.kma.go.kr/weather/climate/extreme_daily.jsp?type=min_temp&mm=13&x=34&y=5 전년 일최저기온 (°C) 최저순위, 지점:101 지명:춘천] Korea Meteorological Administration</ref> and the highest was {{convert|39.5|°C|0}} (1 August 2018).<ref name= KMAextremes/> The annual precipitation is an average of 1347.3 mm.

{{Weather box
| location=Chuncheon (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1966–present)
| metric first=Y
| single line=Y
| Jan record high C = 12.7
| Feb record high C = 19.9
| Mar record high C = 23.5
| Apr record high C = 32.0
| May record high C = 34.0
| Jun record high C = 36.4
| Jul record high C = 37.2
| Aug record high C = 39.5
| Sep record high C = 33.0
| Oct record high C = 28.5
| Nov record high C = 24.8
| Dec record high C = 16.6
| year record high C = 39.5
| Jan high C = 1.9
| Feb high C = 5.4
| Mar high C = 11.6
| Apr high C = 18.9
| May high C = 24.3
| Jun high C = 28.1
| Jul high C = 29.3
| Aug high C = 29.9
| Sep high C = 25.6
| Oct high C = 19.6
| Nov high C = 11.2
| Dec high C = 3.5
| year high C =
| Jan mean C = -4.1
| Feb mean C = -1.0
| Mar mean C = 5.0
| Apr mean C = 11.7
| May mean C = 17.6
| Jun mean C = 22.2
| Jul mean C = 24.9
| Aug mean C = 25.0
| Sep mean C = 19.8
| Oct mean C = 12.7
| Nov mean C = 5.3
| Dec mean C = -2.0
| year mean C =
| Jan low C = -9.3
| Feb low C = -6.7
| Mar low C = -1.1
| Apr low C = 4.7
| May low C = 11.3
| Jun low C = 17.0
| Jul low C = 21.3
| Aug low C = 21.3
| Sep low C = 15.3
| Oct low C = 7.5
| Nov low C = 0.4
| Dec low C = -6.6
| year low C =
| Jan record low C = -25.6
| Feb record low C = -27.9
| Mar record low C = -16.2
| Apr record low C = -6.4
| May record low C = 1.6
| Jun record low C = 5.6
| Jul record low C = 11.7
| Aug record low C = 11.3
| Sep record low C = 1.9
| Oct record low C = -5.4
| Nov record low C = -15.8
| Dec record low C = -21.7
| year record low C = -27.9
| precipitation colour = green
| Jan precipitation mm = 18.6
| Feb precipitation mm = 27.6
| Mar precipitation mm = 33.5
| Apr precipitation mm = 71.5
| May precipitation mm = 99.4
| Jun precipitation mm = 122.9
| Jul precipitation mm = 398.2
| Aug precipitation mm = 319.9
| Sep precipitation mm = 128.1
| Oct precipitation mm = 49.3
| Nov precipitation mm = 48.3
| Dec precipitation mm = 24.2
| year precipitation mm =
| Jan humidity = 68.0
| Feb humidity = 63.2
| Mar humidity = 60.6
| Apr humidity = 58.8
| May humidity = 65.0
| Jun humidity = 70.6
| Jul humidity = 80.0
| Aug humidity = 80.5
| Sep humidity = 78.2
| Oct humidity = 76.2
| Nov humidity = 73.3
| Dec humidity = 71.5
| year humidity =
| unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm
| Jan precipitation days = 6.2
| Feb precipitation days = 5.9
| Mar precipitation days = 7.3
| Apr precipitation days = 8.3
| May precipitation days = 9.1
| Jun precipitation days = 9.9
| Jul precipitation days = 15.6
| Aug precipitation days = 14.0
| Sep precipitation days = 8.3
| Oct precipitation days = 6.0
| Nov precipitation days = 8.0
| Dec precipitation days = 7.5
| year precipitation days =
| Jan snow days = 8.8
| Feb snow days = 6.3
| Mar snow days = 3.9
| Apr snow days = 0.2
| May snow days = 0.0
| Jun snow days = 0.0
| Jul snow days = 0.0
| Aug snow days = 0.0
| Sep snow days = 0.0
| Oct snow days = 0.0
| Nov snow days = 1.8
| Dec snow days = 6.7
| year snow days = 27.7
| Jan sun = 170.0
| Feb sun = 174.3
| Mar sun = 199.9
| Apr sun = 210.1
| May sun = 227.5
| Jun sun = 205.0
| Jul sun = 144.2
| Aug sun = 166.3
| Sep sun = 173.3
| Oct sun = 178.9
| Nov sun = 141.8
| Dec sun = 148.4
| year sun =
| Jan percentsun = 54.1
| Feb percentsun = 56.6
| Mar percentsun = 53.3
| Apr percentsun = 54.5
| May percentsun = 50.2
| Jun percentsun = 45.3
| Jul percentsun = 32.1
| Aug percentsun = 40.1
| Sep percentsun = 46.6
| Oct percentsun = 50.0
| Nov percentsun = 46.4
| Dec percentsun = 50.0
| year percentsun = 47.7
| source 1 = [[Korea Meteorological Administration]] (snow and percent sunshine 1981–2010)<ref name= KMA>
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| archive-date = 29 January 2022
| url = https://data.kma.go.kr/resources/normals/pdf_data/korea_pdf_0106_v2.pdf
| title = Climatological Normals of Korea (1991 ~ 2020)
| publisher = Korea Meteorological Administration
| access-date = 4 April 2022
| pages = II-19, II-20, II-453
| language = ko}}</ref><ref>
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| publisher = Korea Meteorological Administration
| access-date = 2 October 2021
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| publisher = Korea Meteorological Administration
| access-date = 10 October 2021
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| title = Climatological Normals of Korea
| date = 2011
| page = 499 and 649}}</ref>

| date=May 2011}}

==Sports==

===International competitions===
[[High1]] (Korean: 하이원) is an ice hockey team based in Chuncheon. The club was a member of the [[Asia League Ice Hockey]] between 2005 and 2019.

===Domestic competitions===
Chuncheon's association football club, [[Chuncheon FC]], is a member of the [[K4 League]], a semi-professional football competition and the fourth tier of the [[South Korean football league system]]. The club was founded on 27 February 2010 with its home at the [[Chuncheon Stadium]].

==Notable people==
* [[Son Heung-Min]] ([[Hangul]]: 손흥민), South Korean [[professional soccer|professional footballer]]
* [[Hwang Hee-chan]] ([[Hangul]]: 황희찬), South Korean [[professional soccer|professional footballer]]
* [[Hur Jae]] ([[Hangul]]: 허재), South Korean [[basketball coach]] and former [[basketball player]]
* [[Kim Jun-hyun (comedian)|Kim Jun-hyun]] ([[Hangul]]: 김준현), South Korean comedian
* [[Park Bo-ram]] ([[Hangul]]: 박보람), South Korean singer-songwriter
* [[Seunghee]] (Real Name: ''Hyun Seung-hee'', [[Hangul]]: 현승희), singer, dancer, actress and [[K-pop idol]], member of [[K-pop]] [[girlgroup|girl group]] [[Oh My Girl]]
* [[Yebin (singer)|Yebin]] (Real Name: ''Baek Ye-bin'', [[Hangul]]: 백예빈), singer-songwriter, dancer, composer and [[K-pop idol]], former member of [[K-pop]] [[girlgroup|girl groups]] [[DIA (group)|DIA]] and [[Uni.T]].
*
* [[Changjo]] (Real Name: ''Choi Jong-hyun'', [[Hangul]]: 최종현), singer-songwriter, rapper, dancer, model, actor and [[K-pop idol]], member of [[K-pop]] [[boygroup|boy group]] [[Teen Top]]
*[[Gim Yujeong|Gim Yu-jeong]] ([[Hangul]]: 김유정), one of the [[novelist]]s of Korea
*[[Jin Jong-oh]] ([[Hangul]]: 진종오), a South Korean [[Shooting sports|sports shooter]] who competed at the [[2004 Summer Olympics|2004]], [[2008 Summer Olympics|2008]], [[2012 Summer Olympics|2012]] and [[2016 Summer Olympics]]
*HAN Seung-Soo ([[Hangul]]: 한승수), the 39th prime minister of Rep. of Korea, tenure 2008-2009

==Sister cities==

Chuncheon-si protested against the enactment of "Day of [[Liancourt Rocks|Takeshima]]" ordinance of [[Shimane Prefecture]] , which expressed dispute over the [[Dokdo]] Islands, and announced suspension of its sisterhood relationship with [[Kakamigahara]] in March 2005.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Kyodo News |date=18 March 2005 |url=http://www.47news.jp/CN/200503/CN2005031801005534.html |language=ja |script-title=ja:冬ソナ・春川市も交流中断姉妹関係の各務原市などと) |access-date=16 February 2008 |archive-date=17 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717092115/http://www.47news.jp/CN/200503/CN2005031801005534.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:100%; background:#FFFFEF; float:left;"
|-
! City
! State
! Country
! Year launched
! Year terminated
|-
| [[Higashichikuma District]]
| {{flag|Nagano Prefecture}}
| {{flagu|Japan}}
| 8 June 1984
|
|-
| [[Hōfu, Yamaguchi|Hōfu]]
| {{flag|Yamaguchi Prefecture}}
| {{flagu|Japan}}
| 29 October 1991
|
|-
| [[Dongdaemun District]]
| [[Seoul]]
| {{flagu|South Korea}}
| 2003
|
|-
| [[Ansan-si]]
| [[Gyeonggi-do]]
| {{flagu|South Korea}}
| 2011
|
|-
| [[Kakamigahara]]
| {{flag|Gifu Prefecture}}
| {{flagu|Japan}}
| 31 October 2003
| 25 June 2005
|-
| [[Addis Ababa]]
| Addis Ababa (State)
| {{flagu|Ethiopia}}
| 2 May 2004
|
|-
| [[Chicago]]
| {{flag|Illinois}}
| {{flag|United States}}
| 1998
|-
| [[Nanyang, Henan|Nanyang]]
| [[Henan]]
| {{flagicon|PRC}} China
| 15 September 2012
|
|}
{{clear}}

==See also==
* [[List of cities in South Korea]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Chuncheon}}
* {{wikivoyage-inline|Chuncheon}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927005735/http://tour.chuncheon.go.kr/eng/index.asp Official Homepage of Chuncheon City] {{in lang|en}}

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{{Metropolitan cities of South Korea}}
{{Most populous cities in South Korea}}
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[[Category:Cities in Gangwon Province, South Korea]]

List of oldest universities in continuous operation

2023-04-25T14:01:15Z

UserArtificial820029: Seonggyungwan only ceased operating as an educational institution between 1498-1506 and between 1598-1604.

{{Short description|Historical list of Universities}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}}
{{broader|Oldest higher-learning institutions}}
[[File:Mediaeval universities.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|A 1911 map of [[Medieval university|medieval universities]] in Europe]]
[[File:Archiginnasio-bologna02.png|thumb|upright=1.2|The [[University of Bologna]] in [[Bologna]], Italy, is the world's oldest university in continuous operation.<ref name="de Ridder-Symoens">de Ridder-Symoens, Hilde: [https://books.google.com/books?id=5Z1VBEbF0HAC ''A History of the University in Europe: Volume 1, Universities in the Middle Ages''], Cambridge University Press, 1992, {{ISBN|0-521-36105-2}}, pp. 47–55</ref>]]
[[File:1 christ church hall 2012.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|A dining hall at the [[University of Oxford]] in [[Oxford]], England, the world's second-oldest university and oldest in the [[English (language)|English-speaking]] world]]
[[File:Cam colls from johns.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Partial view of the [[University of Cambridge]] in [[Cambridge]], England, the world's third-oldest university]]
This is a '''list of the oldest existing universities in continuous operation''' in the world.

Inclusion in this list is determined by the date at which the educational institute first met the traditional definition of a [[university]] used by academic historians{{refn|'The statement that all universities are descended either directly or by migration from these three prototypes [Oxford, Paris, and Bologna] depends, of course, on one's definition of a university. And I must define a university very strictly here. A university is something more than a center of higher education and study. One must reserve the term ''university'' for—and I'm quoting Rashdall here—"a scholastic guild, whether of masters or students, engaged in higher education and study," which was later defined, after the emergence of universities, as "studium generale".'<ref name="Hyde 1991">{{cite book | last = Hyde | first = J. K. | editor-last = Bender | editor-first = Thomas | chapter = Universities and Cities in Medieval Italy | title = The university and the city: from medieval origins to the present | place = Oxford | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 1991 | pages = 13–14 | isbn = 978-0-19-506775-0 }}</ref>|group=Note}}{{Specify |reason=the source does not claim this is the definition used by most or all academic historians |date=February 2021}} although it may have existed as a different kind of institution before that time.<ref name="Hyde 1991" /> This definition limits the term "university" to institutions with distinctive structural and legal features that developed in [[Europe]], and which make the university form different from other institutions of higher learning in the pre-modern world, even though these may sometimes now be referred to popularly as universities. To be included in the list below, the university must have been founded before 1500 in Europe or be the oldest university derived from the medieval European model in a country or region. It must also be still in operation, with institutional continuity retained throughout its history. So some early universities, including the [[University of Paris]], founded around the beginning of the 13th century<ref name=Verger/> but abolished by the [[French Revolution]] in 1793,<ref name="Jones, 2006">{{cite book | last = Jones | first = Colin | chapter = Queen of Cities | title = Paris : The Biography of a City | place = Paris | publisher = Penguin Books | year = 2006 | pages = 60 | isbn = 978-0-14-303671-5}}</ref> are excluded. Some institutions reemerge, but with new foundations, such as the modern University of Paris, which came into existence in 1896 after the ''Louis Liard law'' disbanded [[Napoleon]]'s [[University of France]] system.

The word ''university'' is derived from the {{lang-la|universitas magistrorum et scholarium}}, which approximately means "community of teachers and scholars". The [[University of Bologna]] in [[Bologna]], Italy, where teaching began around 1088 and which was organised into a university in the late twelfth century, is the world's oldest university in continuous operation,<ref>de Ridder-Symoens, Hilde: [https://books.google.com/books?id=5Z1VBEbF0HAC ''A History of the University in Europe: Volume 1, Universities in the Middle Ages''], Cambridge University Press, 1992, {{ISBN|0-521-36105-2}}, pp. 47–55</ref> and the first university in the sense of a higher-learning and degree-awarding institute.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wyjnHZ1IIlgC&pg=PA18 |title=The Challenge of Bologna|author=Paul L. Gaston |year=2010 |page=18 |isbn=978-1-57922-366-3 |access-date=25 December 2022}}</ref><ref name="Hunt Janin 2008">Hunt Janin: "The university in medieval life, 1179–1499", McFarland, 2008, {{ISBN|0-7864-3462-7}}, p. 55f.</ref><ref name="de Ridder-Symoens"/> The origin of many [[Medieval university|medieval universities]] can be traced back to the [[Catholic]] [[cathedral school]]s or [[monastic school]]s, which appeared as early as the 6th century and were run for hundreds of years as such before their formal establishment as universities in the [[High Middle Ages|high medieval period]].<ref name="Riché 1978 126–7, 282–98">{{Cite book | last = Riché | first = Pierre | title = Education and Culture in the Barbarian West: From the Sixth through the Eighth Century | publisher = University of South Carolina Press | location = Columbia | year = 1978 | isbn = 978-0-87249-376-6 |pages=126–127, 282–298}}</ref>

[[Ancient higher-learning institutions]], such as those of [[ancient Greece]], [[History of Iran|ancient Persia]], [[ancient Rome]], [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantium]], [[ancient China]], [[History of India|ancient India]] and the [[Muslim world|Islamic world]], are not included in this list owing to their cultural, historical, structural and legal differences from the medieval European university from which the modern university evolved.{{refn|"No one today would dispute the fact that universities, in the sense in which the term is now generally understood, were a creation of the [[Middle Ages]], appearing for the first time between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It is no doubt true that other civilizations, prior to, or wholly alien to, the [[Middle Ages|medieval]] [[Western world|West]], such as the [[Roman Empire]], [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantium]], [[History of Islam|Islam]], or [[Ancient China|China]], were familiar with forms of higher education which a number of historians, for the sake of convenience, have sometimes described as universities.Yet a closer look makes it plain that the institutional reality was altogether different and, no matter what has been said on the subject, there is no real link such as would justify us in associating them with [[Medieval university|medieval universities]] in the West. Until there is definite proof to the contrary, these latter must be regarded as the sole source of the model which gradually spread through the whole of Europe and then to the whole world. We are therefore concerned with what is indisputably an original institution, which can only be defined in terms of a historical analysis of its emergence and its mode of operation in concrete circumstances."<ref>Verger, Jacques: "Patterns", in: Ridder-Symoens, Hilde de (ed.): ''A History of the University in Europe. Vol. I: Universities in the Middle Ages'', Cambridge University Press, 2003, {{ISBN|978-0-521-54113-8}}, pp. 35–76 (35):</ref>|group=Note}}{{refn|"Thus the university, as a form of social organization, was peculiar to [[medieval Europe]]. Later, it was exported to all parts of the world, including the [[Muslim]] East; and it has remained with us down to the present day. But back in the Middle Ages, outside of Europe, there was nothing anything quite like it anywhere."<ref>Makdisi, George: "Madrasa and University in the Middle Ages", ''[[Studia Islamica]]'', No. 32 (1970), pp. 255–264 (264):</ref>|group=Note}}<ref name="Rüegg">Rüegg, Walter: "Foreword. The University as a European Institution", in: ''A History of the University in Europe. Vol. 1: Universities in the Middle Ages'', Cambridge University Press, 1992, {{ISBN|0-521-36105-2}}, pp. XIX–XX.</ref>

== Medieval origins ==
{{Main|Medieval university}}

The university as an [[institution]] was historically rooted in [[Middle Ages|medieval]] society, which it in turn influenced and shaped. Academic historian Walter Rüegg asserts that:<ref name="Rüegg" />

{{blockquote|The university is a European institution; indeed, it is the European institution ''par excellence''. There are various reasons for this assertion. As a community of teachers and taught, accorded certain rights, such as [[Academic freedom|administrative autonomy]] and the determination and realisation of curricula (courses of study) and of the objectives of research as well as the award of publicly recognised degrees, it is a creation of [[Middle Ages|medieval Europe]], which was the Europe of [[Pope|papal]] Christianity [...].}}

== Modern spread ==
From the [[early modern period]] onwards, the university spread from the [[Western culture#Medieval West|medieval Latin West]] across the globe, eventually replacing [[Ancient higher-learning institutions|all other higher-learning institutions]] and becoming the preeminent institution for higher education everywhere. The process occurred in the following chronological order:<ref>Rüegg, Walter (ed.): ''Geschichte der Universität in Europa'', 3 vols., C.H. Beck, München 1993, {{ISBN|3-406-36956-1}}</ref>
* Southern and Western Europe (from the 11th or 12th century)
* Central and Northern Europe (from the 14th or 15th century)
* Americas (from the 16th century)
* Australia (from the 19th century)
* Asia and Africa (from the 19th or 20th century), with the exception of the [[Philippines]], where the [[University of Santo Tomas]] was established in the 17th century.

== Founded as universities before 1500 ==
{{Main|List of medieval universities}}

This list includes [[medieval universities]] that were founded before 1500 and which have retained institutional continuity since then (excluding not only those that ceased to exist, but also those that merged into or split away to an institution which is regarded as newly established). Several of these have been closed for brief periods: for example the [[University of Siena]] was closed 1805{{ndash}}1815 during [[Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)|the Napoleonic wars]], and universities in the [[Czech Republic]] and [[Poland]] were closed during [[German-occupied Europe|Nazi occupation]], 1938–1945.

Universities are dated from when, according to scholars, they first met the definition of a university. In cases such as the universities of [[University of Bologna|Bologna]] and [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] which trace their history back to teaching in individual schools prior to their formation into a university, or which existed in another form prior to being a university, the date in the list below is thus later than the date given by the institutions for their foundation.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! width="10%" rowspan=2 | Year
! rowspan=2 | University
! colspan=2 | Location
! width="50%" rowspan=2 | Notes
|-
! Original !! Current
|- valign="top"
| 1180–1190<ref>{{cite book|work=[[A History of the University in Europe]]|volume=1, Universities in the Middle Ages|page=48|title=Patterns|author=Jacques Verger|editor1=Hilde de Ridder-Symoens|editor2=Walter Rüegg|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|date=16 October 2003|isbn=9780521541138|quote=There is no indication, however, that up until around 1180, the Bolognese law schools were anything other than private schools opened and run by each master after his own fashion, gathering together the students that had entered into an agreement with him and paid him fees (collectae) in return for his teaching. The crucial change would seem to have taken place around the years 1180–90. ... The masters, who were themselves mainly Bolognese in origin, agreed from 1189 to swear an oath to the commune not to seek to transfer the ''studium'' elsewhere. The students, on the other hand, began to group themselves in nations, according to their places of origin (we hear of the Lombard nation as early as 1191), and these were soon federated into 'universities' with elected rectors at their head.
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Z1VBEbF0HAC&pg=PA48}}</ref> (teaching from c. 1088)
| [[University of Bologna]]
| [[File:Corona ferrea monza (heraldry).svg|24px]] [[Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)|Kingdom of Italy]], {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}}
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Bologna]], Italy
| Law schools existed in Bologna from the second half of the 12th century, with 1088 often considered to be the date on which teaching outside of ecclesiastical schools began.<ref name="Verger Bologna">{{cite web|url=https://www.unibo.it/en/university/who-we-are/our-history/university-from-12th-to-20th-century|title=The University from the 12th to the 20th century|publisher=University of Bologna|access-date=14 February 2021}}</ref> In 1158, petitions by Bolognese doctors of law led to Emperor [[Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor|Barbarossa]] granting the "Authentic ''Habita''", which granted various rights to students and masters but did not name Bologna or any other particular place of study.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/universitiesinpo0000unse/page/34/mode/2up|author=J.K. Hyde|pages=34–35|date=1972|publisher=Johns Hopkins Press|editor1=John W. Baldwin|editor2=Richard A. Goldthwaite|title=Commune, University, and Society in Early Medieval Bologna|work=Universities in politics; case studies from the late Middle Ages and early modern period|isbn=9780801813726}}</ref> However, it is unlikely that the university had become organised by the 1150s, and this may have been as late as the 1180s.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UcmTz4j-XIIC|page=6|title=The Universities of the Italian Renaissance|author=Paul F. Grendler|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|date=3 November 2004|isbn=9781421404233|quote=it is not likely that enough instruction and organization existed to merit the term university before the 1150s, and it might not have happened before the 1180s}}</ref> The law schools appear to have remained independent, private entities until around 1180, but became organised over the following decade. In 1189 the masters made an agreement with the commune not to transfer the ''studium'' to another town, while the Lombard students were organised into a '[[Nation (university)|nation]]' by 1191.<ref name="Verger Bologna"/><ref name="Brockliss Bologna Paris">{{cite book|quote=The first indications of the gestation of a scholars' guild comes from Bologna in 1189 when the commune forced the masters to swear not to transfer the ''studium'' to another town. Thereafter, evidence confirming that Bologna had become a ''universitas'' and announcing similar developments elsewhere proliferate. The collective identity of the many Paris schools received some sort of official recognition in 1194 when their scholars were implicitly given a grant of clerical immunity by Pope Celestine III, which were confirmed six years later by the king, Philip II. By 1208 a university had definitely begun to take shape. In that year the city's bishop, who claimed the right to license private teachers and interfere in their teaching, accepted that the masters could form an autonomous guild and police themselves, albeit under his ultimate control. In 1215 the pope blessed this arrangement by granting the fledgling university is first statutes.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iMDmCwAAQBAJ&pg=PR46|title=The University of Oxford: A History|author=L. W. B. Brockliss|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|date= 2016|page=6|isbn = 9780199243563}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| 1200–1214<ref name="Verger Oxford">{{cite book|quote=There were schools in operation in Oxford from at least as early as the middle of the twelfth century; an embryonic university organization was in existence from 1200, even before the first papal statutes (1214), which were complemented by royal charters, had established its first institutions|pages=52–53|work=[[A History of the University in Europe]]|volume=1, Universities in the Middle Ages|title=Patterns|author=Jacques Verger|editor1=Hilde de Ridder-Symoens|editor2=Walter Rüegg|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|date=16 October 2003|isbn=9780521541138|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Z1VBEbF0HAC&pg=PA52}}</ref> (teaching from c. 1096)
| [[University of Oxford]]
| {{flag|Kingdom of England}}
| {{flagicon|UK}} [[Oxford]], United Kingdom
| Teaching existed in Oxford from the late 11th century,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iMDmCwAAQBAJ&pg=PR51|title=The University of Oxford: A History|author=L. W. B. Brockliss|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|date= 2016|page=11|isbn=9780199243563}}</ref> with the university giving the date of 1096 for the earliest classes.<ref name="OxHist">{{cite web |url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/about/organisation/history |title=Introduction and history |publisher=University of Oxford |quote=As the oldest university in the English speaking world, Oxford is a unique and historic institution. There is no clear date of foundation of Oxford University, but teaching existed at Oxford in some form in 1096 and developed rapidly from 1167, when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris.|access-date=4 February 2017}}</ref> However, it was not until the early 13th century that the schools in Oxford took on an organised character. In 1201 a papal letter described John Grimm as ''magister scolarum Oxonie''.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7zorDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA48|title=The Medieval English Universities: Oxford and Cambridge to C. 1500|author= Alan B. Cobban|page=48|publisher=Taylor & Francis|date= 5 July 2017|isbn=9781351885805}}</ref> In 1209 the masters suspended their teaching in Oxford and moved to other towns (including [[Cambridge]], leading to the foundation of the [[University of Cambridge|university there]]),<ref name="Oxford1209">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/oxford/low/people_and_places/history/newsid_8405000/8405640.stm|date=18 December 2009|title=The hanging of the clerks in 1209|work=[[BBC News]]|author=Simon Bailey}}</ref> returning after a [[Papal bull|bull]] issued on 20 June 1214 by the [[papal legate]], [[Niccolò de Romanis]], that granted a number of rights to the university and established the office of [[Chancellor (university)|chancellor]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iMDmCwAAQBAJ&pg=PR53|title=The University of Oxford: A History|author=L. W. B. Brockliss|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|date= 2016|pages=13–16|isbn=9780199243563}}</ref> Both Oxford and Cambridge were granted rights of discipline over students and of fixing rents in letters issued by King [[Henry III of England|Henry III]] in 1231.<ref name=Carpenter>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FLbdk_L9TYQC&pg=PA463|page=463|title=The Struggle for Mastery: Britain, 1066–1284|author=David A. Carpenter|publisher=Oxford University Press|date= 2003|isbn=9780195220001}}</ref> A royal charter, sometimes referred to as the Magna Carta of the university, was granted in 1244, awarding further rights to the university.<ref>{{cite book|page=274|title=The Endowments of the University and Colleges to circa 1348|author1=Trevor Henry Aston|author2 = Rosamond Faith |
work=The History of the University of Oxford: The early Oxford schools|editor=Trevor Henry Aston|publisher=Clarendon Press|date=1984|isbn=9780199510115|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AkJO3TAxMtwC&pg=PA274}}</ref> The university received a papal bull ''Querentes in agro'' in 1254, with a first version issued on 27 September and a second version on 6 October. The first version followed the common form of privileges granted to [[Monastery|monastic houses]], confirming the liberties and immunities granted to the university and placing the members of the university under papal protection, but the second version (which was the version recorded in the papal register) explicitly recognised and approved the existence of the university as a scholarly community and confirmed its "liberties, ancient customs and approved statutes".<ref>{{cite book|pages=103–104|title=The University in State and Church|author= C H Lawrence|work=The History of the University of Oxford: The early Oxford schools|editor=Trevor Henry Aston|publisher=Clarendon Press|date=1984|isbn=9780199510115|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AkJO3TAxMtwC&pg=PA103}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| 1209–1225<ref name=Verger>{{cite book|pages=62–65, 68|work=[[A History of the University in Europe]]|volume=1, Universities in the Middle Ages|title=Patterns|author=Jacques Verger|editor1=Hilde de Ridder-Symoens|editor2=Walter Rüegg|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|date=16 October 2003|isbn=9780521541138|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Z1VBEbF0HAC&pg=PA62}}</ref>
| [[University of Cambridge]]
| {{flag|Kingdom of England}}
| {{flagicon|UK}} [[Cambridge]], United Kingdom
| Founded by scholars leaving [[Oxford]] after a dispute caused by the execution of three scholars in 1209.<ref name="Oxford1209"/> The university was organised under a chancellor by 1225.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iMDmCwAAQBAJ&pg=PR58|title=The University of Oxford: A History|author=L. W. B. Brockliss|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|date= 2016|page=18|isbn=9780199243563}}</ref> The university takes 1209 as its official anniversary.<ref name=Cambridge800>{{cite web|title=800th anniversary|url=http://www.cam.ac.uk/univ/800/|publisher=University of Cambridge|access-date=7 January 2012}}</ref> Along with Oxford, Cambridge was granted rights of discipline over its students and of fixing rents in letters issued by King [[Henry III of England|Henry III]] in 1231.<ref name=Carpenter/> It received papal recognition as an academic corporation via an [[indult]] granted by [[Pope Gregory IX]] in 1233 and was named as a ''[[studium generale]]'' in the [[papal bull]] ''Inter singula'' in 1318. The traditional view was that this raised it to a ''studium generale'' but more recent scholarship (which is now generally, although not universally, accepted) sees the bull as confirming, rather than conferring, this status.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7zorDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA59|title=The Medieval English Universities: Oxford and Cambridge to C. 1500|author= Alan B. Cobban|pages=58, 59|publisher=Taylor & Francis|date= 5 July 2017|isbn=9781351885805}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1OMGDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA162|pages=162–163|work=Law as Profession and Practice in Medieval Europe: Essays in Honor of James A. Brundage|editor1=Kenneth Pennington|editor2= Melodie Harris Eichbauer|publisher=Routledge |date=15 April 2016 |title=When did Cambridge become a ''studium generale''|author=Patrick Zutshi|isbn=9781317107682}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| 1218–1219<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Salamanca]]
| [[File:Leon banner.svg|border|26px|Pennant of the Kingdom of León]] [[Kingdom of León]]
| {{flagicon|Spain}} [[Salamanca]], Spain
| The oldest university in the Hispanic world. The university was founded by [[Alfonso IX]] of León in 1218 and recognised by a papal bull from [[Pope Alexander IV]] in 1255.<ref name="usal">{{cite web|url=http://m.usal.es/webusal/en/node/941?bcp=conocenos|language=es|title=Reseña Histórica de la USAL|publisher=University of Salamanca|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| 1222<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Padua]]
| [[File:Flag of Bologna.svg|border|26px]] [[Padua#Emergence of the Commune|Medieval commune of Padua]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Padua]], Italy
| Founded by scholars and professors after leaving [[Bologna]]. Awarded the first degree in the world to be conferred on a woman, [[Elena Cornaro Piscopia]], in 1678.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.unipd.it/en/history|title=History|publisher=University of Padua|access-date=19 February 2021}}</ref><ref name=cathen>{{cite book|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15188a.htm|title=Universities|author=Pace, E. |date=1912|work= The Catholic Encyclopedia|publisher= New York: Robert Appleton Company|via=New Advent|access-date=1 February 2017}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| 1224<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Naples Federico II]]
| [[File:King Manfred of Sicily Arms.svg|20px]] [[Kingdom of Sicily]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Naples]], Italy
| Claims to be the oldest public university in the world,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.international.unina.it/ |publisher=University of Naples Frederico II|access-date=19 February 2021|title=International Unina}}</ref> as one of the first to be founded by a head of state, [[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor|Frederick II]], [[Holy Roman Emperor]] and king of [[Kingdom of Sicily|Sicily]]. Refounded in 1234, 1239 and 1465, and closed 1490–1507.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.international.unina.it/history/|title=History|publisher=University of Naples Frederico II|access-date=19 February 2021}}</ref>
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| 1290<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Coimbra]]
| [[File:PortugueseFlag1248.svg|20px|Flag of Portugal (1248–1385]] [[Portugal in the Middle Ages|Kingdom of Portugal]] 
| {{flagicon|Portugal}} [[Coimbra]], Portugal
| Originally established in [[Lisbon]] but relocated to Coimbra from 1308 to 1338 and again from 1354 to 1377,<ref name=Verger/> before finally moving permanently to Coimbra in 1537.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Nature|date=1 January 1938|title=The Quatercentenary of the University of Coimbra|author=F. G. Donnan|volume=141|issue=3558|page=63|doi=10.1038/141063a0|bibcode=1938Natur.141...63D|s2cid=4122832|doi-access=free}}</ref>
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| 1293 (Papal recognition 1346)<ref name=Verger/>
|[[University of Valladolid]]
| [[File:Banner of arms crown of Castille Habsbourg style.svg|border|26px|Pennant of the Crown of Castile]] [[Crown of Castile]]
|{{flagicon|Spain}} [[Valladolid]], Spain
| Founded in the late 13th century,<ref name=Verger/> probably by the city,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9otEuneTZ74C&pg=PA559|page=559|title=La educación en la Hispania antigua y medieval|author=Bernabé Bartolomé Martínez|language=es|publisher=Ediciones Morata|date=1 January 1992|isbn=9788471123749}}</ref> with the first documented reference dating from 1293.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://relint.uva.es/inicio/internacional/espanol/estudiantes/guia-bienvenida/la-universidad-de-valladolid/#|title=Foreign Students Guide|publisher=University of Valladolid|access-date=20 February 2021}}</ref>
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| 1308<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Perugia]]
| [[File:Emblem of the Papacy SE.svg|22px|Coat of arms of the Papal States]] [[Papal States]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Perugia]], Italy
| The university traces its history back to 1276 and statutes were granted in 1306 prior to the [[Papal bull|bull]] of [[Pope Clement V]] of 8 September 1308.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unipg.it/en/university/history|title=History|publisher=University of Perugia|access-date=20 February 2020}}</ref>
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| 1347<ref name=Verger/>
| [[Charles University]]
| [[File:Blason Boheme.svg|22px|Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Bohemia]] [[Kingdom of Bohemia]], {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}}
| {{flagicon|Czech Republic}} [[Prague]], Czech Republic
| Faculties of theology, law and medicine closed during the [[Bohemian Reformation]], leaving only the faculty of liberal arts. Became Charles-Ferdinand University after the [[Thirty Years' War]], with all four faculties restored. Split into German and Czech parts in 1882; the Czech branch restored the name Charles University after independence in 1918 and closed briefly during [[German-occupied Europe|Nazi occupation]] (1939–1945) while the German branch closed permanently in 1945.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cuni.cz/UKEN-106.html |title=History of Charles University |publisher=Charles University |access-date=20 February 2021}}</ref>
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| 1357<ref name=Verger/> (originally 1246–1252)<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Siena]]
| [[File:Siena-Stemma.png|18px|Coat of arms of Siena]] [[Republic of Siena]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Siena]], Italy
| Claims to have been founded in 1240 by the [[Mediæval commune|Commune]] of [[Siena]],<ref name=Siena>{{cite web|url=http://www.unisi.it/ateneo/storia-dellateneo|language=it|publisher=University of Siena|access-date=4 February 2017|title=Storia dell'Ateneo}}</ref> although Rashdall dates the proclamation of the Studium to 1246, when [[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor|Frederick II]] tried to place a ban on scholars travelling to Bologna, the date also given by Verger.<ref name=Verger/> Was granted some exemptions from taxes by Pope [[Innocent II]] in 1252, but closed shortly after when the scholars returned to Bologna. Attempted revivals in 1275 and (fed by further short-lived migrations of scholars from Bologna) in 1321 and 1338 were unsuccessful. Gained an Imperial Bull in 1357 "granting it ''de novo'' the 'privileges of a Studium Generale.{{' "}}, but was not firmly established until "[i]n 1408 a fresh grant of privileges was obtained from [[Pope Gregory XII]]".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iW7E7LQiu8kC&pg=PA31|pages=31–34|author=[[Hastings Rashdall]]|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|date=2010|title=The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages: Volume 2, Part 1|isbn=9781108018111}} Originally publisher 1895</ref> Closed temporarily in 1808–1815 when [[Napoleon]]ic forces occupied [[Tuscany]].<ref name=Siena />
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| 1361<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Pavia]]
| [[File:Coat of arms of the House of Visconti (1277).svg|18px|House of Visconti]][[Visconti of Milan|Domain of the House of Visconti]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Pavia]], Italy
| Transferred to [[Piacenza]] 1398–1412.<ref name=Verger/> Closed for short periods during the [[Italian Wars]], [[Napoleonic wars]], and [[Revolutions of 1848]].
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| 1364<ref name="Verger" /> (re-established in 1400)<ref name="Verger" />
| [[Jagiellonian University]]
| [[File:Alex K Kingdom of Poland3.svg|22px]] [[Kingdom of Poland]]
| {{flagicon|Poland}} [[Kraków]], Poland
| Founded by King [[Casimir III of Poland|Casimir the Great]] as a ''studium generale'' in 1364. After the death of Casimir the Great in 1370, the development of the university stalled, with lectures being held in various places across the city, including in professors' houses, churches and in the [[Wawel Castle|Wawel]] cathedral school. The faculty of theology was re-opened in 1397 by Queen [[Jadwiga of Poland|Jadwiga]] who left a large endowment to the university upon her death in 1399. The university was formally re-established on 26 July 1400 by King [[Jogaila|Władysław Jagiełło]]. After Kraków was incorporated into the [[Austrian Empire]], the university was merged with Lwów University from 1805 to 1809. The university was forcibly shut down during the German [[Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)]]. The staff was deported to [[Nazi concentration camps]], and many of its collections were deliberately destroyed by the occupying German authorities. Underground lectures continued for around 800 students during this period and the university formally reopened in 1945.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.uj.edu.pl/en_US/about-university/history|title=History|publisher=Jagiellonian University|access-date=14 March 2021}}</ref>
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| 1365<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Vienna]]
| rowspan="2" | {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}}
| {{flagicon|Austria}} [[Vienna]], Austria
| Founded by [[Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria]], granted papal assent in 1384 by [[Pope Urban VI]]. The oldest university in the contemporary [[Geographical distribution of German speakers|German-speaking world]]; it remains a question of definition whether Charles University in Prague was also German-speaking when founded. Due to its strong association with the [[Catholic Church]], the university suffered setbacks during the [[Reformation]], but never ceased operation.
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| 1385<ref name=Verger/>
| [[Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg]]
| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Heidelberg]], Germany
| Oldest [[List of universities in Germany|university in Germany]]. Pope Urban VI granted permission for the founding of a university in October 1385 to [[Rupert I, Elector Palatine]]; teaching began in June 1386. Gradually declined during the 17th and 18th centuries until re-established as a state-owned institution by [[Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden|Karl Friedrich, Grand Duke of Baden]] in 1803.
|-
|1398<ref>{{Cite web |title=성균관대학교 {{!}} 대학정보 {{!}} 성대역사 / 상징 {{!}} 성대역사 {{!}} 약사 {{!}} 고전 대학시대 |url=https://www.skku.edu:443/skku/about/s620/sub02_01.do |access-date=2023-04-06 |website=www.skku.edu |language=ko}}</ref>
|[[Sungkyunkwan University|Sungkyunkwan]] (''Seonggyungwan'' / ''Sŏnggyun’gwan'')
|{{flag|Joseon}}
|{{flagicon|South Korea}} [[Seoul]], Republic of Korea
|Established in 1398 by [[Taejo of Joseon|Taejo]] as the highest educational institution in Joseon. Relocation of the original ''[[Gukjagam|Sŏnggyun’gwan]]'' in [[Kaesong|Kaesŏng]], which was established in 992 by [[Seongjong of Goryeo|Seongjong]] as the highest educational institution in [[Goryeo]]. Ceased operations between 1498-1506, as [[Yeonsangun of Joseon|Yeonsangun]] transformed Seonggyungwan into a banquet and entertainment hall. Burnt down in 1598 during the [[Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)|Japanese Invasions of Korea]], and fully restored in 1604 under [[Seonjo of Joseon|Seonjo]]. Reformed into a modern three-year university in 1895. Demoted to a private institution and renamed ''Gyeonghagwon'' during [[Korea under Japanese rule|Japanese occupation]]. Original name and comprehensive university status restored in 1945 under leadership of [[:ko:김창숙|Gim Chang-suk]].
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| c. 1400<ref name=Verger/> (originally 1343 to c. 1360)<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Pisa]]
| [[File:Shield of the Republic of Pisa.svg|22px|Coat of arms of the Republic of Pisa]] [[Republic of Pisa]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Pisa]], Italy
| Established 1343 but closed around 1360; refounded at the start of the 15th century.<ref name=Verger/> Formally founded on 3 September 1343 by a [[Papal bull|bull]] of [[Pope Clement VI]], although according to the university "a number of scholars claim its origin dates back to the 11th century". Transferred to [[Pistoia]], [[Prato]] and [[Florence]] between 1494 and 1543.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unipi.it/index.php/history|title=The University of Pisa and its history|publisher=University of Pisa|access-date=20 February 2021}}</ref>
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| 1404<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Turin]]
| {{flag|Duchy of Savoy}}
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Turin]], Italy
|
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| 1409<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Leipzig]]
| {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}}
| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Leipzig]], Germany
|
|- valign="top"
| 1410<ref name=Verger/>–1413<ref name="St Andrews">{{cite web | url = https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/about/history/brief/ | title = A brief history of the University | publisher = University of St Andrews| access-date = 20 February 2021}}</ref>
| [[University of St Andrews|University of St. Andrews]]
| {{flag|Kingdom of Scotland}}
| {{flagicon|UK}} [[St Andrews|St. Andrews]], United Kingdom
| A school of higher studies was founded in 1410 and was chartered by Bishop [[Henry Wardlaw]] in 1411. Full university status conferred by a [[papal bull]] of [[Antipope Benedict XIII]] on 28 August 1413.<ref name="St Andrews"/>

The university was founded in 1410 when a group of [[Augustinians|Augustinian]] clergy, driven from the [[University of Paris]] by the [[Western Schism|Avignon schism]] and from the universities of [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] by the [[Anglo-Scottish Wars]], formed a society of higher learning in St Andrews, which offered courses of lectures in divinity, logic, philosophy, and law. St Andrews was the obvious choice — "for centuries, it was the heart of the Scottish church and political activities"<ref>{{cite book |last1=Reid |first1=Norman |title=Ever to Excel |date=2011 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |location=Edinburgh |isbn=9781845860592}}</ref> and "the seat of the greatest bishopric in Scotland and location of a monastery noted as a centre for learning".<ref>{{cite web |title=A brief history of the University |url=https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/about/history/brief/ |website=University of St Andrews |access-date=10 October 2021}}</ref> A [[charter]] of privilege was bestowed upon the society of masters and scholars by the [[Archbishop of St Andrews|Bishop of St Andrews]], [[Henry Wardlaw]],<ref name="Wardlaw, Henry, d.1440, Bishop of St Andrews">{{Cite DNB|last=Sprott |first=George Washington |wstitle=Wardlaw, Henry|volume=59|pages=352-353}}</ref> on 28 February 1411.<ref name="Meadieval university">{{Cite web|title=Meadieval university|url=http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/media/court-office/documents/medieval_university.pdf|access-date=3 January 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130722053757/http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/media/court-office/documents/medieval_university.pdf|archive-date=22 July 2013}}</ref> Wardlaw then successfully petitioned the [[Antipope Benedict XIII|Avignon Pope Benedict XIII]] to grant the school university status by issuing a series of [[papal bull]]s, which followed on 28 August 1413.<ref name="Scotland1837">{{Cite book|author=Great Britain. Commission for Visiting the Universities and Colleges of Scotland|title=University of St. Andrews|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iCwPAQAAMAAJ&pg=Pag173|year=1837|publisher=W. Clowes and Sons|pages=173–}}</ref> King [[James I of Scotland]] confirmed the [[charter]] of the university in 1432. Subsequent kings supported the university, with King [[James V of Scotland]] "confirming privileges of the university" in 1532.<ref name="St Andrews history of the university">{{Cite web|title=A brief history of the University|publisher=University of St Andrews|url=http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/about/history/brief/|access-date=9 January 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last1=Lyon|first1=C.J.|title=History of St. Andrews, episcopal, monastic, academic, and civil ..., Volume 2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oe49AAAAcAAJ&q=james+V++st+andrews+university+1532&pg=PA234|publisher=Tait |year = 1843| pages =230–34|access-date=9 January 2016|quote=King James I of Scotland confirmed the charter of the university in 1432...There are four ...confirmations by James V; in the year 1532...}}</ref>
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| 1419<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Rostock]]
| {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}}
| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Rostock]], Germany
| Continuous operation during the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]] is disputed. Some sources state that "the Catholic university of Rostock closed altogether and the closure was long enough to make the refounded body feel a new institution".<ref>{{cite book|author=Owen Chadwick|title=The Early Reformation on the Continent|publisher= [[Oxford University Press]]|date= 2003| page=257|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cebhjuoZTu4C&pg=PA257|isbn=9780191520501}}</ref> and that "[the university] fell into complete decay after the beginning of the Reformation in (1523) when the university revenues were lost and matriculations ceased".<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=10194|title=University of Rostock|encyclopedia=Catholic Encyclopedia|publisher=Robert Appleton Company New York, NY|via=Catholic Online|year=1907–1912}}</ref> However, [[Johann Oldendorp]] is reported by several sources as having held a professorship at the university from 1526 to 1534, although this is not proven beyond doubt,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cpr.uni-rostock.de/resolve/id/cpr_person_00003634|title= Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensum|access-date = 14 March 2021|publisher = University of Rostock}}</ref> and other historians refer to "the remaining university lecturers" as supporting plans to restore the university revenues in 1532 (which was eventually accomplished via the Rostock Formula concordiae in 1563).<ref>{{cite book|title=Die Universität Rostock 1418–1563: eine Hochschule im Spannungsfeld zwischen Stadt, Landesherren und wendischen Hansestädten|author=Marko A. Pluns|publisher=[[Böhlau Verlag]] |date= 2007|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nRZ0X7y3tYEC&pg=PA194|page=194|isbn=9783412200398}}</ref> There are records of a number of professors being appointed in 1551, including [[Joannes Aurifaber Vratislaviensis|Johannes Aurifaber]], [[David Chytraeus]], and {{ill|Johann Draconites|de}}.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3WTnCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA113|page=113|title=Reformation Readings of the Apocalypse: Geneva, Zurich, and Wittenberg|author=Irena Dorota Backus|publisher= [[Oxford University Press]]|date= 2000|isbn=9780195138856}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://matrikel.uni-rostock.de/id/100018678|title=Immatrikulation von Ioannes Draconites|publisher=University of Rostock|access-date=4 February 2017|language=de}}</ref>
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| 1430<ref name=Verger/> (originally 1391–1394)<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Ferrara]]
| [[File:Arms of the house of Este (1).svg|18px|House of Este]] [[House of Este]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Ferrara]], Italy
|
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| 1431<ref name=Verger/> (originally 1303 to c. 1400)<ref name=Verger/>
| [[Sapienza University of Rome]]
| [[File:Emblem of the Papacy SE.svg|22px|Coat of arms of the Papal States]] [[Papal States]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Rome]], Italy
| Founded in 1303 but closed at the end of the 14th century; refounded 1431.<ref name=Verger/>
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| 1444<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Catania]]
| {{flagicon|Two Sicilies|sicily}} [[Kingdom of Sicily]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Catania]], Italy
|
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| 1450<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Barcelona]]
| [[File:Estandarte de la Corona de Aragon.svg|22px|Standard of the Crown of Aragon]] [[Crown of Aragon]]
| {{flagicon|Spain}} [[Barcelona]], Spain
| Founded by [[Alfonso V of Aragon]] on 3 September 1450 as the ''[[Studium Generale|Estudi General]] de Barcelona''. From 1401 the city had a [[Medieval medicine of Western Europe|medical school]] founded by [[Martin of Aragon|King Martin of Aragon]] (the ''Estudi General de Medecina de Barcelona''), to which a faculty of arts was added in 1402. Before this, there were chairs of higher education (associated with the cathedral, the Dominican Convent of Santa Carolina, and the ''escoles majors'' supported by the city's governing council) from the 13th century.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ub.edu/web/portal/en/the-ub/the-university/history/|title=The University of Barcelona: More than five centuries of history|publisher=University of Barcelona|access-date=24 February 2021}}</ref>
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| 1451<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Glasgow]]
| {{flag|Kingdom of Scotland}}
| {{flagicon|UK}} [[Glasgow]], United Kingdom
| Founded by papal bull in 1451, it is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four [[ancient universities]]. Along with the universities of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and St Andrews, the university was part of the Scottish Enlightenment during the 18th century.
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| 1456<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Greifswald]]
| rowspan="4" | {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}}
| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Greifswald]], Germany
| Some professors from [[Rostock]] taught temporarily in Greifswald between 1437 and 1443 due to unrest in Rostock. The university was founded in 1456 by [[Wartislaw IX, Duke of Pomerania|Duke Wartislaw IX]] with the approval of [[Pope Callixtus III]] on the initiative of Heinrich Rubenow, Lord Mayor of Greifswald (and first rector). Teaching paused temporarily during the [[Protestant Reformation]] (1527–39).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.uni-greifswald.de/en/university/history/university-chronicle/|title=Chronicle of the University of Greifswald|publisher=University of Greifswald|access-date=24 February 2021}}</ref>
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| 1457<ref name=Verger/>
| [[Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg]]
| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Freiburg]], Germany
| A [[papal bull]] of 1455 authorised the [[Prince-Bishopric of Constance|Bishop of Constance]] to establish a university, and in 1457 a ducal charter from [[Albert VI, Archduke of Austria]] founded the university.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/universitieseur07rashgoog/page/n288/mode/1up|page=268|title= The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages: pt. 1. Italy. Spain. France. Germany. Scotland, etc|publisher= Clarendon Press|author=Hastings Rashdall|year=1895}}</ref>
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| 1459<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Basel]]
| {{flagicon|Switzerland}} [[Basel]], Switzerland
|
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| 1459<ref name=Verger/>–1472<ref name=Ingolstadt>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/universitieseur07rashgoog/page/n290|pages=270–272|title= The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages: pt. 1. Italy. Spain. France. Germany. Scotland, etc|publisher= Clarendon Press|author=Hastings Rashdall|year=1895}}</ref>
| [[Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich]]
| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Munich]], Germany
| Founded in [[Ingolstadt]] in 1472; with a [[papal bull]] obtained in 1459 from [[Pope Pius II]] by [[Louis the Rich]], transferred to [[Landshut]] in 1800 and then to Munich in 1826.<ref name=Ingolstadt/>
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| 1475<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Copenhagen]]
| {{flag|Kingdom of Denmark}} within the {{flag|Kalmar Union}}
| {{flagicon|Denmark}} [[Copenhagen]], Denmark
|
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| 1476<ref name=Verger/>
| [[Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen]]
| {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}}
| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Tübingen]], Germany
|
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| 1477<ref name=Verger/>
| [[Uppsala University]]
| [[File:Svensk_flagg_1815.svg|20px|link=]] [[Kingdom of Sweden]] within the {{flag|Kalmar Union}}
| {{flagicon|Sweden}} [[Uppsala]], Sweden
| Established in 1477 by the Catholic Archbishop [[Jakob Ulvsson]]. Decayed due to political unrest in the first decade of the 16th century and then the [[Reformation]] in the 1520s and 30s, remaining "only an idea without real content" until re-chartered in 1595.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/history/summary/|title=The history of Uppsala University|publisher=Uppsala University|access-date=14 March 2021}}</ref>
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| 1495<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Aberdeen]]
| {{flag|Kingdom of Scotland}}
| {{flagicon|UK}} [[Aberdeen]], United Kingdom
| [[King's College, Aberdeen|King's College]] was founded by a [[papal bull]] in 1495 and then [[Marischal College]] in 1593; they merged in 1860.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abdn.ac.uk/about/history/our-history.php|title=History|publisher=University of Aberdeen|access-date=11 March 2021}}</ref>
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| 1499<ref name=Verger/>
| [[Complutense University of Madrid]]
| [[File:Banner of arms crown of Castille Habsbourg style.svg|border|26px|Pennant of the Crown of Castile]] [[Crown of Castile]]
| {{flagicon|Spain}} [[Madrid]], Spain
| A ''studium generale'' was founded by [[Sancho IV of Castile]] in 1293 in [[Alcalá de Henares]]. Very little is known of this institution over the next two centuries.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://biblioteca.ucm.es/historica/bc-herencia|title=La herencia de la universidad medieval|language=Spanish|access-date=14 March 2021|publisher=Complutense University of Madrid Library}}</ref> In 1499 a [[papal bull]] was granted by [[Pope Alexander VI]] authorising Archbishop [[Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros|Cisneros]] to establish a ''Colegio Mayor'' in Alcalá with the same powers as the universities of [[University of Salamanca|Salamanca]] and [[University of Valladolid|Vallodolid]], from which date Verger considers it a university.<ref name=Verger/> The new university opened in 1509.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://biblioteca.ucm.es/historica/bc-fundacion|title=La fundación cisneriana: el Colegio Mayor de San Ildefonso|language=Spanish|access-date=14 March 2021|publisher=Complutense University of Madrid Library}}</ref> The university was moved to Madrid in 1836 by royal decree.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://biblioteca.ucm.es/historica/bc-traslado|title=Traslado de la Universidad Complutense a Madrid|language=Spanish|access-date=14 March 2021|publisher=Complutense University of Madrid Library}}</ref>
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| 1500<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Valencia]]
| [[File:Estandarte de la Corona de Aragon.svg|22px|Standard of the Crown of Aragon]] [[Crown of Aragon]]
| {{flagicon|Spain}} [[Valencia]], Spain
|
|}

== Oldest universities by country or region after 1500 still in operation ==
The majority of European countries had universities by 1500. Many universities were established at institutes of learning such as schools and colleges that may have been founded significantly earlier but were not classed as universities upon their foundation; this is normally described in the notes for that institution. In some countries (particularly the US and those influenced by its culture), degree-granting higher education institutions that would normally be called universities are instead called colleges, in this case both the oldest institution that would normally be regarded as a university and the oldest institution (if different) to actually be called a university are given. In many parts of the world the first university to have a presence was an institution based elsewhere (often the [[University of London]] via the affiliation of a local college); where this is different from the first locally established university both are given.

=== Africa ===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! colspan=2 | Location
! width=120px rowspan=2 | Current name
! width=160px rowspan=2 | Year
! rowspan=2 | Notes
|-
! width=120px|Current
! width=120px|Original
|-
| {{flagcountry|Algeria}} ([[Algiers]])|| {{flagicon|FRA}} [[French Algeria]] ([[Algiers]]) || [[University of Algiers]] ||1909 ||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Angola}} ([[Luanda]])|| {{flagicon|POR}} [[Portuguese Angola]] ([[Luanda]]) || [[Agostinho Neto University]] ||1962 || Founded as ''Estudos Gerais Universitários de Angola''. Was renamed ''Universidade de Luanda'' (University of Luanda) in 1968. After [[Angolan War of Independence|Angolan independence]] from [[Portugal]] in 1975, the institution was renamed the University of Angola (''Universidade de Angola''). In 1985 it was renamed ''Agostinho Neto University'', in honour of [[Agostinho Neto]], the first President of Angola.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Benin}} ([[Abomey-Calavi]])|| {{flagicon|Benin}} [[Republic of Dahomey]] ([[Abomey-Calavi]]) ||[[University of Abomey-Calavi]]||1970||Originally the University of Dahomey. Renamed the National University of Benin in 1975 and took its current name in 2001.
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Botswana}} ([[Gaborone]], [[Francistown]], [[Maun, Botswana|Maun]])||[[University of Botswana]]||1964 (as part of the [[University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland]]; university 1982)||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Burkina Faso}} ([[Ouagadougou]])|| [[File:Flag_of_Upper_Volta.svg|23px]] [[Republic of Upper Volta]] ([[Ouagadougou]]) ||[[University of Ouagadougou]]||1974||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Burundi}} ([[Bujumbura]]) || [[File:Flag of Burundi (1962–1966).svg|23px]] [[Kingdom of Burundi]] ([[Bujumbura]]) || [[University of Burundi]]||1964||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Cameroon}} ([[Yaoundé]]) || [[File:Flag_of_Cameroon_(1961-1975).svg|23px]] [[Federal Republic of Cameroon]] ([[Yaoundé]]) || [[University of Yaoundé]] || 1962 || In 1993 following a university reform the University of Yaounde was split into two ([[University of Yaoundé I]] and [[University of Yaoundé II]]) following the university branch-model pioneered by the [[University of Paris]].
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Cape Verde}} ([[Praia]])||[[Jean Piaget University of Cape Verde]] ||2001|| As a result of the merger of the two previously existing higher education establishments (ISE and ISECMAR)
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Central African Republic}} ([[Bangui]])||[[University of Bangui]]||1969||
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Chad}} ([[N'Djamena]])||[[University of N'Djamena]]||1971||Originally the University of Chad, renamed the University of N'Djamena 1994.
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Comoros}} ([[Moroni, Comoros|Moroni]])||[[University of the Comoros]]||2003<ref>{{cite news|author=Wagdy Sawahel|date=15 July 2016|title=Higher education struggles under multiple pressures|work=University World News|url=https://www.universityworldnews.com/post-mobile.php?story=2016070208521759}}</ref>||
|-
| colspan=1|{{flagcountry|Democratic Republic of the Congo}} ([[Kinshasa]])||[[File:Flag of Congo Free State.svg|23px]] [[Belgian Congo]] ([[Kinshasa]])||[[University of Kinshasa]]||1954|| Originator established as the [[Lovanium University]], affiliated to the [[Catholic University of Leuven (1835–1968)|Catholic University of Leuven]]. Merged into the [[National University of Zaire]] in 1971 then demerged under its current name in 1981.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Republic of the Congo}} ([[Brazzaville]]) || [[File:Flag_of_the_People's_Republic_of_Congo.svg|23px]] [[People's Republic of the Congo]] ([[Brazzaville]]) || [[Marien Ngouabi University]]||1971|| Founded as the University of Brazzaville in 1971, changed to current name in 1977.
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Djibouti}} ([[Djibouti City]])||[[University of Djibouti]]||2006||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Egypt}} ([[Giza]])|| {{flagicon|EGY|variant=1882}} [[Khedivate of Egypt]] ([[Cairo]]) || [[Cairo University]] ||1908|| The oldest university in Egypt and second oldest higher education institution (after [[Al-Azhar University]], which was founded as a [[madrasa]] c. 970 and became a university in 1962)
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Equatorial Guinea}} ([[Malabo]])||[[National University of Equatorial Guinea]]||1995||
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Eritrea}} ([[Mai Nefhi]])||[[Eritrea Institute of Technology]]||2003|| Founded following the closure of the [[University of Asmara]], which had been established as a college in 1958
|-
| {{flagcountry|Eswatini}} ([[Kwaluseni]])||{{flagcountry|Swaziland}} ([[Kwaluseni]])||[[University of Eswatini]]||1964 (as part of the [[University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland]]; university 1982)|| Originally established as the University of Swaziland, changed to current name in 2018
|-
| {{flagcountry|Ethiopia}} ([[Addis Ababa]])|| {{flagicon|ETH|variant=1897}} [[Ethiopian Empire]] ([[Addis Ababa]]) || [[University of Addis Ababa]] ||1950 (as college offering degree courses; university 1962)|| The university was originally called the University College of Addis Ababa in 1950, offering courses leading to degrees of the [[University of London]]. It became Haile Selassie I University in 1962, named after the Ethiopian Emperor [[Haile Selassie|Haile Selassie I]]. The institution received its current name in 1975.
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Gabon}} ([[Libreville]])||[[Omar Bongo University]]||1970|| Founded as the National University of Gabon and took current name in 1978
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Gambia}} ([[Serekunda]])||[[University of the Gambia]]||1999||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Ghana}} ([[Accra]])|| {{flagcountry|Gold Coast}} ([[Accra]]) || [[University of Ghana]] ||1948 (as affiliate college of the [[University of London]]; university 1961)<ref>{{cite web|title=University of Ghana | Legon|url=http://www.ug.edu.gh/index1.php?linkid=243&sublinkid=72|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130601144614/http://www.ug.edu.gh/index1.php?linkid=243&sublinkid=72|archive-date=1 June 2013|access-date=15 August 2013|publisher=Ug.edu.gh}}</ref>|| Founded as the University College of the Gold Coast, an affiliate college of the [[University of London]] which supervised its academic programmes and awarded the degrees. It gained full university status in 1961.
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Guinea}} ([[Conakry]])||[[Gamal Abdel Nasser University of Conakry]]||1962||
|-
| colspan=2 rowspan=2|{{flagcountry|Guinea-Bissau}} ([[Bissau]])||[[Universidade Colinas de Boé]]||2003||
|-
|[[Universidade Amílcar Cabral]]||2003||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Ivory Coast}} ([[Abidjan]])||[[Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny]] ||1964 (as main campus of the University of Abidjan; university 1996)||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Kenya}} ([[Nairobi]])||[[File:Flag of Kenya (1921–1963).svg|link=[[:File:Flag of British East Africa]].svg|23px]] [[Kenya Colony|Colony and Protectorate of Kenya]]
([[Nairobi]])
| [[University of Nairobi]] ||1961 (as affiliate college of the [[University of London]]; college 1956; university 1970)|| Oldest in Kenya. Established 1956 as the ''Royal Technical College''. Renamed the ''Royal College of Nairobi'' when it became affiliated to the [[University of London]] in 1961. On 20 May 1964, was renamed ''University College Nairobi'' when it was admitted as a constituent college of inter-territorial [[University of East Africa]]. In 1970, it transformed into the first national university in Kenya and was renamed the University of Nairobi.<ref name="J. M. Hyslop 1964 286–302">{{cite journal|jstor=41821619|title=The University of East Africa|author= J. M. Hyslop|journal= Minerva|volume= 2|issue=3|date= 1964| pages=286–302|doi=10.1007/BF01097318|s2cid=145768841}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|Kenya}} ([[Nairobi]])||[[File:Flag of Kenya (1921–1963).svg|link=[[:File:Flag of British East Africa]].svg|23px]] [[Kenya Colony|Colony and Protectorate of Kenya]]
([[Nairobi]])
| [[Egerton University]] ||1939 as a farm school; 1987 as university||Founded in 1939, and was originally named Egerton Farm School. It was established by a land grant of 740 acres (3 km2) by [[Maurice Egerton, 4th Baron Egerton]]. The school's original purpose was to prepare white European youth for careers in agriculture. By 1955, the name had changed to Egerton Agricultural College. A one-year certificate course and a two-year diploma course in agriculture were offered. In 1958, Lord Egerton donated another 1,100 acres (4.5 km2) of land. Soon afterward, the college opened its doors to people of all races from Kenya and other African countries in 1956. In 1979, with support from the Government of Kenya and [[USAID]], the college expanded yet again, becoming part of the University of Nairobi system. In 1987, the college was recognized as a chartered public university.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Our Profile|url=https://www.egerton.ac.ke/our-profile|access-date=2021-08-16|website=Egerton University|language=en-gb}}</ref>
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Lesotho}} ([[Roma, Lesotho|Roma]])||[[National University of Lesotho]]||1964 (as part of the [[University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland]]; college 1945; university 1975||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Liberia}} ([[Monrovia]])||[[University of Liberia]] ||1951 (college 1863)|| Building on Liberia College founded in 1863
|-
| {{flagcountry|Libya}} ([[Benghazi]] & [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]])|| {{flagicon|LBY|variant=1956}} [[Kingdom of Libya]] ([[Benghazi]]) || [[University of Libya]] ||1956|| A royal decree was issued on 15 December 1955 for the founding of the university. The first faculty to be formed was the Faculty of Literature in Benghazi, and the royal palace "Al Manar", from which [[Idris of Libya|King Idris I]] of Libya declared its independence on 24 December 1951, was assigned to be the campus. Later divided to University of Benghazi and [[University of Tripoli]], the names were changed again during [[History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi|Gaddafi's era]], but now they have reinstated their original names.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Madagascar}} ([[Antananarivo]])|| {{flagicon|FRA}} [[French Madagascar|Colony of Madagascar and Dependencies]] ([[Antananarivo]]) || [[University of Antananarivo]] ||1961 (as university; institute for advanced studies 1955)|| Founded December 1955 as the Institute for Advanced Studies in Antananarivo. Renamed the University of Madagascar in 1961.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Malawi}} ([[Zomba, Malawi|Zomba]], [[Blantyre]] & [[Lilongwe]])||[[University of Malawi]] ||1965 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Mali}} ([[Bamako]])||[[University of Bamako]] ||1996 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Mauritania}} ([[Nouakchott]])||[[University of Nouakchott Al Aasriya]] ||1981 ||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Mauritius}} ([[Moka]])|| {{flagicon|Mauritius|1923}} [[British Mauritius]] ([[Moka]]) || [[University of Mauritius]] || 1965 || The Faculty of Agriculture is the oldest faculty of the university. It was founded in 1914 as the School of Agriculture in 1914, and in 1966 it was incorporated into the newly established University of Mauritius.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Morocco}} ([[Fez, Morocco|Fez]]) || [[File:Flag of Morocco (780 1070) (1258 1659).svg|23px]] [[Idrisid dynasty|Idrisid Kingdom of Morocco]] ([[Fez, Morocco|Fez]]) || [[University of Al Quaraouiyine]] ||1965 (as university; madrasa 859)|| Traces its origins back to the al-Qarawiyyin mosque and associated [[madrasa]] founded by [[Fatima al-Fihri]] in 859, and was named a university in 1965. It is the oldest continuously operating institution of higher learning in the world,<ref>{{cite web|title=Oldest higher-learning institution, oldest university|url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/oldest-university|access-date=30 June 2020|work=Guinnes World Records}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Medina of Fez|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/170|access-date=30 June 2020|work=World Heritage List|publisher=[[UNESCO]]}}</ref> though only became an official university in 1965.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Morocco}} ([[Rabat]])||[[Mohammed V University]] ||1957|| Founded as University of Rabat
|-
| {{flagcountry|Mozambique}} ([[Maputo]])|| {{flagicon|POR}} [[Portuguese Mozambique]] ([[Maputo|Lourenço Marques]]) || [[Eduardo Mondlane University]] ||1962 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Namibia}} ([[Windhoek]])||[[University of Namibia]] ||1992||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Niger}} ([[Niamey]])||[[Abdou Moumouni University]] ||1974|| Originally the University of Niamey
|-
|{{flagcountry|Nigeria}} ([[Ibadan]])|| [[File:Flag of Nigeria (1914–1952).svg|23px]] [[Colonial Nigeria|Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria]] ([[Yaba, Lagos]]) || [[University of Ibadan]] ||1949 (as affiliated college of the [[University of London]]; college 1932; university 1962)|| Founded as ''Yaba College'' in 1932 in [[Yaba, Lagos]], as the first [[Tertiary education|tertiary educational institute]] in Nigeria. Yaba College was transferred to Ibadan, becoming the ''University College of Ibadan'', in 1948<ref>{{cite book|last=Nkulu|first=Kiluba L.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ms9Bs9fUmpcC&pg=PA52|title=Serving the Common Good: an African perspective on higher education|publisher=Peter Lang|year=2005|isbn=978-0-8204-7626-1|page=54}}</ref> and was a university college associated with the [[University of London]]. Independent university since 1962.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=University of Ibadan History|url=https://www.ui.edu.ng/History|access-date=1 Feb 2021|website=University of Ibadan}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|Nigeria}} ([[Nsukka]])|| {{flagicon|Nigeria}} [[Federation of Nigeria]] ([[Nsukka]]) || [[University of Nigeria, Nsukka]] ||1960<ref>{{cite web|title=History/Overview|url=http://www.unn.edu.ng/administration/office-of-the-vice-chancellor/records-unit/|access-date=12 February 2017|publisher=University of Nigeria}}</ref>|| First university in Nigeria.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Rwanda}} ([[Kigali]])|| {{flagcountry|Rwanda|1962}} ([[Kigali]]) || [[University of Rwanda]] ||1963|| Founded as the National University of Rwanda in 1963; incorporated into the University of Rwanda 2013
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|São Tomé and Príncipe}} ([[São Tomé]])||[[University of São Tomé and Príncipe]] ||2014 (as university; polytechnic school 1996)||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Sahrawi Republic}} ([[Tifariti]])||[[University of Tifariti]] ||2013||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Senegal}} ([[Dakar]])||{{flagicon|France}}[[French Senegal]] ([[Dakar]])||[[Cheikh Anta Diop University]] ||1957||
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Seychelles}} ([[Anse Royale]])||[[University of Seychelles]] ||2009||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Sierra Leone}} ([[Freetown]])|| [[File:Flag of Sierra Leone (1916–1961).svg|23px]] [[Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate]] ([[Freetown]]) || [[Fourah Bay College]] ||1876 (as affiliated college of [[Durham University]]; college 1827; part of [[University of Sierra Leone]] 1967)|| Oldest university-level institution in Africa. Founded as a missionary school to train teachers in 1827. Became an affiliated college of [[Durham University]] in 1876 and awarded first degrees in West Africa in 1878. Became part of the federal University of Sierra Leone in 1967.<ref>{{cite web|title=Fourah Bay College (1827 – )|date=13 January 2010|url=http://www.blackpast.org/gah/fourah-bay-college-1827|access-date=3 October 2015|publisher=BlackPast.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|date=2012|title=The First BA in Africa|url=https://issuu.com/durhamfirst/docs/dug2379_durham_first_32_aw4_web/7|magazine=Durham First|issue=32|page=7}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|Somalia}} ([[Mogadishu]])|| {{flagdeco|Italy}} [[Trust Territory of Somaliland]] ([[Mogadishu]]) || [[Somali National University]] ||1954 ||
|-
| {{flagcountry|RSA}} ([[Pretoria]])|| {{flagicon|Cape Colony}} [[Cape Colony]] ([[Cape Town]]) || [[University of South Africa]] ||1873|| Originally founded as the [[University of the Cape of Good Hope]] in 1916 it was transformed into the federal University of South Africa (Unisa) and relocated to Pretoria.
|-
| {{flagcountry|South Sudan}} ([[Juba]]) || {{flagicon|Sudan}} [[History of Sudan (1969–1985)|Democratic Republic of the Sudan]] ([[Juba]]) ||[[University of Juba]]||1975||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Sudan}} ([[Khartoum]]) || [[File:Flag of Sudan (1956–1970).svg|23px]] [[History of Sudan (1956–69)|Republic of the Sudan]] ([[Khartoum]]) || [[University of Khartoum]] ||1956 (as university; college 1902)<ref>{{cite web|title=Historical Background|url=http://www.uofk.edu/en/about/historical|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030025742/http://www.uofk.edu/en/about/historical|archive-date=30 October 2013|access-date=11 November 2013|publisher=[[University of Khartoum]]}}</ref>|| Renamed from Gordon Memorial College, founded 1902, when it gained full university status in 1956
|-
|{{flagcountry|Tanzania}} ([[Dar es Salaam]]) || [[File:Flag of Tanganyika (1923–1961).svg|23px]] [[Tanganyika (territory)|Tanganyika Territory]] ([[Dar es Salaam]]) ||[[University of Dar es Salaam]] || 1961 (as affiliated college of the [[University of London]]; part of the [[University of East Africa]] 1963; university 1970)||
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Togo}} ([[Lomé]]) ||[[University of Lomé]]||1970|| Originally the University of Benin, changed to current name in 2001
|-
| {{flagcountry|Tunisia}} ([[Tunis]]) || [[File:Umayyad Flag.svg|23px]] [[Umayyad Caliphate]] ([[Tunis]]) || [[University of Ez-Zitouna]] ||1961 (as university; madrasa c. 737)|| Traces its origins back to the Al-Zaytuna [[madrasa]] founded around 737, it gained university status in 1961
|-
| {{flagcountry|Uganda}} ([[Kampala]])|| [[File:Flag of the Uganda Protectorate.svg|23px]] [[Uganda Protectorate|British Protectorate of Uganda]] ([[Kampala]]) || [[Makerere University]] ||1922||Started as a technical college in 1922. Then became an [[Affiliated school|affiliate college]] of the [[University of London]]; part of the [[University of East Africa]] 1963. It would become an independent University<ref>[https://www.mak.ac.ug/about-makerere About Makerere]</ref> 1970.
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Zambia}} ([[Lusaka]]) ||[[University of Zambia]]||1966||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Zimbabwe}} ([[Harare]])|| {{flagcountry|Southern Rhodesia}} ([[Harare|Salisbury]]) || [[University of Zimbabwe]] ||1952 (as affiliated college of the [[University of London]]; university 1970)||Founded in 1952 as University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. University of Rhodesia from 1970 and University of Zimbabwe from 1980
|}

=== Asia ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- valign="top"
! colspan=2 | Location
! width="15%" rowspan=2 | Current name
! width="5%" rowspan=2 | Year
! width="50%" rowspan=2 | Notes
|-
! width="15%" | Current
! width="15%" | Original
|- valign="top"
| {{flagcountry|Afghanistan}} ([[Kabul]])|| {{flagicon|Kingdom of Afghanistan}} [[Kingdom of Afghanistan]] ([[Kabul]]) || [[Kabul University]] ||1931|| Founded in 1931, formally opened 1932.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Bahrain}} ([[Sakhir]], [[Isa Town]])||[[University of Bahrain]] ||1986||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Bangladesh}} ([[Dhaka]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Dhaka|Dacca]], [[Bengal Presidency]]) || [[University of Dhaka]] ||1921|| First university in Bangladesh, opened 1 July 1921.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.du.ac.bd/main_menu/the_university/about|title=The University|publisher= Dhaka college|access-date=12 February 2017}}</ref>
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Bhutan}} ([[Thimphu]])||[[Royal University of Bhutan]] ||2003||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Brunei}} ([[Bandar Seri Begawan]])||[[University of Brunei Darussalam]] ||1985||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Cambodia}} ([[Phnom Penh]])|| {{flagicon|Cambodia|1863}} [[French Protectorate of Cambodia]] ([[Phnom Penh]]) || [[Royal University of Fine Arts]] ||1918||
|-
| rowspan="4" | {{flagcountry|PRC}}||[[Song Empire]] ([[Yuelu Mountain]], [[Changsha, Hunan]]) || [[Hunan University]] ||1903 (as university; academy 976)|| Known in Chinese as 湖南大学. The university was originally called the [[Yuelu Academy]] in 976 and was converted into Hunan Institute of Higher Learning (with university status) in 1903. It was later renamed [[Hunan Normal University|Hunan Normal College]], Hunan Public Polytechnic School, and finally Hunan University in 1926.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=_ZAwDwAAQBAJ&dq=oldest+learning+institute+china+still+exist&pg=PA74 Library World Records, 3d ed.; by Godfrey Oswald]</ref>
|-
| rowspan="3" |{{flagicon|Qing dynasty|1862}} [[Qing Empire]] 
|[[Peking University]]
|1898
|First modern national university in China, whose original name was Imperial University of Peking (京师大学堂). It is the successor of [[Guozijian (Beijing)|Guozijian]], or Imperial College, which was founded in 1306.
|-
|[[Tianjin University]]
|1895
|The first higher education institution in China. It was established in 1895 as Imperial Tientsin University (天津北洋西學學堂) and later Peiyang University (北洋大學). In 1951, after restructuring, it was renamed Tianjin University, and became one of the largest multidisciplinary engineering universities in China.
|-
|[[Nanjing University]]||1902|| Traces its origins to a Confucian institution [[taixue|Taihsueh]] (太學), which was founded in 258. Known in Chinese as Jinling University (金陵大学). Was a private university later merged with the public University of Nanjing (南京大学). First institution in China to use the English term "university". Educational institutions were closed in China on 13 June 1966 due to the Cultural Revolution, reopening in July 1967.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://people.hofstra.edu/alan_j_singer/CoursePacks/ChinasGreatProletarianCulturalRevolution.pdf|title=China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution|author1=Kerry Schaefer|author2=Lisa Torre|access-date=11 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324103237/http://people.hofstra.edu/alan_j_singer/CoursePacks/ChinasGreatProletarianCulturalRevolution.pdf|archive-date=24 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|East Timor}}|| [[National University of East Timor]] ||2000||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Hong Kong}}|| {{flagcountry|Hong Kong|1910}} || [[The University of Hong Kong]] ||1911 (as university; college 1887)|| Founded as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese in 1887, incorporated as a university in 1911
|-
| rowspan=2|{{flagcountry|India}} ([[New Delhi]])
| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Aligarh]], [[United Provinces of British India]]) ||[[Jamia Milia Islamia]]
|1920|| Moved from [[Aligarh]] to New Delhi in 1925 and to its current location in 1936.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jmi.ac.in/aboutjamia/profile/history/historical_note-13|title=History|publisher=Jamia Milia Islamia|access-date=17 September 2022}}</ref>
|-
| {{flag|British Raj}} (New Delhi) ||[[Delhi University]]
|1922|| First university established in Delhi, affiliating four older colleges ([[St. Stephen's College, Delhi|St Stephen's College]], [[Hindu College, Delhi|Hindu College]], [[Zakir Husain Delhi College]] and [[Ramjas College]])
|-
| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Serampore]])|| {{flagicon|DEN}} [[Danish India]] ([[Serampore]]) || [[Serampore College]] ||1827 (as university; college 1818)|| Incorporated and granted university status and the right to award degrees by royal charter of [[Frederick VI of Denmark]] on 23 February 1827, endorsed by the Bengal Government Act 1918.<ref>{{cite news|
url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/todays-paper/tp-life/article1115067.ece|title=Colonial Archive|author=Sankar Ray|work=[[The Hindu]]| date=11 April 2008|access-date=12 February 2017}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Kolkata]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]]) || [[University of Calcutta]] || rowspan="3" |1857|| First full-fledged multi-disciplinary university in [[South Asia]]. The [[University of Mumbai|University of Bombay]] and the [[University of Madras]] were subsequently established in the same year
|-
| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Mumbai]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Bombay]], [[Bombay Presidency]]) || [[University of Mumbai]] || Called the University of Bombay until 1996.
|-
| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Chennai]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Madras]], [[Madras Presidency]]) || [[University of Madras]] ||
|-
| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Aligarh]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Aligarh]], [[North-Western Provinces]]) ||[[Aligarh Muslim University]] || rowspan="1" |1920 (college 1875)|| Established as Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College in 1875; became Aligarh Muslim University in 1920.
|-
| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Allahabad]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Allahabad]], [[United Provinces of British India]]) || [[University of Allahabad]] || rowspan="1" |1887||
|-
| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Chandigarh]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Punjab]], [[United Provinces of British India]]) ||[[Panjab University]] || rowspan="1" |1882||<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/features/panjab-university-journey-and-evolution-382148 | title=Panjab University: Journey and evolution }}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Varanasi]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Banaras]], [[United Provinces of British India]]) ||[[Banaras Hindu University]] || rowspan="1" |1916||
|-
| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Indonesia}}|| rowspan="2" | {{flagicon|Netherlands}} [[Dutch East Indies]] || [[University of Indonesia]] ||1924 (as ''hogeschool''; medical school 1851; university 1947)|| Incorporates the medical school founded as the Dokter-Djawa School Batavia in 1851, which became the ''Geneeskundige Hogeschool'' in 1927 and the ''Rechts Hogeschool'' founded in 1924.
|-
|[[Bandung Institute of Technology]] ||1920|| Founded as ''Technische [[Hogeschool#Netherlands|Hogeschool]]''. Renamed in 1959.
|-

| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Iran}}|| {{flagicon|Iran|1925}} [[Imperial State of Persia]] || [[University of Tehran]] ||1934|| Founded by [[Rezā Shāh]], incorporating portions of the [[Dar ul-Funun (Persia)|Dar ul-Funun]] Polytechnic Institute (1851) and the [[Tehran School of Political Sciences]] (1899)
|-
| {{flagicon|Iran|1925}} [[Sublime State of Persia]] || [[Kharazmi University]] ||1974|| Named after [[Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi|Khwarizmi]] (c. 780–850), Persian mathematician, astronomer and geographer. It was established in 1919 as the Central Teachers' Institute and gained university status as Tarbiat Moallem University of Tehran in 1974. It changed its name to Kharazmi University on January 31, 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-03-30 |title=Kharazmi University |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/kharazmi-university |access-date=2022-06-23 |website=Times Higher Education (THE) |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|Iraq}}|| {{flagicon|Iraq|1924}} [[Kingdom of Iraq]] || [[University of Baghdad]] ||1956 || The Iraqi Royal College of Medicine was established in 1928
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| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Israel}}|| {{flagcountry|Ottoman Empire}} || [[Technion – Israel Institute of Technology]] ||1912 (opened 1924)|| Founded in 1912, but formal teaching began in 1924
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|{{flagicon|FRA}}{{flagicon|UK}} [[Occupied Enemy Territory Administration]] || [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] ||1918 ||
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| rowspan="3" | {{flagcountry|Japan}}|| rowspan="3" | {{flag|Empire of Japan}} || [[University of Tokyo]] ||1877 || Previous names are University of Tokyo (1877–1886), Imperial University (1886–1897), and Tokyo Imperial University (1897–1947). Its origins include a private college of Confucian studies founded by Hayashi Razan in 1630,<ref>須藤敏夫『近世日本釈奠の研究』（思文閣出版、2001年） {{ISBN|978-4-7842-1070-1}}</ref> Tenmonkata (The Observatory, 1684)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/gen03/b03_02_j.html |title=東京大学 [東京大学の歴史]沿革略図 |publisher=U-tokyo.ac.jp |access-date=15 August 2013}}</ref> and Shutōsho (Smallpox Vaccination Centre, 1849).<ref>深瀬泰旦著『天然痘根絶史』恩文閣出版、2002年9月 {{ISBN|4-7842-1116-0}}</ref> The university was established in 1877 by the merger of three institutions: Shoheiko (Japanese and Chinese Literature, established 1789), Yogakusho (Occidental Studies, established 1855) and Shutosho (Vaccinations, established 1860), originally as Tokyo University before becoming the Imperial University and then Tokyo Imperial University before reverting to its original name after World War II.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/about/chronology.html| title=Chronology|publisher=Tokyo University|access-date=8 April 2017}}</ref>
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|[[Keio University]] ||1920 (as university; school for Dutch studies 1858) || Founded as a "school for [[Rangaku|Dutch studies]]" in 1858. College with three university departments (literature, law and economics) established 1890. Accredited as a university by the Japanese government in 1920.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.keio.ac.jp/en/about/history/index.html|title=History|publisher=Keio University|access-date=8 April 2017}}</ref>
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|[[Ryukoku University]] ||1876 (as "Daikyoko (Great School)"; school 1639; university 1922)|| Traces its origins to a school for Buddhist monks of the [[Nishi Hongan-ji]] denomination founded in 1639. Assumed its current name and became a university under the University Ordinance in 1922.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ryukoku.ac.jp/english2/about/e_history.html|title=The Spirit of Tradition and Innovation Embodied in the 370 Year History of Ryukoku|publisher=Ryukoku University|quote=Daikyoko (Great School) established in September, 1876, as the highest institution of the educational system promulgated by the Nishi-Hongwanji organization … 1922 Renamed Ryukoku University Became a university under University Ordinance|access-date=8 April 2017}}</ref>
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| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Jordan}}||[[University of Jordan]] ||1962||
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| {{flagcountry|Kazakhstan}}|| {{flagcountry|Soviet Union}} ([[Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic]]) || [[Al-Farabi Kazakh National University]] ||1933 ||
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| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Kuwait}}||[[University of Kuwait]] ||1966||
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| {{flagcountry|Kyrgyzstan}}||{{flagcountry|Soviet Union}} ([[Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic]])||[[Kyrgyz National University]] ||1951 (as university; institute of education 1925)||
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| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Laos}}||[[National University of Laos]] ||1996||
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| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Lebanon}}|| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Ottoman Empire}} || [[American University of Beirut]] ||1866 (as degree-awarding college; university 1920)|| Originally Syrian Protestant College, chartered by the [[New York (state)|State of New York]], took current name in 1920
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|[[Saint Joseph University]] ||1872||
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| {{flagcountry|Macau}}|| {{flagcountry|Macau|colonial}} || [[University of Macau]] ||1981|| Established as University of East Asia in 1981, renamed 1991
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| {{flagcountry|Malaysia}}
|{{flagicon|UK}} [[British Malaya]]||[[University of Malaya]] ||1905|| Established as Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School on 13 July 1905 in Singapore
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| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Maldives}}||[[Maldives National University]] ||1998 (as degree awarding college; university 2011)|| Established in 1998 as the Maldives College of Higher Education, establishing its first degree course in 2000. Became the Maldives National University in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mnu.edu.mv/history/|title=History|work=Maldives National University|access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>
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| {{flagcountry|Mongolia}}|| {{flagicon|Mongolia|1924}} [[Mongolian People's Republic]] || [[National University of Mongolia]] ||1942||
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| {{flagcountry|Myanmar}}|| {{flagcountry|British Burma}} || [[Rangoon University]] ||1878<ref>{{cite news| url=https://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE7AQ02420111127 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402093336/http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE7AQ02420111127 | url-status=dead | archive-date=2 April 2015 | work=Reuters | title=Yangon – From stately city to crumbling symbol of isolation | date=27 November 2011}}</ref>||
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| {{flagcountry|Nepal}}|| {{flagcountry|Nepal|old}} || [[Tribhuvan University]] ||1959<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tribhuvan-university.edu.np/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=173&Itemid=232 |title=About Us |publisher=Tribhuvan-university.edu.np |access-date=15 August 2013}}</ref>||
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| {{flagcountry|North Korea}}|| {{flagicon|USSR}} Korea ([[Provisional People's Committee for North Korea]]) || [[Kim Il-sung University]] ||1946||
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| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Oman}} || [[Sultan Qaboos University]] ||1986<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.squ.edu.om/About/About-SQU/Campus-Profile|title=Campus Profile|work=Sultan Qaboos University|access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>||
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| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Pakistan}}|| rowspan="2" | {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]]) || [[University of the Punjab]] ||1882|| Established by [[British Raj|British colonial authorities]] in 1882 as the first university in what would become Pakistan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pu.edu.pk/page/show/AboutUs.html|title=About Us|publisher=University of the Punjab|access-date=8 April 2017}}</ref>
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|[[Government College University, Lahore]] ||1864 (as affiliated college of the [[University of Calcutta]]; university 2002)|| Established as Government College, Lahore, 1864. Became an independent university in 2002.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://punjablaws.gov.pk/laws//443.html|title=The Government College University, Lahore Ordinance 2002|website= Punjab Laws Online|access-date=8 April 2017}}</ref>
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|{{flagcountry|Palestine}}||[[File:Flag of the Israel Defense Forces.svg|20px]] [[Israeli Military Governorate]]||[[Bethlehem University]]||1973<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bethlehem.edu/about/mission-history|title=Mission and History|work=Bethlehem University|access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>||
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| {{flagcountry|Philippines}}|| {{flagicon|Spanish Empire|1785}} [[Captaincy General of the Philippines]] || [[University of Santo Tomas]] ||1645 (college 1611) || Founded on 28 April 1611 by the [[Order of Preachers]] and raised to university status by [[Pope Innocent X]] in 1645. The [[National Historical Commission of the Philippines]] recognizes it as the oldest university in the country as well as in Asia.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nhcp.gov.ph/asias-oldest-university-the-royal-and-pontifical-university-of-santo-tomas/|title=Asia's Oldest University, The Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas|publisher=National Historical Commission of the Philippines|date=4 September 2012|author=Quennie Ann J. Palafox|access-date=7 September 2020}}</ref>
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| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Qatar}}||[[Qatar University]] ||1977<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.qu.edu.qa/about|title=About|work=Qatar University|access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>||
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| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Saudi Arabia}}||[[King Saud University]] ||1957||
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| {{flagcountry|Singapore}}|| {{flagcountry|Straits Settlements}} || [[National University of Singapore]] ||1905|| Founded as Straits and Federated Malay States Government Medical School
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| rowspan="2" |{{flagcountry|South Korea}}||rowspan="2" |{{flag|Joseon}} || [[Sungkyunkwan University]] ||1895 (as university; royal institution 1398) || [[Sungkyunkwan]] was established in 1398 as the highest educational institution of the Joseon Dynasty. In 1895, Sungkyunkwan was reformed into a modern three-year university after the national state examination was abolished the previous year. It was again reorganized as Sungkyunkwan University in 1946 at the end of the Japanese occupation of Korea.
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|[[Ewha Womans University]]||1946 (as university; school 1886)||Established in 1886 as the Ewha Haktang mission school for girls, started higher education in 1910, and was reorganized as Ewha Womans University in 1946.
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| {{flagcountry|Sri Lanka}}|| {{flagcountry|British Ceylon}} || [[University of Colombo]] ||1942|| Formed in 1942 as the [[University of Ceylon]] by the amalgamation of University College Colombo (established 1921) and [[Ceylon Medical College]] (established in 1870). Was part of the University of Sri Lanka 1972–1978.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cmb.ac.lk/index.php/history/|title=History|publisher=University of Colombo|access-date=8 April 2017}}</ref>
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| {{flagcountry|Syria}}|| [[File:Flag of the State of Damascus.svg|20px]] [[State of Damascus]] || [[University of Damascus]] ||1923|| Founded in 1923 through the merger of the School of Medicine (established 1903) and the Institute of Law (established 1913)
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| {{flagcountry|TWN}}|| {{flagicon|Empire of Japan}} [[Taiwan under Japanese rule|Japanese Taiwan]]|| [[National Taiwan University]] ||1928 || Founded as Taihoku (Taipei) Imperial University
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| {{flagcountry|Tajikistan}}||{{flagcountry|USSR}} ([[Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic]])||[[Tajik National University]] ||1947||
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| {{flagcountry|Turkmenistan}}||{{flagcountry|USSR}} ([[Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic]])||[[Turkmen State University]] ||1950 (as university; pedagogical institute 1931)||
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| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Thailand}}||[[Chulalongkorn University]] ||1917 (as university; college 1899)||
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| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|UAE}}||[[United Arab Emirates University]] ||1976||
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| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Vietnam}}|| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|French Indochina}} || [[Hanoi Medical University]] ||1902||
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|[[Vietnam National University, Hanoi]] ||1904|| Originally the University of Indochina, first full subject university in Vietnam.
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| {{flagcountry|Yemen}}|| {{flagcountry|Yemen Arab Republic}} || [[Sana'a University]] ||1970||
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|}

=== Europe ===
While Europe had 143 universities in 1789, the [[French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars]] took a heavy toll, reducing the number to 83 by 1815. The universities of France were abolished<ref name="Jones, 2006"/> and over half of the universities in both Germany and Spain were destroyed. By the mid 19th century, Europe had recovered to 98 universities.<ref name=Ruegg3>{{cite book|title=A History of the University in Europe|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|author=Walter Rüegg|date=2004|volume=3, Universities in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1800–1945)|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=entlN4EEPUYC&pg=PA4|page=3|chapter=1 Themes|isbn=9781139453028}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- valign="top"
! colspan=2 | Location
! width="15%" rowspan=2 | Current name
! width="5%" rowspan=2 | Year
! width="50%" rowspan=2 | Notes
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! width="15%" | Current
! width="15%" | Original
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| {{flagcountry|Albania}} ([[Tirana]])||{{flagicon|Albania|1946}} [[People's Socialist Republic of Albania]] ([[Tirana]]) ||[[University of Tirana]] ||1957 || Originally established in 1957 as the State University of Tirana through merging of five existing institutes of higher education, the most important of which was the Institute of Sciences, founded in 1947.
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| {{flagcountry|Albania}} ([[Shkodër]])||{{flagicon|Albania|1946}} [[People's Socialist Republic of Albania]] ([[Shkodër]])||[[University of Shkodër "Luigj Gurakuqi"]] || 1957 ||
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| {{flagcountry|Armenia}} ([[Yerevan]])|| {{flagicon|Armenia|1918}} [[First Republic of Armenia]] ([[Gyumri|Alexandropol]]) || [[Yerevan State University]] || 1919 ||
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| {{flagcountry|Austria}} ([[Graz]])||{{flagicon|Austria}} [[Archduchy of Austria]], {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Graz]]) ||[[University of Graz]] ||1585 (continuous from 1827)|| Founded in 1585 by Archduke Charles II of Austria. Closed 1782–1827.
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| {{flagcountry|Austria}} ([[Innsbruck]])||{{flagicon|Austria}} [[Archduchy of Austria]], {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Innsbruck]]) || [[University of Innsbruck]] || 1669 (continuous from 1826)|| Originally established as a [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] school in 1562 before becoming a university in 1669. Closed as a university from 1782 to 1826.
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| {{flagcountry|Azerbaijan}} ([[Baku]])||{{flagicon|Azerbaijan|1918}} [[Azerbaijan Democratic Republic]] ([[Baku]])|| [[Baku State University]] ||1919 || In 1930, the government ordered the university shut down in accordance with a reorganization of higher education, and the university was replaced with the Supreme Pedagogical Institute. In 1934 the university was reestablished.
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| {{flagcountry|Belgium}} ([[Flemish Region]]) ([[Ghent]])|| {{flagicon|Netherlands}} [[United Kingdom of the Netherlands]] ([[Ghent]]) ||[[Ghent University]] ||1817|| Established in 1817 by [[William I of the Netherlands]]
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| {{flagcountry|Belgium}} ([[Wallonia]]) ([[Liège]])||{{flagicon|Netherlands}} [[United Kingdom of the Netherlands]] ([[Liège]])||[[University of Liège]]||1817 || Established in 1817 by [[William I of the Netherlands]]
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| {{flagcountry|Belgium}} ([[Flemish Region]] and [[Wallonia]]) ([[Leuven]] and [[Louvain-la-Neuve]])||{{flag|Belgium|1830}} ([[Mechelen]])||[[KU Leuven]] and [[UCLouvain]]|| 1834 || Founded as the [[Catholic University of Mechelen|Catholic University of Belgium]] in [[Mechelen|Mechlin]] on 8 November 1834 by the bishops of Belgium. Moved to Leuven on 1 December 1835, after the suppression of the [[State University of Leuven]], where it took the name [[Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968)|Catholic University of Louvain]].{{refn|The [[Court of Cassation (Belgium)|Court of Cassation of Belgium]] ruled 26 November 1846, that this new Catholic University of Louvain founded in Mechlin in 1834 does not have any links with the Old University of Louvain founded in 1425 and abolished in 1797 and can not be regarded as continuing it: "The Catholic University of Louvain can not be regarded as continuing the old University of Louvain", in, ''Table générale alphabétique et chronologique de la Pasicrisie Belge contenant la jurisprudence du Royaume de 1814 à 1850'', Brussels, 1855, p. 585, column 1, alinea 2. See also: ''Bulletin Usuel des Lois et Arrêtés'', 1861, p.166. To see also this rule of the ''Cour d'Appel'' of 1844: ''La Belgique Judiciaire'', 28 July 1844 n° 69, p. 1 : "''Cour d'Appel de Bruxelles. Deuxième chambre. L'université libre de Louvain ne représente pas légalement l'antique université de cette ville. Attendu que cette université (l'ancienne Université de Louvain), instituée par une bulle papale, de concert avec l'autorité souveraine, formait un corps reconnu dans l'État, ayant différentes attributions, dont plusieurs même lui étaient déléguées par le pouvoir civil; Attendu que ce corps a été supprimé par les lois de la république française; Attendu que l'université existant actuellement à Louvain ne peut être considérée comme continuant celle qui existait en 1457, ces deux établissemens ayant un caractère bien distinct, puisque l'université actuelle, non reconnue comme personne civile, n'est qu'un établissement tout-à-fait privé, résultat de la liberté d'enseignement, en dehors de toute action du pouvoir et sans autorité dans l'État...''".

"Court of Appeal of Brussels. Second Chamber. The Free University of Louvain is not legally representend the old university in that city. Whereas this University (formerly University of Louvain), established by a papal bull, together with the sovereign authority, formed a body recognized by the State, with different functions, many of which even he was delegated by the civil power. And whereas this body was removed by the laws of the French Republic; Whereas the currently existing university in Leuven can not be regarded as continuing that which existed in 1457, these two establishments with a distinct character, since the currently university is not recognized as legal person, and is institution is entirely private, the result of academic freedom, apart from any action without authority and power in the state."

According to Arlette Graffart,<ref>"La matricule de l'Université de Louvain (1817–1835)", in : ''Album Carlos Wyffels'', Bruxelles, 1987, p. 177</ref> only the State University of Louvain, deserves to be considered as the "resurrection of this one" : "elle seule ⟨the [[State University of Louvain]]⟩ et non point celle qui vit le jour en 1834 à l'initiative des évêques de Belgique, c'est-à-dire l'université catholique de Malines devenue de Louvain l'année suivante".|group=Note}} In 1968, it split to form two institutions: Dutch-speaking [[Katholieke Universiteit Leuven|Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven]] and French-speaking [[Université catholique de Louvain]].
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| {{flagcountry|Belgium}} ([[Brussels|Brussels – Capital Region]])||{{flag|Belgium|1830}} ([[Brussels]])||[[Université libre de Bruxelles]] and [[Vrije Universiteit Brussel]] || 1834|| Founded in 1834 as the ''Université libre de Belgique'' (Free University of Belgium). In 1836, it changed its name to Université libre de Bruxelles. On 1 October 1969, the university was split into two sister institutions: the French-speaking ''Université libre de Bruxelles'' and the Dutch-speaking ''Vrije Universiteit Brussel''. Both names mean Free University of Brussels in English, so neither uses the English translation as it is ambiguous.
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| {{flagcountry|BIH}} ([[Sarajevo]]) || {{flag|Yugoslavia|alias}} ([[Sarajevo]]) || [[University of Sarajevo]] || 1949||
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| rowspan="1" | {{flagcountry|Bulgaria}} ([[Sofia]]) || {{flagicon|Bulgaria|1878}} [[Principality of Bulgaria]] ([[Sofia]])|| [[Sofia University]] || 1904 ("higher pedagogical course" from 1888)<ref>{{cite journal|last=Pundeff|first=Marin|title=The University of Sofia at Eighty|journal=Slavic Review|volume=27|issue=3|pages=438–446|date=September 1968|jstor=2493343|doi=10.2307/2493343|s2cid=164056461 }}</ref> ||
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| {{flagcountry|Croatia}} ([[Zagreb]])||{{flag|Kingdom of Croatia (Habsburg)}} ([[Zagreb]]) || [[University of Zagreb]] || 1669 || History of the university began on 23 September 1669, when the [[Holy Roman Emperor]] [[Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor|Leopold I]] issued a decree granting the establishment of the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit Academy]] of the Royal Free City of Zagreb. Decree was accepted at the Council of the Croatian Kingdom on 3 November 1671.
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| {{flagcountry|Czech Republic}} ([[Olomouc]])||{{flagicon|Bohemia}} [[Lands of the Bohemian Crown|Bohemian crown lands]], {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Olomouc]]) || [[Palacký University]] || 1573 || Originally known as Olomouc [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] University.
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| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Denmark}} ([[Copenhagen]]) ||[[Technical University of Denmark]] || 1829 ||Was founded in 1829 as the ''College of Advanced Technology''
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| {{flagcountry|Estonia}} ([[Tartu]])|| [[File:Svensk_flagg_1815.svg|20px|link=]] [[Kingdom of Sweden]] ([[Tartu|Dorpat]])|| [[University of Tartu]] || 1632 (continuous operation since 1802)||Founded as Academia Gustaviana in the then Swedish province of [[Livonia]]. It was closed from 1710 to 1802.
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| {{flagcountry|Finland}} ([[Helsinki]])||[[File:Svensk_flagg_1815.svg|20px|link=]] [[Kingdom of Sweden]] ([[Turku|Åbo]]) || [[University of Helsinki]] || 1640 ||Founded as the [[Royal Academy of Turku]] (Swedish: ''Kungliga Akademin i Åbo''). It was shut down by the [[Great Fire of Turku]] in 1827. The [[University of Helsinki]] was founded the next year, in 1828, and it started operating in 1829. The University of Helsinki sees itself as continuation of the Royal Academy of Turku.
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| {{flagcountry|France}} ([[Paris]])||{{flag|Kingdom of France|seme}} ([[Paris]]) || [[Sorbonne University]]||1150–1250 (continuous operation since 1896)|| Emerged around 1150 as a corporation associated with the cathedral school of [[Notre-Dame de Paris|Notre Dame de Paris]], it was considered the second-oldest university in Europe. Officially chartered in 1200 by [[Philip II of France]] and recognised in 1215 by [[Pope Innocent III]], it was often nicknamed after its theology collegiate institution, College of Sorbonne, founded about 1257 by [[Robert de Sorbon]] and charted by [[Louis IX of France]]. It was abolished in 1793 by the [[French Revolution]],<ref name="Jones, 2006"/> and was replaced by [[Napoleon]] on 1 May 1806 by the ''[[University of France]]'' system. In 1896 the Louis Liard law allowed the founding of a new University of Paris. In 1970, it split into 13 separate universities and numerous specialised institutions of higher education. In 2018, [[Sorbonne University]] was formed from the [[Paris-Sorbonne University]] (created from the faculty of humanities of the University of Paris) and [[Pierre and Marie Curie University]] (created from the faculty of science and medicine of the University of Paris).<ref>[https://www.studyinternational.com/news/consolidation-of-two-elite-paris-universities-confirmed-for-2018/#ueqSveXzd4FU54uu.97 Study International, Consolidation of two elite Paris universities confirmed for 2018]</ref><ref>[https://thepienews.com/news/mega-university-planned-for-pariss-left-bank/ The Pie News, Mega university planned for Paris's Left Bank]</ref>
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| {{flagcountry|France}} ([[Occitania (administrative region)|Occitanie]])||[[File:Flag_of_Occitania.svg|25px]] [[County of Toulouse]] ([[Toulouse]]) ||[[Université fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées]] || continuous operation since 1896|| Founded by [[papal bull]] in 1229 as the University of Toulouse. It closed in 1793 due to the [[French Revolution]], and reopened in 1896. In 1969, it split into three separate universities and numerous specialised institutions of higher education. It no longer represents a single university, as it is now the collective entity which federates the universities and specialised institutions of higher education in the region.
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| {{flagcountry|France}} ([[Montpellier]])||[[File:Bandera del Reino de Mallorca.svg|25px]] [[Kingdom of Majorca]] ([[Montpellier]]) ||[[University of Montpellier]] [[Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III|Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3]] || continuous operation since 1896|| The world's oldest medicine faculty was established before 1137 and operated continuously until the [[French Revolution]]. University by [[papal bull]] in 1289. It closed in 1793 due to the French Revolution, and reopened in 1896. The university of Montpellier was officially re-organised in 1969 after a students' revolt. It was split into its successor institutions the [[University of Montpellier 1]] (comprising the former faculties of medicine, law, and economy), [[Montpellier 2 University|Montpellier 2]] (science and technology) and [[Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III|Montpellier 3]] (social sciences, humanities and liberal arts). On 1 January 2015, the [[University of Montpellier 1]] and the [[Montpellier 2 University|University of Montpellier 2]] merged to form the newly recreated University of Montpellier.<ref name="lamarseillaise1">{{cite web|url=http://www.lamarseillaise.fr/herault-du-jour/education/34545-l-universite-de-montpellier-a-l-epreuve-de-la-fusion |title=L'université de Montpellier à l'épreuve de la fusion – Journal La Marseillaise |publisher=Lamarseillaise.fr |access-date=14 October 2015}}</ref><ref name="umontpellier2">{{cite web|author=Université |url=http://www.umontpellier.fr/universite/histoire-de-luniversite/ |title=Université de Montpellier » Histoire de l'Université |publisher=Umontpellier.fr |date=20 June 2014 |access-date=14 October 2015}}</ref> Meanwhile, the [[Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III|Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3]] remains a separate institution.
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| {{flagcountry|France}} ([[Aix-en-Provence]], [[Marseille]]) || [[File:Drapeau de Provence « ancien ».svg|22px]] [[County of Provence]], {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Aix-en-Provence|Aix]]) ||[[Aix-Marseille University]] || continuous operation since 1896||Founded in 1409 as the University of Provence, and in 1792, dissolved, along with twenty-one other universities. In 1896 it was reformed as the University of Aix-Marseille, one of 17 self-governing regional universities financed by the state. In 1968 it was divided into two institutions, the University of Provence (Aix-Marseille I) as a school of languages and letters, and the University of Aix-Marseille (Aix-Marseille II) as primarily a school of medicine and sciences. In 1973 the University of Law, Economics and Science (Aix-Marseille III) was added. In 2012 the three universities merged and was renamed Aix-Marseille University.
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| {{flagcountry|France}} ([[Lille]])||[[File:Generieke_vlag_van_Vlaanderen.svg|22px]] [[County of Flanders]], [[File:Bandera_cruz_de_Borgoña_2.svg|22px]] [[Spanish Netherlands]] ([[Douai]]) ||[[University of Lille]] || 1559|| Founded by [[Philip II of Spain]] in 1559 as the [[University of Douai]]. It closed in 1795 due to the [[French Revolution]], and reopened in 1808. In 1887, it was transferred as University of Lille 27 km away from Douai. In 1971, it split into three separate universities. At the beginning of 2018, the three universities merged to form again the University of Lille.
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| {{flagcountry|Germany}} ([[Wittenberg]] [[Halle (Saale)|Halle]])|| {{flagcountry|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Wittenberg]]) || [[Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg]] || 1502 ||Established in 1502 as the University of Wittenberg. Merged with University of Halle (founded 1691) in 1817.
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| {{flagcountry|Germany}} ([[Frankfurt/Oder]])|| {{flagcountry|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Frankfurt/Oder]]) || [[European University Viadrina|European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)]] || 1506 (continuous operation from 1991) ||Established in 1506 as the ''Alma Mater Viadrina''. Relocated and merged with the [[University of Wrocław|Leopoldina]] in Breslau (present-day [[Wrocław]], Poland) in 1811. Reestablished in Frankfurt (Oder) in 1991 after [[German reunification]].
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| {{flagcountry|Georgia}} ([[Tbilisi]])||{{flag|Democratic Republic of Georgia}} ([[Tbilisi]]) || [[Tbilisi State University]] ||1918|| Founded in 1918 as Tbilisi State University
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| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Gibraltar}}||[[University of Gibraltar]] || 2015<ref>{{cite news|author=Guy Clapperton|title=The new campus on the Rock – part 2 |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/newstatesman-gibraltar/special-features/2015/09/new-campus-rock-part-2|access-date=15 October 2019|work=New Statesman|publisher=Progressive Digital Media|date=22 September 2015}}</ref>||
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| {{flagcountry|Greece}} ([[Athens]])|| {{flag|Kingdom of Greece|1831}} ([[Athens]])||[[National and Kapodistrian University of Athens]] || 1837<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.uoa.gr/about_us/|title=about us|work= National and Kapodistrian University of Athens|access-date=11 August 2019}}</ref>||
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| rowspan="1" | {{flagcountry|Hungary}} ([[Budapest]])|| {{flag|Kingdom of Hungary}} ([[Trnava|Nagyszombat]]) || [[Eötvös Loránd University]] ||1635||Founded in 1635 by the archbishop and theologian [[Péter Pázmány]] as the ''University of Nagyszombat''. Renamed Royal Hungarian University of Science in 1769. The university was moved to [[Buda]] (today part of Budapest) in 1777. The university moved to its final location in [[Pest, Hungary|Pest]] (now also part of Budapest) in 1784 and was renamed Royal University of Pest. It has been renamed three times since then: University of Budapest (1873–1921), (Hungarian Royal Pázmány Péter University (1921–1950), and since 1950, Eötvös Loránd University.
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| {{flagcountry|Iceland}} ([[Reykjavík]])||{{flagcountry|Denmark}} ([[Reykjavík]]) || [[University of Iceland]] || 1911||
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| {{flagcountry|Ireland}} ([[Dublin]])||{{flag|Kingdom of Ireland}} ([[Dublin]]) ||[[University of Dublin]] ||1592|| Founded by Queen [[Elizabeth I]] and modelled after the [[Collegiate university|collegiate universities]] of [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]]. Only one college was ever established, [[Trinity College, Dublin|Trinity College Dublin]], making the two designations effectively synonymous.
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| {{flagcountry|Italy}} ([[Urbino]])|| [[File:Corona ferrea monza (heraldry).svg|24px]] [[Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)|Kingdom of Italy]], {{flagcountry|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Urbino]]) || [[University of Urbino]] || 1506 ||
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| {{flagcountry|Kosovo}}{{efn|{{Kosovo-note}}}} ([[Pristina]])||{{flag|Yugoslavia|alias}} ([[Pristina]]) || [[University of Pristina]] || 1969||
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| {{flagcountry|Latvia}} ([[Riga]])||{{flag|Russian Empire}} ([[Riga]])||[[Riga Technical University]] ||1862|| First established as Riga Polytechnicum in 1862
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| {{flagcountry|Liechtenstein}} ([[Vaduz]]) || {{flagcountry|Liechtenstein}} ([[Vaduz]])|| [[University of Liechtenstein]] ||1961|| Successor to the Abendtechnikum Vaduz in 1992
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| {{flagcountry|Lithuania}} ([[Vilnius]])|| [[File:Flaga_Rzeczypospolitej_Obojga_Narodow_ogolna.svg|22px]] [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] ([[Vilnius]]) ||[[Vilnius University]] || 1579 (continuous operation since 1919)|| Founded as the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit Academy]] of Vilnius; the university was closed from 1832 to 1919 and again in 1943–44
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| {{flagcountry|Luxembourg}} ([[Esch-sur-Alzette]]) || {{flagcountry|Luxembourg}} ([[Esch-sur-Alzette]])|| [[University of Luxembourg]] || 2003||
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| {{flagcountry|Malta}} ([[Msida]])|| {{flagicon|Sovereign Military Order of Malta}} [[Hospitaller Malta]] ([[Valletta]]) || [[University of Malta]] || 1769 || First established as the [[Collegium Melitense]] by the Jesuits in 1592
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| {{flagcountry|Netherlands}} ([[Leiden]])||{{flag|Dutch Republic}} ([[Leiden]]) || [[Leiden University]] || 1575|| Although formally still part of the [[Habsburg Netherlands]], Leiden sided with the [[Dutch Revolt]] in 1572
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|{{flagcountry|Netherlands}} ([[Groningen]])||{{flag|Dutch Republic}} ([[Groningen]]) || [[University of Groningen]] || 1614||Together with [[Leiden University]], it was one of the only two Dutch universities to retain their status during the [[Kingdom of Holland|Napoleonic occupation of the Netherlands.]]
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| {{flagcountry|Netherlands}} ([[Utrecht]])||{{flag|Dutch Republic}} ([[Utrecht]]) || [[Utrecht University]] || 1636||The Utrecht University was abolished during the Napoleonic era, reorganized as a French Imperial School for Higher Education. Only after the defeat of Napoleon and the establishment of the [[United Kingdom of the Netherlands|Kingdom of the Netherlands]] in 1815 was it to be reconstituted as a university.
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| {{flagcountry|North Macedonia}} ([[Skopje]])||{{flag|Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia}} ([[Skopje]]) || [[Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje]] || 1946 ||
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| {{flagcountry|Norway}} ([[Oslo]])||{{flag|Denmark–Norway}} ([[Oslo|Christiania]]) || [[University of Oslo]] || 1811||Founded as The Royal Frederik's University
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| {{flagcountry|Poland}} ([[Wrocław]])|| {{flagicon|Bohemia}} [[Lands of the Bohemian Crown|Bohemian crown lands]], {{Flag|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Breslau]])||[[University of Wrocław]] || 1702|| Founded in 1702 by [[Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor]] as the university ''Leopoldina''. It has been renamed five times since then: ''Universitas Literarum Vratislaviensis'' in 1742 by [[Frederick II of Prussia|King Frederick II of Prussia]], ''Silesian Friedrich Wilhelm University in Breslau'' in 1811, ''University of Breslau'' in the second half of the 19th century, ''Bolesław Bierut university'' between 1952 and 1989, and since 1989, ''University of Wrocław''.
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| {{flagcountry|Poland}} ([[Warsaw]])|| {{flagicon|Poland|1815}} [[Congress Poland|Kingdom of Poland]], {{flag|Russian Empire}}
|[[University of Warsaw]] ||1816||Founded as a Royal University on 19 November 1816, when the Partitions of Poland separated Warsaw from the older [[University of Kraków]] (founded in 1364).
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|{{flagcountry|Portugal}} ([[Porto]])||{{flag|Kingdom of Portugal}} ([[Porto]]) ||[[University of Porto]]|| 1836 (university 1911)||First established as Polytechnic University of Porto and Medical-Surgical School of Porto since 1836
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|{{flagcountry|Portugal}} ([[Lisbon]])||{{flag|Portuguese Republic}} ([[Lisbon]]) ||[[University of Lisbon]]|| 1911||Successor to the Lisbon General Study'','' 1290
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| {{flagcountry|Romania}} ([[Iași]])|| [[File:Flag of the United Principalities of Romania (1862 - 1866).svg|20px]] [[United Principalities]] ([[Iași]]) || [[Alexandru Ioan Cuza University]] || 1860<ref name="Study-in-romania.ro">{{cite web |url=http://www.study-in-romania.ro/historyofeducation.htm |title=Study in Romanian – Learn & Live Freely |publisher=Study-in-romania.ro |access-date=15 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150611181940/http://www.study-in-romania.ro/historyofeducation.htm |archive-date=11 June 2015 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref name="Uaic.ro">{{cite web|url=http://www.uaic.ro/en/university-2/short-history/ |title=Short history |publisher=Alexandru Ioan Cuza University|access-date=10 August 2017}}</ref>||Successor to the [[Princely Academy, Iaşi|Princely Academy from Iaşi]], 1642, and [[Academia Mihăileană]], 1835<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uaic.ro/en/university-2/university/timeline/|title=Timeline|publisher=Alexandru Ioan Cuza University|access-date=10 August 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811150130/http://www.uaic.ro/en/university-2/university/timeline/|archive-date=11 August 2017}}</ref>
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| {{flagcountry|Romania}} ([[Bucharest]])|| [[File:Flag of the United Principalities of Romania (1862 - 1866).svg|20px]] [[United Principalities]] ([[Bucharest]]) || [[University of Bucharest]] ||1864<ref name="Study-in-romania.ro" /><ref name="Unibuc.ro">{{cite web |url=http://www.unibuc.ro/en/main_scv_en |title=University of Bucharest – EN Home Page |publisher=University of Bucharest |date=1 January 1980 |access-date=15 August 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329034235/http://www.unibuc.ro/en/main_scv_en |archive-date=29 March 2012 }}</ref>||Successor to the [[Saint Sava College]], 1694
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| {{flagcountry|Romania}} ([[Cluj-Napoca]])||{{flag|Principality of Transylvania}} ([[Cluj-Napoca|Kolozsvár]])|| [[Babeș-Bolyai University]] || 1518 (continuous operation since 1919)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://u-szeged.hu/download.php?docID=7855|title=A Szegedi Tudományegyetem és elődei története (1581–2011)|author=Makk F., Marjanucz, L.|publisher=University of Szeged|date=2011|isbn=9789633060940}}</ref><ref name="Study-in-romania.ro" /><ref name="A significant history">{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130808134307/http://www.ubbcluj.ro/en/despre/misiune/istoric.html|archive-date=8 August 2013|url=http://www.ubbcluj.ro/en/despre/misiune/istoric.html |title=A significant history |publisher=[[Babeș-Bolyai University|Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca]] |access-date=11 November 2013}}</ref> || Academic successor of [[Jesuit Academy of Cluj|Academia / Universitas Claudiopolitana]] (1581), continued by [[Franz Joseph University]] (1872), King Ferdinand I University (1919), and [[Babeș-Bolyai University]] in its current form (1959).
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| {{flagcountry|Russia}} ([[Saint Petersburg]])|| {{flag|Russian Empire}} ([[Saint Petersburg]]) || [[Saint Petersburg State University]] || 1724 (continuous from 1819)||Claims to be the successor of the university established along with the Academic Gymnasium and the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences on 24 January 1724 by a decree of [[Peter the Great]]. In the period between 1804 and 1819, Saint Petersburg University officially did not exist
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| {{flagcountry|Russia}} ([[Moscow]])|| {{flag|Russian Empire}} ([[Moscow]])||[[Moscow State University]] || 1755||Founded in 1755 as [[Imperial Moscow University]]
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| {{flagcountry|Serbia}} ([[Belgrade]])||{{flag|Kingdom of Serbia}} ([[Belgrade]])|| [[University of Belgrade]] || 1808||Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-based departments into a single university, under current name from 1905; Orthodox Christian [[Lyceum]] in 1794; Teacher's college in 1778.
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| {{flagcountry|Slovakia}} ([[Bratislava]])|| {{flag|Czechoslovakia}} ([[Bratislava]])||[[Comenius University]] || rowspan="2" |1919||
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| {{flagcountry|Slovenia}} ([[Ljubljana]])||{{flagcountry|Kingdom of Yugoslavia|name=Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes}} ([[Ljubljana]]) || [[University of Ljubljana]] ||
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| {{flagcountry|Spain}} ([[Seville]])|| {{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[Seville]]) || [[University of Seville]] || 1505 ||
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| colspan="2" | [[File:Svensk_flagg_1815.svg|20px|link=]] [[Kingdom of Sweden]] ([[Lund]]) || [[Lund University]] || 1666||A Franciscan Studium Generale was founded in Lund in 1425, as the first university in Northern Europe, but as a result of the [[Protestant Reformation]] the operations of the catholic university were suspended.
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| {{flagcountry|Switzerland}} ([[Lausanne]])|| {{flag|Old Swiss Confederacy}} ([[Lausanne]]) || [[University of Lausanne]] ||1537||
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| colspan="2" | {{flag|Switzerland}} ([[Zurich]]) || [[University of Zurich]] || 1833 (incorporating colleges dating to 1525)||University established in 1833, taking in the [[Carolinum, Zürich|Carolinum]] theology college, dating to 1525, and colleges of law and medicine.
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| rowspan="2" | {{flag|Turkey}} ([[Istanbul]])||rowspan="2" | {{flag|Ottoman Empire}} ([[Constantinople]])||[[Istanbul Technical University]] || 1773 (university 1928)||Founded in 1773 as [[Turkish Naval Academy|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]] by the Ottoman Sultan [[Mustafa III]], but became a state university in 1928.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.itu.edu.tr/en/about-itu/general/history |title=Istanbul Technical University |publisher=Itu.edu.tr |access-date=15 August 2013}}</ref>
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| [[Istanbul University]] || 1453 (university 1933)||
Its ultimate origins lie in a [[madrasa]] and institute of higher education founded by the Ottoman Sultan [[Mehmed II]] in 1453; was reformed to a Western style of education with multiple faculties of sciences in 1846; gained university status in 1933.
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| {{flagcountry|Ukraine}} ([[Kharkiv]])|| {{flag|Russian Empire}} ([[Kharkiv]]) || [[National University of Kharkiv|V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University]] || 1804||
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| {{flagcountry|Ukraine}} ([[Lviv]]) || [[File:Flaga_Rzeczypospolitej_Obojga_Narodow_ogolna.svg|22px]] [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] ([[Lwów]]) || [[Lviv University]] || 1661 (continuous from 1850) ||Operated from 1661 to 1773, 1784–1805, 1817–1848, and since 1850.
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| {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|SCO}}) ([[Edinburgh]])|| {{flag|Kingdom of Scotland}} ([[Edinburgh]]) || [[University of Edinburgh]] || 1582–3<ref name=Ruegg680>{{cite book|title=A History of the University in Europe|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|author=Walter Rüegg|date=2004|volume=3, Universities in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1800–1945)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=entlN4EEPUYC&pg=PA680|page=680|isbn=9781139453028}}</ref>|| Formally established as the ''Tounis College'' (Town's College) under the authority of a [[royal charter]] granted to the Town of Edinburgh by King [[James VI and I|James VI]] of Scotland on 14 April 1582.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gteIvcJ5GVMC&pg=PA100|title=Commerce and Culture: Edinburgh, Edinburgh University, and the Scottish Enlightenment|page=100|work= The University and the City: From Medieval Origins to the Present|author=Nicholas Phillipson|editor= Thomas Bender|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|date=1988|isbn=9780195067750}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QE-P0ffkTUoC&pg=PA42|title=Edinburgh|pages=42–43|author=Michael Lynch|work= Charters of Foundation and Early Documents of the Universities of the Coimbra Group|editor=Jos. M. M. Hermans, Marc Nelissen|publisher=Leuven University Press|date= 2005|isbn=9789058674746}}</ref> It opened its doors to students in October 1583.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/our-history|title=Our History|publisher=University of Edinburgh|access-date=15 August 2017}}</ref>
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| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|ENG}}) ([[Durham, England|Durham]])||[[Durham University]] || 1832<ref name=Ruegg684>{{cite book|title=A History of the University in Europe|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|author=Walter Rüegg|date=2004|volume=3, Universities in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1800–1945)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=entlN4EEPUYC&pg=PA684|page=684|isbn=9781139453028}}</ref>|| Claims to be the [[Third oldest university in England debate|third oldest university in England]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Durham University Undergraduate Prospectus 2015|publisher=[[Durham University]] | url=http://issuu.com/communicationsoffice/docs/ugp2015_complete_prospectus_web_ppp|page=6|quote=We are the third oldest university in England and one of the world's leading centres of scholarship and learning}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dur.ac.uk/about/shaped/|title=Our history and values|quote=Henry VIII and Oliver Cromwell's attempts to formally establish a University for the North in Durham were subsumed by politics and North-South rivalries, and it was not until 1832, as the Prince-Bishopric declined lost his powers, was Durham finally endowed with the Castle and lands and granted degree awarding powers by the king as England's third University|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref> 
Listed by Rüegg in [[A History of the University in Europe]] as meeting standard criteria for recognition as a university from 1832.<ref name=Ruegg684 />

Established under the authority of the University of Durham Act 1832.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/actsrelatingtoe00parlgoog|pages=[https://archive.org/details/actsrelatingtoe00parlgoog/page/n415 389]|title=Acts Relating to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England|publisher=Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England|date=1844|last1=Parliament|first1=Great Britain}}</ref> Recognised as a university in the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 and the Established Church Act 1836.<ref>{{cite book|quote=nothing herein contained shall affect or interfere with the rights and privileges granted by charter or Act of Parliament to the University of Durham|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4_RQAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA225|page=225|title=A Collection of Statutes of Practical Utility|last1=Chitty|first1=Joseph|year=1837}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|quote=that the Bishop of Durham do in future hold the castle of Durham in trust for the University of Durham|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4_RQAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA148|page=148|title=A Collection of Statutes of Practical Utility|date=1837|last1=Chitty|first1=Joseph}}</ref> Incorporated and confirmed by Royal Charter in 1837 and degrees granted equal privileges with those of Oxford and Cambridge by the Attorneys and Solicitors Act 1837.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dur.ac.uk/about/governance/charter/|publisher=[[Durham University]]|title=About Durham University – Royal Charter|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref><ref name="1837act">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jls0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA277|page=277|title=The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|publisher=His Majesty's Statute and Law Printers|date=1837}}</ref>
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| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|ENG}}) ([[London]])||[[University of London]] || 1836<ref name=Ruegg684 />||Claims to be the third oldest university in England on the basis of the date of its charter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.london.ac.uk/history.html|title=History|publisher=University of London|access-date=30 September 2015|quote=The University of London was founded by Royal Charter on 28 November 1836 and is the third oldest university in England.}}</ref> 
Listed by Rüegg as meeting standard criteria for recognition as a university from 1836.<ref name=Ruegg684 />

Established by Royal Charter as degree awarding examining body for [[King's College London]] and [[University College London]] (see below), the London medical schools, and other institutions.<ref>{{cite book|title=University of London – The Historical Record, 1836–1912|publisher=University of London|date=1912|pages=7–24|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vyPiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA7}}</ref> Degrees granted equal privileges with those of [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] by the Attorneys and Solicitors Act 1837.<ref name="1837act" /> [[University College London]] (founded 1826; charter 1836) and [[King's College London]] (charter 1829<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=08ZLAAAAcAAJ|title=The charter and by-laws of King's College, London|date=1830|last1=(London)|first1=King's College}}</ref>) claim to be the third and fourth oldest universities in England,<ref>{{cite web|title=Living in London|quote=London offers a scene and status unrivalled by any other city. UCL, England's third oldest university, is at the heart of what has been described as 'the knowledge capital of the world'.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151127131250/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/accommodation/living-london|archive-date=27 November 2015|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/accommodation/living-london|publisher=University College London|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Undergraduate Prospectus 2015|publisher=University College London|url=http://issuu.com/ucl-pams/docs/ugp_15_all|page=7}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/facts/index.aspx|publisher=King's College London|title=About King's}}</ref> but did not offer degree courses prior to the foundation of the University of London<ref>{{cite journal|journal=[[Penny Cyclopaedia]]|title=University College London
|publisher=[[Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge]]|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_bS-H_-NYM4IC/page/n28 23]–28|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_bS-H_-NYM4IC|date=1843}}</ref> and did not gain their own degree awarding powers until 2005 and 2006 respectively.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/media/library/degreepowers|title=UCL granted degree awarding powers|date=27 September 2005|publisher=University College London|access-date=12 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160410145742/https://www.ucl.ac.uk/media/library/degreepowers|archive-date=10 April 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921224332/https://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/governance/about/index.aspx |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/governance/about/index.aspx |archive-date=21 September 2015 |title=King's Governance |publisher=King's College London |access-date=12 February 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> They are listed by Rüegg as colleges of the University of London rather than as a universities.<ref name="Ruegg684" />
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| {{flagcountry|UK}} ([[Northern Ireland]]) ([[Belfast]])|| {{flagcountry|UK}} ([[History of Ireland (1801–1923)|Ireland]]) ([[Belfast]])|| [[Queen's University Belfast]] || 1845<ref name=Ruegg684 /> (as college offering degree courses; university 1908)||Oldest university in Northern Ireland. Listed by Rüegg as meeting standard criteria for recognition as a university from 1845.<ref name=Ruegg684 /> 
Founded 1845, as a university college offering courses leading to degrees of the [[Queen's University of Ireland]] then the [[Royal University of Ireland]], gained university status in 1908.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.qub.ac.uk/Discover/About-Queens/History-and-heritage/|title=History and Heritage|date=March 2016 |quote=Queen's University Belfast was founded by Royal Charter in 1845. One of three Queen's Colleges in Ireland, with the others being in Cork and Galway, it became a university in its own right in 1908.|publisher=[[Queen's University Belfast]]|access-date=28 January 2017}}</ref>
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| {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|WAL}}) ([[Cardiff]])|| {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|WAL}}) ([[Aberystwyth]], [[Bangor, Gwynedd|Bangor]], [[Cardiff]])|| [[University of Wales]] || 1893<ref name=Ruegg687>{{cite book|title=A History of the University in Europe|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|author=Walter Rüegg|date=2004|volume=3, Universities in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1800–1945)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=entlN4EEPUYC&pg=PA687|page=687|isbn=9781139453028}}</ref>|| Founded by Royal Charter in 1893 as a federal university with three constituent colleges – Aberystwyth, Bangor and Cardiff – the university was the first and oldest university in Wales. Listed by Rüegg as meeting standard criteria for recognition as a university from 1893<ref name=Ruegg687 />
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| {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|WAL}}) ([[Carmarthen]], [[Lampeter]], [[Swansea]])|| {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|WAL}}) ([[Carmarthen]], [[Lampeter]])|| [[University of Wales Trinity Saint David]] || 1852 (limited degree awarding powers; as college 1822) ||The university was founded as [[St David's College, Lampeter|St David's College]] (Coleg Dewi Sant) in 1822 "to provide a liberal education to members of the clergy" and was incorporated by royal charter in 1828.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uwtsd.ac.uk/news/press-releases/press-releases-2014/the-university-of-wales-trinity-saint-david-celebrates-founders-day.html|title=The University of Wales Trinity Saint David celebrates Founders Day|date=17 November 2014|access-date=30 September 2015|publisher=[[University of Wales Trinity Saint David]]}}</ref> It was renamed St David's University College (Coleg Prifysgol Dewi Sant) in 1971, when it became part of the federal University of Wales. It was again renamed [[University of Wales, Lampeter]] in 1996 in line with moves elsewhere in the University of Wales. In 2010 it merged with [[Trinity University College]] to form the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wales.ac.uk/en/NewsandEvents/News/General/UniversityofWalesTrinitySaintDavidReceivesRoyalApproval.aspx|title=University of Wales Trinity Saint David Receives Royal Approval|date=23 July 2010|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref> Although described as the oldest university in Wales,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2009/apr/17/lampeter-merge-trinity|title=End of an era for Lampeter, the oldest university in Wales|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=17 April 2009|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/fears-future-survival-wales-oldest-2086978|title=Fears for the future survival of Wales' oldest university|publisher=Wales Online|date=7 August 2009|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref> it was not listed by Rüegg as meeting standard criteria for a university<ref>{{cite book|title=A History of the University in Europe|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|author=Walter Rüegg|date=2004|volume=3, Universities in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1800–1945)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=entlN4EEPUYC|isbn=9781139453028}}</ref> and lost a court case in 1951 against the [[Ministry of Education (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Education]] in which it sought to receive recognition as a university.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://oxcheps.new.ox.ac.uk/casebook/Resources/STDAVI_1%20DOC.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030509051852/http://oxcheps.new.ox.ac.uk/casebook/Resources/STDAVI_1%20DOC.pdf | url-status=dead | archive-date=9 May 2003 | title=St David's College, Lampeter v Ministry of Education 1951 | access-date=30 December 2014 }}(PDF)</ref>
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| {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|WAL}}) ([[Aberystwyth]])|| {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|WAL}}) ([[Aberystwyth]])|| [[Aberystwyth University]] || 1872<ref name=Ruegg687 /> (as college offering degree courses; university 2007)||Founded in 1872 as University College Wales, offering courses leading to degrees of the [[University of London]], it became a founder member of the University of Wales in 1894.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/university/history/timelinepart1/|title=Early Days|publisher=[[Aberystwyth University]]|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref> It claims to be "Wales's oldest university",<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/university/future/|title=Investing over £100m in your future|quote=Together they will ensure that Wales's oldest university will be well placed to survive the challenges of the twenty-first century – Aberystwyth's third century of existence.|publisher=[[Aberystwyth University]]|access-date=30 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001093619/https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/university/future/|archive-date=1 October 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> but was listed by Rüegg as a college of the University of Wales rather than as a university.<ref name=Ruegg687 /> It became an independent university (as Aberystwyth University) in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/university/history/timelinepart3/|title=College by the sea to College on the hill|publisher=Aberystwyth University|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref>
|}

=== Latin America and the Caribbean ===
{{Main|List of colonial universities in Latin America}}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- valign="top"
! colspan=2| Location
! width="15%" rowspan=2| Current name
! width="5%" rowspan=2| Year
! width="50%" rowspan=2| Notes
|-
! width="15%"| Current
! width="15%"| Original
|- valign="top"
| {{flag|Anguilla}} {{flag|Antigua and Barbuda}} {{flag|Bahamas}} {{flag|Barbados}} {{flag|Belize}} {{flag|British Virgin Islands}} {{flag|Cayman Islands}} {{flag|Dominica}} {{flag|Grenada}} {{flag|Jamaica}} {{flag|Montserrat}} {{flag|St. Kitts and Nevis}} {{flag|St. Lucia}} {{flag|St. Vincent and the Grenadines}} {{flag|Trinidad and Tobago}} {{flag|Turks and Caicos}} || {{flag|Jamaica|1906}} ([[Kingston, Jamaica|Kingston]])
| [[University of the West Indies]] || 1948 (as affiliated college of the [[University of London]]; university 1962)|| First campus opened in Jamaica as the University College of the West Indies associated with the [[University of London]] in 1948. Gained independent university status in 1962.
|-
| {{flag|Argentina}} || {{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[Viceroyalty of Peru|Perú]])
([[Governorate of the Río de la Plata|Río de la Plata]])

([[Córdoba, Argentina|Córdoba]])
| [[National University of Córdoba]] || 1613 || Oldest university in Argentina.
|-
| {{flag|Belize}} || {{flag|Belize}} || [[University of Belize]] || 2000 ||
|-
| {{flag|Bolivia}} || {{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[Viceroyalty of Peru|Perú]])
([[Real Audiencia of Charcas|Charcas]])

[[Sucre|(La Plata)]]
| [[University of Saint Francis Xavier]] || 1624 || Founded in 1624 by order of King [[Philip IV of Spain|Philip IV]], and with the support of [[Pope Innocent XII]]. Full name is The Royal and Pontificial Major University of [[Francis Xavier|Saint Francis Xavier]] of Chuquisaca
|-
| colspan="2" rowspan="3" | {{flag|Brazil}}||[[Federal University of Rio de Janeiro]] || 1920 (precursors trace back to 1792) || Created in 1920 as University of Rio de Janeiro.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sociedades.cardiol.br/socerj/revista/2008_05/a2008_v21_n05_a13Albanesi.pdf |title=O Ensino, a Universidade e a Realidade |website=Sociedades.cardiol.br |access-date=2016-03-31}}</ref> Has as precursors the Polytechnic School (founded as Royal Academy of Artillery, Fortification and Design in 1792),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://fernandanascimento.com.br/ARTIGO_OS_CURSOS_DE_ENGENHARIA_NO_BRASIL_E_AS_TRANSFORMACOES_NOS_PROCESSOS_PRODUTIVOS.pdf |title=FERNANDA NASCIMENTO |access-date=2016-11-17 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://archive.today/20161118023158/http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://fernandanascimento.com.br/ARTIGO_OS_CURSOS_DE_ENGENHARIA_NO_BRASIL_E_AS_TRANSFORMACOES_NOS_PROCESSOS_PRODUTIVOS.pdf |archive-date=2016-11-18 }}</ref> the National College of Medicine (founded as Academy of Medicine and Surgery in 1808)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dichistoriasaude.coc.fiocruz.br/iah/P/verbetes/escancimerj.htm |title=Escola Anatômica, Cirúrgica e Médica do Rio de Janeiro |access-date=January 17, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130323023854/http://www.dichistoriasaude.coc.fiocruz.br/iah/P/verbetes/escancimerj.htm |archive-date=March 23, 2013 }}</ref> and by the National College of Law (founded in 1891).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.direito.ufrj.br/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9&Itemid=23|title=Direito – Histórico|author=Administrator|access-date=5 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://educa.fcc.org.br/pdf/rbedu/n10/n10a03.pdf |title=A Universidade do Brasil |website=Educa.fcc.org.br |access-date=2016-03-31}}</ref>
|-
|[[Federal University of Paraná]] || 1912 (closed in 1920, refounded in 1951) || Closed as university in 1920. Refounded as university in 1951.
|-
|[[Federal University of Amazonas]] || 1909 (closed in 1926, refounded in 1962, precursors trace back to 1909) || Has as precursor the Free University School of Manaós, founded on 17 January 1909. Became the University of Manaós in 1910. Closed 1926, reformed 1962 as the University of Amazonas.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ufam.edu.br/historia.html|title=Historia|work=Federal University of Amazona|access-date=12 August 2019|language=pt}}</ref>
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Chile}}||[[Universidad de Chile (university)|Universidad de Chile]] || 1842 || Successor to the [[Royal University of San Felipe|Real Universidad de San Felipe]], created in 1738. Oldest university in Chile.
|-
| {{flag|Colombia}} || {{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[Viceroyalty of Peru|Perú]])
[[New Kingdom of Granada|(New Granada)]]

[[Bogotá|(Santa Fe de Bogotá)]]
| [[Saint Thomas Aquinas University]] || 1580 || Founded in 1580 by the Dominican Order. It is the second-oldest university in the [[Americas]].
|-
|{{flag|Colombia}}
|{{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[Viceroyalty of Peru|Perú]])
[[New Kingdom of Granada|(New Granada)]]

[[Bogotá|(Santa Fe de Bogotá)]]
|[[Pontifical Xavierian University]]
|1623
|Founded in 1623 by the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit Order]]. First Jesuit university in Colombia. Temporarily closed between 1797 and 1930.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Costa Rica}}||[[University of Costa Rica]] || 1940 || The first institution dedicated to higher education in Costa Rica was the University of Saint Thomas (Universidad de Santo Tomás), which was established in 1843. That institution maintained close ties with the [[Catholic Church]] and was closed in 1888 by the progressive and anti-clerical government of President [[Bernardo Soto Alfaro]] as part of a campaign to modernize public education. The schools of law, agronomy, fine arts, and pharmacy continued to operate independently. In 1940, those four schools were re-united to establish the modern UCR, during the reformist administration of President [[Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia]].
|-
| {{flag|Cuba}} || {{flagcountry|Spain|1701}} ([[New Spain]])
[[Governorate of Cuba|(Cuba)]]

([[Havana]])
| [[Universidad de La Habana]] || 1728 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Dominica}}||[[Ross University School of Medicine]] || 1978 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Dominican Republic}}||[[Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo]] || 1914 || Successor to the [[Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino]] (founded by papal bull in 1538, royal charter in 1558) which closed in 1823.
|-
| {{flag|Ecuador}} || {{Flagicon|Gran Colombia|variant=1822}} [[Gran Colombia|Republic of Colombia]]
([[Gran Colombia]])

([[Quito]])
| [[Central University of Ecuador]] || 1826 ||
|-
| {{flag|El Salvador}} || {{flag|El Salvador|1839}} || [[Universidad de El Salvador]] || 1841 || Founded on 16 February 1841 by President [[Juan Lindo]].
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Grenada}}||[[St. George's University]] || 1976 ||
|-
| {{flag|Guatemala}} || {{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[New Spain]])
[[Real Audiencia of Guatemala|(Guatemala)]]

([[Guatemala City|Guatemala]])
| [[Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala]] || 1676 (as colegio in 1562) || The San Carlos University was the fourth university founded in the Americas, when [[Guatemala]] was part of the [[Viceroyalty of New Spain]]. It had five major transformations but never ceased teaching. It grew out of the Colegio de Santo Tomas de Aquino (a high school), founded in 1562 by Bishop [[Francisco Marroquin]]. The university's founder was King [[Charles II of Spain]] and it was consecrated by Pope [[Innocent XI]] in 1687. Activities were interrupted after the [[Act of Independence of Central America]] in 1821.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}
|-
| {{flag|Guyana}} || {{flag|British Guiana}} || [[University of Guyana]] || 1963 ||
|-
| rowspan="2" | {{flag|Haiti}} || {{flag|Haiti|1814}} || [[University of Haiti|Université d'État d'Haïti]] || 1820 ||
|-
|{{flag|USA|1912|name=United States occupation of Haiti}} || [[Haitian Adventist University|Université Adventiste d'Haïti]] || 1921 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Honduras}}||[[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras]] || 1847 ||
|-
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" | {{flag|Mexico}}||[[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México]] || 1910 || Traces its origins back to [[Real y Pontificia Universidad de México]] (1551–1865) but no institutional continuity.
|-
|[[Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo]] || 1917 (as university; college 1540)|| Founded in 1540 as ''Colegio de San Nicolás Obispo (St. Nicholas Bishop College)'' and later in 1543 was appointed ''Real Colegio de San Nicolás Obispo (Royal St. Nicholas Bishop College)'' by King [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Carlos I of Spain]]; it was converted into a university on 15 October 1917.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.umich.mx/historia.html|title=Historia|language=es|publisher=Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo|access-date=12 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Panama}}||[[Universidad de Panamá]] || 1935 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Paraguay}}||[[Universidad Nacional de Asunción]] || 1889 ||
|-
| {{flag|Peru}} || {{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[New Spain|Perú]])
[[Viceroyalty of Peru|(Perú)]]

([[Lima]])
| [[National University of San Marcos]] || 1551 || Also known as the "Dean university of the Americas"; It is the first officially established ([[Privilege (legal ethics)|privilege]] by [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor]]) and the longest continuously operating university in the Americas.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Peru}}||[[National University of Saint Augustine]] || 1828 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Puerto Rico}}||[[University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras]] || 1903 || Original campus of the [[University of Puerto Rico]]
|-
| {{flag|Suriname}} || {{flag|Kingdom of the Netherlands}} || [[Anton de Kom University]] || 1968 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Uruguay}}||[[Universidad de la República]] || 1849 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|United States Virgin Islands}}||[[University of the Virgin Islands]] || 1967 (degree awarding; college 1962; university 1986) || Established by act of legislature in 1962. Opened in 1963 as the College of the Virgin Islands, offering only associate degrees. First bachelor's degree programmes 1967. Became the University of the Virgin Islands in 1986.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://uvi.edu/administration/about-uvi/history.aspx|title=History|work=University of the Virgin Islands|access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>
|-
| {{flag|Venezuela}} || {{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[New Spain|Perú]])
[[Captaincy General of Venezuela|(Venezuela)]]

([[Caracas]])
| [[Central University of Venezuela]] || 1721 ||
|-
|}

=== North America ===
{{See also|Colonial colleges|First university in the United States}}
In the United States, the [[colonial colleges]] awarded degrees from their foundation, but none were formally named as universities prior to the [[American Revolution]], leading to various claims to be the [[first university in the United States]]. The earliest Canadian institutions were founded as colleges, without degree awarding powers, and gained degree granting authority and university status later.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- valign="top"
! colspan=2 | Location
! width="15%" rowspan=2 | Current name
! width="5%" rowspan=2 | Year
! width="50%" rowspan=2 | Notes
|-
! width="15%" | Current
! width="15%" | Original
|- valign="top"

| {{flag|Bermuda}}|| || [[University of the West Indies]] || 2009 (Bermudian membership)|| First campus opened in Jamaica as the University College of the West Indies associated with the [[University of London]] in 1948. Gained independent university status in 1962. Bermuda joined the university in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100716145556/http://cavehill.uwi.edu/news/releases/release.asp?id=132|archive-date=16 July 2010|url=http://cavehill.uwi.edu/news/releases/release.asp?id=132|title=Bermuda joins the UWI Family|work=University of the West Indies}}</ref> Bermuda has also had a community college, [[Bermuda College]], since 1974.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Canada}} ([[Halifax, Nova Scotia]])|| {{Flagicon|United Kingdom|variant=1801}} [[Nova Scotia]] ([[Windsor, Nova Scotia|Windsor]]) || [[University of King's College]] ||1802 (as university; collegiate school 1789)|| Traces its roots back to the [[Columbia University|King's College]] in [[New York City]], which was first founded in 1754. Following the [[American Revolution]], [[United Empire Loyalist|Loyalists]] at the college fled to Windsor, Nova Scotia, and established as the King's Collegiate School in 1789. It received a royal charter in 1802 establishing it (after the model of [[Trinity College, Dublin|Trinity College Dublin]]) as "The Mother of a University", making it the oldest chartered university in Canada.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ll-r5R08t7YC&pg=PA26|pages=26–27|title=Deeper Imprint: The Footsteps of Archbishop Arthur Gordon Peters|author=Kirby Walsh|publisher=Cape Breton University Press|date= 2003|isbn=9780920336953}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://ukings.ca/campus-community/about-kings/history|title=History|publisher=University of King's College|access-date=1 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7jM5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT29|title=A History of Higher Education in Canada 1663–1960|author=Robin S. Harris |publisher=University of Toronto Press|date= 15 December 1976 |page=29|isbn=9781487589806}}</ref> A fire destroyed the original university in 1920, and the institution relocated to Halifax.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Greenland}} ([[Nuuk]])|| {{flag|Greenland}} ([[Nuuk]]) || [[University of Greenland]] ||1989 (as university; college 1983) || Established 1983, took name University of Greenland 1987, formal university status by legislation since 1 September 1989.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uk.uni.gl/about-us/history.aspx|title=History|publisher=University of Greenland|access-date=12 February 2017}}</ref>
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagicon|France}} [[Saint Pierre and Miquelon]]|| Institut Frecker || 1975 (part of [[Memorial University of Newfoundland]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mi.mun.ca/users/mslaney/learn_univ_camp_frecker.htm|title=Institut Frecker|work=Memorial University of Newfoundland|access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>||
|-
| {{flagcountry|USA}} ([[Cambridge, Massachusetts]])|| {{Flagicon|United States|variant=1776}} [[Massachusetts]] ([[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]]) || [[Harvard University]] ||1636 || Founded in 1636, named Harvard College in 1639, chartered in 1650. Oldest institution of higher education in the United States. Officially recognised as a university by the [[Massachusetts]] Constitution of 1780.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.harvard.edu/about-harvard/harvard-glance/history|title=History|publisher=Harvard University|access-date=1 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.harvard.edu/about-harvard/harvard-glance/history/historical-facts|title=Historical Facts|publisher=Harvard University|access-date=1 February 2017}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|USA}} ([[Williamsburg, Virginia]])|| {{Flagicon|United States|variant=1776}} [[Virginia]] ([[Middle Plantation (Virginia)|Middle Plantation]]) || [[College of William & Mary|The College of William & Mary]] ||1693 (continuously since 1888)|| Chartered in 1693. Claims to be the "first college to become a university" in the US, in 1779.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wm.edu/about/rankings/coolfacts/index.php|title=Cool facts|publisher=College of William and Mary|access-date=1 February 2017}}</ref> Named as a ''studium generale'' in its royal charter, leading to the additional claim that it was "a university by grant, a ''studium generale ex privilegio'' as the medieval jurists would have said it, since 1693".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wmlawreview.org/university-1693-new-light-william-marys-claim-title-oldest-university-united-states|title=A UNIVERSITY IN 1693: NEW LIGHT ON WILLIAM & MARY'S CLAIM TO THE TITLE "OLDEST UNIVERSITY IN THE UNITED STATES"|work=William & Mary Law Review|date=15 October 2020|author1=Thomas J. McSweeney|author2=Katharine Ello|author3=Elsbeth O'Brien}}</ref>
Briefly closed during two different periods: from 1861 to 1869 due to the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] and postwar financial problems, and 1882 to 1888 due to continued financial difficulties.
|-
| {{flagcountry|USA}} ([[Philadelphia]], Pennsylvania)|| {{Flagicon|United States|variant=1776}} [[Pennsylvania]] ([[Pennsylvania Colony]])|| [[University of Pennsylvania]] ||1755 || Traces its roots to a [[charity school]] founded in 1740. Collegiate charter 1755. Claims to be "the first American institution of higher education to be named a university" (in 1779).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.upenn.edu/about/history| title=Penn's Heritage|publisher=University of Pennsylvania|access-date=1 February 2017}}</ref>
|}

=== Oceania ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- valign="top"
! colspan=2 | Location
! width="15%" rowspan=2 | Current name
! width="5%" rowspan=2 | Year
! width="50%" rowspan=2 | Notes
|-
! width="15%" | Current
! width="15%" | Original
|- valign="top"
| {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|NSW}})|| {{noflag|[[New South Wales]]}} || [[University of Sydney]] ||1850 || Oldest in New South Wales, Australia and Oceania.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|VIC}})|| {{noflag|[[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]}} || [[University of Melbourne]] ||1853 || Oldest in Victoria.
|-
| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|AU-SA}})|| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|South Australia|1870}} || [[University of Adelaide]] ||1874 || Oldest in South Australia.
|-
|[[University of South Australia]] ||1889 || UniSA was formed in 1991 by the merger of the South Australian Institute of Technology with three South Australian College of Advanced Education campuses.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|TAS}})|| {{flagcountry|Tasmania}} || [[University of Tasmania]] ||1890 || Oldest in Tasmania.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|QLD}})||[[University of Queensland]] ||1909 || Oldest in Queensland.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|AU-WA}})||[[University of Western Australia]] ||1911 || Oldest in Western Australia.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|ACT}})||[[Australian National University]] ||1946 || Oldest in Australian Capital Territory.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|AU-NT}})||[[Charles Darwin University]] ||1989|| Founded as University of the Northern Territory in 1989, merged with other institutions to form Charles Darwin University in 2003.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cdu.edu.au/25th-anniversary|title=Celebrating 25 Years of University Education in the Northern Territory|work=Charles Darwin University|access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|Cook Islands}} {{flagcountry|Fiji}} {{flagcountry|Kiribati}} {{flagcountry|Marshall Islands}} {{flagcountry|Nauru}} {{flagcountry|Niue}} {{flagcountry|Samoa}} {{flagcountry|Solomon Islands}} {{flagcountry|Tokelau}} {{flagcountry|Tonga}} {{flagcountry|Tuvalu}} {{flagcountry|Vanuatu}} || {{flagicon|Fiji|colonial}} [[Colony of Fiji]]|| [[University of the South Pacific]] ||1968|| Regional university, operating in (and owned by the governments of) 12 Pacific island nations. Main campus in Fiji.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Guam}}|| {{flagcountry|Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands|1965}} || [[University of Guam]] ||1965 (degree granting; college 1952; university 1968)||
|-
| {{flagcountry|PNG}}|| {{flagcountry|PNG|1965}} || [[University of Papua New Guinea]] ||1965|| First university in Papua New Guinea.
|-
| {{flagcountry|NZL}} ({{flagcountry|Otago}})|| [[File:Flag of New Zealand Government Ships 1867.svg|20px]] [[New Zealand]] ([[Dunedin]]) || [[University of Otago]] ||1869|| Oldest in New Zealand.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|NZL}} ([[Auckland]])||[[University of Auckland]] ||1883 || Oldest in the [[North Island]].
|}

== See also ==
* [[List of Islamic seminaries#List of oldest Islamic seminaries|List of oldest Islamic seminaries]]
* [[List of medieval universities]]
* [[List of oldest institutions in continuous operation]]

== References ==

=== Notes ===
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{{notelist|30em}}

=== Citations ===
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List of oldest universities in continuous operation

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{{Short description|Historical list of Universities}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}}
{{broader|Oldest higher-learning institutions}}
[[File:Mediaeval universities.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|A 1911 map of [[Medieval university|medieval universities]] in Europe]]
[[File:Archiginnasio-bologna02.png|thumb|upright=1.2|The [[University of Bologna]] in [[Bologna]], Italy, is the world's oldest university in continuous operation.<ref name="de Ridder-Symoens">de Ridder-Symoens, Hilde: [https://books.google.com/books?id=5Z1VBEbF0HAC ''A History of the University in Europe: Volume 1, Universities in the Middle Ages''], Cambridge University Press, 1992, {{ISBN|0-521-36105-2}}, pp. 47–55</ref>]]
[[File:1 christ church hall 2012.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|A dining hall at the [[University of Oxford]] in [[Oxford]], England, the world's second-oldest university and oldest in the [[English (language)|English-speaking]] world]]
[[File:Cam colls from johns.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Partial view of the [[University of Cambridge]] in [[Cambridge]], England, the world's third-oldest university]]
This is a '''list of the oldest existing universities in continuous operation''' in the world.

Inclusion in this list is determined by the date at which the educational institute first met the traditional definition of a [[university]] used by academic historians{{refn|'The statement that all universities are descended either directly or by migration from these three prototypes [Oxford, Paris, and Bologna] depends, of course, on one's definition of a university. And I must define a university very strictly here. A university is something more than a center of higher education and study. One must reserve the term ''university'' for—and I'm quoting Rashdall here—"a scholastic guild, whether of masters or students, engaged in higher education and study," which was later defined, after the emergence of universities, as "studium generale".'<ref name="Hyde 1991">{{cite book | last = Hyde | first = J. K. | editor-last = Bender | editor-first = Thomas | chapter = Universities and Cities in Medieval Italy | title = The university and the city: from medieval origins to the present | place = Oxford | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 1991 | pages = 13–14 | isbn = 978-0-19-506775-0 }}</ref>|group=Note}}{{Specify |reason=the source does not claim this is the definition used by most or all academic historians |date=February 2021}} although it may have existed as a different kind of institution before that time.<ref name="Hyde 1991" /> This definition limits the term "university" to institutions with distinctive structural and legal features that developed in [[Europe]], and which make the university form different from other institutions of higher learning in the pre-modern world, even though these may sometimes now be referred to popularly as universities. To be included in the list below, the university must have been founded before 1500 in Europe or be the oldest university derived from the medieval European model in a country or region. It must also be still in operation, with institutional continuity retained throughout its history. So some early universities, including the [[University of Paris]], founded around the beginning of the 13th century<ref name=Verger/> but abolished by the [[French Revolution]] in 1793,<ref name="Jones, 2006">{{cite book | last = Jones | first = Colin | chapter = Queen of Cities | title = Paris : The Biography of a City | place = Paris | publisher = Penguin Books | year = 2006 | pages = 60 | isbn = 978-0-14-303671-5}}</ref> are excluded. Some institutions reemerge, but with new foundations, such as the modern University of Paris, which came into existence in 1896 after the ''Louis Liard law'' disbanded [[Napoleon]]'s [[University of France]] system.

The word ''university'' is derived from the {{lang-la|universitas magistrorum et scholarium}}, which approximately means "community of teachers and scholars". The [[University of Bologna]] in [[Bologna]], Italy, where teaching began around 1088 and which was organised into a university in the late twelfth century, is the world's oldest university in continuous operation,<ref>de Ridder-Symoens, Hilde: [https://books.google.com/books?id=5Z1VBEbF0HAC ''A History of the University in Europe: Volume 1, Universities in the Middle Ages''], Cambridge University Press, 1992, {{ISBN|0-521-36105-2}}, pp. 47–55</ref> and the first university in the sense of a higher-learning and degree-awarding institute.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wyjnHZ1IIlgC&pg=PA18 |title=The Challenge of Bologna|author=Paul L. Gaston |year=2010 |page=18 |isbn=978-1-57922-366-3 |access-date=25 December 2022}}</ref><ref name="Hunt Janin 2008">Hunt Janin: "The university in medieval life, 1179–1499", McFarland, 2008, {{ISBN|0-7864-3462-7}}, p. 55f.</ref><ref name="de Ridder-Symoens"/> The origin of many [[Medieval university|medieval universities]] can be traced back to the [[Catholic]] [[cathedral school]]s or [[monastic school]]s, which appeared as early as the 6th century and were run for hundreds of years as such before their formal establishment as universities in the [[High Middle Ages|high medieval period]].<ref name="Riché 1978 126–7, 282–98">{{Cite book | last = Riché | first = Pierre | title = Education and Culture in the Barbarian West: From the Sixth through the Eighth Century | publisher = University of South Carolina Press | location = Columbia | year = 1978 | isbn = 978-0-87249-376-6 |pages=126–127, 282–298}}</ref>

[[Ancient higher-learning institutions]], such as those of [[ancient Greece]], [[History of Iran|ancient Persia]], [[ancient Rome]], [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantium]], [[ancient China]], [[History of India|ancient India]] and the [[Muslim world|Islamic world]], are not included in this list owing to their cultural, historical, structural and legal differences from the medieval European university from which the modern university evolved.{{refn|"No one today would dispute the fact that universities, in the sense in which the term is now generally understood, were a creation of the [[Middle Ages]], appearing for the first time between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It is no doubt true that other civilizations, prior to, or wholly alien to, the [[Middle Ages|medieval]] [[Western world|West]], such as the [[Roman Empire]], [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantium]], [[History of Islam|Islam]], or [[Ancient China|China]], were familiar with forms of higher education which a number of historians, for the sake of convenience, have sometimes described as universities.Yet a closer look makes it plain that the institutional reality was altogether different and, no matter what has been said on the subject, there is no real link such as would justify us in associating them with [[Medieval university|medieval universities]] in the West. Until there is definite proof to the contrary, these latter must be regarded as the sole source of the model which gradually spread through the whole of Europe and then to the whole world. We are therefore concerned with what is indisputably an original institution, which can only be defined in terms of a historical analysis of its emergence and its mode of operation in concrete circumstances."<ref>Verger, Jacques: "Patterns", in: Ridder-Symoens, Hilde de (ed.): ''A History of the University in Europe. Vol. I: Universities in the Middle Ages'', Cambridge University Press, 2003, {{ISBN|978-0-521-54113-8}}, pp. 35–76 (35):</ref>|group=Note}}{{refn|"Thus the university, as a form of social organization, was peculiar to [[medieval Europe]]. Later, it was exported to all parts of the world, including the [[Muslim]] East; and it has remained with us down to the present day. But back in the Middle Ages, outside of Europe, there was nothing anything quite like it anywhere."<ref>Makdisi, George: "Madrasa and University in the Middle Ages", ''[[Studia Islamica]]'', No. 32 (1970), pp. 255–264 (264):</ref>|group=Note}}<ref name="Rüegg">Rüegg, Walter: "Foreword. The University as a European Institution", in: ''A History of the University in Europe. Vol. 1: Universities in the Middle Ages'', Cambridge University Press, 1992, {{ISBN|0-521-36105-2}}, pp. XIX–XX.</ref>

== Medieval origins ==
{{Main|Medieval university}}

The university as an [[institution]] was historically rooted in [[Middle Ages|medieval]] society, which it in turn influenced and shaped. Academic historian Walter Rüegg asserts that:<ref name="Rüegg" />

{{blockquote|The university is a European institution; indeed, it is the European institution ''par excellence''. There are various reasons for this assertion. As a community of teachers and taught, accorded certain rights, such as [[Academic freedom|administrative autonomy]] and the determination and realisation of curricula (courses of study) and of the objectives of research as well as the award of publicly recognised degrees, it is a creation of [[Middle Ages|medieval Europe]], which was the Europe of [[Pope|papal]] Christianity [...].}}

== Modern spread ==
From the [[early modern period]] onwards, the university spread from the [[Western culture#Medieval West|medieval Latin West]] across the globe, eventually replacing [[Ancient higher-learning institutions|all other higher-learning institutions]] and becoming the preeminent institution for higher education everywhere. The process occurred in the following chronological order:<ref>Rüegg, Walter (ed.): ''Geschichte der Universität in Europa'', 3 vols., C.H. Beck, München 1993, {{ISBN|3-406-36956-1}}</ref>
* Southern and Western Europe (from the 11th or 12th century)
* Central and Northern Europe (from the 14th or 15th century)
* Americas (from the 16th century)
* Australia (from the 19th century)
* Asia and Africa (from the 19th or 20th century), with the exception of the [[Philippines]], where the [[University of Santo Tomas]] was established in the 17th century.

== Founded as universities before 1500 ==
{{Main|List of medieval universities}}

This list includes [[medieval universities]] that were founded before 1500 and which have retained institutional continuity since then (excluding not only those that ceased to exist, but also those that merged into or split away to an institution which is regarded as newly established). Several of these have been closed for brief periods: for example the [[University of Siena]] was closed 1805{{ndash}}1815 during [[Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)|the Napoleonic wars]], and universities in the [[Czech Republic]] and [[Poland]] were closed during [[German-occupied Europe|Nazi occupation]], 1938–1945.

Universities are dated from when, according to scholars, they first met the definition of a university. In cases such as the universities of [[University of Bologna|Bologna]] and [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] which trace their history back to teaching in individual schools prior to their formation into a university, or which existed in another form prior to being a university, the date in the list below is thus later than the date given by the institutions for their foundation.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! width="10%" rowspan=2 | Year
! rowspan=2 | University
! colspan=2 | Location
! width="50%" rowspan=2 | Notes
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! Original !! Current
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| 1180–1190<ref>{{cite book|work=[[A History of the University in Europe]]|volume=1, Universities in the Middle Ages|page=48|title=Patterns|author=Jacques Verger|editor1=Hilde de Ridder-Symoens|editor2=Walter Rüegg|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|date=16 October 2003|isbn=9780521541138|quote=There is no indication, however, that up until around 1180, the Bolognese law schools were anything other than private schools opened and run by each master after his own fashion, gathering together the students that had entered into an agreement with him and paid him fees (collectae) in return for his teaching. The crucial change would seem to have taken place around the years 1180–90. ... The masters, who were themselves mainly Bolognese in origin, agreed from 1189 to swear an oath to the commune not to seek to transfer the ''studium'' elsewhere. The students, on the other hand, began to group themselves in nations, according to their places of origin (we hear of the Lombard nation as early as 1191), and these were soon federated into 'universities' with elected rectors at their head.
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Z1VBEbF0HAC&pg=PA48}}</ref> (teaching from c. 1088)
| [[University of Bologna]]
| [[File:Corona ferrea monza (heraldry).svg|24px]] [[Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)|Kingdom of Italy]], {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}}
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Bologna]], Italy
| Law schools existed in Bologna from the second half of the 12th century, with 1088 often considered to be the date on which teaching outside of ecclesiastical schools began.<ref name="Verger Bologna">{{cite web|url=https://www.unibo.it/en/university/who-we-are/our-history/university-from-12th-to-20th-century|title=The University from the 12th to the 20th century|publisher=University of Bologna|access-date=14 February 2021}}</ref> In 1158, petitions by Bolognese doctors of law led to Emperor [[Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor|Barbarossa]] granting the "Authentic ''Habita''", which granted various rights to students and masters but did not name Bologna or any other particular place of study.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/universitiesinpo0000unse/page/34/mode/2up|author=J.K. Hyde|pages=34–35|date=1972|publisher=Johns Hopkins Press|editor1=John W. Baldwin|editor2=Richard A. Goldthwaite|title=Commune, University, and Society in Early Medieval Bologna|work=Universities in politics; case studies from the late Middle Ages and early modern period|isbn=9780801813726}}</ref> However, it is unlikely that the university had become organised by the 1150s, and this may have been as late as the 1180s.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UcmTz4j-XIIC|page=6|title=The Universities of the Italian Renaissance|author=Paul F. Grendler|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|date=3 November 2004|isbn=9781421404233|quote=it is not likely that enough instruction and organization existed to merit the term university before the 1150s, and it might not have happened before the 1180s}}</ref> The law schools appear to have remained independent, private entities until around 1180, but became organised over the following decade. In 1189 the masters made an agreement with the commune not to transfer the ''studium'' to another town, while the Lombard students were organised into a '[[Nation (university)|nation]]' by 1191.<ref name="Verger Bologna"/><ref name="Brockliss Bologna Paris">{{cite book|quote=The first indications of the gestation of a scholars' guild comes from Bologna in 1189 when the commune forced the masters to swear not to transfer the ''studium'' to another town. Thereafter, evidence confirming that Bologna had become a ''universitas'' and announcing similar developments elsewhere proliferate. The collective identity of the many Paris schools received some sort of official recognition in 1194 when their scholars were implicitly given a grant of clerical immunity by Pope Celestine III, which were confirmed six years later by the king, Philip II. By 1208 a university had definitely begun to take shape. In that year the city's bishop, who claimed the right to license private teachers and interfere in their teaching, accepted that the masters could form an autonomous guild and police themselves, albeit under his ultimate control. In 1215 the pope blessed this arrangement by granting the fledgling university is first statutes.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iMDmCwAAQBAJ&pg=PR46|title=The University of Oxford: A History|author=L. W. B. Brockliss|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|date= 2016|page=6|isbn = 9780199243563}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| 1200–1214<ref name="Verger Oxford">{{cite book|quote=There were schools in operation in Oxford from at least as early as the middle of the twelfth century; an embryonic university organization was in existence from 1200, even before the first papal statutes (1214), which were complemented by royal charters, had established its first institutions|pages=52–53|work=[[A History of the University in Europe]]|volume=1, Universities in the Middle Ages|title=Patterns|author=Jacques Verger|editor1=Hilde de Ridder-Symoens|editor2=Walter Rüegg|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|date=16 October 2003|isbn=9780521541138|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Z1VBEbF0HAC&pg=PA52}}</ref> (teaching from c. 1096)
| [[University of Oxford]]
| {{flag|Kingdom of England}}
| {{flagicon|UK}} [[Oxford]], United Kingdom
| Teaching existed in Oxford from the late 11th century,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iMDmCwAAQBAJ&pg=PR51|title=The University of Oxford: A History|author=L. W. B. Brockliss|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|date= 2016|page=11|isbn=9780199243563}}</ref> with the university giving the date of 1096 for the earliest classes.<ref name="OxHist">{{cite web |url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/about/organisation/history |title=Introduction and history |publisher=University of Oxford |quote=As the oldest university in the English speaking world, Oxford is a unique and historic institution. There is no clear date of foundation of Oxford University, but teaching existed at Oxford in some form in 1096 and developed rapidly from 1167, when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris.|access-date=4 February 2017}}</ref> However, it was not until the early 13th century that the schools in Oxford took on an organised character. In 1201 a papal letter described John Grimm as ''magister scolarum Oxonie''.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7zorDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA48|title=The Medieval English Universities: Oxford and Cambridge to C. 1500|author= Alan B. Cobban|page=48|publisher=Taylor & Francis|date= 5 July 2017|isbn=9781351885805}}</ref> In 1209 the masters suspended their teaching in Oxford and moved to other towns (including [[Cambridge]], leading to the foundation of the [[University of Cambridge|university there]]),<ref name="Oxford1209">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/oxford/low/people_and_places/history/newsid_8405000/8405640.stm|date=18 December 2009|title=The hanging of the clerks in 1209|work=[[BBC News]]|author=Simon Bailey}}</ref> returning after a [[Papal bull|bull]] issued on 20 June 1214 by the [[papal legate]], [[Niccolò de Romanis]], that granted a number of rights to the university and established the office of [[Chancellor (university)|chancellor]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iMDmCwAAQBAJ&pg=PR53|title=The University of Oxford: A History|author=L. W. B. Brockliss|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|date= 2016|pages=13–16|isbn=9780199243563}}</ref> Both Oxford and Cambridge were granted rights of discipline over students and of fixing rents in letters issued by King [[Henry III of England|Henry III]] in 1231.<ref name=Carpenter>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FLbdk_L9TYQC&pg=PA463|page=463|title=The Struggle for Mastery: Britain, 1066–1284|author=David A. Carpenter|publisher=Oxford University Press|date= 2003|isbn=9780195220001}}</ref> A royal charter, sometimes referred to as the Magna Carta of the university, was granted in 1244, awarding further rights to the university.<ref>{{cite book|page=274|title=The Endowments of the University and Colleges to circa 1348|author1=Trevor Henry Aston|author2 = Rosamond Faith |
work=The History of the University of Oxford: The early Oxford schools|editor=Trevor Henry Aston|publisher=Clarendon Press|date=1984|isbn=9780199510115|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AkJO3TAxMtwC&pg=PA274}}</ref> The university received a papal bull ''Querentes in agro'' in 1254, with a first version issued on 27 September and a second version on 6 October. The first version followed the common form of privileges granted to [[Monastery|monastic houses]], confirming the liberties and immunities granted to the university and placing the members of the university under papal protection, but the second version (which was the version recorded in the papal register) explicitly recognised and approved the existence of the university as a scholarly community and confirmed its "liberties, ancient customs and approved statutes".<ref>{{cite book|pages=103–104|title=The University in State and Church|author= C H Lawrence|work=The History of the University of Oxford: The early Oxford schools|editor=Trevor Henry Aston|publisher=Clarendon Press|date=1984|isbn=9780199510115|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AkJO3TAxMtwC&pg=PA103}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| 1209–1225<ref name=Verger>{{cite book|pages=62–65, 68|work=[[A History of the University in Europe]]|volume=1, Universities in the Middle Ages|title=Patterns|author=Jacques Verger|editor1=Hilde de Ridder-Symoens|editor2=Walter Rüegg|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|date=16 October 2003|isbn=9780521541138|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Z1VBEbF0HAC&pg=PA62}}</ref>
| [[University of Cambridge]]
| {{flag|Kingdom of England}}
| {{flagicon|UK}} [[Cambridge]], United Kingdom
| Founded by scholars leaving [[Oxford]] after a dispute caused by the execution of three scholars in 1209.<ref name="Oxford1209"/> The university was organised under a chancellor by 1225.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iMDmCwAAQBAJ&pg=PR58|title=The University of Oxford: A History|author=L. W. B. Brockliss|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|date= 2016|page=18|isbn=9780199243563}}</ref> The university takes 1209 as its official anniversary.<ref name=Cambridge800>{{cite web|title=800th anniversary|url=http://www.cam.ac.uk/univ/800/|publisher=University of Cambridge|access-date=7 January 2012}}</ref> Along with Oxford, Cambridge was granted rights of discipline over its students and of fixing rents in letters issued by King [[Henry III of England|Henry III]] in 1231.<ref name=Carpenter/> It received papal recognition as an academic corporation via an [[indult]] granted by [[Pope Gregory IX]] in 1233 and was named as a ''[[studium generale]]'' in the [[papal bull]] ''Inter singula'' in 1318. The traditional view was that this raised it to a ''studium generale'' but more recent scholarship (which is now generally, although not universally, accepted) sees the bull as confirming, rather than conferring, this status.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7zorDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA59|title=The Medieval English Universities: Oxford and Cambridge to C. 1500|author= Alan B. Cobban|pages=58, 59|publisher=Taylor & Francis|date= 5 July 2017|isbn=9781351885805}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1OMGDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA162|pages=162–163|work=Law as Profession and Practice in Medieval Europe: Essays in Honor of James A. Brundage|editor1=Kenneth Pennington|editor2= Melodie Harris Eichbauer|publisher=Routledge |date=15 April 2016 |title=When did Cambridge become a ''studium generale''|author=Patrick Zutshi|isbn=9781317107682}}</ref>
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| 1218–1219<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Salamanca]]
| [[File:Leon banner.svg|border|26px|Pennant of the Kingdom of León]] [[Kingdom of León]]
| {{flagicon|Spain}} [[Salamanca]], Spain
| The oldest university in the Hispanic world. The university was founded by [[Alfonso IX]] of León in 1218 and recognised by a papal bull from [[Pope Alexander IV]] in 1255.<ref name="usal">{{cite web|url=http://m.usal.es/webusal/en/node/941?bcp=conocenos|language=es|title=Reseña Histórica de la USAL|publisher=University of Salamanca|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref>
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| 1222<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Padua]]
| [[File:Flag of Bologna.svg|border|26px]] [[Padua#Emergence of the Commune|Medieval commune of Padua]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Padua]], Italy
| Founded by scholars and professors after leaving [[Bologna]]. Awarded the first degree in the world to be conferred on a woman, [[Elena Cornaro Piscopia]], in 1678.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.unipd.it/en/history|title=History|publisher=University of Padua|access-date=19 February 2021}}</ref><ref name=cathen>{{cite book|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15188a.htm|title=Universities|author=Pace, E. |date=1912|work= The Catholic Encyclopedia|publisher= New York: Robert Appleton Company|via=New Advent|access-date=1 February 2017}}</ref>
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| 1224<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Naples Federico II]]
| [[File:King Manfred of Sicily Arms.svg|20px]] [[Kingdom of Sicily]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Naples]], Italy
| Claims to be the oldest public university in the world,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.international.unina.it/ |publisher=University of Naples Frederico II|access-date=19 February 2021|title=International Unina}}</ref> as one of the first to be founded by a head of state, [[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor|Frederick II]], [[Holy Roman Emperor]] and king of [[Kingdom of Sicily|Sicily]]. Refounded in 1234, 1239 and 1465, and closed 1490–1507.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.international.unina.it/history/|title=History|publisher=University of Naples Frederico II|access-date=19 February 2021}}</ref>
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| 1290<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Coimbra]]
| [[File:PortugueseFlag1248.svg|20px|Flag of Portugal (1248–1385]] [[Portugal in the Middle Ages|Kingdom of Portugal]] 
| {{flagicon|Portugal}} [[Coimbra]], Portugal
| Originally established in [[Lisbon]] but relocated to Coimbra from 1308 to 1338 and again from 1354 to 1377,<ref name=Verger/> before finally moving permanently to Coimbra in 1537.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Nature|date=1 January 1938|title=The Quatercentenary of the University of Coimbra|author=F. G. Donnan|volume=141|issue=3558|page=63|doi=10.1038/141063a0|bibcode=1938Natur.141...63D|s2cid=4122832|doi-access=free}}</ref>
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| 1293 (Papal recognition 1346)<ref name=Verger/>
|[[University of Valladolid]]
| [[File:Banner of arms crown of Castille Habsbourg style.svg|border|26px|Pennant of the Crown of Castile]] [[Crown of Castile]]
|{{flagicon|Spain}} [[Valladolid]], Spain
| Founded in the late 13th century,<ref name=Verger/> probably by the city,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9otEuneTZ74C&pg=PA559|page=559|title=La educación en la Hispania antigua y medieval|author=Bernabé Bartolomé Martínez|language=es|publisher=Ediciones Morata|date=1 January 1992|isbn=9788471123749}}</ref> with the first documented reference dating from 1293.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://relint.uva.es/inicio/internacional/espanol/estudiantes/guia-bienvenida/la-universidad-de-valladolid/#|title=Foreign Students Guide|publisher=University of Valladolid|access-date=20 February 2021}}</ref>
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| 1308<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Perugia]]
| [[File:Emblem of the Papacy SE.svg|22px|Coat of arms of the Papal States]] [[Papal States]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Perugia]], Italy
| The university traces its history back to 1276 and statutes were granted in 1306 prior to the [[Papal bull|bull]] of [[Pope Clement V]] of 8 September 1308.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unipg.it/en/university/history|title=History|publisher=University of Perugia|access-date=20 February 2020}}</ref>
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| 1347<ref name=Verger/>
| [[Charles University]]
| [[File:Blason Boheme.svg|22px|Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Bohemia]] [[Kingdom of Bohemia]], {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}}
| {{flagicon|Czech Republic}} [[Prague]], Czech Republic
| Faculties of theology, law and medicine closed during the [[Bohemian Reformation]], leaving only the faculty of liberal arts. Became Charles-Ferdinand University after the [[Thirty Years' War]], with all four faculties restored. Split into German and Czech parts in 1882; the Czech branch restored the name Charles University after independence in 1918 and closed briefly during [[German-occupied Europe|Nazi occupation]] (1939–1945) while the German branch closed permanently in 1945.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cuni.cz/UKEN-106.html |title=History of Charles University |publisher=Charles University |access-date=20 February 2021}}</ref>
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| 1357<ref name=Verger/> (originally 1246–1252)<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Siena]]
| [[File:Siena-Stemma.png|18px|Coat of arms of Siena]] [[Republic of Siena]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Siena]], Italy
| Claims to have been founded in 1240 by the [[Mediæval commune|Commune]] of [[Siena]],<ref name=Siena>{{cite web|url=http://www.unisi.it/ateneo/storia-dellateneo|language=it|publisher=University of Siena|access-date=4 February 2017|title=Storia dell'Ateneo}}</ref> although Rashdall dates the proclamation of the Studium to 1246, when [[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor|Frederick II]] tried to place a ban on scholars travelling to Bologna, the date also given by Verger.<ref name=Verger/> Was granted some exemptions from taxes by Pope [[Innocent II]] in 1252, but closed shortly after when the scholars returned to Bologna. Attempted revivals in 1275 and (fed by further short-lived migrations of scholars from Bologna) in 1321 and 1338 were unsuccessful. Gained an Imperial Bull in 1357 "granting it ''de novo'' the 'privileges of a Studium Generale.{{' "}}, but was not firmly established until "[i]n 1408 a fresh grant of privileges was obtained from [[Pope Gregory XII]]".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iW7E7LQiu8kC&pg=PA31|pages=31–34|author=[[Hastings Rashdall]]|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|date=2010|title=The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages: Volume 2, Part 1|isbn=9781108018111}} Originally publisher 1895</ref> Closed temporarily in 1808–1815 when [[Napoleon]]ic forces occupied [[Tuscany]].<ref name=Siena />
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| 1361<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Pavia]]
| [[File:Coat of arms of the House of Visconti (1277).svg|18px|House of Visconti]][[Visconti of Milan|Domain of the House of Visconti]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Pavia]], Italy
| Transferred to [[Piacenza]] 1398–1412.<ref name=Verger/> Closed for short periods during the [[Italian Wars]], [[Napoleonic wars]], and [[Revolutions of 1848]].
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| 1364<ref name="Verger" /> (re-established in 1400)<ref name="Verger" />
| [[Jagiellonian University]]
| [[File:Alex K Kingdom of Poland3.svg|22px]] [[Kingdom of Poland]]
| {{flagicon|Poland}} [[Kraków]], Poland
| Founded by King [[Casimir III of Poland|Casimir the Great]] as a ''studium generale'' in 1364. After the death of Casimir the Great in 1370, the development of the university stalled, with lectures being held in various places across the city, including in professors' houses, churches and in the [[Wawel Castle|Wawel]] cathedral school. The faculty of theology was re-opened in 1397 by Queen [[Jadwiga of Poland|Jadwiga]] who left a large endowment to the university upon her death in 1399. The university was formally re-established on 26 July 1400 by King [[Jogaila|Władysław Jagiełło]]. After Kraków was incorporated into the [[Austrian Empire]], the university was merged with Lwów University from 1805 to 1809. The university was forcibly shut down during the German [[Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)]]. The staff was deported to [[Nazi concentration camps]], and many of its collections were deliberately destroyed by the occupying German authorities. Underground lectures continued for around 800 students during this period and the university formally reopened in 1945.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.uj.edu.pl/en_US/about-university/history|title=History|publisher=Jagiellonian University|access-date=14 March 2021}}</ref>
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| 1365<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Vienna]]
| rowspan="2" | {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}}
| {{flagicon|Austria}} [[Vienna]], Austria
| Founded by [[Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria]], granted papal assent in 1384 by [[Pope Urban VI]]. The oldest university in the contemporary [[Geographical distribution of German speakers|German-speaking world]]; it remains a question of definition whether Charles University in Prague was also German-speaking when founded. Due to its strong association with the [[Catholic Church]], the university suffered setbacks during the [[Reformation]], but never ceased operation.
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| 1385<ref name=Verger/>
| [[Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg]]
| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Heidelberg]], Germany
| Oldest [[List of universities in Germany|university in Germany]]. Pope Urban VI granted permission for the founding of a university in October 1385 to [[Rupert I, Elector Palatine]]; teaching began in June 1386. Gradually declined during the 17th and 18th centuries until re-established as a state-owned institution by [[Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden|Karl Friedrich, Grand Duke of Baden]] in 1803.
|-
|1398<ref>{{Cite web |title=성균관대학교 {{!}} 대학정보 {{!}} 성대역사 / 상징 {{!}} 성대역사 {{!}} 약사 {{!}} 고전 대학시대 |url=https://www.skku.edu:443/skku/about/s620/sub02_01.do |access-date=2023-04-06 |website=www.skku.edu |language=ko}}</ref>
|[[Sungkyunkwan University|Sungkyunkwan]] (''Seonggyungwan'' / ''Sŏnggyun’gwan'')
|{{flag|Joseon}}
|{{flagicon|South Korea}} [[Seoul]], Republic of Korea
|Established in 1398 by [[Taejo of Joseon|Taejo]] as the highest educational institution in Joseon. Relocation of the original ''[[Gukjagam|Sŏnggyun’gwan]]'' in [[Kaesong|Kaesŏng]], which was established in 992 by [[Seongjong of Goryeo|Seongjong]] as the highest educational institution in [[Goryeo]]. Reformed into a modern three-year university in 1895. Demoted to a private institution and renamed ''Gyeonghagwon'' during [[Korea under Japanese rule|Japanese occupation]]. Original name and comprehensive university status restored in 1945 under leadership of [[:ko:김창숙|Gim Chang-suk]].
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| c. 1400<ref name=Verger/> (originally 1343 to c. 1360)<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Pisa]]
| [[File:Shield of the Republic of Pisa.svg|22px|Coat of arms of the Republic of Pisa]] [[Republic of Pisa]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Pisa]], Italy
| Established 1343 but closed around 1360; refounded at the start of the 15th century.<ref name=Verger/> Formally founded on 3 September 1343 by a [[Papal bull|bull]] of [[Pope Clement VI]], although according to the university "a number of scholars claim its origin dates back to the 11th century". Transferred to [[Pistoia]], [[Prato]] and [[Florence]] between 1494 and 1543.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unipi.it/index.php/history|title=The University of Pisa and its history|publisher=University of Pisa|access-date=20 February 2021}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| 1404<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Turin]]
| {{flag|Duchy of Savoy}}
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Turin]], Italy
|
|- valign="top"
| 1409<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Leipzig]]
| {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}}
| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Leipzig]], Germany
|
|- valign="top"
| 1410<ref name=Verger/>–1413<ref name="St Andrews">{{cite web | url = https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/about/history/brief/ | title = A brief history of the University | publisher = University of St Andrews| access-date = 20 February 2021}}</ref>
| [[University of St Andrews|University of St. Andrews]]
| {{flag|Kingdom of Scotland}}
| {{flagicon|UK}} [[St Andrews|St. Andrews]], United Kingdom
| A school of higher studies was founded in 1410 and was chartered by Bishop [[Henry Wardlaw]] in 1411. Full university status conferred by a [[papal bull]] of [[Antipope Benedict XIII]] on 28 August 1413.<ref name="St Andrews"/>

The university was founded in 1410 when a group of [[Augustinians|Augustinian]] clergy, driven from the [[University of Paris]] by the [[Western Schism|Avignon schism]] and from the universities of [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] by the [[Anglo-Scottish Wars]], formed a society of higher learning in St Andrews, which offered courses of lectures in divinity, logic, philosophy, and law. St Andrews was the obvious choice — "for centuries, it was the heart of the Scottish church and political activities"<ref>{{cite book |last1=Reid |first1=Norman |title=Ever to Excel |date=2011 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |location=Edinburgh |isbn=9781845860592}}</ref> and "the seat of the greatest bishopric in Scotland and location of a monastery noted as a centre for learning".<ref>{{cite web |title=A brief history of the University |url=https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/about/history/brief/ |website=University of St Andrews |access-date=10 October 2021}}</ref> A [[charter]] of privilege was bestowed upon the society of masters and scholars by the [[Archbishop of St Andrews|Bishop of St Andrews]], [[Henry Wardlaw]],<ref name="Wardlaw, Henry, d.1440, Bishop of St Andrews">{{Cite DNB|last=Sprott |first=George Washington |wstitle=Wardlaw, Henry|volume=59|pages=352-353}}</ref> on 28 February 1411.<ref name="Meadieval university">{{Cite web|title=Meadieval university|url=http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/media/court-office/documents/medieval_university.pdf|access-date=3 January 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130722053757/http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/media/court-office/documents/medieval_university.pdf|archive-date=22 July 2013}}</ref> Wardlaw then successfully petitioned the [[Antipope Benedict XIII|Avignon Pope Benedict XIII]] to grant the school university status by issuing a series of [[papal bull]]s, which followed on 28 August 1413.<ref name="Scotland1837">{{Cite book|author=Great Britain. Commission for Visiting the Universities and Colleges of Scotland|title=University of St. Andrews|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iCwPAQAAMAAJ&pg=Pag173|year=1837|publisher=W. Clowes and Sons|pages=173–}}</ref> King [[James I of Scotland]] confirmed the [[charter]] of the university in 1432. Subsequent kings supported the university, with King [[James V of Scotland]] "confirming privileges of the university" in 1532.<ref name="St Andrews history of the university">{{Cite web|title=A brief history of the University|publisher=University of St Andrews|url=http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/about/history/brief/|access-date=9 January 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last1=Lyon|first1=C.J.|title=History of St. Andrews, episcopal, monastic, academic, and civil ..., Volume 2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oe49AAAAcAAJ&q=james+V++st+andrews+university+1532&pg=PA234|publisher=Tait |year = 1843| pages =230–34|access-date=9 January 2016|quote=King James I of Scotland confirmed the charter of the university in 1432...There are four ...confirmations by James V; in the year 1532...}}</ref>
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| 1419<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Rostock]]
| {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}}
| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Rostock]], Germany
| Continuous operation during the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]] is disputed. Some sources state that "the Catholic university of Rostock closed altogether and the closure was long enough to make the refounded body feel a new institution".<ref>{{cite book|author=Owen Chadwick|title=The Early Reformation on the Continent|publisher= [[Oxford University Press]]|date= 2003| page=257|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cebhjuoZTu4C&pg=PA257|isbn=9780191520501}}</ref> and that "[the university] fell into complete decay after the beginning of the Reformation in (1523) when the university revenues were lost and matriculations ceased".<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=10194|title=University of Rostock|encyclopedia=Catholic Encyclopedia|publisher=Robert Appleton Company New York, NY|via=Catholic Online|year=1907–1912}}</ref> However, [[Johann Oldendorp]] is reported by several sources as having held a professorship at the university from 1526 to 1534, although this is not proven beyond doubt,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cpr.uni-rostock.de/resolve/id/cpr_person_00003634|title= Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensum|access-date = 14 March 2021|publisher = University of Rostock}}</ref> and other historians refer to "the remaining university lecturers" as supporting plans to restore the university revenues in 1532 (which was eventually accomplished via the Rostock Formula concordiae in 1563).<ref>{{cite book|title=Die Universität Rostock 1418–1563: eine Hochschule im Spannungsfeld zwischen Stadt, Landesherren und wendischen Hansestädten|author=Marko A. Pluns|publisher=[[Böhlau Verlag]] |date= 2007|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nRZ0X7y3tYEC&pg=PA194|page=194|isbn=9783412200398}}</ref> There are records of a number of professors being appointed in 1551, including [[Joannes Aurifaber Vratislaviensis|Johannes Aurifaber]], [[David Chytraeus]], and {{ill|Johann Draconites|de}}.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3WTnCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA113|page=113|title=Reformation Readings of the Apocalypse: Geneva, Zurich, and Wittenberg|author=Irena Dorota Backus|publisher= [[Oxford University Press]]|date= 2000|isbn=9780195138856}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://matrikel.uni-rostock.de/id/100018678|title=Immatrikulation von Ioannes Draconites|publisher=University of Rostock|access-date=4 February 2017|language=de}}</ref>
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| 1430<ref name=Verger/> (originally 1391–1394)<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Ferrara]]
| [[File:Arms of the house of Este (1).svg|18px|House of Este]] [[House of Este]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Ferrara]], Italy
|
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| 1431<ref name=Verger/> (originally 1303 to c. 1400)<ref name=Verger/>
| [[Sapienza University of Rome]]
| [[File:Emblem of the Papacy SE.svg|22px|Coat of arms of the Papal States]] [[Papal States]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Rome]], Italy
| Founded in 1303 but closed at the end of the 14th century; refounded 1431.<ref name=Verger/>
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| 1444<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Catania]]
| {{flagicon|Two Sicilies|sicily}} [[Kingdom of Sicily]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Catania]], Italy
|
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| 1450<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Barcelona]]
| [[File:Estandarte de la Corona de Aragon.svg|22px|Standard of the Crown of Aragon]] [[Crown of Aragon]]
| {{flagicon|Spain}} [[Barcelona]], Spain
| Founded by [[Alfonso V of Aragon]] on 3 September 1450 as the ''[[Studium Generale|Estudi General]] de Barcelona''. From 1401 the city had a [[Medieval medicine of Western Europe|medical school]] founded by [[Martin of Aragon|King Martin of Aragon]] (the ''Estudi General de Medecina de Barcelona''), to which a faculty of arts was added in 1402. Before this, there were chairs of higher education (associated with the cathedral, the Dominican Convent of Santa Carolina, and the ''escoles majors'' supported by the city's governing council) from the 13th century.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ub.edu/web/portal/en/the-ub/the-university/history/|title=The University of Barcelona: More than five centuries of history|publisher=University of Barcelona|access-date=24 February 2021}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| 1451<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Glasgow]]
| {{flag|Kingdom of Scotland}}
| {{flagicon|UK}} [[Glasgow]], United Kingdom
| Founded by papal bull in 1451, it is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four [[ancient universities]]. Along with the universities of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and St Andrews, the university was part of the Scottish Enlightenment during the 18th century.
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| 1456<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Greifswald]]
| rowspan="4" | {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}}
| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Greifswald]], Germany
| Some professors from [[Rostock]] taught temporarily in Greifswald between 1437 and 1443 due to unrest in Rostock. The university was founded in 1456 by [[Wartislaw IX, Duke of Pomerania|Duke Wartislaw IX]] with the approval of [[Pope Callixtus III]] on the initiative of Heinrich Rubenow, Lord Mayor of Greifswald (and first rector). Teaching paused temporarily during the [[Protestant Reformation]] (1527–39).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.uni-greifswald.de/en/university/history/university-chronicle/|title=Chronicle of the University of Greifswald|publisher=University of Greifswald|access-date=24 February 2021}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| 1457<ref name=Verger/>
| [[Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg]]
| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Freiburg]], Germany
| A [[papal bull]] of 1455 authorised the [[Prince-Bishopric of Constance|Bishop of Constance]] to establish a university, and in 1457 a ducal charter from [[Albert VI, Archduke of Austria]] founded the university.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/universitieseur07rashgoog/page/n288/mode/1up|page=268|title= The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages: pt. 1. Italy. Spain. France. Germany. Scotland, etc|publisher= Clarendon Press|author=Hastings Rashdall|year=1895}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| 1459<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Basel]]
| {{flagicon|Switzerland}} [[Basel]], Switzerland
|
|- valign="top"
| 1459<ref name=Verger/>–1472<ref name=Ingolstadt>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/universitieseur07rashgoog/page/n290|pages=270–272|title= The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages: pt. 1. Italy. Spain. France. Germany. Scotland, etc|publisher= Clarendon Press|author=Hastings Rashdall|year=1895}}</ref>
| [[Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich]]
| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Munich]], Germany
| Founded in [[Ingolstadt]] in 1472; with a [[papal bull]] obtained in 1459 from [[Pope Pius II]] by [[Louis the Rich]], transferred to [[Landshut]] in 1800 and then to Munich in 1826.<ref name=Ingolstadt/>
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| 1475<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Copenhagen]]
| {{flag|Kingdom of Denmark}} within the {{flag|Kalmar Union}}
| {{flagicon|Denmark}} [[Copenhagen]], Denmark
|
|- valign="top"
| 1476<ref name=Verger/>
| [[Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen]]
| {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}}
| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Tübingen]], Germany
|
|- valign="top"
| 1477<ref name=Verger/>
| [[Uppsala University]]
| [[File:Svensk_flagg_1815.svg|20px|link=]] [[Kingdom of Sweden]] within the {{flag|Kalmar Union}}
| {{flagicon|Sweden}} [[Uppsala]], Sweden
| Established in 1477 by the Catholic Archbishop [[Jakob Ulvsson]]. Decayed due to political unrest in the first decade of the 16th century and then the [[Reformation]] in the 1520s and 30s, remaining "only an idea without real content" until re-chartered in 1595.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/history/summary/|title=The history of Uppsala University|publisher=Uppsala University|access-date=14 March 2021}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| 1495<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Aberdeen]]
| {{flag|Kingdom of Scotland}}
| {{flagicon|UK}} [[Aberdeen]], United Kingdom
| [[King's College, Aberdeen|King's College]] was founded by a [[papal bull]] in 1495 and then [[Marischal College]] in 1593; they merged in 1860.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abdn.ac.uk/about/history/our-history.php|title=History|publisher=University of Aberdeen|access-date=11 March 2021}}</ref>
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| 1499<ref name=Verger/>
| [[Complutense University of Madrid]]
| [[File:Banner of arms crown of Castille Habsbourg style.svg|border|26px|Pennant of the Crown of Castile]] [[Crown of Castile]]
| {{flagicon|Spain}} [[Madrid]], Spain
| A ''studium generale'' was founded by [[Sancho IV of Castile]] in 1293 in [[Alcalá de Henares]]. Very little is known of this institution over the next two centuries.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://biblioteca.ucm.es/historica/bc-herencia|title=La herencia de la universidad medieval|language=Spanish|access-date=14 March 2021|publisher=Complutense University of Madrid Library}}</ref> In 1499 a [[papal bull]] was granted by [[Pope Alexander VI]] authorising Archbishop [[Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros|Cisneros]] to establish a ''Colegio Mayor'' in Alcalá with the same powers as the universities of [[University of Salamanca|Salamanca]] and [[University of Valladolid|Vallodolid]], from which date Verger considers it a university.<ref name=Verger/> The new university opened in 1509.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://biblioteca.ucm.es/historica/bc-fundacion|title=La fundación cisneriana: el Colegio Mayor de San Ildefonso|language=Spanish|access-date=14 March 2021|publisher=Complutense University of Madrid Library}}</ref> The university was moved to Madrid in 1836 by royal decree.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://biblioteca.ucm.es/historica/bc-traslado|title=Traslado de la Universidad Complutense a Madrid|language=Spanish|access-date=14 March 2021|publisher=Complutense University of Madrid Library}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| 1500<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Valencia]]
| [[File:Estandarte de la Corona de Aragon.svg|22px|Standard of the Crown of Aragon]] [[Crown of Aragon]]
| {{flagicon|Spain}} [[Valencia]], Spain
|
|}

== Oldest universities by country or region after 1500 still in operation ==
The majority of European countries had universities by 1500. Many universities were established at institutes of learning such as schools and colleges that may have been founded significantly earlier but were not classed as universities upon their foundation; this is normally described in the notes for that institution. In some countries (particularly the US and those influenced by its culture), degree-granting higher education institutions that would normally be called universities are instead called colleges, in this case both the oldest institution that would normally be regarded as a university and the oldest institution (if different) to actually be called a university are given. In many parts of the world the first university to have a presence was an institution based elsewhere (often the [[University of London]] via the affiliation of a local college); where this is different from the first locally established university both are given.

=== Africa ===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! colspan=2 | Location
! width=120px rowspan=2 | Current name
! width=160px rowspan=2 | Year
! rowspan=2 | Notes
|-
! width=120px|Current
! width=120px|Original
|-
| {{flagcountry|Algeria}} ([[Algiers]])|| {{flagicon|FRA}} [[French Algeria]] ([[Algiers]]) || [[University of Algiers]] ||1909 ||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Angola}} ([[Luanda]])|| {{flagicon|POR}} [[Portuguese Angola]] ([[Luanda]]) || [[Agostinho Neto University]] ||1962 || Founded as ''Estudos Gerais Universitários de Angola''. Was renamed ''Universidade de Luanda'' (University of Luanda) in 1968. After [[Angolan War of Independence|Angolan independence]] from [[Portugal]] in 1975, the institution was renamed the University of Angola (''Universidade de Angola''). In 1985 it was renamed ''Agostinho Neto University'', in honour of [[Agostinho Neto]], the first President of Angola.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Benin}} ([[Abomey-Calavi]])|| {{flagicon|Benin}} [[Republic of Dahomey]] ([[Abomey-Calavi]]) ||[[University of Abomey-Calavi]]||1970||Originally the University of Dahomey. Renamed the National University of Benin in 1975 and took its current name in 2001.
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Botswana}} ([[Gaborone]], [[Francistown]], [[Maun, Botswana|Maun]])||[[University of Botswana]]||1964 (as part of the [[University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland]]; university 1982)||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Burkina Faso}} ([[Ouagadougou]])|| [[File:Flag_of_Upper_Volta.svg|23px]] [[Republic of Upper Volta]] ([[Ouagadougou]]) ||[[University of Ouagadougou]]||1974||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Burundi}} ([[Bujumbura]]) || [[File:Flag of Burundi (1962–1966).svg|23px]] [[Kingdom of Burundi]] ([[Bujumbura]]) || [[University of Burundi]]||1964||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Cameroon}} ([[Yaoundé]]) || [[File:Flag_of_Cameroon_(1961-1975).svg|23px]] [[Federal Republic of Cameroon]] ([[Yaoundé]]) || [[University of Yaoundé]] || 1962 || In 1993 following a university reform the University of Yaounde was split into two ([[University of Yaoundé I]] and [[University of Yaoundé II]]) following the university branch-model pioneered by the [[University of Paris]].
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Cape Verde}} ([[Praia]])||[[Jean Piaget University of Cape Verde]] ||2001|| As a result of the merger of the two previously existing higher education establishments (ISE and ISECMAR)
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Central African Republic}} ([[Bangui]])||[[University of Bangui]]||1969||
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Chad}} ([[N'Djamena]])||[[University of N'Djamena]]||1971||Originally the University of Chad, renamed the University of N'Djamena 1994.
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Comoros}} ([[Moroni, Comoros|Moroni]])||[[University of the Comoros]]||2003<ref>{{cite news|author=Wagdy Sawahel|date=15 July 2016|title=Higher education struggles under multiple pressures|work=University World News|url=https://www.universityworldnews.com/post-mobile.php?story=2016070208521759}}</ref>||
|-
| colspan=1|{{flagcountry|Democratic Republic of the Congo}} ([[Kinshasa]])||[[File:Flag of Congo Free State.svg|23px]] [[Belgian Congo]] ([[Kinshasa]])||[[University of Kinshasa]]||1954|| Originator established as the [[Lovanium University]], affiliated to the [[Catholic University of Leuven (1835–1968)|Catholic University of Leuven]]. Merged into the [[National University of Zaire]] in 1971 then demerged under its current name in 1981.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Republic of the Congo}} ([[Brazzaville]]) || [[File:Flag_of_the_People's_Republic_of_Congo.svg|23px]] [[People's Republic of the Congo]] ([[Brazzaville]]) || [[Marien Ngouabi University]]||1971|| Founded as the University of Brazzaville in 1971, changed to current name in 1977.
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Djibouti}} ([[Djibouti City]])||[[University of Djibouti]]||2006||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Egypt}} ([[Giza]])|| {{flagicon|EGY|variant=1882}} [[Khedivate of Egypt]] ([[Cairo]]) || [[Cairo University]] ||1908|| The oldest university in Egypt and second oldest higher education institution (after [[Al-Azhar University]], which was founded as a [[madrasa]] c. 970 and became a university in 1962)
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Equatorial Guinea}} ([[Malabo]])||[[National University of Equatorial Guinea]]||1995||
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Eritrea}} ([[Mai Nefhi]])||[[Eritrea Institute of Technology]]||2003|| Founded following the closure of the [[University of Asmara]], which had been established as a college in 1958
|-
| {{flagcountry|Eswatini}} ([[Kwaluseni]])||{{flagcountry|Swaziland}} ([[Kwaluseni]])||[[University of Eswatini]]||1964 (as part of the [[University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland]]; university 1982)|| Originally established as the University of Swaziland, changed to current name in 2018
|-
| {{flagcountry|Ethiopia}} ([[Addis Ababa]])|| {{flagicon|ETH|variant=1897}} [[Ethiopian Empire]] ([[Addis Ababa]]) || [[University of Addis Ababa]] ||1950 (as college offering degree courses; university 1962)|| The university was originally called the University College of Addis Ababa in 1950, offering courses leading to degrees of the [[University of London]]. It became Haile Selassie I University in 1962, named after the Ethiopian Emperor [[Haile Selassie|Haile Selassie I]]. The institution received its current name in 1975.
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Gabon}} ([[Libreville]])||[[Omar Bongo University]]||1970|| Founded as the National University of Gabon and took current name in 1978
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Gambia}} ([[Serekunda]])||[[University of the Gambia]]||1999||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Ghana}} ([[Accra]])|| {{flagcountry|Gold Coast}} ([[Accra]]) || [[University of Ghana]] ||1948 (as affiliate college of the [[University of London]]; university 1961)<ref>{{cite web|title=University of Ghana | Legon|url=http://www.ug.edu.gh/index1.php?linkid=243&sublinkid=72|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130601144614/http://www.ug.edu.gh/index1.php?linkid=243&sublinkid=72|archive-date=1 June 2013|access-date=15 August 2013|publisher=Ug.edu.gh}}</ref>|| Founded as the University College of the Gold Coast, an affiliate college of the [[University of London]] which supervised its academic programmes and awarded the degrees. It gained full university status in 1961.
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Guinea}} ([[Conakry]])||[[Gamal Abdel Nasser University of Conakry]]||1962||
|-
| colspan=2 rowspan=2|{{flagcountry|Guinea-Bissau}} ([[Bissau]])||[[Universidade Colinas de Boé]]||2003||
|-
|[[Universidade Amílcar Cabral]]||2003||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Ivory Coast}} ([[Abidjan]])||[[Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny]] ||1964 (as main campus of the University of Abidjan; university 1996)||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Kenya}} ([[Nairobi]])||[[File:Flag of Kenya (1921–1963).svg|link=[[:File:Flag of British East Africa]].svg|23px]] [[Kenya Colony|Colony and Protectorate of Kenya]]
([[Nairobi]])
| [[University of Nairobi]] ||1961 (as affiliate college of the [[University of London]]; college 1956; university 1970)|| Oldest in Kenya. Established 1956 as the ''Royal Technical College''. Renamed the ''Royal College of Nairobi'' when it became affiliated to the [[University of London]] in 1961. On 20 May 1964, was renamed ''University College Nairobi'' when it was admitted as a constituent college of inter-territorial [[University of East Africa]]. In 1970, it transformed into the first national university in Kenya and was renamed the University of Nairobi.<ref name="J. M. Hyslop 1964 286–302">{{cite journal|jstor=41821619|title=The University of East Africa|author= J. M. Hyslop|journal= Minerva|volume= 2|issue=3|date= 1964| pages=286–302|doi=10.1007/BF01097318|s2cid=145768841}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|Kenya}} ([[Nairobi]])||[[File:Flag of Kenya (1921–1963).svg|link=[[:File:Flag of British East Africa]].svg|23px]] [[Kenya Colony|Colony and Protectorate of Kenya]]
([[Nairobi]])
| [[Egerton University]] ||1939 as a farm school; 1987 as university||Founded in 1939, and was originally named Egerton Farm School. It was established by a land grant of 740 acres (3 km2) by [[Maurice Egerton, 4th Baron Egerton]]. The school's original purpose was to prepare white European youth for careers in agriculture. By 1955, the name had changed to Egerton Agricultural College. A one-year certificate course and a two-year diploma course in agriculture were offered. In 1958, Lord Egerton donated another 1,100 acres (4.5 km2) of land. Soon afterward, the college opened its doors to people of all races from Kenya and other African countries in 1956. In 1979, with support from the Government of Kenya and [[USAID]], the college expanded yet again, becoming part of the University of Nairobi system. In 1987, the college was recognized as a chartered public university.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Our Profile|url=https://www.egerton.ac.ke/our-profile|access-date=2021-08-16|website=Egerton University|language=en-gb}}</ref>
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Lesotho}} ([[Roma, Lesotho|Roma]])||[[National University of Lesotho]]||1964 (as part of the [[University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland]]; college 1945; university 1975||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Liberia}} ([[Monrovia]])||[[University of Liberia]] ||1951 (college 1863)|| Building on Liberia College founded in 1863
|-
| {{flagcountry|Libya}} ([[Benghazi]] & [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]])|| {{flagicon|LBY|variant=1956}} [[Kingdom of Libya]] ([[Benghazi]]) || [[University of Libya]] ||1956|| A royal decree was issued on 15 December 1955 for the founding of the university. The first faculty to be formed was the Faculty of Literature in Benghazi, and the royal palace "Al Manar", from which [[Idris of Libya|King Idris I]] of Libya declared its independence on 24 December 1951, was assigned to be the campus. Later divided to University of Benghazi and [[University of Tripoli]], the names were changed again during [[History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi|Gaddafi's era]], but now they have reinstated their original names.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Madagascar}} ([[Antananarivo]])|| {{flagicon|FRA}} [[French Madagascar|Colony of Madagascar and Dependencies]] ([[Antananarivo]]) || [[University of Antananarivo]] ||1961 (as university; institute for advanced studies 1955)|| Founded December 1955 as the Institute for Advanced Studies in Antananarivo. Renamed the University of Madagascar in 1961.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Malawi}} ([[Zomba, Malawi|Zomba]], [[Blantyre]] & [[Lilongwe]])||[[University of Malawi]] ||1965 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Mali}} ([[Bamako]])||[[University of Bamako]] ||1996 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Mauritania}} ([[Nouakchott]])||[[University of Nouakchott Al Aasriya]] ||1981 ||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Mauritius}} ([[Moka]])|| {{flagicon|Mauritius|1923}} [[British Mauritius]] ([[Moka]]) || [[University of Mauritius]] || 1965 || The Faculty of Agriculture is the oldest faculty of the university. It was founded in 1914 as the School of Agriculture in 1914, and in 1966 it was incorporated into the newly established University of Mauritius.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Morocco}} ([[Fez, Morocco|Fez]]) || [[File:Flag of Morocco (780 1070) (1258 1659).svg|23px]] [[Idrisid dynasty|Idrisid Kingdom of Morocco]] ([[Fez, Morocco|Fez]]) || [[University of Al Quaraouiyine]] ||1965 (as university; madrasa 859)|| Traces its origins back to the al-Qarawiyyin mosque and associated [[madrasa]] founded by [[Fatima al-Fihri]] in 859, and was named a university in 1965. It is the oldest continuously operating institution of higher learning in the world,<ref>{{cite web|title=Oldest higher-learning institution, oldest university|url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/oldest-university|access-date=30 June 2020|work=Guinnes World Records}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Medina of Fez|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/170|access-date=30 June 2020|work=World Heritage List|publisher=[[UNESCO]]}}</ref> though only became an official university in 1965.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Morocco}} ([[Rabat]])||[[Mohammed V University]] ||1957|| Founded as University of Rabat
|-
| {{flagcountry|Mozambique}} ([[Maputo]])|| {{flagicon|POR}} [[Portuguese Mozambique]] ([[Maputo|Lourenço Marques]]) || [[Eduardo Mondlane University]] ||1962 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Namibia}} ([[Windhoek]])||[[University of Namibia]] ||1992||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Niger}} ([[Niamey]])||[[Abdou Moumouni University]] ||1974|| Originally the University of Niamey
|-
|{{flagcountry|Nigeria}} ([[Ibadan]])|| [[File:Flag of Nigeria (1914–1952).svg|23px]] [[Colonial Nigeria|Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria]] ([[Yaba, Lagos]]) || [[University of Ibadan]] ||1949 (as affiliated college of the [[University of London]]; college 1932; university 1962)|| Founded as ''Yaba College'' in 1932 in [[Yaba, Lagos]], as the first [[Tertiary education|tertiary educational institute]] in Nigeria. Yaba College was transferred to Ibadan, becoming the ''University College of Ibadan'', in 1948<ref>{{cite book|last=Nkulu|first=Kiluba L.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ms9Bs9fUmpcC&pg=PA52|title=Serving the Common Good: an African perspective on higher education|publisher=Peter Lang|year=2005|isbn=978-0-8204-7626-1|page=54}}</ref> and was a university college associated with the [[University of London]]. Independent university since 1962.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=University of Ibadan History|url=https://www.ui.edu.ng/History|access-date=1 Feb 2021|website=University of Ibadan}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|Nigeria}} ([[Nsukka]])|| {{flagicon|Nigeria}} [[Federation of Nigeria]] ([[Nsukka]]) || [[University of Nigeria, Nsukka]] ||1960<ref>{{cite web|title=History/Overview|url=http://www.unn.edu.ng/administration/office-of-the-vice-chancellor/records-unit/|access-date=12 February 2017|publisher=University of Nigeria}}</ref>|| First university in Nigeria.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Rwanda}} ([[Kigali]])|| {{flagcountry|Rwanda|1962}} ([[Kigali]]) || [[University of Rwanda]] ||1963|| Founded as the National University of Rwanda in 1963; incorporated into the University of Rwanda 2013
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|São Tomé and Príncipe}} ([[São Tomé]])||[[University of São Tomé and Príncipe]] ||2014 (as university; polytechnic school 1996)||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Sahrawi Republic}} ([[Tifariti]])||[[University of Tifariti]] ||2013||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Senegal}} ([[Dakar]])||{{flagicon|France}}[[French Senegal]] ([[Dakar]])||[[Cheikh Anta Diop University]] ||1957||
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Seychelles}} ([[Anse Royale]])||[[University of Seychelles]] ||2009||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Sierra Leone}} ([[Freetown]])|| [[File:Flag of Sierra Leone (1916–1961).svg|23px]] [[Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate]] ([[Freetown]]) || [[Fourah Bay College]] ||1876 (as affiliated college of [[Durham University]]; college 1827; part of [[University of Sierra Leone]] 1967)|| Oldest university-level institution in Africa. Founded as a missionary school to train teachers in 1827. Became an affiliated college of [[Durham University]] in 1876 and awarded first degrees in West Africa in 1878. Became part of the federal University of Sierra Leone in 1967.<ref>{{cite web|title=Fourah Bay College (1827 – )|date=13 January 2010|url=http://www.blackpast.org/gah/fourah-bay-college-1827|access-date=3 October 2015|publisher=BlackPast.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|date=2012|title=The First BA in Africa|url=https://issuu.com/durhamfirst/docs/dug2379_durham_first_32_aw4_web/7|magazine=Durham First|issue=32|page=7}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|Somalia}} ([[Mogadishu]])|| {{flagdeco|Italy}} [[Trust Territory of Somaliland]] ([[Mogadishu]]) || [[Somali National University]] ||1954 ||
|-
| {{flagcountry|RSA}} ([[Pretoria]])|| {{flagicon|Cape Colony}} [[Cape Colony]] ([[Cape Town]]) || [[University of South Africa]] ||1873|| Originally founded as the [[University of the Cape of Good Hope]] in 1916 it was transformed into the federal University of South Africa (Unisa) and relocated to Pretoria.
|-
| {{flagcountry|South Sudan}} ([[Juba]]) || {{flagicon|Sudan}} [[History of Sudan (1969–1985)|Democratic Republic of the Sudan]] ([[Juba]]) ||[[University of Juba]]||1975||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Sudan}} ([[Khartoum]]) || [[File:Flag of Sudan (1956–1970).svg|23px]] [[History of Sudan (1956–69)|Republic of the Sudan]] ([[Khartoum]]) || [[University of Khartoum]] ||1956 (as university; college 1902)<ref>{{cite web|title=Historical Background|url=http://www.uofk.edu/en/about/historical|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030025742/http://www.uofk.edu/en/about/historical|archive-date=30 October 2013|access-date=11 November 2013|publisher=[[University of Khartoum]]}}</ref>|| Renamed from Gordon Memorial College, founded 1902, when it gained full university status in 1956
|-
|{{flagcountry|Tanzania}} ([[Dar es Salaam]]) || [[File:Flag of Tanganyika (1923–1961).svg|23px]] [[Tanganyika (territory)|Tanganyika Territory]] ([[Dar es Salaam]]) ||[[University of Dar es Salaam]] || 1961 (as affiliated college of the [[University of London]]; part of the [[University of East Africa]] 1963; university 1970)||
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Togo}} ([[Lomé]]) ||[[University of Lomé]]||1970|| Originally the University of Benin, changed to current name in 2001
|-
| {{flagcountry|Tunisia}} ([[Tunis]]) || [[File:Umayyad Flag.svg|23px]] [[Umayyad Caliphate]] ([[Tunis]]) || [[University of Ez-Zitouna]] ||1961 (as university; madrasa c. 737)|| Traces its origins back to the Al-Zaytuna [[madrasa]] founded around 737, it gained university status in 1961
|-
| {{flagcountry|Uganda}} ([[Kampala]])|| [[File:Flag of the Uganda Protectorate.svg|23px]] [[Uganda Protectorate|British Protectorate of Uganda]] ([[Kampala]]) || [[Makerere University]] ||1922||Started as a technical college in 1922. Then became an [[Affiliated school|affiliate college]] of the [[University of London]]; part of the [[University of East Africa]] 1963. It would become an independent University<ref>[https://www.mak.ac.ug/about-makerere About Makerere]</ref> 1970.
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Zambia}} ([[Lusaka]]) ||[[University of Zambia]]||1966||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Zimbabwe}} ([[Harare]])|| {{flagcountry|Southern Rhodesia}} ([[Harare|Salisbury]]) || [[University of Zimbabwe]] ||1952 (as affiliated college of the [[University of London]]; university 1970)||Founded in 1952 as University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. University of Rhodesia from 1970 and University of Zimbabwe from 1980
|}

=== Asia ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- valign="top"
! colspan=2 | Location
! width="15%" rowspan=2 | Current name
! width="5%" rowspan=2 | Year
! width="50%" rowspan=2 | Notes
|-
! width="15%" | Current
! width="15%" | Original
|- valign="top"
| {{flagcountry|Afghanistan}} ([[Kabul]])|| {{flagicon|Kingdom of Afghanistan}} [[Kingdom of Afghanistan]] ([[Kabul]]) || [[Kabul University]] ||1931|| Founded in 1931, formally opened 1932.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Bahrain}} ([[Sakhir]], [[Isa Town]])||[[University of Bahrain]] ||1986||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Bangladesh}} ([[Dhaka]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Dhaka|Dacca]], [[Bengal Presidency]]) || [[University of Dhaka]] ||1921|| First university in Bangladesh, opened 1 July 1921.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.du.ac.bd/main_menu/the_university/about|title=The University|publisher= Dhaka college|access-date=12 February 2017}}</ref>
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Bhutan}} ([[Thimphu]])||[[Royal University of Bhutan]] ||2003||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Brunei}} ([[Bandar Seri Begawan]])||[[University of Brunei Darussalam]] ||1985||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Cambodia}} ([[Phnom Penh]])|| {{flagicon|Cambodia|1863}} [[French Protectorate of Cambodia]] ([[Phnom Penh]]) || [[Royal University of Fine Arts]] ||1918||
|-
| rowspan="4" | {{flagcountry|PRC}}||[[Song Empire]] ([[Yuelu Mountain]], [[Changsha, Hunan]]) || [[Hunan University]] ||1903 (as university; academy 976)|| Known in Chinese as 湖南大学. The university was originally called the [[Yuelu Academy]] in 976 and was converted into Hunan Institute of Higher Learning (with university status) in 1903. It was later renamed [[Hunan Normal University|Hunan Normal College]], Hunan Public Polytechnic School, and finally Hunan University in 1926.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=_ZAwDwAAQBAJ&dq=oldest+learning+institute+china+still+exist&pg=PA74 Library World Records, 3d ed.; by Godfrey Oswald]</ref>
|-
| rowspan="3" |{{flagicon|Qing dynasty|1862}} [[Qing Empire]] 
|[[Peking University]]
|1898
|First modern national university in China, whose original name was Imperial University of Peking (京师大学堂). It is the successor of [[Guozijian (Beijing)|Guozijian]], or Imperial College, which was founded in 1306.
|-
|[[Tianjin University]]
|1895
|The first higher education institution in China. It was established in 1895 as Imperial Tientsin University (天津北洋西學學堂) and later Peiyang University (北洋大學). In 1951, after restructuring, it was renamed Tianjin University, and became one of the largest multidisciplinary engineering universities in China.
|-
|[[Nanjing University]]||1902|| Traces its origins to a Confucian institution [[taixue|Taihsueh]] (太學), which was founded in 258. Known in Chinese as Jinling University (金陵大学). Was a private university later merged with the public University of Nanjing (南京大学). First institution in China to use the English term "university". Educational institutions were closed in China on 13 June 1966 due to the Cultural Revolution, reopening in July 1967.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://people.hofstra.edu/alan_j_singer/CoursePacks/ChinasGreatProletarianCulturalRevolution.pdf|title=China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution|author1=Kerry Schaefer|author2=Lisa Torre|access-date=11 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324103237/http://people.hofstra.edu/alan_j_singer/CoursePacks/ChinasGreatProletarianCulturalRevolution.pdf|archive-date=24 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|East Timor}}|| [[National University of East Timor]] ||2000||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Hong Kong}}|| {{flagcountry|Hong Kong|1910}} || [[The University of Hong Kong]] ||1911 (as university; college 1887)|| Founded as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese in 1887, incorporated as a university in 1911
|-
| rowspan=2|{{flagcountry|India}} ([[New Delhi]])
| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Aligarh]], [[United Provinces of British India]]) ||[[Jamia Milia Islamia]]
|1920|| Moved from [[Aligarh]] to New Delhi in 1925 and to its current location in 1936.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jmi.ac.in/aboutjamia/profile/history/historical_note-13|title=History|publisher=Jamia Milia Islamia|access-date=17 September 2022}}</ref>
|-
| {{flag|British Raj}} (New Delhi) ||[[Delhi University]]
|1922|| First university established in Delhi, affiliating four older colleges ([[St. Stephen's College, Delhi|St Stephen's College]], [[Hindu College, Delhi|Hindu College]], [[Zakir Husain Delhi College]] and [[Ramjas College]])
|-
| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Serampore]])|| {{flagicon|DEN}} [[Danish India]] ([[Serampore]]) || [[Serampore College]] ||1827 (as university; college 1818)|| Incorporated and granted university status and the right to award degrees by royal charter of [[Frederick VI of Denmark]] on 23 February 1827, endorsed by the Bengal Government Act 1918.<ref>{{cite news|
url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/todays-paper/tp-life/article1115067.ece|title=Colonial Archive|author=Sankar Ray|work=[[The Hindu]]| date=11 April 2008|access-date=12 February 2017}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Kolkata]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]]) || [[University of Calcutta]] || rowspan="3" |1857|| First full-fledged multi-disciplinary university in [[South Asia]]. The [[University of Mumbai|University of Bombay]] and the [[University of Madras]] were subsequently established in the same year
|-
| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Mumbai]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Bombay]], [[Bombay Presidency]]) || [[University of Mumbai]] || Called the University of Bombay until 1996.
|-
| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Chennai]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Madras]], [[Madras Presidency]]) || [[University of Madras]] ||
|-
| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Aligarh]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Aligarh]], [[North-Western Provinces]]) ||[[Aligarh Muslim University]] || rowspan="1" |1920 (college 1875)|| Established as Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College in 1875; became Aligarh Muslim University in 1920.
|-
| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Allahabad]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Allahabad]], [[United Provinces of British India]]) || [[University of Allahabad]] || rowspan="1" |1887||
|-
| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Chandigarh]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Punjab]], [[United Provinces of British India]]) ||[[Panjab University]] || rowspan="1" |1882||<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/features/panjab-university-journey-and-evolution-382148 | title=Panjab University: Journey and evolution }}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Varanasi]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Banaras]], [[United Provinces of British India]]) ||[[Banaras Hindu University]] || rowspan="1" |1916||
|-
| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Indonesia}}|| rowspan="2" | {{flagicon|Netherlands}} [[Dutch East Indies]] || [[University of Indonesia]] ||1924 (as ''hogeschool''; medical school 1851; university 1947)|| Incorporates the medical school founded as the Dokter-Djawa School Batavia in 1851, which became the ''Geneeskundige Hogeschool'' in 1927 and the ''Rechts Hogeschool'' founded in 1924.
|-
|[[Bandung Institute of Technology]] ||1920|| Founded as ''Technische [[Hogeschool#Netherlands|Hogeschool]]''. Renamed in 1959.
|-

| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Iran}}|| {{flagicon|Iran|1925}} [[Imperial State of Persia]] || [[University of Tehran]] ||1934|| Founded by [[Rezā Shāh]], incorporating portions of the [[Dar ul-Funun (Persia)|Dar ul-Funun]] Polytechnic Institute (1851) and the [[Tehran School of Political Sciences]] (1899)
|-
| {{flagicon|Iran|1925}} [[Sublime State of Persia]] || [[Kharazmi University]] ||1974|| Named after [[Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi|Khwarizmi]] (c. 780–850), Persian mathematician, astronomer and geographer. It was established in 1919 as the Central Teachers' Institute and gained university status as Tarbiat Moallem University of Tehran in 1974. It changed its name to Kharazmi University on January 31, 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-03-30 |title=Kharazmi University |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/kharazmi-university |access-date=2022-06-23 |website=Times Higher Education (THE) |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|Iraq}}|| {{flagicon|Iraq|1924}} [[Kingdom of Iraq]] || [[University of Baghdad]] ||1956 || The Iraqi Royal College of Medicine was established in 1928
|-
| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Israel}}|| {{flagcountry|Ottoman Empire}} || [[Technion – Israel Institute of Technology]] ||1912 (opened 1924)|| Founded in 1912, but formal teaching began in 1924
|-
|{{flagicon|FRA}}{{flagicon|UK}} [[Occupied Enemy Territory Administration]] || [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] ||1918 ||
|-
| rowspan="3" | {{flagcountry|Japan}}|| rowspan="3" | {{flag|Empire of Japan}} || [[University of Tokyo]] ||1877 || Previous names are University of Tokyo (1877–1886), Imperial University (1886–1897), and Tokyo Imperial University (1897–1947). Its origins include a private college of Confucian studies founded by Hayashi Razan in 1630,<ref>須藤敏夫『近世日本釈奠の研究』（思文閣出版、2001年） {{ISBN|978-4-7842-1070-1}}</ref> Tenmonkata (The Observatory, 1684)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/gen03/b03_02_j.html |title=東京大学 [東京大学の歴史]沿革略図 |publisher=U-tokyo.ac.jp |access-date=15 August 2013}}</ref> and Shutōsho (Smallpox Vaccination Centre, 1849).<ref>深瀬泰旦著『天然痘根絶史』恩文閣出版、2002年9月 {{ISBN|4-7842-1116-0}}</ref> The university was established in 1877 by the merger of three institutions: Shoheiko (Japanese and Chinese Literature, established 1789), Yogakusho (Occidental Studies, established 1855) and Shutosho (Vaccinations, established 1860), originally as Tokyo University before becoming the Imperial University and then Tokyo Imperial University before reverting to its original name after World War II.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/about/chronology.html| title=Chronology|publisher=Tokyo University|access-date=8 April 2017}}</ref>
|-
|[[Keio University]] ||1920 (as university; school for Dutch studies 1858) || Founded as a "school for [[Rangaku|Dutch studies]]" in 1858. College with three university departments (literature, law and economics) established 1890. Accredited as a university by the Japanese government in 1920.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.keio.ac.jp/en/about/history/index.html|title=History|publisher=Keio University|access-date=8 April 2017}}</ref>
|-
|[[Ryukoku University]] ||1876 (as "Daikyoko (Great School)"; school 1639; university 1922)|| Traces its origins to a school for Buddhist monks of the [[Nishi Hongan-ji]] denomination founded in 1639. Assumed its current name and became a university under the University Ordinance in 1922.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ryukoku.ac.jp/english2/about/e_history.html|title=The Spirit of Tradition and Innovation Embodied in the 370 Year History of Ryukoku|publisher=Ryukoku University|quote=Daikyoko (Great School) established in September, 1876, as the highest institution of the educational system promulgated by the Nishi-Hongwanji organization … 1922 Renamed Ryukoku University Became a university under University Ordinance|access-date=8 April 2017}}</ref>
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Jordan}}||[[University of Jordan]] ||1962||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Kazakhstan}}|| {{flagcountry|Soviet Union}} ([[Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic]]) || [[Al-Farabi Kazakh National University]] ||1933 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Kuwait}}||[[University of Kuwait]] ||1966||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Kyrgyzstan}}||{{flagcountry|Soviet Union}} ([[Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic]])||[[Kyrgyz National University]] ||1951 (as university; institute of education 1925)||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Laos}}||[[National University of Laos]] ||1996||
|-
| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Lebanon}}|| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Ottoman Empire}} || [[American University of Beirut]] ||1866 (as degree-awarding college; university 1920)|| Originally Syrian Protestant College, chartered by the [[New York (state)|State of New York]], took current name in 1920
|-
|[[Saint Joseph University]] ||1872||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Macau}}|| {{flagcountry|Macau|colonial}} || [[University of Macau]] ||1981|| Established as University of East Asia in 1981, renamed 1991
|-
| {{flagcountry|Malaysia}}
|{{flagicon|UK}} [[British Malaya]]||[[University of Malaya]] ||1905|| Established as Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School on 13 July 1905 in Singapore
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Maldives}}||[[Maldives National University]] ||1998 (as degree awarding college; university 2011)|| Established in 1998 as the Maldives College of Higher Education, establishing its first degree course in 2000. Became the Maldives National University in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mnu.edu.mv/history/|title=History|work=Maldives National University|access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|Mongolia}}|| {{flagicon|Mongolia|1924}} [[Mongolian People's Republic]] || [[National University of Mongolia]] ||1942||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Myanmar}}|| {{flagcountry|British Burma}} || [[Rangoon University]] ||1878<ref>{{cite news| url=https://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE7AQ02420111127 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402093336/http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE7AQ02420111127 | url-status=dead | archive-date=2 April 2015 | work=Reuters | title=Yangon – From stately city to crumbling symbol of isolation | date=27 November 2011}}</ref>||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Nepal}}|| {{flagcountry|Nepal|old}} || [[Tribhuvan University]] ||1959<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tribhuvan-university.edu.np/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=173&Itemid=232 |title=About Us |publisher=Tribhuvan-university.edu.np |access-date=15 August 2013}}</ref>||
|-
| {{flagcountry|North Korea}}|| {{flagicon|USSR}} Korea ([[Provisional People's Committee for North Korea]]) || [[Kim Il-sung University]] ||1946||
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Oman}} || [[Sultan Qaboos University]] ||1986<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.squ.edu.om/About/About-SQU/Campus-Profile|title=Campus Profile|work=Sultan Qaboos University|access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>||
|-
| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Pakistan}}|| rowspan="2" | {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]]) || [[University of the Punjab]] ||1882|| Established by [[British Raj|British colonial authorities]] in 1882 as the first university in what would become Pakistan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pu.edu.pk/page/show/AboutUs.html|title=About Us|publisher=University of the Punjab|access-date=8 April 2017}}</ref>
|-
|[[Government College University, Lahore]] ||1864 (as affiliated college of the [[University of Calcutta]]; university 2002)|| Established as Government College, Lahore, 1864. Became an independent university in 2002.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://punjablaws.gov.pk/laws//443.html|title=The Government College University, Lahore Ordinance 2002|website= Punjab Laws Online|access-date=8 April 2017}}</ref>
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|{{flagcountry|Palestine}}||[[File:Flag of the Israel Defense Forces.svg|20px]] [[Israeli Military Governorate]]||[[Bethlehem University]]||1973<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bethlehem.edu/about/mission-history|title=Mission and History|work=Bethlehem University|access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>||
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| {{flagcountry|Philippines}}|| {{flagicon|Spanish Empire|1785}} [[Captaincy General of the Philippines]] || [[University of Santo Tomas]] ||1645 (college 1611) || Founded on 28 April 1611 by the [[Order of Preachers]] and raised to university status by [[Pope Innocent X]] in 1645. The [[National Historical Commission of the Philippines]] recognizes it as the oldest university in the country as well as in Asia.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nhcp.gov.ph/asias-oldest-university-the-royal-and-pontifical-university-of-santo-tomas/|title=Asia's Oldest University, The Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas|publisher=National Historical Commission of the Philippines|date=4 September 2012|author=Quennie Ann J. Palafox|access-date=7 September 2020}}</ref>
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Qatar}}||[[Qatar University]] ||1977<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.qu.edu.qa/about|title=About|work=Qatar University|access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>||
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| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Saudi Arabia}}||[[King Saud University]] ||1957||
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| {{flagcountry|Singapore}}|| {{flagcountry|Straits Settlements}} || [[National University of Singapore]] ||1905|| Founded as Straits and Federated Malay States Government Medical School
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| rowspan="2" |{{flagcountry|South Korea}}||rowspan="2" |{{flag|Joseon}} || [[Sungkyunkwan University]] ||1895 (as university; royal institution 1398) || [[Sungkyunkwan]] was established in 1398 as the highest educational institution of the Joseon Dynasty. In 1895, Sungkyunkwan was reformed into a modern three-year university after the national state examination was abolished the previous year. It was again reorganized as Sungkyunkwan University in 1946 at the end of the Japanese occupation of Korea.
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|[[Ewha Womans University]]||1946 (as university; school 1886)||Established in 1886 as the Ewha Haktang mission school for girls, started higher education in 1910, and was reorganized as Ewha Womans University in 1946.
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| {{flagcountry|Sri Lanka}}|| {{flagcountry|British Ceylon}} || [[University of Colombo]] ||1942|| Formed in 1942 as the [[University of Ceylon]] by the amalgamation of University College Colombo (established 1921) and [[Ceylon Medical College]] (established in 1870). Was part of the University of Sri Lanka 1972–1978.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cmb.ac.lk/index.php/history/|title=History|publisher=University of Colombo|access-date=8 April 2017}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|Syria}}|| [[File:Flag of the State of Damascus.svg|20px]] [[State of Damascus]] || [[University of Damascus]] ||1923|| Founded in 1923 through the merger of the School of Medicine (established 1903) and the Institute of Law (established 1913)
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| {{flagcountry|TWN}}|| {{flagicon|Empire of Japan}} [[Taiwan under Japanese rule|Japanese Taiwan]]|| [[National Taiwan University]] ||1928 || Founded as Taihoku (Taipei) Imperial University
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| {{flagcountry|Tajikistan}}||{{flagcountry|USSR}} ([[Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic]])||[[Tajik National University]] ||1947||
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| {{flagcountry|Turkmenistan}}||{{flagcountry|USSR}} ([[Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic]])||[[Turkmen State University]] ||1950 (as university; pedagogical institute 1931)||
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| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Thailand}}||[[Chulalongkorn University]] ||1917 (as university; college 1899)||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|UAE}}||[[United Arab Emirates University]] ||1976||
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| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Vietnam}}|| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|French Indochina}} || [[Hanoi Medical University]] ||1902||
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|[[Vietnam National University, Hanoi]] ||1904|| Originally the University of Indochina, first full subject university in Vietnam.
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| {{flagcountry|Yemen}}|| {{flagcountry|Yemen Arab Republic}} || [[Sana'a University]] ||1970||
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|}

=== Europe ===
While Europe had 143 universities in 1789, the [[French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars]] took a heavy toll, reducing the number to 83 by 1815. The universities of France were abolished<ref name="Jones, 2006"/> and over half of the universities in both Germany and Spain were destroyed. By the mid 19th century, Europe had recovered to 98 universities.<ref name=Ruegg3>{{cite book|title=A History of the University in Europe|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|author=Walter Rüegg|date=2004|volume=3, Universities in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1800–1945)|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=entlN4EEPUYC&pg=PA4|page=3|chapter=1 Themes|isbn=9781139453028}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- valign="top"
! colspan=2 | Location
! width="15%" rowspan=2 | Current name
! width="5%" rowspan=2 | Year
! width="50%" rowspan=2 | Notes
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! width="15%" | Current
! width="15%" | Original
|- valign="top"
| {{flagcountry|Albania}} ([[Tirana]])||{{flagicon|Albania|1946}} [[People's Socialist Republic of Albania]] ([[Tirana]]) ||[[University of Tirana]] ||1957 || Originally established in 1957 as the State University of Tirana through merging of five existing institutes of higher education, the most important of which was the Institute of Sciences, founded in 1947.
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| {{flagcountry|Albania}} ([[Shkodër]])||{{flagicon|Albania|1946}} [[People's Socialist Republic of Albania]] ([[Shkodër]])||[[University of Shkodër "Luigj Gurakuqi"]] || 1957 ||
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| {{flagcountry|Armenia}} ([[Yerevan]])|| {{flagicon|Armenia|1918}} [[First Republic of Armenia]] ([[Gyumri|Alexandropol]]) || [[Yerevan State University]] || 1919 ||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Austria}} ([[Graz]])||{{flagicon|Austria}} [[Archduchy of Austria]], {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Graz]]) ||[[University of Graz]] ||1585 (continuous from 1827)|| Founded in 1585 by Archduke Charles II of Austria. Closed 1782–1827.
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| {{flagcountry|Austria}} ([[Innsbruck]])||{{flagicon|Austria}} [[Archduchy of Austria]], {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Innsbruck]]) || [[University of Innsbruck]] || 1669 (continuous from 1826)|| Originally established as a [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] school in 1562 before becoming a university in 1669. Closed as a university from 1782 to 1826.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Azerbaijan}} ([[Baku]])||{{flagicon|Azerbaijan|1918}} [[Azerbaijan Democratic Republic]] ([[Baku]])|| [[Baku State University]] ||1919 || In 1930, the government ordered the university shut down in accordance with a reorganization of higher education, and the university was replaced with the Supreme Pedagogical Institute. In 1934 the university was reestablished.
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| {{flagcountry|Belgium}} ([[Flemish Region]]) ([[Ghent]])|| {{flagicon|Netherlands}} [[United Kingdom of the Netherlands]] ([[Ghent]]) ||[[Ghent University]] ||1817|| Established in 1817 by [[William I of the Netherlands]]
|-
| {{flagcountry|Belgium}} ([[Wallonia]]) ([[Liège]])||{{flagicon|Netherlands}} [[United Kingdom of the Netherlands]] ([[Liège]])||[[University of Liège]]||1817 || Established in 1817 by [[William I of the Netherlands]]
|-
| {{flagcountry|Belgium}} ([[Flemish Region]] and [[Wallonia]]) ([[Leuven]] and [[Louvain-la-Neuve]])||{{flag|Belgium|1830}} ([[Mechelen]])||[[KU Leuven]] and [[UCLouvain]]|| 1834 || Founded as the [[Catholic University of Mechelen|Catholic University of Belgium]] in [[Mechelen|Mechlin]] on 8 November 1834 by the bishops of Belgium. Moved to Leuven on 1 December 1835, after the suppression of the [[State University of Leuven]], where it took the name [[Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968)|Catholic University of Louvain]].{{refn|The [[Court of Cassation (Belgium)|Court of Cassation of Belgium]] ruled 26 November 1846, that this new Catholic University of Louvain founded in Mechlin in 1834 does not have any links with the Old University of Louvain founded in 1425 and abolished in 1797 and can not be regarded as continuing it: "The Catholic University of Louvain can not be regarded as continuing the old University of Louvain", in, ''Table générale alphabétique et chronologique de la Pasicrisie Belge contenant la jurisprudence du Royaume de 1814 à 1850'', Brussels, 1855, p. 585, column 1, alinea 2. See also: ''Bulletin Usuel des Lois et Arrêtés'', 1861, p.166. To see also this rule of the ''Cour d'Appel'' of 1844: ''La Belgique Judiciaire'', 28 July 1844 n° 69, p. 1 : "''Cour d'Appel de Bruxelles. Deuxième chambre. L'université libre de Louvain ne représente pas légalement l'antique université de cette ville. Attendu que cette université (l'ancienne Université de Louvain), instituée par une bulle papale, de concert avec l'autorité souveraine, formait un corps reconnu dans l'État, ayant différentes attributions, dont plusieurs même lui étaient déléguées par le pouvoir civil; Attendu que ce corps a été supprimé par les lois de la république française; Attendu que l'université existant actuellement à Louvain ne peut être considérée comme continuant celle qui existait en 1457, ces deux établissemens ayant un caractère bien distinct, puisque l'université actuelle, non reconnue comme personne civile, n'est qu'un établissement tout-à-fait privé, résultat de la liberté d'enseignement, en dehors de toute action du pouvoir et sans autorité dans l'État...''".

"Court of Appeal of Brussels. Second Chamber. The Free University of Louvain is not legally representend the old university in that city. Whereas this University (formerly University of Louvain), established by a papal bull, together with the sovereign authority, formed a body recognized by the State, with different functions, many of which even he was delegated by the civil power. And whereas this body was removed by the laws of the French Republic; Whereas the currently existing university in Leuven can not be regarded as continuing that which existed in 1457, these two establishments with a distinct character, since the currently university is not recognized as legal person, and is institution is entirely private, the result of academic freedom, apart from any action without authority and power in the state."

According to Arlette Graffart,<ref>"La matricule de l'Université de Louvain (1817–1835)", in : ''Album Carlos Wyffels'', Bruxelles, 1987, p. 177</ref> only the State University of Louvain, deserves to be considered as the "resurrection of this one" : "elle seule ⟨the [[State University of Louvain]]⟩ et non point celle qui vit le jour en 1834 à l'initiative des évêques de Belgique, c'est-à-dire l'université catholique de Malines devenue de Louvain l'année suivante".|group=Note}} In 1968, it split to form two institutions: Dutch-speaking [[Katholieke Universiteit Leuven|Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven]] and French-speaking [[Université catholique de Louvain]].
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| {{flagcountry|Belgium}} ([[Brussels|Brussels – Capital Region]])||{{flag|Belgium|1830}} ([[Brussels]])||[[Université libre de Bruxelles]] and [[Vrije Universiteit Brussel]] || 1834|| Founded in 1834 as the ''Université libre de Belgique'' (Free University of Belgium). In 1836, it changed its name to Université libre de Bruxelles. On 1 October 1969, the university was split into two sister institutions: the French-speaking ''Université libre de Bruxelles'' and the Dutch-speaking ''Vrije Universiteit Brussel''. Both names mean Free University of Brussels in English, so neither uses the English translation as it is ambiguous.
|-
| {{flagcountry|BIH}} ([[Sarajevo]]) || {{flag|Yugoslavia|alias}} ([[Sarajevo]]) || [[University of Sarajevo]] || 1949||
|-
| rowspan="1" | {{flagcountry|Bulgaria}} ([[Sofia]]) || {{flagicon|Bulgaria|1878}} [[Principality of Bulgaria]] ([[Sofia]])|| [[Sofia University]] || 1904 ("higher pedagogical course" from 1888)<ref>{{cite journal|last=Pundeff|first=Marin|title=The University of Sofia at Eighty|journal=Slavic Review|volume=27|issue=3|pages=438–446|date=September 1968|jstor=2493343|doi=10.2307/2493343|s2cid=164056461 }}</ref> ||
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| {{flagcountry|Croatia}} ([[Zagreb]])||{{flag|Kingdom of Croatia (Habsburg)}} ([[Zagreb]]) || [[University of Zagreb]] || 1669 || History of the university began on 23 September 1669, when the [[Holy Roman Emperor]] [[Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor|Leopold I]] issued a decree granting the establishment of the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit Academy]] of the Royal Free City of Zagreb. Decree was accepted at the Council of the Croatian Kingdom on 3 November 1671.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Czech Republic}} ([[Olomouc]])||{{flagicon|Bohemia}} [[Lands of the Bohemian Crown|Bohemian crown lands]], {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Olomouc]]) || [[Palacký University]] || 1573 || Originally known as Olomouc [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] University.
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| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Denmark}} ([[Copenhagen]]) ||[[Technical University of Denmark]] || 1829 ||Was founded in 1829 as the ''College of Advanced Technology''
|-
| {{flagcountry|Estonia}} ([[Tartu]])|| [[File:Svensk_flagg_1815.svg|20px|link=]] [[Kingdom of Sweden]] ([[Tartu|Dorpat]])|| [[University of Tartu]] || 1632 (continuous operation since 1802)||Founded as Academia Gustaviana in the then Swedish province of [[Livonia]]. It was closed from 1710 to 1802.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Finland}} ([[Helsinki]])||[[File:Svensk_flagg_1815.svg|20px|link=]] [[Kingdom of Sweden]] ([[Turku|Åbo]]) || [[University of Helsinki]] || 1640 ||Founded as the [[Royal Academy of Turku]] (Swedish: ''Kungliga Akademin i Åbo''). It was shut down by the [[Great Fire of Turku]] in 1827. The [[University of Helsinki]] was founded the next year, in 1828, and it started operating in 1829. The University of Helsinki sees itself as continuation of the Royal Academy of Turku.
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| {{flagcountry|France}} ([[Paris]])||{{flag|Kingdom of France|seme}} ([[Paris]]) || [[Sorbonne University]]||1150–1250 (continuous operation since 1896)|| Emerged around 1150 as a corporation associated with the cathedral school of [[Notre-Dame de Paris|Notre Dame de Paris]], it was considered the second-oldest university in Europe. Officially chartered in 1200 by [[Philip II of France]] and recognised in 1215 by [[Pope Innocent III]], it was often nicknamed after its theology collegiate institution, College of Sorbonne, founded about 1257 by [[Robert de Sorbon]] and charted by [[Louis IX of France]]. It was abolished in 1793 by the [[French Revolution]],<ref name="Jones, 2006"/> and was replaced by [[Napoleon]] on 1 May 1806 by the ''[[University of France]]'' system. In 1896 the Louis Liard law allowed the founding of a new University of Paris. In 1970, it split into 13 separate universities and numerous specialised institutions of higher education. In 2018, [[Sorbonne University]] was formed from the [[Paris-Sorbonne University]] (created from the faculty of humanities of the University of Paris) and [[Pierre and Marie Curie University]] (created from the faculty of science and medicine of the University of Paris).<ref>[https://www.studyinternational.com/news/consolidation-of-two-elite-paris-universities-confirmed-for-2018/#ueqSveXzd4FU54uu.97 Study International, Consolidation of two elite Paris universities confirmed for 2018]</ref><ref>[https://thepienews.com/news/mega-university-planned-for-pariss-left-bank/ The Pie News, Mega university planned for Paris's Left Bank]</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|France}} ([[Occitania (administrative region)|Occitanie]])||[[File:Flag_of_Occitania.svg|25px]] [[County of Toulouse]] ([[Toulouse]]) ||[[Université fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées]] || continuous operation since 1896|| Founded by [[papal bull]] in 1229 as the University of Toulouse. It closed in 1793 due to the [[French Revolution]], and reopened in 1896. In 1969, it split into three separate universities and numerous specialised institutions of higher education. It no longer represents a single university, as it is now the collective entity which federates the universities and specialised institutions of higher education in the region.
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| {{flagcountry|France}} ([[Montpellier]])||[[File:Bandera del Reino de Mallorca.svg|25px]] [[Kingdom of Majorca]] ([[Montpellier]]) ||[[University of Montpellier]] [[Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III|Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3]] || continuous operation since 1896|| The world's oldest medicine faculty was established before 1137 and operated continuously until the [[French Revolution]]. University by [[papal bull]] in 1289. It closed in 1793 due to the French Revolution, and reopened in 1896. The university of Montpellier was officially re-organised in 1969 after a students' revolt. It was split into its successor institutions the [[University of Montpellier 1]] (comprising the former faculties of medicine, law, and economy), [[Montpellier 2 University|Montpellier 2]] (science and technology) and [[Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III|Montpellier 3]] (social sciences, humanities and liberal arts). On 1 January 2015, the [[University of Montpellier 1]] and the [[Montpellier 2 University|University of Montpellier 2]] merged to form the newly recreated University of Montpellier.<ref name="lamarseillaise1">{{cite web|url=http://www.lamarseillaise.fr/herault-du-jour/education/34545-l-universite-de-montpellier-a-l-epreuve-de-la-fusion |title=L'université de Montpellier à l'épreuve de la fusion – Journal La Marseillaise |publisher=Lamarseillaise.fr |access-date=14 October 2015}}</ref><ref name="umontpellier2">{{cite web|author=Université |url=http://www.umontpellier.fr/universite/histoire-de-luniversite/ |title=Université de Montpellier » Histoire de l'Université |publisher=Umontpellier.fr |date=20 June 2014 |access-date=14 October 2015}}</ref> Meanwhile, the [[Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III|Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3]] remains a separate institution.
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| {{flagcountry|France}} ([[Aix-en-Provence]], [[Marseille]]) || [[File:Drapeau de Provence « ancien ».svg|22px]] [[County of Provence]], {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Aix-en-Provence|Aix]]) ||[[Aix-Marseille University]] || continuous operation since 1896||Founded in 1409 as the University of Provence, and in 1792, dissolved, along with twenty-one other universities. In 1896 it was reformed as the University of Aix-Marseille, one of 17 self-governing regional universities financed by the state. In 1968 it was divided into two institutions, the University of Provence (Aix-Marseille I) as a school of languages and letters, and the University of Aix-Marseille (Aix-Marseille II) as primarily a school of medicine and sciences. In 1973 the University of Law, Economics and Science (Aix-Marseille III) was added. In 2012 the three universities merged and was renamed Aix-Marseille University.
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| {{flagcountry|France}} ([[Lille]])||[[File:Generieke_vlag_van_Vlaanderen.svg|22px]] [[County of Flanders]], [[File:Bandera_cruz_de_Borgoña_2.svg|22px]] [[Spanish Netherlands]] ([[Douai]]) ||[[University of Lille]] || 1559|| Founded by [[Philip II of Spain]] in 1559 as the [[University of Douai]]. It closed in 1795 due to the [[French Revolution]], and reopened in 1808. In 1887, it was transferred as University of Lille 27 km away from Douai. In 1971, it split into three separate universities. At the beginning of 2018, the three universities merged to form again the University of Lille.
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| {{flagcountry|Germany}} ([[Wittenberg]] [[Halle (Saale)|Halle]])|| {{flagcountry|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Wittenberg]]) || [[Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg]] || 1502 ||Established in 1502 as the University of Wittenberg. Merged with University of Halle (founded 1691) in 1817.
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| {{flagcountry|Germany}} ([[Frankfurt/Oder]])|| {{flagcountry|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Frankfurt/Oder]]) || [[European University Viadrina|European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)]] || 1506 (continuous operation from 1991) ||Established in 1506 as the ''Alma Mater Viadrina''. Relocated and merged with the [[University of Wrocław|Leopoldina]] in Breslau (present-day [[Wrocław]], Poland) in 1811. Reestablished in Frankfurt (Oder) in 1991 after [[German reunification]].
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| {{flagcountry|Georgia}} ([[Tbilisi]])||{{flag|Democratic Republic of Georgia}} ([[Tbilisi]]) || [[Tbilisi State University]] ||1918|| Founded in 1918 as Tbilisi State University
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| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Gibraltar}}||[[University of Gibraltar]] || 2015<ref>{{cite news|author=Guy Clapperton|title=The new campus on the Rock – part 2 |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/newstatesman-gibraltar/special-features/2015/09/new-campus-rock-part-2|access-date=15 October 2019|work=New Statesman|publisher=Progressive Digital Media|date=22 September 2015}}</ref>||
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| {{flagcountry|Greece}} ([[Athens]])|| {{flag|Kingdom of Greece|1831}} ([[Athens]])||[[National and Kapodistrian University of Athens]] || 1837<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.uoa.gr/about_us/|title=about us|work= National and Kapodistrian University of Athens|access-date=11 August 2019}}</ref>||
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| rowspan="1" | {{flagcountry|Hungary}} ([[Budapest]])|| {{flag|Kingdom of Hungary}} ([[Trnava|Nagyszombat]]) || [[Eötvös Loránd University]] ||1635||Founded in 1635 by the archbishop and theologian [[Péter Pázmány]] as the ''University of Nagyszombat''. Renamed Royal Hungarian University of Science in 1769. The university was moved to [[Buda]] (today part of Budapest) in 1777. The university moved to its final location in [[Pest, Hungary|Pest]] (now also part of Budapest) in 1784 and was renamed Royal University of Pest. It has been renamed three times since then: University of Budapest (1873–1921), (Hungarian Royal Pázmány Péter University (1921–1950), and since 1950, Eötvös Loránd University.
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| {{flagcountry|Iceland}} ([[Reykjavík]])||{{flagcountry|Denmark}} ([[Reykjavík]]) || [[University of Iceland]] || 1911||
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| {{flagcountry|Ireland}} ([[Dublin]])||{{flag|Kingdom of Ireland}} ([[Dublin]]) ||[[University of Dublin]] ||1592|| Founded by Queen [[Elizabeth I]] and modelled after the [[Collegiate university|collegiate universities]] of [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]]. Only one college was ever established, [[Trinity College, Dublin|Trinity College Dublin]], making the two designations effectively synonymous.
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| {{flagcountry|Italy}} ([[Urbino]])|| [[File:Corona ferrea monza (heraldry).svg|24px]] [[Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)|Kingdom of Italy]], {{flagcountry|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Urbino]]) || [[University of Urbino]] || 1506 ||
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| {{flagcountry|Kosovo}}{{efn|{{Kosovo-note}}}} ([[Pristina]])||{{flag|Yugoslavia|alias}} ([[Pristina]]) || [[University of Pristina]] || 1969||
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| {{flagcountry|Latvia}} ([[Riga]])||{{flag|Russian Empire}} ([[Riga]])||[[Riga Technical University]] ||1862|| First established as Riga Polytechnicum in 1862
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| {{flagcountry|Liechtenstein}} ([[Vaduz]]) || {{flagcountry|Liechtenstein}} ([[Vaduz]])|| [[University of Liechtenstein]] ||1961|| Successor to the Abendtechnikum Vaduz in 1992
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| {{flagcountry|Lithuania}} ([[Vilnius]])|| [[File:Flaga_Rzeczypospolitej_Obojga_Narodow_ogolna.svg|22px]] [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] ([[Vilnius]]) ||[[Vilnius University]] || 1579 (continuous operation since 1919)|| Founded as the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit Academy]] of Vilnius; the university was closed from 1832 to 1919 and again in 1943–44
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| {{flagcountry|Luxembourg}} ([[Esch-sur-Alzette]]) || {{flagcountry|Luxembourg}} ([[Esch-sur-Alzette]])|| [[University of Luxembourg]] || 2003||
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| {{flagcountry|Malta}} ([[Msida]])|| {{flagicon|Sovereign Military Order of Malta}} [[Hospitaller Malta]] ([[Valletta]]) || [[University of Malta]] || 1769 || First established as the [[Collegium Melitense]] by the Jesuits in 1592
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| {{flagcountry|Netherlands}} ([[Leiden]])||{{flag|Dutch Republic}} ([[Leiden]]) || [[Leiden University]] || 1575|| Although formally still part of the [[Habsburg Netherlands]], Leiden sided with the [[Dutch Revolt]] in 1572
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|{{flagcountry|Netherlands}} ([[Groningen]])||{{flag|Dutch Republic}} ([[Groningen]]) || [[University of Groningen]] || 1614||Together with [[Leiden University]], it was one of the only two Dutch universities to retain their status during the [[Kingdom of Holland|Napoleonic occupation of the Netherlands.]]
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| {{flagcountry|Netherlands}} ([[Utrecht]])||{{flag|Dutch Republic}} ([[Utrecht]]) || [[Utrecht University]] || 1636||The Utrecht University was abolished during the Napoleonic era, reorganized as a French Imperial School for Higher Education. Only after the defeat of Napoleon and the establishment of the [[United Kingdom of the Netherlands|Kingdom of the Netherlands]] in 1815 was it to be reconstituted as a university.
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| {{flagcountry|North Macedonia}} ([[Skopje]])||{{flag|Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia}} ([[Skopje]]) || [[Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje]] || 1946 ||
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| {{flagcountry|Norway}} ([[Oslo]])||{{flag|Denmark–Norway}} ([[Oslo|Christiania]]) || [[University of Oslo]] || 1811||Founded as The Royal Frederik's University
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| {{flagcountry|Poland}} ([[Wrocław]])|| {{flagicon|Bohemia}} [[Lands of the Bohemian Crown|Bohemian crown lands]], {{Flag|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Breslau]])||[[University of Wrocław]] || 1702|| Founded in 1702 by [[Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor]] as the university ''Leopoldina''. It has been renamed five times since then: ''Universitas Literarum Vratislaviensis'' in 1742 by [[Frederick II of Prussia|King Frederick II of Prussia]], ''Silesian Friedrich Wilhelm University in Breslau'' in 1811, ''University of Breslau'' in the second half of the 19th century, ''Bolesław Bierut university'' between 1952 and 1989, and since 1989, ''University of Wrocław''.
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| {{flagcountry|Poland}} ([[Warsaw]])|| {{flagicon|Poland|1815}} [[Congress Poland|Kingdom of Poland]], {{flag|Russian Empire}}
|[[University of Warsaw]] ||1816||Founded as a Royal University on 19 November 1816, when the Partitions of Poland separated Warsaw from the older [[University of Kraków]] (founded in 1364).
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|{{flagcountry|Portugal}} ([[Porto]])||{{flag|Kingdom of Portugal}} ([[Porto]]) ||[[University of Porto]]|| 1836 (university 1911)||First established as Polytechnic University of Porto and Medical-Surgical School of Porto since 1836
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|{{flagcountry|Portugal}} ([[Lisbon]])||{{flag|Portuguese Republic}} ([[Lisbon]]) ||[[University of Lisbon]]|| 1911||Successor to the Lisbon General Study'','' 1290
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| {{flagcountry|Romania}} ([[Iași]])|| [[File:Flag of the United Principalities of Romania (1862 - 1866).svg|20px]] [[United Principalities]] ([[Iași]]) || [[Alexandru Ioan Cuza University]] || 1860<ref name="Study-in-romania.ro">{{cite web |url=http://www.study-in-romania.ro/historyofeducation.htm |title=Study in Romanian – Learn & Live Freely |publisher=Study-in-romania.ro |access-date=15 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150611181940/http://www.study-in-romania.ro/historyofeducation.htm |archive-date=11 June 2015 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref name="Uaic.ro">{{cite web|url=http://www.uaic.ro/en/university-2/short-history/ |title=Short history |publisher=Alexandru Ioan Cuza University|access-date=10 August 2017}}</ref>||Successor to the [[Princely Academy, Iaşi|Princely Academy from Iaşi]], 1642, and [[Academia Mihăileană]], 1835<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uaic.ro/en/university-2/university/timeline/|title=Timeline|publisher=Alexandru Ioan Cuza University|access-date=10 August 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811150130/http://www.uaic.ro/en/university-2/university/timeline/|archive-date=11 August 2017}}</ref>
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| {{flagcountry|Romania}} ([[Bucharest]])|| [[File:Flag of the United Principalities of Romania (1862 - 1866).svg|20px]] [[United Principalities]] ([[Bucharest]]) || [[University of Bucharest]] ||1864<ref name="Study-in-romania.ro" /><ref name="Unibuc.ro">{{cite web |url=http://www.unibuc.ro/en/main_scv_en |title=University of Bucharest – EN Home Page |publisher=University of Bucharest |date=1 January 1980 |access-date=15 August 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329034235/http://www.unibuc.ro/en/main_scv_en |archive-date=29 March 2012 }}</ref>||Successor to the [[Saint Sava College]], 1694
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| {{flagcountry|Romania}} ([[Cluj-Napoca]])||{{flag|Principality of Transylvania}} ([[Cluj-Napoca|Kolozsvár]])|| [[Babeș-Bolyai University]] || 1518 (continuous operation since 1919)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://u-szeged.hu/download.php?docID=7855|title=A Szegedi Tudományegyetem és elődei története (1581–2011)|author=Makk F., Marjanucz, L.|publisher=University of Szeged|date=2011|isbn=9789633060940}}</ref><ref name="Study-in-romania.ro" /><ref name="A significant history">{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130808134307/http://www.ubbcluj.ro/en/despre/misiune/istoric.html|archive-date=8 August 2013|url=http://www.ubbcluj.ro/en/despre/misiune/istoric.html |title=A significant history |publisher=[[Babeș-Bolyai University|Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca]] |access-date=11 November 2013}}</ref> || Academic successor of [[Jesuit Academy of Cluj|Academia / Universitas Claudiopolitana]] (1581), continued by [[Franz Joseph University]] (1872), King Ferdinand I University (1919), and [[Babeș-Bolyai University]] in its current form (1959).
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| {{flagcountry|Russia}} ([[Saint Petersburg]])|| {{flag|Russian Empire}} ([[Saint Petersburg]]) || [[Saint Petersburg State University]] || 1724 (continuous from 1819)||Claims to be the successor of the university established along with the Academic Gymnasium and the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences on 24 January 1724 by a decree of [[Peter the Great]]. In the period between 1804 and 1819, Saint Petersburg University officially did not exist
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| {{flagcountry|Russia}} ([[Moscow]])|| {{flag|Russian Empire}} ([[Moscow]])||[[Moscow State University]] || 1755||Founded in 1755 as [[Imperial Moscow University]]
|-
| {{flagcountry|Serbia}} ([[Belgrade]])||{{flag|Kingdom of Serbia}} ([[Belgrade]])|| [[University of Belgrade]] || 1808||Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-based departments into a single university, under current name from 1905; Orthodox Christian [[Lyceum]] in 1794; Teacher's college in 1778.
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| {{flagcountry|Slovakia}} ([[Bratislava]])|| {{flag|Czechoslovakia}} ([[Bratislava]])||[[Comenius University]] || rowspan="2" |1919||
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| {{flagcountry|Slovenia}} ([[Ljubljana]])||{{flagcountry|Kingdom of Yugoslavia|name=Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes}} ([[Ljubljana]]) || [[University of Ljubljana]] ||
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| {{flagcountry|Spain}} ([[Seville]])|| {{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[Seville]]) || [[University of Seville]] || 1505 ||
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| colspan="2" | [[File:Svensk_flagg_1815.svg|20px|link=]] [[Kingdom of Sweden]] ([[Lund]]) || [[Lund University]] || 1666||A Franciscan Studium Generale was founded in Lund in 1425, as the first university in Northern Europe, but as a result of the [[Protestant Reformation]] the operations of the catholic university were suspended.
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| {{flagcountry|Switzerland}} ([[Lausanne]])|| {{flag|Old Swiss Confederacy}} ([[Lausanne]]) || [[University of Lausanne]] ||1537||
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| colspan="2" | {{flag|Switzerland}} ([[Zurich]]) || [[University of Zurich]] || 1833 (incorporating colleges dating to 1525)||University established in 1833, taking in the [[Carolinum, Zürich|Carolinum]] theology college, dating to 1525, and colleges of law and medicine.
|-
| rowspan="2" | {{flag|Turkey}} ([[Istanbul]])||rowspan="2" | {{flag|Ottoman Empire}} ([[Constantinople]])||[[Istanbul Technical University]] || 1773 (university 1928)||Founded in 1773 as [[Turkish Naval Academy|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]] by the Ottoman Sultan [[Mustafa III]], but became a state university in 1928.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.itu.edu.tr/en/about-itu/general/history |title=Istanbul Technical University |publisher=Itu.edu.tr |access-date=15 August 2013}}</ref>
|-
| [[Istanbul University]] || 1453 (university 1933)||
Its ultimate origins lie in a [[madrasa]] and institute of higher education founded by the Ottoman Sultan [[Mehmed II]] in 1453; was reformed to a Western style of education with multiple faculties of sciences in 1846; gained university status in 1933.
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| {{flagcountry|Ukraine}} ([[Kharkiv]])|| {{flag|Russian Empire}} ([[Kharkiv]]) || [[National University of Kharkiv|V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University]] || 1804||
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| {{flagcountry|Ukraine}} ([[Lviv]]) || [[File:Flaga_Rzeczypospolitej_Obojga_Narodow_ogolna.svg|22px]] [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] ([[Lwów]]) || [[Lviv University]] || 1661 (continuous from 1850) ||Operated from 1661 to 1773, 1784–1805, 1817–1848, and since 1850.
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| {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|SCO}}) ([[Edinburgh]])|| {{flag|Kingdom of Scotland}} ([[Edinburgh]]) || [[University of Edinburgh]] || 1582–3<ref name=Ruegg680>{{cite book|title=A History of the University in Europe|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|author=Walter Rüegg|date=2004|volume=3, Universities in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1800–1945)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=entlN4EEPUYC&pg=PA680|page=680|isbn=9781139453028}}</ref>|| Formally established as the ''Tounis College'' (Town's College) under the authority of a [[royal charter]] granted to the Town of Edinburgh by King [[James VI and I|James VI]] of Scotland on 14 April 1582.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gteIvcJ5GVMC&pg=PA100|title=Commerce and Culture: Edinburgh, Edinburgh University, and the Scottish Enlightenment|page=100|work= The University and the City: From Medieval Origins to the Present|author=Nicholas Phillipson|editor= Thomas Bender|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|date=1988|isbn=9780195067750}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QE-P0ffkTUoC&pg=PA42|title=Edinburgh|pages=42–43|author=Michael Lynch|work= Charters of Foundation and Early Documents of the Universities of the Coimbra Group|editor=Jos. M. M. Hermans, Marc Nelissen|publisher=Leuven University Press|date= 2005|isbn=9789058674746}}</ref> It opened its doors to students in October 1583.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/our-history|title=Our History|publisher=University of Edinburgh|access-date=15 August 2017}}</ref>
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| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|ENG}}) ([[Durham, England|Durham]])||[[Durham University]] || 1832<ref name=Ruegg684>{{cite book|title=A History of the University in Europe|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|author=Walter Rüegg|date=2004|volume=3, Universities in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1800–1945)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=entlN4EEPUYC&pg=PA684|page=684|isbn=9781139453028}}</ref>|| Claims to be the [[Third oldest university in England debate|third oldest university in England]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Durham University Undergraduate Prospectus 2015|publisher=[[Durham University]] | url=http://issuu.com/communicationsoffice/docs/ugp2015_complete_prospectus_web_ppp|page=6|quote=We are the third oldest university in England and one of the world's leading centres of scholarship and learning}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dur.ac.uk/about/shaped/|title=Our history and values|quote=Henry VIII and Oliver Cromwell's attempts to formally establish a University for the North in Durham were subsumed by politics and North-South rivalries, and it was not until 1832, as the Prince-Bishopric declined lost his powers, was Durham finally endowed with the Castle and lands and granted degree awarding powers by the king as England's third University|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref> 
Listed by Rüegg in [[A History of the University in Europe]] as meeting standard criteria for recognition as a university from 1832.<ref name=Ruegg684 />

Established under the authority of the University of Durham Act 1832.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/actsrelatingtoe00parlgoog|pages=[https://archive.org/details/actsrelatingtoe00parlgoog/page/n415 389]|title=Acts Relating to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England|publisher=Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England|date=1844|last1=Parliament|first1=Great Britain}}</ref> Recognised as a university in the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 and the Established Church Act 1836.<ref>{{cite book|quote=nothing herein contained shall affect or interfere with the rights and privileges granted by charter or Act of Parliament to the University of Durham|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4_RQAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA225|page=225|title=A Collection of Statutes of Practical Utility|last1=Chitty|first1=Joseph|year=1837}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|quote=that the Bishop of Durham do in future hold the castle of Durham in trust for the University of Durham|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4_RQAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA148|page=148|title=A Collection of Statutes of Practical Utility|date=1837|last1=Chitty|first1=Joseph}}</ref> Incorporated and confirmed by Royal Charter in 1837 and degrees granted equal privileges with those of Oxford and Cambridge by the Attorneys and Solicitors Act 1837.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dur.ac.uk/about/governance/charter/|publisher=[[Durham University]]|title=About Durham University – Royal Charter|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref><ref name="1837act">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jls0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA277|page=277|title=The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|publisher=His Majesty's Statute and Law Printers|date=1837}}</ref>
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| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|ENG}}) ([[London]])||[[University of London]] || 1836<ref name=Ruegg684 />||Claims to be the third oldest university in England on the basis of the date of its charter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.london.ac.uk/history.html|title=History|publisher=University of London|access-date=30 September 2015|quote=The University of London was founded by Royal Charter on 28 November 1836 and is the third oldest university in England.}}</ref> 
Listed by Rüegg as meeting standard criteria for recognition as a university from 1836.<ref name=Ruegg684 />

Established by Royal Charter as degree awarding examining body for [[King's College London]] and [[University College London]] (see below), the London medical schools, and other institutions.<ref>{{cite book|title=University of London – The Historical Record, 1836–1912|publisher=University of London|date=1912|pages=7–24|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vyPiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA7}}</ref> Degrees granted equal privileges with those of [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] by the Attorneys and Solicitors Act 1837.<ref name="1837act" /> [[University College London]] (founded 1826; charter 1836) and [[King's College London]] (charter 1829<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=08ZLAAAAcAAJ|title=The charter and by-laws of King's College, London|date=1830|last1=(London)|first1=King's College}}</ref>) claim to be the third and fourth oldest universities in England,<ref>{{cite web|title=Living in London|quote=London offers a scene and status unrivalled by any other city. UCL, England's third oldest university, is at the heart of what has been described as 'the knowledge capital of the world'.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151127131250/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/accommodation/living-london|archive-date=27 November 2015|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/accommodation/living-london|publisher=University College London|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Undergraduate Prospectus 2015|publisher=University College London|url=http://issuu.com/ucl-pams/docs/ugp_15_all|page=7}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/facts/index.aspx|publisher=King's College London|title=About King's}}</ref> but did not offer degree courses prior to the foundation of the University of London<ref>{{cite journal|journal=[[Penny Cyclopaedia]]|title=University College London
|publisher=[[Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge]]|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_bS-H_-NYM4IC/page/n28 23]–28|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_bS-H_-NYM4IC|date=1843}}</ref> and did not gain their own degree awarding powers until 2005 and 2006 respectively.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/media/library/degreepowers|title=UCL granted degree awarding powers|date=27 September 2005|publisher=University College London|access-date=12 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160410145742/https://www.ucl.ac.uk/media/library/degreepowers|archive-date=10 April 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921224332/https://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/governance/about/index.aspx |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/governance/about/index.aspx |archive-date=21 September 2015 |title=King's Governance |publisher=King's College London |access-date=12 February 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> They are listed by Rüegg as colleges of the University of London rather than as a universities.<ref name="Ruegg684" />
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| {{flagcountry|UK}} ([[Northern Ireland]]) ([[Belfast]])|| {{flagcountry|UK}} ([[History of Ireland (1801–1923)|Ireland]]) ([[Belfast]])|| [[Queen's University Belfast]] || 1845<ref name=Ruegg684 /> (as college offering degree courses; university 1908)||Oldest university in Northern Ireland. Listed by Rüegg as meeting standard criteria for recognition as a university from 1845.<ref name=Ruegg684 /> 
Founded 1845, as a university college offering courses leading to degrees of the [[Queen's University of Ireland]] then the [[Royal University of Ireland]], gained university status in 1908.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.qub.ac.uk/Discover/About-Queens/History-and-heritage/|title=History and Heritage|date=March 2016 |quote=Queen's University Belfast was founded by Royal Charter in 1845. One of three Queen's Colleges in Ireland, with the others being in Cork and Galway, it became a university in its own right in 1908.|publisher=[[Queen's University Belfast]]|access-date=28 January 2017}}</ref>
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| {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|WAL}}) ([[Cardiff]])|| {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|WAL}}) ([[Aberystwyth]], [[Bangor, Gwynedd|Bangor]], [[Cardiff]])|| [[University of Wales]] || 1893<ref name=Ruegg687>{{cite book|title=A History of the University in Europe|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|author=Walter Rüegg|date=2004|volume=3, Universities in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1800–1945)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=entlN4EEPUYC&pg=PA687|page=687|isbn=9781139453028}}</ref>|| Founded by Royal Charter in 1893 as a federal university with three constituent colleges – Aberystwyth, Bangor and Cardiff – the university was the first and oldest university in Wales. Listed by Rüegg as meeting standard criteria for recognition as a university from 1893<ref name=Ruegg687 />
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| {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|WAL}}) ([[Carmarthen]], [[Lampeter]], [[Swansea]])|| {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|WAL}}) ([[Carmarthen]], [[Lampeter]])|| [[University of Wales Trinity Saint David]] || 1852 (limited degree awarding powers; as college 1822) ||The university was founded as [[St David's College, Lampeter|St David's College]] (Coleg Dewi Sant) in 1822 "to provide a liberal education to members of the clergy" and was incorporated by royal charter in 1828.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uwtsd.ac.uk/news/press-releases/press-releases-2014/the-university-of-wales-trinity-saint-david-celebrates-founders-day.html|title=The University of Wales Trinity Saint David celebrates Founders Day|date=17 November 2014|access-date=30 September 2015|publisher=[[University of Wales Trinity Saint David]]}}</ref> It was renamed St David's University College (Coleg Prifysgol Dewi Sant) in 1971, when it became part of the federal University of Wales. It was again renamed [[University of Wales, Lampeter]] in 1996 in line with moves elsewhere in the University of Wales. In 2010 it merged with [[Trinity University College]] to form the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wales.ac.uk/en/NewsandEvents/News/General/UniversityofWalesTrinitySaintDavidReceivesRoyalApproval.aspx|title=University of Wales Trinity Saint David Receives Royal Approval|date=23 July 2010|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref> Although described as the oldest university in Wales,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2009/apr/17/lampeter-merge-trinity|title=End of an era for Lampeter, the oldest university in Wales|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=17 April 2009|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/fears-future-survival-wales-oldest-2086978|title=Fears for the future survival of Wales' oldest university|publisher=Wales Online|date=7 August 2009|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref> it was not listed by Rüegg as meeting standard criteria for a university<ref>{{cite book|title=A History of the University in Europe|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|author=Walter Rüegg|date=2004|volume=3, Universities in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1800–1945)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=entlN4EEPUYC|isbn=9781139453028}}</ref> and lost a court case in 1951 against the [[Ministry of Education (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Education]] in which it sought to receive recognition as a university.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://oxcheps.new.ox.ac.uk/casebook/Resources/STDAVI_1%20DOC.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030509051852/http://oxcheps.new.ox.ac.uk/casebook/Resources/STDAVI_1%20DOC.pdf | url-status=dead | archive-date=9 May 2003 | title=St David's College, Lampeter v Ministry of Education 1951 | access-date=30 December 2014 }}(PDF)</ref>
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| {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|WAL}}) ([[Aberystwyth]])|| {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|WAL}}) ([[Aberystwyth]])|| [[Aberystwyth University]] || 1872<ref name=Ruegg687 /> (as college offering degree courses; university 2007)||Founded in 1872 as University College Wales, offering courses leading to degrees of the [[University of London]], it became a founder member of the University of Wales in 1894.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/university/history/timelinepart1/|title=Early Days|publisher=[[Aberystwyth University]]|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref> It claims to be "Wales's oldest university",<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/university/future/|title=Investing over £100m in your future|quote=Together they will ensure that Wales's oldest university will be well placed to survive the challenges of the twenty-first century – Aberystwyth's third century of existence.|publisher=[[Aberystwyth University]]|access-date=30 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001093619/https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/university/future/|archive-date=1 October 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> but was listed by Rüegg as a college of the University of Wales rather than as a university.<ref name=Ruegg687 /> It became an independent university (as Aberystwyth University) in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/university/history/timelinepart3/|title=College by the sea to College on the hill|publisher=Aberystwyth University|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref>
|}

=== Latin America and the Caribbean ===
{{Main|List of colonial universities in Latin America}}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- valign="top"
! colspan=2| Location
! width="15%" rowspan=2| Current name
! width="5%" rowspan=2| Year
! width="50%" rowspan=2| Notes
|-
! width="15%"| Current
! width="15%"| Original
|- valign="top"
| {{flag|Anguilla}} {{flag|Antigua and Barbuda}} {{flag|Bahamas}} {{flag|Barbados}} {{flag|Belize}} {{flag|British Virgin Islands}} {{flag|Cayman Islands}} {{flag|Dominica}} {{flag|Grenada}} {{flag|Jamaica}} {{flag|Montserrat}} {{flag|St. Kitts and Nevis}} {{flag|St. Lucia}} {{flag|St. Vincent and the Grenadines}} {{flag|Trinidad and Tobago}} {{flag|Turks and Caicos}} || {{flag|Jamaica|1906}} ([[Kingston, Jamaica|Kingston]])
| [[University of the West Indies]] || 1948 (as affiliated college of the [[University of London]]; university 1962)|| First campus opened in Jamaica as the University College of the West Indies associated with the [[University of London]] in 1948. Gained independent university status in 1962.
|-
| {{flag|Argentina}} || {{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[Viceroyalty of Peru|Perú]])
([[Governorate of the Río de la Plata|Río de la Plata]])

([[Córdoba, Argentina|Córdoba]])
| [[National University of Córdoba]] || 1613 || Oldest university in Argentina.
|-
| {{flag|Belize}} || {{flag|Belize}} || [[University of Belize]] || 2000 ||
|-
| {{flag|Bolivia}} || {{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[Viceroyalty of Peru|Perú]])
([[Real Audiencia of Charcas|Charcas]])

[[Sucre|(La Plata)]]
| [[University of Saint Francis Xavier]] || 1624 || Founded in 1624 by order of King [[Philip IV of Spain|Philip IV]], and with the support of [[Pope Innocent XII]]. Full name is The Royal and Pontificial Major University of [[Francis Xavier|Saint Francis Xavier]] of Chuquisaca
|-
| colspan="2" rowspan="3" | {{flag|Brazil}}||[[Federal University of Rio de Janeiro]] || 1920 (precursors trace back to 1792) || Created in 1920 as University of Rio de Janeiro.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sociedades.cardiol.br/socerj/revista/2008_05/a2008_v21_n05_a13Albanesi.pdf |title=O Ensino, a Universidade e a Realidade |website=Sociedades.cardiol.br |access-date=2016-03-31}}</ref> Has as precursors the Polytechnic School (founded as Royal Academy of Artillery, Fortification and Design in 1792),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://fernandanascimento.com.br/ARTIGO_OS_CURSOS_DE_ENGENHARIA_NO_BRASIL_E_AS_TRANSFORMACOES_NOS_PROCESSOS_PRODUTIVOS.pdf |title=FERNANDA NASCIMENTO |access-date=2016-11-17 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://archive.today/20161118023158/http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://fernandanascimento.com.br/ARTIGO_OS_CURSOS_DE_ENGENHARIA_NO_BRASIL_E_AS_TRANSFORMACOES_NOS_PROCESSOS_PRODUTIVOS.pdf |archive-date=2016-11-18 }}</ref> the National College of Medicine (founded as Academy of Medicine and Surgery in 1808)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dichistoriasaude.coc.fiocruz.br/iah/P/verbetes/escancimerj.htm |title=Escola Anatômica, Cirúrgica e Médica do Rio de Janeiro |access-date=January 17, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130323023854/http://www.dichistoriasaude.coc.fiocruz.br/iah/P/verbetes/escancimerj.htm |archive-date=March 23, 2013 }}</ref> and by the National College of Law (founded in 1891).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.direito.ufrj.br/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9&Itemid=23|title=Direito – Histórico|author=Administrator|access-date=5 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://educa.fcc.org.br/pdf/rbedu/n10/n10a03.pdf |title=A Universidade do Brasil |website=Educa.fcc.org.br |access-date=2016-03-31}}</ref>
|-
|[[Federal University of Paraná]] || 1912 (closed in 1920, refounded in 1951) || Closed as university in 1920. Refounded as university in 1951.
|-
|[[Federal University of Amazonas]] || 1909 (closed in 1926, refounded in 1962, precursors trace back to 1909) || Has as precursor the Free University School of Manaós, founded on 17 January 1909. Became the University of Manaós in 1910. Closed 1926, reformed 1962 as the University of Amazonas.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ufam.edu.br/historia.html|title=Historia|work=Federal University of Amazona|access-date=12 August 2019|language=pt}}</ref>
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Chile}}||[[Universidad de Chile (university)|Universidad de Chile]] || 1842 || Successor to the [[Royal University of San Felipe|Real Universidad de San Felipe]], created in 1738. Oldest university in Chile.
|-
| {{flag|Colombia}} || {{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[Viceroyalty of Peru|Perú]])
[[New Kingdom of Granada|(New Granada)]]

[[Bogotá|(Santa Fe de Bogotá)]]
| [[Saint Thomas Aquinas University]] || 1580 || Founded in 1580 by the Dominican Order. It is the second-oldest university in the [[Americas]].
|-
|{{flag|Colombia}}
|{{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[Viceroyalty of Peru|Perú]])
[[New Kingdom of Granada|(New Granada)]]

[[Bogotá|(Santa Fe de Bogotá)]]
|[[Pontifical Xavierian University]]
|1623
|Founded in 1623 by the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit Order]]. First Jesuit university in Colombia. Temporarily closed between 1797 and 1930.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Costa Rica}}||[[University of Costa Rica]] || 1940 || The first institution dedicated to higher education in Costa Rica was the University of Saint Thomas (Universidad de Santo Tomás), which was established in 1843. That institution maintained close ties with the [[Catholic Church]] and was closed in 1888 by the progressive and anti-clerical government of President [[Bernardo Soto Alfaro]] as part of a campaign to modernize public education. The schools of law, agronomy, fine arts, and pharmacy continued to operate independently. In 1940, those four schools were re-united to establish the modern UCR, during the reformist administration of President [[Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia]].
|-
| {{flag|Cuba}} || {{flagcountry|Spain|1701}} ([[New Spain]])
[[Governorate of Cuba|(Cuba)]]

([[Havana]])
| [[Universidad de La Habana]] || 1728 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Dominica}}||[[Ross University School of Medicine]] || 1978 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Dominican Republic}}||[[Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo]] || 1914 || Successor to the [[Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino]] (founded by papal bull in 1538, royal charter in 1558) which closed in 1823.
|-
| {{flag|Ecuador}} || {{Flagicon|Gran Colombia|variant=1822}} [[Gran Colombia|Republic of Colombia]]
([[Gran Colombia]])

([[Quito]])
| [[Central University of Ecuador]] || 1826 ||
|-
| {{flag|El Salvador}} || {{flag|El Salvador|1839}} || [[Universidad de El Salvador]] || 1841 || Founded on 16 February 1841 by President [[Juan Lindo]].
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Grenada}}||[[St. George's University]] || 1976 ||
|-
| {{flag|Guatemala}} || {{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[New Spain]])
[[Real Audiencia of Guatemala|(Guatemala)]]

([[Guatemala City|Guatemala]])
| [[Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala]] || 1676 (as colegio in 1562) || The San Carlos University was the fourth university founded in the Americas, when [[Guatemala]] was part of the [[Viceroyalty of New Spain]]. It had five major transformations but never ceased teaching. It grew out of the Colegio de Santo Tomas de Aquino (a high school), founded in 1562 by Bishop [[Francisco Marroquin]]. The university's founder was King [[Charles II of Spain]] and it was consecrated by Pope [[Innocent XI]] in 1687. Activities were interrupted after the [[Act of Independence of Central America]] in 1821.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}
|-
| {{flag|Guyana}} || {{flag|British Guiana}} || [[University of Guyana]] || 1963 ||
|-
| rowspan="2" | {{flag|Haiti}} || {{flag|Haiti|1814}} || [[University of Haiti|Université d'État d'Haïti]] || 1820 ||
|-
|{{flag|USA|1912|name=United States occupation of Haiti}} || [[Haitian Adventist University|Université Adventiste d'Haïti]] || 1921 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Honduras}}||[[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras]] || 1847 ||
|-
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" | {{flag|Mexico}}||[[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México]] || 1910 || Traces its origins back to [[Real y Pontificia Universidad de México]] (1551–1865) but no institutional continuity.
|-
|[[Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo]] || 1917 (as university; college 1540)|| Founded in 1540 as ''Colegio de San Nicolás Obispo (St. Nicholas Bishop College)'' and later in 1543 was appointed ''Real Colegio de San Nicolás Obispo (Royal St. Nicholas Bishop College)'' by King [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Carlos I of Spain]]; it was converted into a university on 15 October 1917.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.umich.mx/historia.html|title=Historia|language=es|publisher=Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo|access-date=12 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Panama}}||[[Universidad de Panamá]] || 1935 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Paraguay}}||[[Universidad Nacional de Asunción]] || 1889 ||
|-
| {{flag|Peru}} || {{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[New Spain|Perú]])
[[Viceroyalty of Peru|(Perú)]]

([[Lima]])
| [[National University of San Marcos]] || 1551 || Also known as the "Dean university of the Americas"; It is the first officially established ([[Privilege (legal ethics)|privilege]] by [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor]]) and the longest continuously operating university in the Americas.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Peru}}||[[National University of Saint Augustine]] || 1828 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Puerto Rico}}||[[University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras]] || 1903 || Original campus of the [[University of Puerto Rico]]
|-
| {{flag|Suriname}} || {{flag|Kingdom of the Netherlands}} || [[Anton de Kom University]] || 1968 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Uruguay}}||[[Universidad de la República]] || 1849 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|United States Virgin Islands}}||[[University of the Virgin Islands]] || 1967 (degree awarding; college 1962; university 1986) || Established by act of legislature in 1962. Opened in 1963 as the College of the Virgin Islands, offering only associate degrees. First bachelor's degree programmes 1967. Became the University of the Virgin Islands in 1986.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://uvi.edu/administration/about-uvi/history.aspx|title=History|work=University of the Virgin Islands|access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>
|-
| {{flag|Venezuela}} || {{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[New Spain|Perú]])
[[Captaincy General of Venezuela|(Venezuela)]]

([[Caracas]])
| [[Central University of Venezuela]] || 1721 ||
|-
|}

=== North America ===
{{See also|Colonial colleges|First university in the United States}}
In the United States, the [[colonial colleges]] awarded degrees from their foundation, but none were formally named as universities prior to the [[American Revolution]], leading to various claims to be the [[first university in the United States]]. The earliest Canadian institutions were founded as colleges, without degree awarding powers, and gained degree granting authority and university status later.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- valign="top"
! colspan=2 | Location
! width="15%" rowspan=2 | Current name
! width="5%" rowspan=2 | Year
! width="50%" rowspan=2 | Notes
|-
! width="15%" | Current
! width="15%" | Original
|- valign="top"

| {{flag|Bermuda}}|| || [[University of the West Indies]] || 2009 (Bermudian membership)|| First campus opened in Jamaica as the University College of the West Indies associated with the [[University of London]] in 1948. Gained independent university status in 1962. Bermuda joined the university in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100716145556/http://cavehill.uwi.edu/news/releases/release.asp?id=132|archive-date=16 July 2010|url=http://cavehill.uwi.edu/news/releases/release.asp?id=132|title=Bermuda joins the UWI Family|work=University of the West Indies}}</ref> Bermuda has also had a community college, [[Bermuda College]], since 1974.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Canada}} ([[Halifax, Nova Scotia]])|| {{Flagicon|United Kingdom|variant=1801}} [[Nova Scotia]] ([[Windsor, Nova Scotia|Windsor]]) || [[University of King's College]] ||1802 (as university; collegiate school 1789)|| Traces its roots back to the [[Columbia University|King's College]] in [[New York City]], which was first founded in 1754. Following the [[American Revolution]], [[United Empire Loyalist|Loyalists]] at the college fled to Windsor, Nova Scotia, and established as the King's Collegiate School in 1789. It received a royal charter in 1802 establishing it (after the model of [[Trinity College, Dublin|Trinity College Dublin]]) as "The Mother of a University", making it the oldest chartered university in Canada.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ll-r5R08t7YC&pg=PA26|pages=26–27|title=Deeper Imprint: The Footsteps of Archbishop Arthur Gordon Peters|author=Kirby Walsh|publisher=Cape Breton University Press|date= 2003|isbn=9780920336953}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://ukings.ca/campus-community/about-kings/history|title=History|publisher=University of King's College|access-date=1 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7jM5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT29|title=A History of Higher Education in Canada 1663–1960|author=Robin S. Harris |publisher=University of Toronto Press|date= 15 December 1976 |page=29|isbn=9781487589806}}</ref> A fire destroyed the original university in 1920, and the institution relocated to Halifax.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Greenland}} ([[Nuuk]])|| {{flag|Greenland}} ([[Nuuk]]) || [[University of Greenland]] ||1989 (as university; college 1983) || Established 1983, took name University of Greenland 1987, formal university status by legislation since 1 September 1989.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uk.uni.gl/about-us/history.aspx|title=History|publisher=University of Greenland|access-date=12 February 2017}}</ref>
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagicon|France}} [[Saint Pierre and Miquelon]]|| Institut Frecker || 1975 (part of [[Memorial University of Newfoundland]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mi.mun.ca/users/mslaney/learn_univ_camp_frecker.htm|title=Institut Frecker|work=Memorial University of Newfoundland|access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>||
|-
| {{flagcountry|USA}} ([[Cambridge, Massachusetts]])|| {{Flagicon|United States|variant=1776}} [[Massachusetts]] ([[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]]) || [[Harvard University]] ||1636 || Founded in 1636, named Harvard College in 1639, chartered in 1650. Oldest institution of higher education in the United States. Officially recognised as a university by the [[Massachusetts]] Constitution of 1780.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.harvard.edu/about-harvard/harvard-glance/history|title=History|publisher=Harvard University|access-date=1 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.harvard.edu/about-harvard/harvard-glance/history/historical-facts|title=Historical Facts|publisher=Harvard University|access-date=1 February 2017}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|USA}} ([[Williamsburg, Virginia]])|| {{Flagicon|United States|variant=1776}} [[Virginia]] ([[Middle Plantation (Virginia)|Middle Plantation]]) || [[College of William & Mary|The College of William & Mary]] ||1693 (continuously since 1888)|| Chartered in 1693. Claims to be the "first college to become a university" in the US, in 1779.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wm.edu/about/rankings/coolfacts/index.php|title=Cool facts|publisher=College of William and Mary|access-date=1 February 2017}}</ref> Named as a ''studium generale'' in its royal charter, leading to the additional claim that it was "a university by grant, a ''studium generale ex privilegio'' as the medieval jurists would have said it, since 1693".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wmlawreview.org/university-1693-new-light-william-marys-claim-title-oldest-university-united-states|title=A UNIVERSITY IN 1693: NEW LIGHT ON WILLIAM & MARY'S CLAIM TO THE TITLE "OLDEST UNIVERSITY IN THE UNITED STATES"|work=William & Mary Law Review|date=15 October 2020|author1=Thomas J. McSweeney|author2=Katharine Ello|author3=Elsbeth O'Brien}}</ref>
Briefly closed during two different periods: from 1861 to 1869 due to the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] and postwar financial problems, and 1882 to 1888 due to continued financial difficulties.
|-
| {{flagcountry|USA}} ([[Philadelphia]], Pennsylvania)|| {{Flagicon|United States|variant=1776}} [[Pennsylvania]] ([[Pennsylvania Colony]])|| [[University of Pennsylvania]] ||1755 || Traces its roots to a [[charity school]] founded in 1740. Collegiate charter 1755. Claims to be "the first American institution of higher education to be named a university" (in 1779).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.upenn.edu/about/history| title=Penn's Heritage|publisher=University of Pennsylvania|access-date=1 February 2017}}</ref>
|}

=== Oceania ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- valign="top"
! colspan=2 | Location
! width="15%" rowspan=2 | Current name
! width="5%" rowspan=2 | Year
! width="50%" rowspan=2 | Notes
|-
! width="15%" | Current
! width="15%" | Original
|- valign="top"
| {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|NSW}})|| {{noflag|[[New South Wales]]}} || [[University of Sydney]] ||1850 || Oldest in New South Wales, Australia and Oceania.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|VIC}})|| {{noflag|[[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]}} || [[University of Melbourne]] ||1853 || Oldest in Victoria.
|-
| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|AU-SA}})|| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|South Australia|1870}} || [[University of Adelaide]] ||1874 || Oldest in South Australia.
|-
|[[University of South Australia]] ||1889 || UniSA was formed in 1991 by the merger of the South Australian Institute of Technology with three South Australian College of Advanced Education campuses.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|TAS}})|| {{flagcountry|Tasmania}} || [[University of Tasmania]] ||1890 || Oldest in Tasmania.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|QLD}})||[[University of Queensland]] ||1909 || Oldest in Queensland.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|AU-WA}})||[[University of Western Australia]] ||1911 || Oldest in Western Australia.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|ACT}})||[[Australian National University]] ||1946 || Oldest in Australian Capital Territory.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|AU-NT}})||[[Charles Darwin University]] ||1989|| Founded as University of the Northern Territory in 1989, merged with other institutions to form Charles Darwin University in 2003.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cdu.edu.au/25th-anniversary|title=Celebrating 25 Years of University Education in the Northern Territory|work=Charles Darwin University|access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|Cook Islands}} {{flagcountry|Fiji}} {{flagcountry|Kiribati}} {{flagcountry|Marshall Islands}} {{flagcountry|Nauru}} {{flagcountry|Niue}} {{flagcountry|Samoa}} {{flagcountry|Solomon Islands}} {{flagcountry|Tokelau}} {{flagcountry|Tonga}} {{flagcountry|Tuvalu}} {{flagcountry|Vanuatu}} || {{flagicon|Fiji|colonial}} [[Colony of Fiji]]|| [[University of the South Pacific]] ||1968|| Regional university, operating in (and owned by the governments of) 12 Pacific island nations. Main campus in Fiji.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Guam}}|| {{flagcountry|Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands|1965}} || [[University of Guam]] ||1965 (degree granting; college 1952; university 1968)||
|-
| {{flagcountry|PNG}}|| {{flagcountry|PNG|1965}} || [[University of Papua New Guinea]] ||1965|| First university in Papua New Guinea.
|-
| {{flagcountry|NZL}} ({{flagcountry|Otago}})|| [[File:Flag of New Zealand Government Ships 1867.svg|20px]] [[New Zealand]] ([[Dunedin]]) || [[University of Otago]] ||1869|| Oldest in New Zealand.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|NZL}} ([[Auckland]])||[[University of Auckland]] ||1883 || Oldest in the [[North Island]].
|}

== See also ==
* [[List of Islamic seminaries#List of oldest Islamic seminaries|List of oldest Islamic seminaries]]
* [[List of medieval universities]]
* [[List of oldest institutions in continuous operation]]

== References ==

=== Notes ===
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=== Citations ===
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List of oldest universities in continuous operation

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{{Short description|Historical list of Universities}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}}
{{broader|Oldest higher-learning institutions}}
[[File:Mediaeval universities.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|A 1911 map of [[Medieval university|medieval universities]] in Europe]]
[[File:Archiginnasio ora blu Bologna.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|The [[University of Bologna]] in [[Bologna]], Italy, is the world's oldest university in continuous operation.<ref name="de Ridder-Symoens">de Ridder-Symoens, Hilde: [https://books.google.com/books?id=5Z1VBEbF0HAC ''A History of the University in Europe: Volume 1, Universities in the Middle Ages''], Cambridge University Press, 1992, {{ISBN|0-521-36105-2}}, pp. 47–55</ref>]]
[[File:1 christ church hall 2012.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|A dining hall at the [[University of Oxford]] in [[Oxford]], England, the world's second-oldest university and oldest in the [[English (language)|English-speaking]] world]]
[[File:Cam colls from johns.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Partial view of the [[University of Cambridge]] in [[Cambridge]], England, the world's third-oldest university]]
This is a '''list of the oldest existing universities in continuous operation''' in the world.

Inclusion in this list is determined by the date at which the educational institute first met the traditional definition of a [[university]] used by academic historians{{refn|'The statement that all universities are descended either directly or by migration from these three prototypes [Oxford, Paris, and Bologna] depends, of course, on one's definition of a university. And I must define a university very strictly here. A university is something more than a center of higher education and study. One must reserve the term ''university'' for—and I'm quoting Rashdall here—"a scholastic guild, whether of masters or students, engaged in higher education and study," which was later defined, after the emergence of universities, as "studium generale".'<ref name="Hyde 1991">{{cite book | last = Hyde | first = J. K. | editor-last = Bender | editor-first = Thomas | chapter = Universities and Cities in Medieval Italy | title = The university and the city: from medieval origins to the present | place = Oxford | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 1991 | pages = 13–14 | isbn = 978-0-19-506775-0 }}</ref>|group=Note}}{{Specify |reason=the source does not claim this is the definition used by most or all academic historians |date=February 2021}} although it may have existed as a different kind of institution before that time.<ref name="Hyde 1991" /> This definition limits the term "university" to institutions with distinctive structural and legal features that developed in [[Europe]], and which make the university form different from other institutions of higher learning in the pre-modern world, even though these may sometimes now be referred to popularly as universities. To be included in the list below, the university must have been founded before 1500 in Europe or be the oldest university derived from the medieval European model in a country or region. It must also be still in operation, with institutional continuity retained throughout its history. So some early universities, including the [[University of Paris]], founded around the beginning of the 13th century<ref name=Verger/> but abolished by the [[French Revolution]] in 1793,<ref name="Jones, 2006">{{cite book | last = Jones | first = Colin | chapter = Queen of Cities | title = Paris : The Biography of a City | place = Paris | publisher = Penguin Books | year = 2006 | pages = 60 | isbn = 978-0-14-303671-5}}</ref> are excluded. Some institutions reemerge, but with new foundations, such as the modern University of Paris, which came into existence in 1896 after the ''Louis Liard law'' disbanded [[Napoleon]]'s [[University of France]] system.

The word ''university'' is derived from the {{lang-la|universitas magistrorum et scholarium}}, which approximately means "community of teachers and scholars". The [[University of Bologna]] in [[Bologna]], Italy, where teaching began around 1088 and which was organised into a university in the late twelfth century, is the world's oldest university in continuous operation,<ref>de Ridder-Symoens, Hilde: [https://books.google.com/books?id=5Z1VBEbF0HAC ''A History of the University in Europe: Volume 1, Universities in the Middle Ages''], Cambridge University Press, 1992, {{ISBN|0-521-36105-2}}, pp. 47–55</ref> and the first university in the sense of a higher-learning and degree-awarding institute.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wyjnHZ1IIlgC&pg=PA18 |title=The Challenge of Bologna|author=Paul L. Gaston |year=2010 |page=18 |isbn=978-1-57922-366-3 |access-date=25 December 2022}}</ref><ref name="Hunt Janin 2008">Hunt Janin: "The university in medieval life, 1179–1499", McFarland, 2008, {{ISBN|0-7864-3462-7}}, p. 55f.</ref><ref name="de Ridder-Symoens"/> The origin of many [[Medieval university|medieval universities]] can be traced back to the [[Catholic]] [[cathedral school]]s or [[monastic school]]s, which appeared as early as the 6th century and were run for hundreds of years as such before their formal establishment as universities in the [[High Middle Ages|high medieval period]].<ref name="Riché 1978 126–7, 282–98">{{Cite book | last = Riché | first = Pierre | title = Education and Culture in the Barbarian West: From the Sixth through the Eighth Century | publisher = University of South Carolina Press | location = Columbia | year = 1978 | isbn = 978-0-87249-376-6 |pages=126–127, 282–298}}</ref>

[[Ancient higher-learning institutions]], such as those of [[ancient Greece]], [[History of Iran|ancient Persia]], [[ancient Rome]], [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantium]], [[ancient China]], [[History of India|ancient India]] and the [[Muslim world|Islamic world]], are not included in this list owing to their cultural, historical, structural and legal differences from the medieval European university from which the modern university evolved.{{refn|"No one today would dispute the fact that universities, in the sense in which the term is now generally understood, were a creation of the [[Middle Ages]], appearing for the first time between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It is no doubt true that other civilizations, prior to, or wholly alien to, the [[Middle Ages|medieval]] [[Western world|West]], such as the [[Roman Empire]], [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantium]], [[History of Islam|Islam]], or [[Ancient China|China]], were familiar with forms of higher education which a number of historians, for the sake of convenience, have sometimes described as universities.Yet a closer look makes it plain that the institutional reality was altogether different and, no matter what has been said on the subject, there is no real link such as would justify us in associating them with [[Medieval university|medieval universities]] in the West. Until there is definite proof to the contrary, these latter must be regarded as the sole source of the model which gradually spread through the whole of Europe and then to the whole world. We are therefore concerned with what is indisputably an original institution, which can only be defined in terms of a historical analysis of its emergence and its mode of operation in concrete circumstances."<ref>Verger, Jacques: "Patterns", in: Ridder-Symoens, Hilde de (ed.): ''A History of the University in Europe. Vol. I: Universities in the Middle Ages'', Cambridge University Press, 2003, {{ISBN|978-0-521-54113-8}}, pp. 35–76 (35):</ref>|group=Note}}{{refn|"Thus the university, as a form of social organization, was peculiar to [[medieval Europe]]. Later, it was exported to all parts of the world, including the [[Muslim]] East; and it has remained with us down to the present day. But back in the Middle Ages, outside of Europe, there was nothing anything quite like it anywhere."<ref>Makdisi, George: "Madrasa and University in the Middle Ages", ''[[Studia Islamica]]'', No. 32 (1970), pp. 255–264 (264):</ref>|group=Note}}<ref name="Rüegg">Rüegg, Walter: "Foreword. The University as a European Institution", in: ''A History of the University in Europe. Vol. 1: Universities in the Middle Ages'', Cambridge University Press, 1992, {{ISBN|0-521-36105-2}}, pp. XIX–XX.</ref>

== Medieval origins ==
{{Main|Medieval university}}

The university as an [[institution]] was historically rooted in [[Middle Ages|medieval]] society, which it in turn influenced and shaped. Academic historian Walter Rüegg asserts that:<ref name="Rüegg" />

{{blockquote|The university is a European institution; indeed, it is the European institution ''par excellence''. There are various reasons for this assertion. As a community of teachers and taught, accorded certain rights, such as [[Academic freedom|administrative autonomy]] and the determination and realisation of curricula (courses of study) and of the objectives of research as well as the award of publicly recognised degrees, it is a creation of [[Middle Ages|medieval Europe]], which was the Europe of [[Pope|papal]] Christianity [...].}}

== Modern spread ==
From the [[early modern period]] onwards, the university spread from the [[Western culture#Medieval West|medieval Latin West]] across the globe, eventually replacing [[Ancient higher-learning institutions|all other higher-learning institutions]] and becoming the preeminent institution for higher education everywhere. The process occurred in the following chronological order:<ref>Rüegg, Walter (ed.): ''Geschichte der Universität in Europa'', 3 vols., C.H. Beck, München 1993, {{ISBN|3-406-36956-1}}</ref>
* Southern and Western Europe (from the 11th or 12th century)
* Central and Northern Europe (from the 14th or 15th century)
* Americas (from the 16th century)
* Australia (from the 19th century)
* Asia and Africa (from the 19th or 20th century), with the exception of the [[Philippines]], where the [[University of Santo Tomas]] was established in the 17th century.

== Founded as universities before 1500 ==
{{Main|List of medieval universities}}

This list includes [[medieval universities]] that were founded before 1500 and which have retained institutional continuity since then (excluding not only those that ceased to exist, but also those that merged into or split away to an institution which is regarded as newly established). Several of these have been closed for brief periods: for example the [[University of Siena]] was closed 1805{{ndash}}1815 during [[Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)|the Napoleonic wars]], and universities in the [[Czech Republic]] and [[Poland]] were closed during [[German-occupied Europe|Nazi occupation]], 1938–1945.

Universities are dated from when, according to scholars, they first met the definition of a university. In cases such as the universities of [[University of Bologna|Bologna]] and [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] which trace their history back to teaching in individual schools prior to their formation into a university, or which existed in another form prior to being a university, the date in the list below is thus later than the date given by the institutions for their foundation.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! width="10%" rowspan=2 | Year
! rowspan=2 | University
! colspan=2 | Location
! width="50%" rowspan=2 | Notes
|-
! Original !! Current
|- valign="top"
| 1180–1190<ref>{{cite book|work=[[A History of the University in Europe]]|volume=1, Universities in the Middle Ages|page=48|title=Patterns|author=Jacques Verger|editor1=Hilde de Ridder-Symoens|editor2=Walter Rüegg|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|date=16 October 2003|isbn=9780521541138|quote=There is no indication, however, that up until around 1180, the Bolognese law schools were anything other than private schools opened and run by each master after his own fashion, gathering together the students that had entered into an agreement with him and paid him fees (collectae) in return for his teaching. The crucial change would seem to have taken place around the years 1180–90. ... The masters, who were themselves mainly Bolognese in origin, agreed from 1189 to swear an oath to the commune not to seek to transfer the ''studium'' elsewhere. The students, on the other hand, began to group themselves in nations, according to their places of origin (we hear of the Lombard nation as early as 1191), and these were soon federated into 'universities' with elected rectors at their head.
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Z1VBEbF0HAC&pg=PA48}}</ref> (teaching from c. 1088)
| [[University of Bologna]]
| [[File:Corona ferrea monza (heraldry).svg|24px]] [[Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)|Kingdom of Italy]], {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}}
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Bologna]], Italy
| Law schools existed in Bologna from the second half of the 12th century, with 1088 often considered to be the date on which teaching outside of ecclesiastical schools began.<ref name="Verger Bologna">{{cite web|url=https://www.unibo.it/en/university/who-we-are/our-history/university-from-12th-to-20th-century|title=The University from the 12th to the 20th century|publisher=University of Bologna|access-date=14 February 2021}}</ref> In 1158, petitions by Bolognese doctors of law led to Emperor [[Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor|Barbarossa]] granting the "Authentic ''Habita''", which granted various rights to students and masters but did not name Bologna or any other particular place of study.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/universitiesinpo0000unse/page/34/mode/2up|author=J.K. Hyde|pages=34–35|date=1972|publisher=Johns Hopkins Press|editor1=John W. Baldwin|editor2=Richard A. Goldthwaite|title=Commune, University, and Society in Early Medieval Bologna|work=Universities in politics; case studies from the late Middle Ages and early modern period|isbn=9780801813726}}</ref> However, it is unlikely that the university had become organised by the 1150s, and this may have been as late as the 1180s.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UcmTz4j-XIIC|page=6|title=The Universities of the Italian Renaissance|author=Paul F. Grendler|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|date=3 November 2004|isbn=9781421404233|quote=it is not likely that enough instruction and organization existed to merit the term university before the 1150s, and it might not have happened before the 1180s}}</ref> The law schools appear to have remained independent, private entities until around 1180, but became organised over the following decade. In 1189 the masters made an agreement with the commune not to transfer the ''studium'' to another town, while the Lombard students were organised into a '[[Nation (university)|nation]]' by 1191.<ref name="Verger Bologna"/><ref name="Brockliss Bologna Paris">{{cite book|quote=The first indications of the gestation of a scholars' guild comes from Bologna in 1189 when the commune forced the masters to swear not to transfer the ''studium'' to another town. Thereafter, evidence confirming that Bologna had become a ''universitas'' and announcing similar developments elsewhere proliferate. The collective identity of the many Paris schools received some sort of official recognition in 1194 when their scholars were implicitly given a grant of clerical immunity by Pope Celestine III, which were confirmed six years later by the king, Philip II. By 1208 a university had definitely begun to take shape. In that year the city's bishop, who claimed the right to license private teachers and interfere in their teaching, accepted that the masters could form an autonomous guild and police themselves, albeit under his ultimate control. In 1215 the pope blessed this arrangement by granting the fledgling university is first statutes.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iMDmCwAAQBAJ&pg=PR46|title=The University of Oxford: A History|author=L. W. B. Brockliss|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|date= 2016|page=6|isbn = 9780199243563}}</ref>
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| 1200–1214<ref name="Verger Oxford">{{cite book|quote=There were schools in operation in Oxford from at least as early as the middle of the twelfth century; an embryonic university organization was in existence from 1200, even before the first papal statutes (1214), which were complemented by royal charters, had established its first institutions|pages=52–53|work=[[A History of the University in Europe]]|volume=1, Universities in the Middle Ages|title=Patterns|author=Jacques Verger|editor1=Hilde de Ridder-Symoens|editor2=Walter Rüegg|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|date=16 October 2003|isbn=9780521541138|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Z1VBEbF0HAC&pg=PA52}}</ref> (teaching from c. 1096)
| [[University of Oxford]]
| {{flag|Kingdom of England}}
| {{flagicon|UK}} [[Oxford]], United Kingdom
| Teaching existed in Oxford from the late 11th century,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iMDmCwAAQBAJ&pg=PR51|title=The University of Oxford: A History|author=L. W. B. Brockliss|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|date= 2016|page=11|isbn=9780199243563}}</ref> with the university giving the date of 1096 for the earliest classes.<ref name="OxHist">{{cite web |url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/about/organisation/history |title=Introduction and history |publisher=University of Oxford |quote=As the oldest university in the English speaking world, Oxford is a unique and historic institution. There is no clear date of foundation of Oxford University, but teaching existed at Oxford in some form in 1096 and developed rapidly from 1167, when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris.|access-date=4 February 2017}}</ref> However, it was not until the early 13th century that the schools in Oxford took on an organised character. In 1201 a papal letter described John Grimm as ''magister scolarum Oxonie''.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7zorDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA48|title=The Medieval English Universities: Oxford and Cambridge to C. 1500|author= Alan B. Cobban|page=48|publisher=Taylor & Francis|date= 5 July 2017|isbn=9781351885805}}</ref> In 1209 the masters suspended their teaching in Oxford and moved to other towns (including [[Cambridge]], leading to the foundation of the [[University of Cambridge|university there]]),<ref name="Oxford1209">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/oxford/low/people_and_places/history/newsid_8405000/8405640.stm|date=18 December 2009|title=The hanging of the clerks in 1209|work=[[BBC News]]|author=Simon Bailey}}</ref> returning after a [[Papal bull|bull]] issued on 20 June 1214 by the [[papal legate]], [[Niccolò de Romanis]], that granted a number of rights to the university and established the office of [[Chancellor (university)|chancellor]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iMDmCwAAQBAJ&pg=PR53|title=The University of Oxford: A History|author=L. W. B. Brockliss|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|date= 2016|pages=13–16|isbn=9780199243563}}</ref> Both Oxford and Cambridge were granted rights of discipline over students and of fixing rents in letters issued by King [[Henry III of England|Henry III]] in 1231.<ref name=Carpenter>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FLbdk_L9TYQC&pg=PA463|page=463|title=The Struggle for Mastery: Britain, 1066–1284|author=David A. Carpenter|publisher=Oxford University Press|date= 2003|isbn=9780195220001}}</ref> A royal charter, sometimes referred to as the Magna Carta of the university, was granted in 1244, awarding further rights to the university.<ref>{{cite book|page=274|title=The Endowments of the University and Colleges to circa 1348|author1=Trevor Henry Aston|author2 = Rosamond Faith |
work=The History of the University of Oxford: The early Oxford schools|editor=Trevor Henry Aston|publisher=Clarendon Press|date=1984|isbn=9780199510115|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AkJO3TAxMtwC&pg=PA274}}</ref> The university received a papal bull ''Querentes in agro'' in 1254, with a first version issued on 27 September and a second version on 6 October. The first version followed the common form of privileges granted to [[Monastery|monastic houses]], confirming the liberties and immunities granted to the university and placing the members of the university under papal protection, but the second version (which was the version recorded in the papal register) explicitly recognised and approved the existence of the university as a scholarly community and confirmed its "liberties, ancient customs and approved statutes".<ref>{{cite book|pages=103–104|title=The University in State and Church|author= C H Lawrence|work=The History of the University of Oxford: The early Oxford schools|editor=Trevor Henry Aston|publisher=Clarendon Press|date=1984|isbn=9780199510115|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AkJO3TAxMtwC&pg=PA103}}</ref>
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| 1209–1225<ref name=Verger>{{cite book|pages=62–65, 68|work=[[A History of the University in Europe]]|volume=1, Universities in the Middle Ages|title=Patterns|author=Jacques Verger|editor1=Hilde de Ridder-Symoens|editor2=Walter Rüegg|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|date=16 October 2003|isbn=9780521541138|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Z1VBEbF0HAC&pg=PA62}}</ref>
| [[University of Cambridge]]
| {{flag|Kingdom of England}}
| {{flagicon|UK}} [[Cambridge]], United Kingdom
| Founded by scholars leaving [[Oxford]] after a dispute caused by the execution of three scholars in 1209.<ref name="Oxford1209"/> The university was organised under a chancellor by 1225.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iMDmCwAAQBAJ&pg=PR58|title=The University of Oxford: A History|author=L. W. B. Brockliss|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|date= 2016|page=18|isbn=9780199243563}}</ref> The university takes 1209 as its official anniversary.<ref name=Cambridge800>{{cite web|title=800th anniversary|url=http://www.cam.ac.uk/univ/800/|publisher=University of Cambridge|access-date=7 January 2012}}</ref> Along with Oxford, Cambridge was granted rights of discipline over its students and of fixing rents in letters issued by King [[Henry III of England|Henry III]] in 1231.<ref name=Carpenter/> It received papal recognition as an academic corporation via an [[indult]] granted by [[Pope Gregory IX]] in 1233 and was named as a ''[[studium generale]]'' in the [[papal bull]] ''Inter singula'' in 1318. The traditional view was that this raised it to a ''studium generale'' but more recent scholarship (which is now generally, although not universally, accepted) sees the bull as confirming, rather than conferring, this status.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7zorDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA59|title=The Medieval English Universities: Oxford and Cambridge to C. 1500|author= Alan B. Cobban|pages=58, 59|publisher=Taylor & Francis|date= 5 July 2017|isbn=9781351885805}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1OMGDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA162|pages=162–163|work=Law as Profession and Practice in Medieval Europe: Essays in Honor of James A. Brundage|editor1=Kenneth Pennington|editor2= Melodie Harris Eichbauer|publisher=Routledge |date=15 April 2016 |title=When did Cambridge become a ''studium generale''|author=Patrick Zutshi|isbn=9781317107682}}</ref>
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| 1218–1219<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Salamanca]]
| [[File:Leon banner.svg|border|26px|Pennant of the Kingdom of León]] [[Kingdom of León]]
| {{flagicon|Spain}} [[Salamanca]], Spain
| The oldest university in the Hispanic world. The university was founded by [[Alfonso IX]] of León in 1218 and recognised by a papal bull from [[Pope Alexander IV]] in 1255.<ref name="usal">{{cite web|url=http://m.usal.es/webusal/en/node/941?bcp=conocenos|language=es|title=Reseña Histórica de la USAL|publisher=University of Salamanca|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref>
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| 1222<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Padua]]
| [[File:Flag of Bologna.svg|border|26px]] [[Padua#Emergence of the Commune|Medieval commune of Padua]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Padua]], Italy
| Founded by scholars and professors after leaving [[Bologna]]. Awarded the first degree in the world to be conferred on a woman, [[Elena Cornaro Piscopia]], in 1678.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.unipd.it/en/history|title=History|publisher=University of Padua|access-date=19 February 2021}}</ref><ref name=cathen>{{cite book|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15188a.htm|title=Universities|author=Pace, E. |date=1912|work= The Catholic Encyclopedia|publisher= New York: Robert Appleton Company|via=New Advent|access-date=1 February 2017}}</ref>
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| 1224<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Naples Federico II]]
| [[File:King Manfred of Sicily Arms.svg|20px]] [[Kingdom of Sicily]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Naples]], Italy
| Claims to be the oldest public university in the world,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.international.unina.it/ |publisher=University of Naples Frederico II|access-date=19 February 2021|title=International Unina}}</ref> as one of the first to be founded by a head of state, [[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor|Frederick II]], [[Holy Roman Emperor]] and king of [[Kingdom of Sicily|Sicily]]. Refounded in 1234, 1239 and 1465, and closed 1490–1507.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.international.unina.it/history/|title=History|publisher=University of Naples Frederico II|access-date=19 February 2021}}</ref>
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| 1290<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Coimbra]]
| [[File:PortugueseFlag1248.svg|20px|Flag of Portugal (1248–1385]] [[Portugal in the Middle Ages|Kingdom of Portugal]] 
| {{flagicon|Portugal}} [[Coimbra]], Portugal
| Originally established in [[Lisbon]] but relocated to Coimbra from 1308 to 1338 and again from 1354 to 1377,<ref name=Verger/> before finally moving permanently to Coimbra in 1537.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Nature|date=1 January 1938|title=The Quatercentenary of the University of Coimbra|author=F. G. Donnan|volume=141|issue=3558|page=63|doi=10.1038/141063a0|bibcode=1938Natur.141...63D|s2cid=4122832|doi-access=free}}</ref>
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| 1293 (Papal recognition 1346)<ref name=Verger/>
|[[University of Valladolid]]
| [[File:Banner of arms crown of Castille Habsbourg style.svg|border|26px|Pennant of the Crown of Castile]] [[Crown of Castile]]
|{{flagicon|Spain}} [[Valladolid]], Spain
| Founded in the late 13th century,<ref name=Verger/> probably by the city,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9otEuneTZ74C&pg=PA559|page=559|title=La educación en la Hispania antigua y medieval|author=Bernabé Bartolomé Martínez|language=es|publisher=Ediciones Morata|date=1 January 1992|isbn=9788471123749}}</ref> with the first documented reference dating from 1293.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://relint.uva.es/inicio/internacional/espanol/estudiantes/guia-bienvenida/la-universidad-de-valladolid/#|title=Foreign Students Guide|publisher=University of Valladolid|access-date=20 February 2021}}</ref>
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| 1308<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Perugia]]
| [[File:Emblem of the Papacy SE.svg|22px|Coat of arms of the Papal States]] [[Papal States]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Perugia]], Italy
| The university traces its history back to 1276 and statutes were granted in 1306 prior to the [[Papal bull|bull]] of [[Pope Clement V]] of 8 September 1308.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unipg.it/en/university/history|title=History|publisher=University of Perugia|access-date=20 February 2020}}</ref>
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| 1347<ref name=Verger/>
| [[Charles University]]
| [[File:Blason Boheme.svg|22px|Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Bohemia]] [[Kingdom of Bohemia]], {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}}
| {{flagicon|Czech Republic}} [[Prague]], Czech Republic
| Faculties of theology, law and medicine closed during the [[Bohemian Reformation]], leaving only the faculty of liberal arts. Became Charles-Ferdinand University after the [[Thirty Years' War]], with all four faculties restored. Split into German and Czech parts in 1882; the Czech branch restored the name Charles University after independence in 1918 and closed briefly during [[German-occupied Europe|Nazi occupation]] (1939–1945) while the German branch closed permanently in 1945.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cuni.cz/UKEN-106.html |title=History of Charles University |publisher=Charles University |access-date=20 February 2021}}</ref>
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| 1357<ref name=Verger/> (originally 1246–1252)<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Siena]]
| [[File:Siena-Stemma.png|18px|Coat of arms of Siena]] [[Republic of Siena]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Siena]], Italy
| Claims to have been founded in 1240 by the [[Mediæval commune|Commune]] of [[Siena]],<ref name=Siena>{{cite web|url=http://www.unisi.it/ateneo/storia-dellateneo|language=it|publisher=University of Siena|access-date=4 February 2017|title=Storia dell'Ateneo}}</ref> although Rashdall dates the proclamation of the Studium to 1246, when [[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor|Frederick II]] tried to place a ban on scholars travelling to Bologna, the date also given by Verger.<ref name=Verger/> Was granted some exemptions from taxes by Pope [[Innocent II]] in 1252, but closed shortly after when the scholars returned to Bologna. Attempted revivals in 1275 and (fed by further short-lived migrations of scholars from Bologna) in 1321 and 1338 were unsuccessful. Gained an Imperial Bull in 1357 "granting it ''de novo'' the 'privileges of a Studium Generale.{{' "}}, but was not firmly established until "[i]n 1408 a fresh grant of privileges was obtained from [[Pope Gregory XII]]".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iW7E7LQiu8kC&pg=PA31|pages=31–34|author=[[Hastings Rashdall]]|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|date=2010|title=The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages: Volume 2, Part 1|isbn=9781108018111}} Originally publisher 1895</ref> Closed temporarily in 1808–1815 when [[Napoleon]]ic forces occupied [[Tuscany]].<ref name=Siena />
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| 1361<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Pavia]]
| [[File:Coat of arms of the House of Visconti (1277).svg|18px|House of Visconti]][[Visconti of Milan|Domain of the House of Visconti]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Pavia]], Italy
| Transferred to [[Piacenza]] 1398–1412.<ref name=Verger/> Closed for short periods during the [[Italian Wars]], [[Napoleonic wars]], and [[Revolutions of 1848]].
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| 1364<ref name="Verger" /> (re-established in 1400)<ref name="Verger" />
| [[Jagiellonian University]]
| [[File:Alex K Kingdom of Poland3.svg|22px]] [[Kingdom of Poland]]
| {{flagicon|Poland}} [[Kraków]], Poland
| Founded by King [[Casimir III of Poland|Casimir the Great]] as a ''studium generale'' in 1364. After the death of Casimir the Great in 1370, the development of the university stalled, with lectures being held in various places across the city, including in professors' houses, churches and in the [[Wawel Castle|Wawel]] cathedral school. The faculty of theology was re-opened in 1397 by Queen [[Jadwiga of Poland|Jadwiga]] who left a large endowment to the university upon her death in 1399. The university was formally re-established on 26 July 1400 by King [[Jogaila|Władysław Jagiełło]]. After Kraków was incorporated into the [[Austrian Empire]], the university was merged with Lwów University from 1805 to 1809. The university was forcibly shut down during the German [[Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)]]. The staff was deported to [[Nazi concentration camps]], and many of its collections were deliberately destroyed by the occupying German authorities. Underground lectures continued for around 800 students during this period and the university formally reopened in 1945.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.uj.edu.pl/en_US/about-university/history|title=History|publisher=Jagiellonian University|access-date=14 March 2021}}</ref>
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| 1365<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Vienna]]
| rowspan="2" | {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}}
| {{flagicon|Austria}} [[Vienna]], Austria
| Founded by [[Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria]], granted papal assent in 1384 by [[Pope Urban VI]]. The oldest university in the contemporary [[Geographical distribution of German speakers|German-speaking world]]; it remains a question of definition whether Charles University in Prague was also German-speaking when founded. Due to its strong association with the [[Catholic Church]], the university suffered setbacks during the [[Reformation]], but never ceased operation.
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| 1385<ref name=Verger/>
| [[Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg]]
| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Heidelberg]], Germany
| Oldest [[List of universities in Germany|university in Germany]]. Pope Urban VI granted permission for the founding of a university in October 1385 to [[Rupert I, Elector Palatine]]; teaching began in June 1386. Gradually declined during the 17th and 18th centuries until re-established as a state-owned institution by [[Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden|Karl Friedrich, Grand Duke of Baden]] in 1803.
|-
|1398<ref>{{Cite web |title=성균관대학교 {{!}} 대학정보 {{!}} 성대역사 / 상징 {{!}} 성대역사 {{!}} 약사 {{!}} 고전 대학시대 |url=https://www.skku.edu:443/skku/about/s620/sub02_01.do |access-date=2023-04-06 |website=www.skku.edu |language=ko}}</ref>
|[[Sungkyunkwan University|Sungkyunkwan]] (''Seonggyungwan'' / ''Sŏnggyun’gwan'')
|{{flag|Joseon}}
|{{flagicon|South Korea}} [[Seoul]], Republic of Korea
|Established in 1398 by [[Taejo of Joseon|Taejo]] as the highest educational institution in Joseon. Relocation of the original ''[[Gukjagam|Sŏnggyun’gwan]]'' in [[Kaesong|Kaesŏng]], which was established in 992 by [[Seongjong of Goryeo|Seongjong]] as the highest educational institution in [[Goryeo]]. Reformed into a modern three-year university in 1895. Demoted to a private institution and renamed ''Gyeonghagwon'' during [[Korea under Japanese rule|Japanese occupation]]. Original name and comprehensive university status restored in 1945 under leadership of [[:ko:김창숙|Gim Chang-suk]].
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| c. 1400<ref name=Verger/> (originally 1343 to c. 1360)<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Pisa]]
| [[File:Shield of the Republic of Pisa.svg|22px|Coat of arms of the Republic of Pisa]] [[Republic of Pisa]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Pisa]], Italy
| Established 1343 but closed around 1360; refounded at the start of the 15th century.<ref name=Verger/> Formally founded on 3 September 1343 by a [[Papal bull|bull]] of [[Pope Clement VI]], although according to the university "a number of scholars claim its origin dates back to the 11th century". Transferred to [[Pistoia]], [[Prato]] and [[Florence]] between 1494 and 1543.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unipi.it/index.php/history|title=The University of Pisa and its history|publisher=University of Pisa|access-date=20 February 2021}}</ref>
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| 1404<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Turin]]
| {{flag|Duchy of Savoy}}
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Turin]], Italy
|
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| 1409<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Leipzig]]
| {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}}
| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Leipzig]], Germany
|
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| 1410<ref name=Verger/>–1413<ref name="St Andrews">{{cite web | url = https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/about/history/brief/ | title = A brief history of the University | publisher = University of St Andrews| access-date = 20 February 2021}}</ref>
| [[University of St Andrews|University of St. Andrews]]
| {{flag|Kingdom of Scotland}}
| {{flagicon|UK}} [[St Andrews|St. Andrews]], United Kingdom
| A school of higher studies was founded in 1410 and was chartered by Bishop [[Henry Wardlaw]] in 1411. Full university status conferred by a [[papal bull]] of [[Antipope Benedict XIII]] on 28 August 1413.<ref name="St Andrews"/>

The university was founded in 1410 when a group of [[Augustinians|Augustinian]] clergy, driven from the [[University of Paris]] by the [[Western Schism|Avignon schism]] and from the universities of [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] by the [[Anglo-Scottish Wars]], formed a society of higher learning in St Andrews, which offered courses of lectures in divinity, logic, philosophy, and law. St Andrews was the obvious choice — "for centuries, it was the heart of the Scottish church and political activities"<ref>{{cite book |last1=Reid |first1=Norman |title=Ever to Excel |date=2011 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |location=Edinburgh |isbn=9781845860592}}</ref> and "the seat of the greatest bishopric in Scotland and location of a monastery noted as a centre for learning".<ref>{{cite web |title=A brief history of the University |url=https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/about/history/brief/ |website=University of St Andrews |access-date=10 October 2021}}</ref> A [[charter]] of privilege was bestowed upon the society of masters and scholars by the [[Archbishop of St Andrews|Bishop of St Andrews]], [[Henry Wardlaw]],<ref name="Wardlaw, Henry, d.1440, Bishop of St Andrews">{{Cite DNB|last=Sprott |first=George Washington |wstitle=Wardlaw, Henry|volume=59|pages=352-353}}</ref> on 28 February 1411.<ref name="Meadieval university">{{Cite web|title=Meadieval university|url=http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/media/court-office/documents/medieval_university.pdf|access-date=3 January 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130722053757/http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/media/court-office/documents/medieval_university.pdf|archive-date=22 July 2013}}</ref> Wardlaw then successfully petitioned the [[Antipope Benedict XIII|Avignon Pope Benedict XIII]] to grant the school university status by issuing a series of [[papal bull]]s, which followed on 28 August 1413.<ref name="Scotland1837">{{Cite book|author=Great Britain. Commission for Visiting the Universities and Colleges of Scotland|title=University of St. Andrews|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iCwPAQAAMAAJ&pg=Pag173|year=1837|publisher=W. Clowes and Sons|pages=173–}}</ref> King [[James I of Scotland]] confirmed the [[charter]] of the university in 1432. Subsequent kings supported the university, with King [[James V of Scotland]] "confirming privileges of the university" in 1532.<ref name="St Andrews history of the university">{{Cite web|title=A brief history of the University|publisher=University of St Andrews|url=http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/about/history/brief/|access-date=9 January 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last1=Lyon|first1=C.J.|title=History of St. Andrews, episcopal, monastic, academic, and civil ..., Volume 2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oe49AAAAcAAJ&q=james+V++st+andrews+university+1532&pg=PA234|publisher=Tait |year = 1843| pages =230–34|access-date=9 January 2016|quote=King James I of Scotland confirmed the charter of the university in 1432...There are four ...confirmations by James V; in the year 1532...}}</ref>
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| 1419<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Rostock]]
| {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}}
| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Rostock]], Germany
| Continuous operation during the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]] is disputed. Some sources state that "the Catholic university of Rostock closed altogether and the closure was long enough to make the refounded body feel a new institution".<ref>{{cite book|author=Owen Chadwick|title=The Early Reformation on the Continent|publisher= [[Oxford University Press]]|date= 2003| page=257|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cebhjuoZTu4C&pg=PA257|isbn=9780191520501}}</ref> and that "[the university] fell into complete decay after the beginning of the Reformation in (1523) when the university revenues were lost and matriculations ceased".<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=10194|title=University of Rostock|encyclopedia=Catholic Encyclopedia|publisher=Robert Appleton Company New York, NY|via=Catholic Online|year=1907–1912}}</ref> However, [[Johann Oldendorp]] is reported by several sources as having held a professorship at the university from 1526 to 1534, although this is not proven beyond doubt,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cpr.uni-rostock.de/resolve/id/cpr_person_00003634|title= Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensum|access-date = 14 March 2021|publisher = University of Rostock}}</ref> and other historians refer to "the remaining university lecturers" as supporting plans to restore the university revenues in 1532 (which was eventually accomplished via the Rostock Formula concordiae in 1563).<ref>{{cite book|title=Die Universität Rostock 1418–1563: eine Hochschule im Spannungsfeld zwischen Stadt, Landesherren und wendischen Hansestädten|author=Marko A. Pluns|publisher=[[Böhlau Verlag]] |date= 2007|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nRZ0X7y3tYEC&pg=PA194|page=194|isbn=9783412200398}}</ref> There are records of a number of professors being appointed in 1551, including [[Joannes Aurifaber Vratislaviensis|Johannes Aurifaber]], [[David Chytraeus]], and {{ill|Johann Draconites|de}}.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3WTnCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA113|page=113|title=Reformation Readings of the Apocalypse: Geneva, Zurich, and Wittenberg|author=Irena Dorota Backus|publisher= [[Oxford University Press]]|date= 2000|isbn=9780195138856}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://matrikel.uni-rostock.de/id/100018678|title=Immatrikulation von Ioannes Draconites|publisher=University of Rostock|access-date=4 February 2017|language=de}}</ref>
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| 1430<ref name=Verger/> (originally 1391–1394)<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Ferrara]]
| [[File:Arms of the house of Este (1).svg|18px|House of Este]] [[House of Este]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Ferrara]], Italy
|
|- valign="top"
| 1431<ref name=Verger/> (originally 1303 to c. 1400)<ref name=Verger/>
| [[Sapienza University of Rome]]
| [[File:Emblem of the Papacy SE.svg|22px|Coat of arms of the Papal States]] [[Papal States]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Rome]], Italy
| Founded in 1303 but closed at the end of the 14th century; refounded 1431.<ref name=Verger/>
|- valign="top"
| 1444<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Catania]]
| {{flagicon|Two Sicilies|sicily}} [[Kingdom of Sicily]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Catania]], Italy
|
|- valign="top"
| 1450<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Barcelona]]
| [[File:Estandarte de la Corona de Aragon.svg|22px|Standard of the Crown of Aragon]] [[Crown of Aragon]]
| {{flagicon|Spain}} [[Barcelona]], Spain
| Founded by [[Alfonso V of Aragon]] on 3 September 1450 as the ''[[Studium Generale|Estudi General]] de Barcelona''. From 1401 the city had a [[Medieval medicine of Western Europe|medical school]] founded by [[Martin of Aragon|King Martin of Aragon]] (the ''Estudi General de Medecina de Barcelona''), to which a faculty of arts was added in 1402. Before this, there were chairs of higher education (associated with the cathedral, the Dominican Convent of Santa Carolina, and the ''escoles majors'' supported by the city's governing council) from the 13th century.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ub.edu/web/portal/en/the-ub/the-university/history/|title=The University of Barcelona: More than five centuries of history|publisher=University of Barcelona|access-date=24 February 2021}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| 1451<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Glasgow]]
| {{flag|Kingdom of Scotland}}
| {{flagicon|UK}} [[Glasgow]], United Kingdom
| Founded by papal bull in 1451, it is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four [[ancient universities]]. Along with the universities of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and St Andrews, the university was part of the Scottish Enlightenment during the 18th century.
|- valign="top"
| 1456<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Greifswald]]
| rowspan="4" | {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}}
| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Greifswald]], Germany
| Some professors from [[Rostock]] taught temporarily in Greifswald between 1437 and 1443 due to unrest in Rostock. The university was founded in 1456 by [[Wartislaw IX, Duke of Pomerania|Duke Wartislaw IX]] with the approval of [[Pope Callixtus III]] on the initiative of Heinrich Rubenow, Lord Mayor of Greifswald (and first rector). Teaching paused temporarily during the [[Protestant Reformation]] (1527–39).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.uni-greifswald.de/en/university/history/university-chronicle/|title=Chronicle of the University of Greifswald|publisher=University of Greifswald|access-date=24 February 2021}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| 1457<ref name=Verger/>
| [[Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg]]
| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Freiburg]], Germany
| A [[papal bull]] of 1455 authorised the [[Prince-Bishopric of Constance|Bishop of Constance]] to establish a university, and in 1457 a ducal charter from [[Albert VI, Archduke of Austria]] founded the university.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/universitieseur07rashgoog/page/n288/mode/1up|page=268|title= The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages: pt. 1. Italy. Spain. France. Germany. Scotland, etc|publisher= Clarendon Press|author=Hastings Rashdall|year=1895}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| 1459<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Basel]]
| {{flagicon|Switzerland}} [[Basel]], Switzerland
|
|- valign="top"
| 1459<ref name=Verger/>–1472<ref name=Ingolstadt>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/universitieseur07rashgoog/page/n290|pages=270–272|title= The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages: pt. 1. Italy. Spain. France. Germany. Scotland, etc|publisher= Clarendon Press|author=Hastings Rashdall|year=1895}}</ref>
| [[Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich]]
| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Munich]], Germany
| Founded in [[Ingolstadt]] in 1472; with a [[papal bull]] obtained in 1459 from [[Pope Pius II]] by [[Louis the Rich]], transferred to [[Landshut]] in 1800 and then to Munich in 1826.<ref name=Ingolstadt/>
|- valign="top"
| 1475<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Copenhagen]]
| {{flag|Kingdom of Denmark}} within the {{flag|Kalmar Union}}
| {{flagicon|Denmark}} [[Copenhagen]], Denmark
|
|- valign="top"
| 1476<ref name=Verger/>
| [[Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen]]
| {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}}
| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Tübingen]], Germany
|
|- valign="top"
| 1477<ref name=Verger/>
| [[Uppsala University]]
| [[File:Svensk_flagg_1815.svg|20px|link=]] [[Kingdom of Sweden]] within the {{flag|Kalmar Union}}
| {{flagicon|Sweden}} [[Uppsala]], Sweden
| Established in 1477 by the Catholic Archbishop [[Jakob Ulvsson]]. Decayed due to political unrest in the first decade of the 16th century and then the [[Reformation]] in the 1520s and 30s, remaining "only an idea without real content" until re-chartered in 1595.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/history/summary/|title=The history of Uppsala University|publisher=Uppsala University|access-date=14 March 2021}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| 1495<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Aberdeen]]
| {{flag|Kingdom of Scotland}}
| {{flagicon|UK}} [[Aberdeen]], United Kingdom
| [[King's College, Aberdeen|King's College]] was founded by a [[papal bull]] in 1495 and then [[Marischal College]] in 1593; they merged in 1860.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abdn.ac.uk/about/history/our-history.php|title=History|publisher=University of Aberdeen|access-date=11 March 2021}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| 1499<ref name=Verger/>
| [[Complutense University of Madrid]]
| [[File:Banner of arms crown of Castille Habsbourg style.svg|border|26px|Pennant of the Crown of Castile]] [[Crown of Castile]]
| {{flagicon|Spain}} [[Madrid]], Spain
| A ''studium generale'' was founded by [[Sancho IV of Castile]] in 1293 in [[Alcalá de Henares]]. Very little is known of this institution over the next two centuries.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://biblioteca.ucm.es/historica/bc-herencia|title=La herencia de la universidad medieval|language=Spanish|access-date=14 March 2021|publisher=Complutense University of Madrid Library}}</ref> In 1499 a [[papal bull]] was granted by [[Pope Alexander VI]] authorising Archbishop [[Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros|Cisneros]] to establish a ''Colegio Mayor'' in Alcalá with the same powers as the universities of [[University of Salamanca|Salamanca]] and [[University of Valladolid|Vallodolid]], from which date Verger considers it a university.<ref name=Verger/> The new university opened in 1509.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://biblioteca.ucm.es/historica/bc-fundacion|title=La fundación cisneriana: el Colegio Mayor de San Ildefonso|language=Spanish|access-date=14 March 2021|publisher=Complutense University of Madrid Library}}</ref> The university was moved to Madrid in 1836 by royal decree.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://biblioteca.ucm.es/historica/bc-traslado|title=Traslado de la Universidad Complutense a Madrid|language=Spanish|access-date=14 March 2021|publisher=Complutense University of Madrid Library}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| 1500<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Valencia]]
| [[File:Estandarte de la Corona de Aragon.svg|22px|Standard of the Crown of Aragon]] [[Crown of Aragon]]
| {{flagicon|Spain}} [[Valencia]], Spain
|
|}

== Oldest universities by country or region after 1500 still in operation ==
The majority of European countries had universities by 1500. Many universities were established at institutes of learning such as schools and colleges that may have been founded significantly earlier but were not classed as universities upon their foundation; this is normally described in the notes for that institution. In some countries (particularly the US and those influenced by its culture), degree-granting higher education institutions that would normally be called universities are instead called colleges, in this case both the oldest institution that would normally be regarded as a university and the oldest institution (if different) to actually be called a university are given. In many parts of the world the first university to have a presence was an institution based elsewhere (often the [[University of London]] via the affiliation of a local college); where this is different from the first locally established university both are given.

=== Africa ===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! colspan=2 | Location
! width=120px rowspan=2 | Current name
! width=160px rowspan=2 | Year
! rowspan=2 | Notes
|-
! width=120px|Current
! width=120px|Original
|-
| {{flagcountry|Algeria}} ([[Algiers]])|| {{flagicon|FRA}} [[French Algeria]] ([[Algiers]]) || [[University of Algiers]] ||1909 ||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Angola}} ([[Luanda]])|| {{flagicon|POR}} [[Portuguese Angola]] ([[Luanda]]) || [[Agostinho Neto University]] ||1962 || Founded as ''Estudos Gerais Universitários de Angola''. Was renamed ''Universidade de Luanda'' (University of Luanda) in 1968. After [[Angolan War of Independence|Angolan independence]] from [[Portugal]] in 1975, the institution was renamed the University of Angola (''Universidade de Angola''). In 1985 it was renamed ''Agostinho Neto University'', in honour of [[Agostinho Neto]], the first President of Angola.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Benin}} ([[Abomey-Calavi]])|| {{flagicon|Benin}} [[Republic of Dahomey]] ([[Abomey-Calavi]]) ||[[University of Abomey-Calavi]]||1970||Originally the University of Dahomey. Renamed the National University of Benin in 1975 and took its current name in 2001.
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Botswana}} ([[Gaborone]], [[Francistown]], [[Maun, Botswana|Maun]])||[[University of Botswana]]||1964 (as part of the [[University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland]]; university 1982)||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Burkina Faso}} ([[Ouagadougou]])|| [[File:Flag_of_Upper_Volta.svg|23px]] [[Republic of Upper Volta]] ([[Ouagadougou]]) ||[[University of Ouagadougou]]||1974||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Burundi}} ([[Bujumbura]]) || [[File:Flag of Burundi (1962–1966).svg|23px]] [[Kingdom of Burundi]] ([[Bujumbura]]) || [[University of Burundi]]||1964||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Cameroon}} ([[Yaoundé]]) || [[File:Flag_of_Cameroon_(1961-1975).svg|23px]] [[Federal Republic of Cameroon]] ([[Yaoundé]]) || [[University of Yaoundé]] || 1962 || In 1993 following a university reform the University of Yaounde was split into two ([[University of Yaoundé I]] and [[University of Yaoundé II]]) following the university branch-model pioneered by the [[University of Paris]].
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Cape Verde}} ([[Praia]])||[[Jean Piaget University of Cape Verde]] ||2001|| As a result of the merger of the two previously existing higher education establishments (ISE and ISECMAR)
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Central African Republic}} ([[Bangui]])||[[University of Bangui]]||1969||
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Chad}} ([[N'Djamena]])||[[University of N'Djamena]]||1971||Originally the University of Chad, renamed the University of N'Djamena 1994.
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Comoros}} ([[Moroni, Comoros|Moroni]])||[[University of the Comoros]]||2003<ref>{{cite news|author=Wagdy Sawahel|date=15 July 2016|title=Higher education struggles under multiple pressures|work=University World News|url=https://www.universityworldnews.com/post-mobile.php?story=2016070208521759}}</ref>||
|-
| colspan=1|{{flagcountry|Democratic Republic of the Congo}} ([[Kinshasa]])||[[File:Flag of Congo Free State.svg|23px]] [[Belgian Congo]] ([[Kinshasa]])||[[University of Kinshasa]]||1954|| Originator established as the [[Lovanium University]], affiliated to the [[Catholic University of Leuven (1835–1968)|Catholic University of Leuven]]. Merged into the [[National University of Zaire]] in 1971 then demerged under its current name in 1981.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Republic of the Congo}} ([[Brazzaville]]) || [[File:Flag_of_the_People's_Republic_of_Congo.svg|23px]] [[People's Republic of the Congo]] ([[Brazzaville]]) || [[Marien Ngouabi University]]||1971|| Founded as the University of Brazzaville in 1971, changed to current name in 1977.
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Djibouti}} ([[Djibouti City]])||[[University of Djibouti]]||2006||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Egypt}} ([[Giza]])|| {{flagicon|EGY|variant=1882}} [[Khedivate of Egypt]] ([[Cairo]]) || [[Cairo University]] ||1908|| The oldest university in Egypt and second oldest higher education institution (after [[Al-Azhar University]], which was founded as a [[madrasa]] c. 970 and became a university in 1962)
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Equatorial Guinea}} ([[Malabo]])||[[National University of Equatorial Guinea]]||1995||
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Eritrea}} ([[Mai Nefhi]])||[[Eritrea Institute of Technology]]||2003|| Founded following the closure of the [[University of Asmara]], which had been established as a college in 1958
|-
| {{flagcountry|Eswatini}} ([[Kwaluseni]])||{{flagcountry|Swaziland}} ([[Kwaluseni]])||[[University of Eswatini]]||1964 (as part of the [[University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland]]; university 1982)|| Originally established as the University of Swaziland, changed to current name in 2018
|-
| {{flagcountry|Ethiopia}} ([[Addis Ababa]])|| {{flagicon|ETH|variant=1897}} [[Ethiopian Empire]] ([[Addis Ababa]]) || [[University of Addis Ababa]] ||1950 (as college offering degree courses; university 1962)|| The university was originally called the University College of Addis Ababa in 1950, offering courses leading to degrees of the [[University of London]]. It became Haile Selassie I University in 1962, named after the Ethiopian Emperor [[Haile Selassie|Haile Selassie I]]. The institution received its current name in 1975.
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Gabon}} ([[Libreville]])||[[Omar Bongo University]]||1970|| Founded as the National University of Gabon and took current name in 1978
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Gambia}} ([[Serekunda]])||[[University of the Gambia]]||1999||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Ghana}} ([[Accra]])|| {{flagcountry|Gold Coast}} ([[Accra]]) || [[University of Ghana]] ||1948 (as affiliate college of the [[University of London]]; university 1961)<ref>{{cite web|title=University of Ghana | Legon|url=http://www.ug.edu.gh/index1.php?linkid=243&sublinkid=72|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130601144614/http://www.ug.edu.gh/index1.php?linkid=243&sublinkid=72|archive-date=1 June 2013|access-date=15 August 2013|publisher=Ug.edu.gh}}</ref>|| Founded as the University College of the Gold Coast, an affiliate college of the [[University of London]] which supervised its academic programmes and awarded the degrees. It gained full university status in 1961.
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Guinea}} ([[Conakry]])||[[Gamal Abdel Nasser University of Conakry]]||1962||
|-
| colspan=2 rowspan=2|{{flagcountry|Guinea-Bissau}} ([[Bissau]])||[[Universidade Colinas de Boé]]||2003||
|-
|[[Universidade Amílcar Cabral]]||2003||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Ivory Coast}} ([[Abidjan]])||[[Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny]] ||1964 (as main campus of the University of Abidjan; university 1996)||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Kenya}} ([[Nairobi]])||[[File:Flag of Kenya (1921–1963).svg|link=[[:File:Flag of British East Africa]].svg|23px]] [[Kenya Colony|Colony and Protectorate of Kenya]]
([[Nairobi]])
| [[University of Nairobi]] ||1961 (as affiliate college of the [[University of London]]; college 1956; university 1970)|| Oldest in Kenya. Established 1956 as the ''Royal Technical College''. Renamed the ''Royal College of Nairobi'' when it became affiliated to the [[University of London]] in 1961. On 20 May 1964, was renamed ''University College Nairobi'' when it was admitted as a constituent college of inter-territorial [[University of East Africa]]. In 1970, it transformed into the first national university in Kenya and was renamed the University of Nairobi.<ref name="J. M. Hyslop 1964 286–302">{{cite journal|jstor=41821619|title=The University of East Africa|author= J. M. Hyslop|journal= Minerva|volume= 2|issue=3|date= 1964| pages=286–302|doi=10.1007/BF01097318|s2cid=145768841}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|Kenya}} ([[Nairobi]])||[[File:Flag of Kenya (1921–1963).svg|link=[[:File:Flag of British East Africa]].svg|23px]] [[Kenya Colony|Colony and Protectorate of Kenya]]
([[Nairobi]])
| [[Egerton University]] ||1939 as a farm school; 1987 as university||Founded in 1939, and was originally named Egerton Farm School. It was established by a land grant of 740 acres (3 km2) by [[Maurice Egerton, 4th Baron Egerton]]. The school's original purpose was to prepare white European youth for careers in agriculture. By 1955, the name had changed to Egerton Agricultural College. A one-year certificate course and a two-year diploma course in agriculture were offered. In 1958, Lord Egerton donated another 1,100 acres (4.5 km2) of land. Soon afterward, the college opened its doors to people of all races from Kenya and other African countries in 1956. In 1979, with support from the Government of Kenya and [[USAID]], the college expanded yet again, becoming part of the University of Nairobi system. In 1987, the college was recognized as a chartered public university.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Our Profile|url=https://www.egerton.ac.ke/our-profile|access-date=2021-08-16|website=Egerton University|language=en-gb}}</ref>
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Lesotho}} ([[Roma, Lesotho|Roma]])||[[National University of Lesotho]]||1964 (as part of the [[University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland]]; college 1945; university 1975||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Liberia}} ([[Monrovia]])||[[University of Liberia]] ||1951 (college 1863)|| Building on Liberia College founded in 1863
|-
| {{flagcountry|Libya}} ([[Benghazi]] & [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]])|| {{flagicon|LBY|variant=1956}} [[Kingdom of Libya]] ([[Benghazi]]) || [[University of Libya]] ||1956|| A royal decree was issued on 15 December 1955 for the founding of the university. The first faculty to be formed was the Faculty of Literature in Benghazi, and the royal palace "Al Manar", from which [[Idris of Libya|King Idris I]] of Libya declared its independence on 24 December 1951, was assigned to be the campus. Later divided to University of Benghazi and [[University of Tripoli]], the names were changed again during [[History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi|Gaddafi's era]], but now they have reinstated their original names.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Madagascar}} ([[Antananarivo]])|| {{flagicon|FRA}} [[French Madagascar|Colony of Madagascar and Dependencies]] ([[Antananarivo]]) || [[University of Antananarivo]] ||1961 (as university; institute for advanced studies 1955)|| Founded December 1955 as the Institute for Advanced Studies in Antananarivo. Renamed the University of Madagascar in 1961.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Malawi}} ([[Zomba, Malawi|Zomba]], [[Blantyre]] & [[Lilongwe]])||[[University of Malawi]] ||1965 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Mali}} ([[Bamako]])||[[University of Bamako]] ||1996 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Mauritania}} ([[Nouakchott]])||[[University of Nouakchott Al Aasriya]] ||1981 ||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Mauritius}} ([[Moka]])|| {{flagicon|Mauritius|1923}} [[British Mauritius]] ([[Moka]]) || [[University of Mauritius]] || 1965 || The Faculty of Agriculture is the oldest faculty of the university. It was founded in 1914 as the School of Agriculture in 1914, and in 1966 it was incorporated into the newly established University of Mauritius.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Morocco}} ([[Fez, Morocco|Fez]]) || [[File:Flag of Morocco (780 1070) (1258 1659).svg|23px]] [[Idrisid dynasty|Idrisid Kingdom of Morocco]] ([[Fez, Morocco|Fez]]) || [[University of Al Quaraouiyine]] ||1965 (as university; madrasa 859)|| Traces its origins back to the al-Qarawiyyin mosque and associated [[madrasa]] founded by [[Fatima al-Fihri]] in 859, and was named a university in 1965. It is the oldest continuously operating institution of higher learning in the world,<ref>{{cite web|title=Oldest higher-learning institution, oldest university|url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/oldest-university|access-date=30 June 2020|work=Guinnes World Records}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Medina of Fez|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/170|access-date=30 June 2020|work=World Heritage List|publisher=[[UNESCO]]}}</ref> though only became an official university in 1965.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Morocco}} ([[Rabat]])||[[Mohammed V University]] ||1957|| Founded as University of Rabat
|-
| {{flagcountry|Mozambique}} ([[Maputo]])|| {{flagicon|POR}} [[Portuguese Mozambique]] ([[Maputo|Lourenço Marques]]) || [[Eduardo Mondlane University]] ||1962 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Namibia}} ([[Windhoek]])||[[University of Namibia]] ||1992||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Niger}} ([[Niamey]])||[[Abdou Moumouni University]] ||1974|| Originally the University of Niamey
|-
|{{flagcountry|Nigeria}} ([[Ibadan]])|| [[File:Flag of Nigeria (1914–1952).svg|23px]] [[Colonial Nigeria|Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria]] ([[Yaba, Lagos]]) || [[University of Ibadan]] ||1949 (as affiliated college of the [[University of London]]; college 1932; university 1962)|| Founded as ''Yaba College'' in 1932 in [[Yaba, Lagos]], as the first [[Tertiary education|tertiary educational institute]] in Nigeria. Yaba College was transferred to Ibadan, becoming the ''University College of Ibadan'', in 1948<ref>{{cite book|last=Nkulu|first=Kiluba L.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ms9Bs9fUmpcC&pg=PA52|title=Serving the Common Good: an African perspective on higher education|publisher=Peter Lang|year=2005|isbn=978-0-8204-7626-1|page=54}}</ref> and was a university college associated with the [[University of London]]. Independent university since 1962.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=University of Ibadan History|url=https://www.ui.edu.ng/History|access-date=1 Feb 2021|website=University of Ibadan}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|Nigeria}} ([[Nsukka]])|| {{flagicon|Nigeria}} [[Federation of Nigeria]] ([[Nsukka]]) || [[University of Nigeria, Nsukka]] ||1960<ref>{{cite web|title=History/Overview|url=http://www.unn.edu.ng/administration/office-of-the-vice-chancellor/records-unit/|access-date=12 February 2017|publisher=University of Nigeria}}</ref>|| First university in Nigeria.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Rwanda}} ([[Kigali]])|| {{flagcountry|Rwanda|1962}} ([[Kigali]]) || [[University of Rwanda]] ||1963|| Founded as the National University of Rwanda in 1963; incorporated into the University of Rwanda 2013
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|São Tomé and Príncipe}} ([[São Tomé]])||[[University of São Tomé and Príncipe]] ||2014 (as university; polytechnic school 1996)||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Sahrawi Republic}} ([[Tifariti]])||[[University of Tifariti]] ||2013||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Senegal}} ([[Dakar]])||{{flagicon|France}}[[French Senegal]] ([[Dakar]])||[[Cheikh Anta Diop University]] ||1957||
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Seychelles}} ([[Anse Royale]])||[[University of Seychelles]] ||2009||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Sierra Leone}} ([[Freetown]])|| [[File:Flag of Sierra Leone (1916–1961).svg|23px]] [[Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate]] ([[Freetown]]) || [[Fourah Bay College]] ||1876 (as affiliated college of [[Durham University]]; college 1827; part of [[University of Sierra Leone]] 1967)|| Oldest university-level institution in Africa. Founded as a missionary school to train teachers in 1827. Became an affiliated college of [[Durham University]] in 1876 and awarded first degrees in West Africa in 1878. Became part of the federal University of Sierra Leone in 1967.<ref>{{cite web|title=Fourah Bay College (1827 – )|date=13 January 2010|url=http://www.blackpast.org/gah/fourah-bay-college-1827|access-date=3 October 2015|publisher=BlackPast.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|date=2012|title=The First BA in Africa|url=https://issuu.com/durhamfirst/docs/dug2379_durham_first_32_aw4_web/7|magazine=Durham First|issue=32|page=7}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|Somalia}} ([[Mogadishu]])|| {{flagdeco|Italy}} [[Trust Territory of Somaliland]] ([[Mogadishu]]) || [[Somali National University]] ||1954 ||
|-
| {{flagcountry|RSA}} ([[Pretoria]])|| {{flagicon|Cape Colony}} [[Cape Colony]] ([[Cape Town]]) || [[University of South Africa]] ||1873|| Originally founded as the [[University of the Cape of Good Hope]] in 1916 it was transformed into the federal University of South Africa (Unisa) and relocated to Pretoria.
|-
| {{flagcountry|South Sudan}} ([[Juba]]) || {{flagicon|Sudan}} [[History of Sudan (1969–1985)|Democratic Republic of the Sudan]] ([[Juba]]) ||[[University of Juba]]||1975||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Sudan}} ([[Khartoum]]) || [[File:Flag of Sudan (1956–1970).svg|23px]] [[History of Sudan (1956–69)|Republic of the Sudan]] ([[Khartoum]]) || [[University of Khartoum]] ||1956 (as university; college 1902)<ref>{{cite web|title=Historical Background|url=http://www.uofk.edu/en/about/historical|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030025742/http://www.uofk.edu/en/about/historical|archive-date=30 October 2013|access-date=11 November 2013|publisher=[[University of Khartoum]]}}</ref>|| Renamed from Gordon Memorial College, founded 1902, when it gained full university status in 1956
|-
|{{flagcountry|Tanzania}} ([[Dar es Salaam]]) || [[File:Flag of Tanganyika (1923–1961).svg|23px]] [[Tanganyika (territory)|Tanganyika Territory]] ([[Dar es Salaam]]) ||[[University of Dar es Salaam]] || 1961 (as affiliated college of the [[University of London]]; part of the [[University of East Africa]] 1963; university 1970)||
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Togo}} ([[Lomé]]) ||[[University of Lomé]]||1970|| Originally the University of Benin, changed to current name in 2001
|-
| {{flagcountry|Tunisia}} ([[Tunis]]) || [[File:Umayyad Flag.svg|23px]] [[Umayyad Caliphate]] ([[Tunis]]) || [[University of Ez-Zitouna]] ||1961 (as university; madrasa c. 737)|| Traces its origins back to the Al-Zaytuna [[madrasa]] founded around 737, it gained university status in 1961
|-
| {{flagcountry|Uganda}} ([[Kampala]])|| [[File:Flag of the Uganda Protectorate.svg|23px]] [[Uganda Protectorate|British Protectorate of Uganda]] ([[Kampala]]) || [[Makerere University]] ||1922||Started as a technical college in 1922. Then became an [[Affiliated school|affiliate college]] of the [[University of London]]; part of the [[University of East Africa]] 1963. It would become an independent University<ref>[https://www.mak.ac.ug/about-makerere About Makerere]</ref> 1970.
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Zambia}} ([[Lusaka]]) ||[[University of Zambia]]||1966||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Zimbabwe}} ([[Harare]])|| {{flagcountry|Southern Rhodesia}} ([[Harare|Salisbury]]) || [[University of Zimbabwe]] ||1952 (as affiliated college of the [[University of London]]; university 1970)||Founded in 1952 as University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. University of Rhodesia from 1970 and University of Zimbabwe from 1980
|}

=== Asia ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- valign="top"
! colspan=2 | Location
! width="15%" rowspan=2 | Current name
! width="5%" rowspan=2 | Year
! width="50%" rowspan=2 | Notes
|-
! width="15%" | Current
! width="15%" | Original
|- valign="top"
| {{flagcountry|Afghanistan}} ([[Kabul]])|| {{flagicon|Kingdom of Afghanistan}} [[Kingdom of Afghanistan]] ([[Kabul]]) || [[Kabul University]] ||1931|| Founded in 1931, formally opened 1932.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Bahrain}} ([[Sakhir]], [[Isa Town]])||[[University of Bahrain]] ||1986||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Bangladesh}} ([[Dhaka]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Dhaka|Dacca]], [[Bengal Presidency]]) || [[University of Dhaka]] ||1921|| First university in Bangladesh, opened 1 July 1921.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.du.ac.bd/main_menu/the_university/about|title=The University|publisher= Dhaka college|access-date=12 February 2017}}</ref>
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Bhutan}} ([[Thimphu]])||[[Royal University of Bhutan]] ||2003||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Brunei}} ([[Bandar Seri Begawan]])||[[University of Brunei Darussalam]] ||1985||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Cambodia}} ([[Phnom Penh]])|| {{flagicon|Cambodia|1863}} [[French Protectorate of Cambodia]] ([[Phnom Penh]]) || [[Royal University of Fine Arts]] ||1918||
|-
| rowspan="4" | {{flagcountry|PRC}}||[[Song Empire]] ([[Yuelu Mountain]], [[Changsha, Hunan]]) || [[Hunan University]] ||1903 (as university; academy 976)|| Known in Chinese as 湖南大学. The university was originally called the [[Yuelu Academy]] in 976 and was converted into Hunan Institute of Higher Learning (with university status) in 1903. It was later renamed [[Hunan Normal University|Hunan Normal College]], Hunan Public Polytechnic School, and finally Hunan University in 1926.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=_ZAwDwAAQBAJ&dq=oldest+learning+institute+china+still+exist&pg=PA74 Library World Records, 3d ed.; by Godfrey Oswald]</ref>
|-
| rowspan="3" |{{flagicon|Qing dynasty|1862}} [[Qing Empire]] 
|[[Peking University]]
|1898
|First modern national university in China, whose original name was Imperial University of Peking (京师大学堂). It is the successor of [[Guozijian (Beijing)|Guozijian]], or Imperial College, which was founded in 1306.
|-
|[[Tianjin University]]
|1895
|The first higher education institution in China. It was established in 1895 as Imperial Tientsin University (天津北洋西學學堂) and later Peiyang University (北洋大學). In 1951, after restructuring, it was renamed Tianjin University, and became one of the largest multidisciplinary engineering universities in China.
|-
|[[Nanjing University]]||1902|| Traces its origins to a Confucian institution [[taixue|Taihsueh]] (太學), which was founded in 258. Known in Chinese as Jinling University (金陵大学). Was a private university later merged with the public University of Nanjing (南京大学). First institution in China to use the English term "university". Educational institutions were closed in China on 13 June 1966 due to the Cultural Revolution, reopening in July 1967.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://people.hofstra.edu/alan_j_singer/CoursePacks/ChinasGreatProletarianCulturalRevolution.pdf|title=China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution|author1=Kerry Schaefer|author2=Lisa Torre|access-date=11 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324103237/http://people.hofstra.edu/alan_j_singer/CoursePacks/ChinasGreatProletarianCulturalRevolution.pdf|archive-date=24 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|East Timor}}|| [[National University of East Timor]] ||2000||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Hong Kong}}|| {{flagcountry|Hong Kong|1910}} || [[The University of Hong Kong]] ||1911 (as university; college 1887)|| Founded as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese in 1887, incorporated as a university in 1911
|-
| rowspan=2|{{flagcountry|India}} ([[New Delhi]])
| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Aligarh]], [[United Provinces of British India]]) ||[[Jamia Milia Islamia]]
|1920|| Moved from [[Aligarh]] to New Delhi in 1925 and to its current location in 1936.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jmi.ac.in/aboutjamia/profile/history/historical_note-13|title=History|publisher=Jamia Milia Islamia|access-date=17 September 2022}}</ref>
|-
| {{flag|British Raj}} (New Delhi) ||[[Delhi University]]
|1922|| First university established in Delhi, affiliating four older colleges ([[St. Stephen's College, Delhi|St Stephen's College]], [[Hindu College, Delhi|Hindu College]], [[Zakir Husain Delhi College]] and [[Ramjas College]])
|-
| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Serampore]])|| {{flagicon|DEN}} [[Danish India]] ([[Serampore]]) || [[Serampore College]] ||1827 (as university; college 1818)|| Incorporated and granted university status and the right to award degrees by royal charter of [[Frederick VI of Denmark]] on 23 February 1827, endorsed by the Bengal Government Act 1918.<ref>{{cite news|
url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/todays-paper/tp-life/article1115067.ece|title=Colonial Archive|author=Sankar Ray|work=[[The Hindu]]| date=11 April 2008|access-date=12 February 2017}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Kolkata]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]]) || [[University of Calcutta]] || rowspan="3" |1857|| First full-fledged multi-disciplinary university in [[South Asia]]. The [[University of Mumbai|University of Bombay]] and the [[University of Madras]] were subsequently established in the same year
|-
| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Mumbai]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Bombay]], [[Bombay Presidency]]) || [[University of Mumbai]] || Called the University of Bombay until 1996.
|-
| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Chennai]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Madras]], [[Madras Presidency]]) || [[University of Madras]] ||
|-
| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Aligarh]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Aligarh]], [[North-Western Provinces]]) ||[[Aligarh Muslim University]] || rowspan="1" |1920 (college 1875)|| Established as Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College in 1875; became Aligarh Muslim University in 1920.
|-
| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Allahabad]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Allahabad]], [[United Provinces of British India]]) || [[University of Allahabad]] || rowspan="1" |1887||
|-
| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Chandigarh]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Punjab]], [[United Provinces of British India]]) ||[[Panjab University]] || rowspan="1" |1882||<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/features/panjab-university-journey-and-evolution-382148 | title=Panjab University: Journey and evolution }}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Varanasi]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Banaras]], [[United Provinces of British India]]) ||[[Banaras Hindu University]] || rowspan="1" |1916||
|-
| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Indonesia}}|| rowspan="2" | {{flagicon|Netherlands}} [[Dutch East Indies]] || [[University of Indonesia]] ||1924 (as ''hogeschool''; medical school 1851; university 1947)|| Incorporates the medical school founded as the Dokter-Djawa School Batavia in 1851, which became the ''Geneeskundige Hogeschool'' in 1927 and the ''Rechts Hogeschool'' founded in 1924.
|-
|[[Bandung Institute of Technology]] ||1920|| Founded as ''Technische [[Hogeschool#Netherlands|Hogeschool]]''. Renamed in 1959.
|-

| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Iran}}|| {{flagicon|Iran|1925}} [[Imperial State of Persia]] || [[University of Tehran]] ||1934|| Founded by [[Rezā Shāh]], incorporating portions of the [[Dar ul-Funun (Persia)|Dar ul-Funun]] Polytechnic Institute (1851) and the [[Tehran School of Political Sciences]] (1899)
|-
| {{flagicon|Iran|1925}} [[Sublime State of Persia]] || [[Kharazmi University]] ||1974|| Named after [[Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi|Khwarizmi]] (c. 780–850), Persian mathematician, astronomer and geographer. It was established in 1919 as the Central Teachers' Institute and gained university status as Tarbiat Moallem University of Tehran in 1974. It changed its name to Kharazmi University on January 31, 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-03-30 |title=Kharazmi University |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/kharazmi-university |access-date=2022-06-23 |website=Times Higher Education (THE) |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|Iraq}}|| {{flagicon|Iraq|1924}} [[Kingdom of Iraq]] || [[University of Baghdad]] ||1956 || The Iraqi Royal College of Medicine was established in 1928
|-
| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Israel}}|| {{flagcountry|Ottoman Empire}} || [[Technion – Israel Institute of Technology]] ||1912 (opened 1924)|| Founded in 1912, but formal teaching began in 1924
|-
|{{flagicon|FRA}}{{flagicon|UK}} [[Occupied Enemy Territory Administration]] || [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] ||1918 ||
|-
| rowspan="3" | {{flagcountry|Japan}}|| rowspan="3" | {{flag|Empire of Japan}} || [[University of Tokyo]] ||1877 || Previous names are University of Tokyo (1877–1886), Imperial University (1886–1897), and Tokyo Imperial University (1897–1947). Its origins include a private college of Confucian studies founded by Hayashi Razan in 1630,<ref>須藤敏夫『近世日本釈奠の研究』（思文閣出版、2001年） {{ISBN|978-4-7842-1070-1}}</ref> Tenmonkata (The Observatory, 1684)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/gen03/b03_02_j.html |title=東京大学 [東京大学の歴史]沿革略図 |publisher=U-tokyo.ac.jp |access-date=15 August 2013}}</ref> and Shutōsho (Smallpox Vaccination Centre, 1849).<ref>深瀬泰旦著『天然痘根絶史』恩文閣出版、2002年9月 {{ISBN|4-7842-1116-0}}</ref> The university was established in 1877 by the merger of three institutions: Shoheiko (Japanese and Chinese Literature, established 1789), Yogakusho (Occidental Studies, established 1855) and Shutosho (Vaccinations, established 1860), originally as Tokyo University before becoming the Imperial University and then Tokyo Imperial University before reverting to its original name after World War II.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/about/chronology.html| title=Chronology|publisher=Tokyo University|access-date=8 April 2017}}</ref>
|-
|[[Keio University]] ||1920 (as university; school for Dutch studies 1858) || Founded as a "school for [[Rangaku|Dutch studies]]" in 1858. College with three university departments (literature, law and economics) established 1890. Accredited as a university by the Japanese government in 1920.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.keio.ac.jp/en/about/history/index.html|title=History|publisher=Keio University|access-date=8 April 2017}}</ref>
|-
|[[Ryukoku University]] ||1876 (as "Daikyoko (Great School)"; school 1639; university 1922)|| Traces its origins to a school for Buddhist monks of the [[Nishi Hongan-ji]] denomination founded in 1639. Assumed its current name and became a university under the University Ordinance in 1922.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ryukoku.ac.jp/english2/about/e_history.html|title=The Spirit of Tradition and Innovation Embodied in the 370 Year History of Ryukoku|publisher=Ryukoku University|quote=Daikyoko (Great School) established in September, 1876, as the highest institution of the educational system promulgated by the Nishi-Hongwanji organization … 1922 Renamed Ryukoku University Became a university under University Ordinance|access-date=8 April 2017}}</ref>
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Jordan}}||[[University of Jordan]] ||1962||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Kazakhstan}}|| {{flagcountry|Soviet Union}} ([[Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic]]) || [[Al-Farabi Kazakh National University]] ||1933 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Kuwait}}||[[University of Kuwait]] ||1966||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Kyrgyzstan}}||{{flagcountry|Soviet Union}} ([[Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic]])||[[Kyrgyz National University]] ||1951 (as university; institute of education 1925)||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Laos}}||[[National University of Laos]] ||1996||
|-
| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Lebanon}}|| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Ottoman Empire}} || [[American University of Beirut]] ||1866 (as degree-awarding college; university 1920)|| Originally Syrian Protestant College, chartered by the [[New York (state)|State of New York]], took current name in 1920
|-
|[[Saint Joseph University]] ||1872||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Macau}}|| {{flagcountry|Macau|colonial}} || [[University of Macau]] ||1981|| Established as University of East Asia in 1981, renamed 1991
|-
| {{flagcountry|Malaysia}}
|{{flagicon|UK}} [[British Malaya]]||[[University of Malaya]] ||1905|| Established as Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School on 13 July 1905 in Singapore
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Maldives}}||[[Maldives National University]] ||1998 (as degree awarding college; university 2011)|| Established in 1998 as the Maldives College of Higher Education, establishing its first degree course in 2000. Became the Maldives National University in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mnu.edu.mv/history/|title=History|work=Maldives National University|access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|Mongolia}}|| {{flagicon|Mongolia|1924}} [[Mongolian People's Republic]] || [[National University of Mongolia]] ||1942||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Myanmar}}|| {{flagcountry|British Burma}} || [[Rangoon University]] ||1878<ref>{{cite news| url=https://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE7AQ02420111127 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402093336/http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE7AQ02420111127 | url-status=dead | archive-date=2 April 2015 | work=Reuters | title=Yangon – From stately city to crumbling symbol of isolation | date=27 November 2011}}</ref>||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Nepal}}|| {{flagcountry|Nepal|old}} || [[Tribhuvan University]] ||1959<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tribhuvan-university.edu.np/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=173&Itemid=232 |title=About Us |publisher=Tribhuvan-university.edu.np |access-date=15 August 2013}}</ref>||
|-
| {{flagcountry|North Korea}}|| {{flagicon|USSR}} Korea ([[Provisional People's Committee for North Korea]]) || [[Kim Il-sung University]] ||1946||
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Oman}} || [[Sultan Qaboos University]] ||1986<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.squ.edu.om/About/About-SQU/Campus-Profile|title=Campus Profile|work=Sultan Qaboos University|access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>||
|-
| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Pakistan}}|| rowspan="2" | {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]]) || [[University of the Punjab]] ||1882|| Established by [[British Raj|British colonial authorities]] in 1882 as the first university in what would become Pakistan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pu.edu.pk/page/show/AboutUs.html|title=About Us|publisher=University of the Punjab|access-date=8 April 2017}}</ref>
|-
|[[Government College University, Lahore]] ||1864 (as affiliated college of the [[University of Calcutta]]; university 2002)|| Established as Government College, Lahore, 1864. Became an independent university in 2002.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://punjablaws.gov.pk/laws//443.html|title=The Government College University, Lahore Ordinance 2002|website= Punjab Laws Online|access-date=8 April 2017}}</ref>
|-
|{{flagcountry|Palestine}}||[[File:Flag of the Israel Defense Forces.svg|20px]] [[Israeli Military Governorate]]||[[Bethlehem University]]||1973<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bethlehem.edu/about/mission-history|title=Mission and History|work=Bethlehem University|access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Philippines}}|| {{flagicon|Spanish Empire|1785}} [[Captaincy General of the Philippines]] || [[University of Santo Tomas]] ||1645 (college 1611) || Founded on 28 April 1611 by the [[Order of Preachers]] and raised to university status by [[Pope Innocent X]] in 1645. The [[National Historical Commission of the Philippines]] recognizes it as the oldest university in the country as well as in Asia.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nhcp.gov.ph/asias-oldest-university-the-royal-and-pontifical-university-of-santo-tomas/|title=Asia's Oldest University, The Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas|publisher=National Historical Commission of the Philippines|date=4 September 2012|author=Quennie Ann J. Palafox|access-date=7 September 2020}}</ref>
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Qatar}}||[[Qatar University]] ||1977<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.qu.edu.qa/about|title=About|work=Qatar University|access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Saudi Arabia}}||[[King Saud University]] ||1957||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Singapore}}|| {{flagcountry|Straits Settlements}} || [[National University of Singapore]] ||1905|| Founded as Straits and Federated Malay States Government Medical School
|-
| rowspan="2" |{{flagcountry|South Korea}}||rowspan="2" |{{flag|Joseon}} || [[Sungkyunkwan University]] ||1895 (as university; royal institution 1398) || [[Sungkyunkwan]] was established in 1398 as the highest educational institution of the Joseon Dynasty. In 1895, Sungkyunkwan was reformed into a modern three-year university after the national state examination was abolished the previous year. It was again reorganized as Sungkyunkwan University in 1946 at the end of the Japanese occupation of Korea.
|-
|[[Ewha Womans University]]||1946 (as university; school 1886)||Established in 1886 as the Ewha Haktang mission school for girls, started higher education in 1910, and was reorganized as Ewha Womans University in 1946.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Sri Lanka}}|| {{flagcountry|British Ceylon}} || [[University of Colombo]] ||1942|| Formed in 1942 as the [[University of Ceylon]] by the amalgamation of University College Colombo (established 1921) and [[Ceylon Medical College]] (established in 1870). Was part of the University of Sri Lanka 1972–1978.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cmb.ac.lk/index.php/history/|title=History|publisher=University of Colombo|access-date=8 April 2017}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|Syria}}|| [[File:Flag of the State of Damascus.svg|20px]] [[State of Damascus]] || [[University of Damascus]] ||1923|| Founded in 1923 through the merger of the School of Medicine (established 1903) and the Institute of Law (established 1913)
|-
| {{flagcountry|TWN}}|| {{flagicon|Empire of Japan}} [[Taiwan under Japanese rule|Japanese Taiwan]]|| [[National Taiwan University]] ||1928 || Founded as Taihoku (Taipei) Imperial University
|-
| {{flagcountry|Tajikistan}}||{{flagcountry|USSR}} ([[Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic]])||[[Tajik National University]] ||1947||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Turkmenistan}}||{{flagcountry|USSR}} ([[Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic]])||[[Turkmen State University]] ||1950 (as university; pedagogical institute 1931)||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Thailand}}||[[Chulalongkorn University]] ||1917 (as university; college 1899)||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|UAE}}||[[United Arab Emirates University]] ||1976||
|-
| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Vietnam}}|| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|French Indochina}} || [[Hanoi Medical University]] ||1902||
|-
|[[Vietnam National University, Hanoi]] ||1904|| Originally the University of Indochina, first full subject university in Vietnam.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Yemen}}|| {{flagcountry|Yemen Arab Republic}} || [[Sana'a University]] ||1970||
|-
|}

=== Europe ===
While Europe had 143 universities in 1789, the [[French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars]] took a heavy toll, reducing the number to 83 by 1815. The universities of France were abolished<ref name="Jones, 2006"/> and over half of the universities in both Germany and Spain were destroyed. By the mid 19th century, Europe had recovered to 98 universities.<ref name=Ruegg3>{{cite book|title=A History of the University in Europe|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|author=Walter Rüegg|date=2004|volume=3, Universities in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1800–1945)|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=entlN4EEPUYC&pg=PA4|page=3|chapter=1 Themes|isbn=9781139453028}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- valign="top"
! colspan=2 | Location
! width="15%" rowspan=2 | Current name
! width="5%" rowspan=2 | Year
! width="50%" rowspan=2 | Notes
|-
! width="15%" | Current
! width="15%" | Original
|- valign="top"
| {{flagcountry|Albania}} ([[Tirana]])||{{flagicon|Albania|1946}} [[People's Socialist Republic of Albania]] ([[Tirana]]) ||[[University of Tirana]] ||1957 || Originally established in 1957 as the State University of Tirana through merging of five existing institutes of higher education, the most important of which was the Institute of Sciences, founded in 1947.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Albania}} ([[Shkodër]])||{{flagicon|Albania|1946}} [[People's Socialist Republic of Albania]] ([[Shkodër]])||[[University of Shkodër "Luigj Gurakuqi"]] || 1957 ||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Armenia}} ([[Yerevan]])|| {{flagicon|Armenia|1918}} [[First Republic of Armenia]] ([[Gyumri|Alexandropol]]) || [[Yerevan State University]] || 1919 ||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Austria}} ([[Graz]])||{{flagicon|Austria}} [[Archduchy of Austria]], {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Graz]]) ||[[University of Graz]] ||1585 (continuous from 1827)|| Founded in 1585 by Archduke Charles II of Austria. Closed 1782–1827.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Austria}} ([[Innsbruck]])||{{flagicon|Austria}} [[Archduchy of Austria]], {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Innsbruck]]) || [[University of Innsbruck]] || 1669 (continuous from 1826)|| Originally established as a [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] school in 1562 before becoming a university in 1669. Closed as a university from 1782 to 1826.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Azerbaijan}} ([[Baku]])||{{flagicon|Azerbaijan|1918}} [[Azerbaijan Democratic Republic]] ([[Baku]])|| [[Baku State University]] ||1919 || In 1930, the government ordered the university shut down in accordance with a reorganization of higher education, and the university was replaced with the Supreme Pedagogical Institute. In 1934 the university was reestablished.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Belgium}} ([[Flemish Region]]) ([[Ghent]])|| {{flagicon|Netherlands}} [[United Kingdom of the Netherlands]] ([[Ghent]]) ||[[Ghent University]] ||1817|| Established in 1817 by [[William I of the Netherlands]]
|-
| {{flagcountry|Belgium}} ([[Wallonia]]) ([[Liège]])||{{flagicon|Netherlands}} [[United Kingdom of the Netherlands]] ([[Liège]])||[[University of Liège]]||1817 || Established in 1817 by [[William I of the Netherlands]]
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| {{flagcountry|Belgium}} ([[Flemish Region]] and [[Wallonia]]) ([[Leuven]] and [[Louvain-la-Neuve]])||{{flag|Belgium|1830}} ([[Mechelen]])||[[KU Leuven]] and [[UCLouvain]]|| 1834 || Founded as the [[Catholic University of Mechelen|Catholic University of Belgium]] in [[Mechelen|Mechlin]] on 8 November 1834 by the bishops of Belgium. Moved to Leuven on 1 December 1835, after the suppression of the [[State University of Leuven]], where it took the name [[Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968)|Catholic University of Louvain]].{{refn|The [[Court of Cassation (Belgium)|Court of Cassation of Belgium]] ruled 26 November 1846, that this new Catholic University of Louvain founded in Mechlin in 1834 does not have any links with the Old University of Louvain founded in 1425 and abolished in 1797 and can not be regarded as continuing it: "The Catholic University of Louvain can not be regarded as continuing the old University of Louvain", in, ''Table générale alphabétique et chronologique de la Pasicrisie Belge contenant la jurisprudence du Royaume de 1814 à 1850'', Brussels, 1855, p. 585, column 1, alinea 2. See also: ''Bulletin Usuel des Lois et Arrêtés'', 1861, p.166. To see also this rule of the ''Cour d'Appel'' of 1844: ''La Belgique Judiciaire'', 28 July 1844 n° 69, p. 1 : "''Cour d'Appel de Bruxelles. Deuxième chambre. L'université libre de Louvain ne représente pas légalement l'antique université de cette ville. Attendu que cette université (l'ancienne Université de Louvain), instituée par une bulle papale, de concert avec l'autorité souveraine, formait un corps reconnu dans l'État, ayant différentes attributions, dont plusieurs même lui étaient déléguées par le pouvoir civil; Attendu que ce corps a été supprimé par les lois de la république française; Attendu que l'université existant actuellement à Louvain ne peut être considérée comme continuant celle qui existait en 1457, ces deux établissemens ayant un caractère bien distinct, puisque l'université actuelle, non reconnue comme personne civile, n'est qu'un établissement tout-à-fait privé, résultat de la liberté d'enseignement, en dehors de toute action du pouvoir et sans autorité dans l'État...''".

"Court of Appeal of Brussels. Second Chamber. The Free University of Louvain is not legally representend the old university in that city. Whereas this University (formerly University of Louvain), established by a papal bull, together with the sovereign authority, formed a body recognized by the State, with different functions, many of which even he was delegated by the civil power. And whereas this body was removed by the laws of the French Republic; Whereas the currently existing university in Leuven can not be regarded as continuing that which existed in 1457, these two establishments with a distinct character, since the currently university is not recognized as legal person, and is institution is entirely private, the result of academic freedom, apart from any action without authority and power in the state."

According to Arlette Graffart,<ref>"La matricule de l'Université de Louvain (1817–1835)", in : ''Album Carlos Wyffels'', Bruxelles, 1987, p. 177</ref> only the State University of Louvain, deserves to be considered as the "resurrection of this one" : "elle seule ⟨the [[State University of Louvain]]⟩ et non point celle qui vit le jour en 1834 à l'initiative des évêques de Belgique, c'est-à-dire l'université catholique de Malines devenue de Louvain l'année suivante".|group=Note}} In 1968, it split to form two institutions: Dutch-speaking [[Katholieke Universiteit Leuven|Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven]] and French-speaking [[Université catholique de Louvain]].
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| {{flagcountry|Belgium}} ([[Brussels|Brussels – Capital Region]])||{{flag|Belgium|1830}} ([[Brussels]])||[[Université libre de Bruxelles]] and [[Vrije Universiteit Brussel]] || 1834|| Founded in 1834 as the ''Université libre de Belgique'' (Free University of Belgium). In 1836, it changed its name to Université libre de Bruxelles. On 1 October 1969, the university was split into two sister institutions: the French-speaking ''Université libre de Bruxelles'' and the Dutch-speaking ''Vrije Universiteit Brussel''. Both names mean Free University of Brussels in English, so neither uses the English translation as it is ambiguous.
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| {{flagcountry|BIH}} ([[Sarajevo]]) || {{flag|Yugoslavia|alias}} ([[Sarajevo]]) || [[University of Sarajevo]] || 1949||
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| rowspan="1" | {{flagcountry|Bulgaria}} ([[Sofia]]) || {{flagicon|Bulgaria|1878}} [[Principality of Bulgaria]] ([[Sofia]])|| [[Sofia University]] || 1904 ("higher pedagogical course" from 1888)<ref>{{cite journal|last=Pundeff|first=Marin|title=The University of Sofia at Eighty|journal=Slavic Review|volume=27|issue=3|pages=438–446|date=September 1968|jstor=2493343|doi=10.2307/2493343|s2cid=164056461 }}</ref> ||
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| {{flagcountry|Croatia}} ([[Zagreb]])||{{flag|Kingdom of Croatia (Habsburg)}} ([[Zagreb]]) || [[University of Zagreb]] || 1669 || History of the university began on 23 September 1669, when the [[Holy Roman Emperor]] [[Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor|Leopold I]] issued a decree granting the establishment of the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit Academy]] of the Royal Free City of Zagreb. Decree was accepted at the Council of the Croatian Kingdom on 3 November 1671.
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| {{flagcountry|Czech Republic}} ([[Olomouc]])||{{flagicon|Bohemia}} [[Lands of the Bohemian Crown|Bohemian crown lands]], {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Olomouc]]) || [[Palacký University]] || 1573 || Originally known as Olomouc [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] University.
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| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Denmark}} ([[Copenhagen]]) ||[[Technical University of Denmark]] || 1829 ||Was founded in 1829 as the ''College of Advanced Technology''
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| {{flagcountry|Estonia}} ([[Tartu]])|| [[File:Svensk_flagg_1815.svg|20px|link=]] [[Kingdom of Sweden]] ([[Tartu|Dorpat]])|| [[University of Tartu]] || 1632 (continuous operation since 1802)||Founded as Academia Gustaviana in the then Swedish province of [[Livonia]]. It was closed from 1710 to 1802.
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| {{flagcountry|Finland}} ([[Helsinki]])||[[File:Svensk_flagg_1815.svg|20px|link=]] [[Kingdom of Sweden]] ([[Turku|Åbo]]) || [[University of Helsinki]] || 1640 ||Founded as the [[Royal Academy of Turku]] (Swedish: ''Kungliga Akademin i Åbo''). It was shut down by the [[Great Fire of Turku]] in 1827. The [[University of Helsinki]] was founded the next year, in 1828, and it started operating in 1829. The University of Helsinki sees itself as continuation of the Royal Academy of Turku.
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| {{flagcountry|France}} ([[Paris]])||{{flag|Kingdom of France|seme}} ([[Paris]]) || [[Sorbonne University]]||1150–1250 (continuous operation since 1896)|| Emerged around 1150 as a corporation associated with the cathedral school of [[Notre-Dame de Paris|Notre Dame de Paris]], it was considered the second-oldest university in Europe. Officially chartered in 1200 by [[Philip II of France]] and recognised in 1215 by [[Pope Innocent III]], it was often nicknamed after its theology collegiate institution, College of Sorbonne, founded about 1257 by [[Robert de Sorbon]] and charted by [[Louis IX of France]]. It was abolished in 1793 by the [[French Revolution]],<ref name="Jones, 2006"/> and was replaced by [[Napoleon]] on 1 May 1806 by the ''[[University of France]]'' system. In 1896 the Louis Liard law allowed the founding of a new University of Paris. In 1970, it split into 13 separate universities and numerous specialised institutions of higher education. In 2018, [[Sorbonne University]] was formed from the [[Paris-Sorbonne University]] (created from the faculty of humanities of the University of Paris) and [[Pierre and Marie Curie University]] (created from the faculty of science and medicine of the University of Paris).<ref>[https://www.studyinternational.com/news/consolidation-of-two-elite-paris-universities-confirmed-for-2018/#ueqSveXzd4FU54uu.97 Study International, Consolidation of two elite Paris universities confirmed for 2018]</ref><ref>[https://thepienews.com/news/mega-university-planned-for-pariss-left-bank/ The Pie News, Mega university planned for Paris's Left Bank]</ref>
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| {{flagcountry|France}} ([[Occitania (administrative region)|Occitanie]])||[[File:Flag_of_Occitania.svg|25px]] [[County of Toulouse]] ([[Toulouse]]) ||[[Université fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées]] || continuous operation since 1896|| Founded by [[papal bull]] in 1229 as the University of Toulouse. It closed in 1793 due to the [[French Revolution]], and reopened in 1896. In 1969, it split into three separate universities and numerous specialised institutions of higher education. It no longer represents a single university, as it is now the collective entity which federates the universities and specialised institutions of higher education in the region.
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| {{flagcountry|France}} ([[Montpellier]])||[[File:Bandera del Reino de Mallorca.svg|25px]] [[Kingdom of Majorca]] ([[Montpellier]]) ||[[University of Montpellier]] [[Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III|Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3]] || continuous operation since 1896|| The world's oldest medicine faculty was established before 1137 and operated continuously until the [[French Revolution]]. University by [[papal bull]] in 1289. It closed in 1793 due to the French Revolution, and reopened in 1896. The university of Montpellier was officially re-organised in 1969 after a students' revolt. It was split into its successor institutions the [[University of Montpellier 1]] (comprising the former faculties of medicine, law, and economy), [[Montpellier 2 University|Montpellier 2]] (science and technology) and [[Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III|Montpellier 3]] (social sciences, humanities and liberal arts). On 1 January 2015, the [[University of Montpellier 1]] and the [[Montpellier 2 University|University of Montpellier 2]] merged to form the newly recreated University of Montpellier.<ref name="lamarseillaise1">{{cite web|url=http://www.lamarseillaise.fr/herault-du-jour/education/34545-l-universite-de-montpellier-a-l-epreuve-de-la-fusion |title=L'université de Montpellier à l'épreuve de la fusion – Journal La Marseillaise |publisher=Lamarseillaise.fr |access-date=14 October 2015}}</ref><ref name="umontpellier2">{{cite web|author=Université |url=http://www.umontpellier.fr/universite/histoire-de-luniversite/ |title=Université de Montpellier » Histoire de l'Université |publisher=Umontpellier.fr |date=20 June 2014 |access-date=14 October 2015}}</ref> Meanwhile, the [[Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III|Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3]] remains a separate institution.
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| {{flagcountry|France}} ([[Aix-en-Provence]], [[Marseille]]) || [[File:Drapeau de Provence « ancien ».svg|22px]] [[County of Provence]], {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Aix-en-Provence|Aix]]) ||[[Aix-Marseille University]] || continuous operation since 1896||Founded in 1409 as the University of Provence, and in 1792, dissolved, along with twenty-one other universities. In 1896 it was reformed as the University of Aix-Marseille, one of 17 self-governing regional universities financed by the state. In 1968 it was divided into two institutions, the University of Provence (Aix-Marseille I) as a school of languages and letters, and the University of Aix-Marseille (Aix-Marseille II) as primarily a school of medicine and sciences. In 1973 the University of Law, Economics and Science (Aix-Marseille III) was added. In 2012 the three universities merged and was renamed Aix-Marseille University.
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| {{flagcountry|France}} ([[Lille]])||[[File:Generieke_vlag_van_Vlaanderen.svg|22px]] [[County of Flanders]], [[File:Bandera_cruz_de_Borgoña_2.svg|22px]] [[Spanish Netherlands]] ([[Douai]]) ||[[University of Lille]] || 1559|| Founded by [[Philip II of Spain]] in 1559 as the [[University of Douai]]. It closed in 1795 due to the [[French Revolution]], and reopened in 1808. In 1887, it was transferred as University of Lille 27 km away from Douai. In 1971, it split into three separate universities. At the beginning of 2018, the three universities merged to form again the University of Lille.
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| {{flagcountry|Germany}} ([[Wittenberg]] [[Halle (Saale)|Halle]])|| {{flagcountry|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Wittenberg]]) || [[Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg]] || 1502 ||Established in 1502 as the University of Wittenberg. Merged with University of Halle (founded 1691) in 1817.
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| {{flagcountry|Germany}} ([[Frankfurt/Oder]])|| {{flagcountry|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Frankfurt/Oder]]) || [[European University Viadrina|European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)]] || 1506 (continuous operation from 1991) ||Established in 1506 as the ''Alma Mater Viadrina''. Relocated and merged with the [[University of Wrocław|Leopoldina]] in Breslau (present-day [[Wrocław]], Poland) in 1811. Reestablished in Frankfurt (Oder) in 1991 after [[German reunification]].
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| {{flagcountry|Georgia}} ([[Tbilisi]])||{{flag|Democratic Republic of Georgia}} ([[Tbilisi]]) || [[Tbilisi State University]] ||1918|| Founded in 1918 as Tbilisi State University
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| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Gibraltar}}||[[University of Gibraltar]] || 2015<ref>{{cite news|author=Guy Clapperton|title=The new campus on the Rock – part 2 |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/newstatesman-gibraltar/special-features/2015/09/new-campus-rock-part-2|access-date=15 October 2019|work=New Statesman|publisher=Progressive Digital Media|date=22 September 2015}}</ref>||
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| {{flagcountry|Greece}} ([[Athens]])|| {{flag|Kingdom of Greece|1831}} ([[Athens]])||[[National and Kapodistrian University of Athens]] || 1837<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.uoa.gr/about_us/|title=about us|work= National and Kapodistrian University of Athens|access-date=11 August 2019}}</ref>||
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| rowspan="1" | {{flagcountry|Hungary}} ([[Budapest]])|| {{flag|Kingdom of Hungary}} ([[Trnava|Nagyszombat]]) || [[Eötvös Loránd University]] ||1635||Founded in 1635 by the archbishop and theologian [[Péter Pázmány]] as the ''University of Nagyszombat''. Renamed Royal Hungarian University of Science in 1769. The university was moved to [[Buda]] (today part of Budapest) in 1777. The university moved to its final location in [[Pest, Hungary|Pest]] (now also part of Budapest) in 1784 and was renamed Royal University of Pest. It has been renamed three times since then: University of Budapest (1873–1921), (Hungarian Royal Pázmány Péter University (1921–1950), and since 1950, Eötvös Loránd University.
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| {{flagcountry|Iceland}} ([[Reykjavík]])||{{flagcountry|Denmark}} ([[Reykjavík]]) || [[University of Iceland]] || 1911||
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| {{flagcountry|Ireland}} ([[Dublin]])||{{flag|Kingdom of Ireland}} ([[Dublin]]) ||[[University of Dublin]] ||1592|| Founded by Queen [[Elizabeth I]] and modelled after the [[Collegiate university|collegiate universities]] of [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]]. Only one college was ever established, [[Trinity College, Dublin|Trinity College Dublin]], making the two designations effectively synonymous.
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| {{flagcountry|Italy}} ([[Urbino]])|| [[File:Corona ferrea monza (heraldry).svg|24px]] [[Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)|Kingdom of Italy]], {{flagcountry|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Urbino]]) || [[University of Urbino]] || 1506 ||
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| {{flagcountry|Kosovo}}{{efn|{{Kosovo-note}}}} ([[Pristina]])||{{flag|Yugoslavia|alias}} ([[Pristina]]) || [[University of Pristina]] || 1969||
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| {{flagcountry|Latvia}} ([[Riga]])||{{flag|Russian Empire}} ([[Riga]])||[[Riga Technical University]] ||1862|| First established as Riga Polytechnicum in 1862
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| {{flagcountry|Liechtenstein}} ([[Vaduz]]) || {{flagcountry|Liechtenstein}} ([[Vaduz]])|| [[University of Liechtenstein]] ||1961|| Successor to the Abendtechnikum Vaduz in 1992
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| {{flagcountry|Lithuania}} ([[Vilnius]])|| [[File:Flaga_Rzeczypospolitej_Obojga_Narodow_ogolna.svg|22px]] [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] ([[Vilnius]]) ||[[Vilnius University]] || 1579 (continuous operation since 1919)|| Founded as the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit Academy]] of Vilnius; the university was closed from 1832 to 1919 and again in 1943–44
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| {{flagcountry|Luxembourg}} ([[Esch-sur-Alzette]]) || {{flagcountry|Luxembourg}} ([[Esch-sur-Alzette]])|| [[University of Luxembourg]] || 2003||
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| {{flagcountry|Malta}} ([[Msida]])|| {{flagicon|Sovereign Military Order of Malta}} [[Hospitaller Malta]] ([[Valletta]]) || [[University of Malta]] || 1769 || First established as the [[Collegium Melitense]] by the Jesuits in 1592
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| {{flagcountry|Netherlands}} ([[Leiden]])||{{flag|Dutch Republic}} ([[Leiden]]) || [[Leiden University]] || 1575|| Although formally still part of the [[Habsburg Netherlands]], Leiden sided with the [[Dutch Revolt]] in 1572
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|{{flagcountry|Netherlands}} ([[Groningen]])||{{flag|Dutch Republic}} ([[Groningen]]) || [[University of Groningen]] || 1614||Together with [[Leiden University]], it was one of the only two Dutch universities to retain their status during the [[Kingdom of Holland|Napoleonic occupation of the Netherlands.]]
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| {{flagcountry|Netherlands}} ([[Utrecht]])||{{flag|Dutch Republic}} ([[Utrecht]]) || [[Utrecht University]] || 1636||The Utrecht University was abolished during the Napoleonic era, reorganized as a French Imperial School for Higher Education. Only after the defeat of Napoleon and the establishment of the [[United Kingdom of the Netherlands|Kingdom of the Netherlands]] in 1815 was it to be reconstituted as a university.
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| {{flagcountry|North Macedonia}} ([[Skopje]])||{{flag|Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia}} ([[Skopje]]) || [[Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje]] || 1946 ||
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| {{flagcountry|Norway}} ([[Oslo]])||{{flag|Denmark–Norway}} ([[Oslo|Christiania]]) || [[University of Oslo]] || 1811||Founded as The Royal Frederik's University
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| {{flagcountry|Poland}} ([[Wrocław]])|| {{flagicon|Bohemia}} [[Lands of the Bohemian Crown|Bohemian crown lands]], {{Flag|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Breslau]])||[[University of Wrocław]] || 1702|| Founded in 1702 by [[Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor]] as the university ''Leopoldina''. It has been renamed five times since then: ''Universitas Literarum Vratislaviensis'' in 1742 by [[Frederick II of Prussia|King Frederick II of Prussia]], ''Silesian Friedrich Wilhelm University in Breslau'' in 1811, ''University of Breslau'' in the second half of the 19th century, ''Bolesław Bierut university'' between 1952 and 1989, and since 1989, ''University of Wrocław''.
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| {{flagcountry|Poland}} ([[Warsaw]])|| {{flagicon|Poland|1815}} [[Congress Poland|Kingdom of Poland]], {{flag|Russian Empire}}
|[[University of Warsaw]] ||1816||Founded as a Royal University on 19 November 1816, when the Partitions of Poland separated Warsaw from the older [[University of Kraków]] (founded in 1364).
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|{{flagcountry|Portugal}} ([[Porto]])||{{flag|Kingdom of Portugal}} ([[Porto]]) ||[[University of Porto]]|| 1836 (university 1911)||First established as Polytechnic University of Porto and Medical-Surgical School of Porto since 1836
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|{{flagcountry|Portugal}} ([[Lisbon]])||{{flag|Portuguese Republic}} ([[Lisbon]]) ||[[University of Lisbon]]|| 1911||Successor to the Lisbon General Study'','' 1290
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| {{flagcountry|Romania}} ([[Iași]])|| [[File:Flag of the United Principalities of Romania (1862 - 1866).svg|20px]] [[United Principalities]] ([[Iași]]) || [[Alexandru Ioan Cuza University]] || 1860<ref name="Study-in-romania.ro">{{cite web |url=http://www.study-in-romania.ro/historyofeducation.htm |title=Study in Romanian – Learn & Live Freely |publisher=Study-in-romania.ro |access-date=15 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150611181940/http://www.study-in-romania.ro/historyofeducation.htm |archive-date=11 June 2015 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref name="Uaic.ro">{{cite web|url=http://www.uaic.ro/en/university-2/short-history/ |title=Short history |publisher=Alexandru Ioan Cuza University|access-date=10 August 2017}}</ref>||Successor to the [[Princely Academy, Iaşi|Princely Academy from Iaşi]], 1642, and [[Academia Mihăileană]], 1835<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uaic.ro/en/university-2/university/timeline/|title=Timeline|publisher=Alexandru Ioan Cuza University|access-date=10 August 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811150130/http://www.uaic.ro/en/university-2/university/timeline/|archive-date=11 August 2017}}</ref>
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| {{flagcountry|Romania}} ([[Bucharest]])|| [[File:Flag of the United Principalities of Romania (1862 - 1866).svg|20px]] [[United Principalities]] ([[Bucharest]]) || [[University of Bucharest]] ||1864<ref name="Study-in-romania.ro" /><ref name="Unibuc.ro">{{cite web |url=http://www.unibuc.ro/en/main_scv_en |title=University of Bucharest – EN Home Page |publisher=University of Bucharest |date=1 January 1980 |access-date=15 August 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329034235/http://www.unibuc.ro/en/main_scv_en |archive-date=29 March 2012 }}</ref>||Successor to the [[Saint Sava College]], 1694
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| {{flagcountry|Romania}} ([[Cluj-Napoca]])||{{flag|Principality of Transylvania}} ([[Cluj-Napoca|Kolozsvár]])|| [[Babeș-Bolyai University]] || 1518 (continuous operation since 1919)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://u-szeged.hu/download.php?docID=7855|title=A Szegedi Tudományegyetem és elődei története (1581–2011)|author=Makk F., Marjanucz, L.|publisher=University of Szeged|date=2011|isbn=9789633060940}}</ref><ref name="Study-in-romania.ro" /><ref name="A significant history">{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130808134307/http://www.ubbcluj.ro/en/despre/misiune/istoric.html|archive-date=8 August 2013|url=http://www.ubbcluj.ro/en/despre/misiune/istoric.html |title=A significant history |publisher=[[Babeș-Bolyai University|Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca]] |access-date=11 November 2013}}</ref> || Academic successor of [[Jesuit Academy of Cluj|Academia / Universitas Claudiopolitana]] (1581), continued by [[Franz Joseph University]] (1872), King Ferdinand I University (1919), and [[Babeș-Bolyai University]] in its current form (1959).
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| {{flagcountry|Russia}} ([[Saint Petersburg]])|| {{flag|Russian Empire}} ([[Saint Petersburg]]) || [[Saint Petersburg State University]] || 1724 (continuous from 1819)||Claims to be the successor of the university established along with the Academic Gymnasium and the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences on 24 January 1724 by a decree of [[Peter the Great]]. In the period between 1804 and 1819, Saint Petersburg University officially did not exist
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| {{flagcountry|Russia}} ([[Moscow]])|| {{flag|Russian Empire}} ([[Moscow]])||[[Moscow State University]] || 1755||Founded in 1755 as [[Imperial Moscow University]]
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| {{flagcountry|Serbia}} ([[Belgrade]])||{{flag|Kingdom of Serbia}} ([[Belgrade]])|| [[University of Belgrade]] || 1808||Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-based departments into a single university, under current name from 1905; Orthodox Christian [[Lyceum]] in 1794; Teacher's college in 1778.
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| {{flagcountry|Slovakia}} ([[Bratislava]])|| {{flag|Czechoslovakia}} ([[Bratislava]])||[[Comenius University]] || rowspan="2" |1919||
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| {{flagcountry|Slovenia}} ([[Ljubljana]])||{{flagcountry|Kingdom of Yugoslavia|name=Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes}} ([[Ljubljana]]) || [[University of Ljubljana]] ||
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| {{flagcountry|Spain}} ([[Seville]])|| {{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[Seville]]) || [[University of Seville]] || 1505 ||
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| colspan="2" | [[File:Svensk_flagg_1815.svg|20px|link=]] [[Kingdom of Sweden]] ([[Lund]]) || [[Lund University]] || 1666||A Franciscan Studium Generale was founded in Lund in 1425, as the first university in Northern Europe, but as a result of the [[Protestant Reformation]] the operations of the catholic university were suspended.
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| {{flagcountry|Switzerland}} ([[Lausanne]])|| {{flag|Old Swiss Confederacy}} ([[Lausanne]]) || [[University of Lausanne]] ||1537||
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| colspan="2" | {{flag|Switzerland}} ([[Zurich]]) || [[University of Zurich]] || 1833 (incorporating colleges dating to 1525)||University established in 1833, taking in the [[Carolinum, Zürich|Carolinum]] theology college, dating to 1525, and colleges of law and medicine.
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| rowspan="2" | {{flag|Turkey}} ([[Istanbul]])||rowspan="2" | {{flag|Ottoman Empire}} ([[Constantinople]])||[[Istanbul Technical University]] || 1773 (university 1928)||Founded in 1773 as [[Turkish Naval Academy|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]] by the Ottoman Sultan [[Mustafa III]], but became a state university in 1928.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.itu.edu.tr/en/about-itu/general/history |title=Istanbul Technical University |publisher=Itu.edu.tr |access-date=15 August 2013}}</ref>
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| [[Istanbul University]] || 1453 (university 1933)||
Its ultimate origins lie in a [[madrasa]] and institute of higher education founded by the Ottoman Sultan [[Mehmed II]] in 1453; was reformed to a Western style of education with multiple faculties of sciences in 1846; gained university status in 1933.
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| {{flagcountry|Ukraine}} ([[Kharkiv]])|| {{flag|Russian Empire}} ([[Kharkiv]]) || [[National University of Kharkiv|V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University]] || 1804||
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| {{flagcountry|Ukraine}} ([[Lviv]]) || [[File:Flaga_Rzeczypospolitej_Obojga_Narodow_ogolna.svg|22px]] [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] ([[Lwów]]) || [[Lviv University]] || 1661 (continuous from 1850) ||Operated from 1661 to 1773, 1784–1805, 1817–1848, and since 1850.
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| {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|SCO}}) ([[Edinburgh]])|| {{flag|Kingdom of Scotland}} ([[Edinburgh]]) || [[University of Edinburgh]] || 1582–3<ref name=Ruegg680>{{cite book|title=A History of the University in Europe|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|author=Walter Rüegg|date=2004|volume=3, Universities in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1800–1945)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=entlN4EEPUYC&pg=PA680|page=680|isbn=9781139453028}}</ref>|| Formally established as the ''Tounis College'' (Town's College) under the authority of a [[royal charter]] granted to the Town of Edinburgh by King [[James VI and I|James VI]] of Scotland on 14 April 1582.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gteIvcJ5GVMC&pg=PA100|title=Commerce and Culture: Edinburgh, Edinburgh University, and the Scottish Enlightenment|page=100|work= The University and the City: From Medieval Origins to the Present|author=Nicholas Phillipson|editor= Thomas Bender|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|date=1988|isbn=9780195067750}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QE-P0ffkTUoC&pg=PA42|title=Edinburgh|pages=42–43|author=Michael Lynch|work= Charters of Foundation and Early Documents of the Universities of the Coimbra Group|editor=Jos. M. M. Hermans, Marc Nelissen|publisher=Leuven University Press|date= 2005|isbn=9789058674746}}</ref> It opened its doors to students in October 1583.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/our-history|title=Our History|publisher=University of Edinburgh|access-date=15 August 2017}}</ref>
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|ENG}}) ([[Durham, England|Durham]])||[[Durham University]] || 1832<ref name=Ruegg684>{{cite book|title=A History of the University in Europe|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|author=Walter Rüegg|date=2004|volume=3, Universities in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1800–1945)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=entlN4EEPUYC&pg=PA684|page=684|isbn=9781139453028}}</ref>|| Claims to be the [[Third oldest university in England debate|third oldest university in England]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Durham University Undergraduate Prospectus 2015|publisher=[[Durham University]] | url=http://issuu.com/communicationsoffice/docs/ugp2015_complete_prospectus_web_ppp|page=6|quote=We are the third oldest university in England and one of the world's leading centres of scholarship and learning}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dur.ac.uk/about/shaped/|title=Our history and values|quote=Henry VIII and Oliver Cromwell's attempts to formally establish a University for the North in Durham were subsumed by politics and North-South rivalries, and it was not until 1832, as the Prince-Bishopric declined lost his powers, was Durham finally endowed with the Castle and lands and granted degree awarding powers by the king as England's third University|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref> 
Listed by Rüegg in [[A History of the University in Europe]] as meeting standard criteria for recognition as a university from 1832.<ref name=Ruegg684 />

Established under the authority of the University of Durham Act 1832.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/actsrelatingtoe00parlgoog|pages=[https://archive.org/details/actsrelatingtoe00parlgoog/page/n415 389]|title=Acts Relating to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England|publisher=Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England|date=1844|last1=Parliament|first1=Great Britain}}</ref> Recognised as a university in the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 and the Established Church Act 1836.<ref>{{cite book|quote=nothing herein contained shall affect or interfere with the rights and privileges granted by charter or Act of Parliament to the University of Durham|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4_RQAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA225|page=225|title=A Collection of Statutes of Practical Utility|last1=Chitty|first1=Joseph|year=1837}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|quote=that the Bishop of Durham do in future hold the castle of Durham in trust for the University of Durham|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4_RQAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA148|page=148|title=A Collection of Statutes of Practical Utility|date=1837|last1=Chitty|first1=Joseph}}</ref> Incorporated and confirmed by Royal Charter in 1837 and degrees granted equal privileges with those of Oxford and Cambridge by the Attorneys and Solicitors Act 1837.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dur.ac.uk/about/governance/charter/|publisher=[[Durham University]]|title=About Durham University – Royal Charter|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref><ref name="1837act">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jls0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA277|page=277|title=The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|publisher=His Majesty's Statute and Law Printers|date=1837}}</ref>
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| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|ENG}}) ([[London]])||[[University of London]] || 1836<ref name=Ruegg684 />||Claims to be the third oldest university in England on the basis of the date of its charter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.london.ac.uk/history.html|title=History|publisher=University of London|access-date=30 September 2015|quote=The University of London was founded by Royal Charter on 28 November 1836 and is the third oldest university in England.}}</ref> 
Listed by Rüegg as meeting standard criteria for recognition as a university from 1836.<ref name=Ruegg684 />

Established by Royal Charter as degree awarding examining body for [[King's College London]] and [[University College London]] (see below), the London medical schools, and other institutions.<ref>{{cite book|title=University of London – The Historical Record, 1836–1912|publisher=University of London|date=1912|pages=7–24|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vyPiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA7}}</ref> Degrees granted equal privileges with those of [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] by the Attorneys and Solicitors Act 1837.<ref name="1837act" /> [[University College London]] (founded 1826; charter 1836) and [[King's College London]] (charter 1829<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=08ZLAAAAcAAJ|title=The charter and by-laws of King's College, London|date=1830|last1=(London)|first1=King's College}}</ref>) claim to be the third and fourth oldest universities in England,<ref>{{cite web|title=Living in London|quote=London offers a scene and status unrivalled by any other city. UCL, England's third oldest university, is at the heart of what has been described as 'the knowledge capital of the world'.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151127131250/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/accommodation/living-london|archive-date=27 November 2015|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/accommodation/living-london|publisher=University College London|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Undergraduate Prospectus 2015|publisher=University College London|url=http://issuu.com/ucl-pams/docs/ugp_15_all|page=7}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/facts/index.aspx|publisher=King's College London|title=About King's}}</ref> but did not offer degree courses prior to the foundation of the University of London<ref>{{cite journal|journal=[[Penny Cyclopaedia]]|title=University College London
|publisher=[[Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge]]|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_bS-H_-NYM4IC/page/n28 23]–28|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_bS-H_-NYM4IC|date=1843}}</ref> and did not gain their own degree awarding powers until 2005 and 2006 respectively.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/media/library/degreepowers|title=UCL granted degree awarding powers|date=27 September 2005|publisher=University College London|access-date=12 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160410145742/https://www.ucl.ac.uk/media/library/degreepowers|archive-date=10 April 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921224332/https://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/governance/about/index.aspx |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/governance/about/index.aspx |archive-date=21 September 2015 |title=King's Governance |publisher=King's College London |access-date=12 February 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> They are listed by Rüegg as colleges of the University of London rather than as a universities.<ref name="Ruegg684" />
|-
| {{flagcountry|UK}} ([[Northern Ireland]]) ([[Belfast]])|| {{flagcountry|UK}} ([[History of Ireland (1801–1923)|Ireland]]) ([[Belfast]])|| [[Queen's University Belfast]] || 1845<ref name=Ruegg684 /> (as college offering degree courses; university 1908)||Oldest university in Northern Ireland. Listed by Rüegg as meeting standard criteria for recognition as a university from 1845.<ref name=Ruegg684 /> 
Founded 1845, as a university college offering courses leading to degrees of the [[Queen's University of Ireland]] then the [[Royal University of Ireland]], gained university status in 1908.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.qub.ac.uk/Discover/About-Queens/History-and-heritage/|title=History and Heritage|date=March 2016 |quote=Queen's University Belfast was founded by Royal Charter in 1845. One of three Queen's Colleges in Ireland, with the others being in Cork and Galway, it became a university in its own right in 1908.|publisher=[[Queen's University Belfast]]|access-date=28 January 2017}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|WAL}}) ([[Cardiff]])|| {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|WAL}}) ([[Aberystwyth]], [[Bangor, Gwynedd|Bangor]], [[Cardiff]])|| [[University of Wales]] || 1893<ref name=Ruegg687>{{cite book|title=A History of the University in Europe|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|author=Walter Rüegg|date=2004|volume=3, Universities in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1800–1945)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=entlN4EEPUYC&pg=PA687|page=687|isbn=9781139453028}}</ref>|| Founded by Royal Charter in 1893 as a federal university with three constituent colleges – Aberystwyth, Bangor and Cardiff – the university was the first and oldest university in Wales. Listed by Rüegg as meeting standard criteria for recognition as a university from 1893<ref name=Ruegg687 />
|-
| {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|WAL}}) ([[Carmarthen]], [[Lampeter]], [[Swansea]])|| {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|WAL}}) ([[Carmarthen]], [[Lampeter]])|| [[University of Wales Trinity Saint David]] || 1852 (limited degree awarding powers; as college 1822) ||The university was founded as [[St David's College, Lampeter|St David's College]] (Coleg Dewi Sant) in 1822 "to provide a liberal education to members of the clergy" and was incorporated by royal charter in 1828.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uwtsd.ac.uk/news/press-releases/press-releases-2014/the-university-of-wales-trinity-saint-david-celebrates-founders-day.html|title=The University of Wales Trinity Saint David celebrates Founders Day|date=17 November 2014|access-date=30 September 2015|publisher=[[University of Wales Trinity Saint David]]}}</ref> It was renamed St David's University College (Coleg Prifysgol Dewi Sant) in 1971, when it became part of the federal University of Wales. It was again renamed [[University of Wales, Lampeter]] in 1996 in line with moves elsewhere in the University of Wales. In 2010 it merged with [[Trinity University College]] to form the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wales.ac.uk/en/NewsandEvents/News/General/UniversityofWalesTrinitySaintDavidReceivesRoyalApproval.aspx|title=University of Wales Trinity Saint David Receives Royal Approval|date=23 July 2010|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref> Although described as the oldest university in Wales,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2009/apr/17/lampeter-merge-trinity|title=End of an era for Lampeter, the oldest university in Wales|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=17 April 2009|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/fears-future-survival-wales-oldest-2086978|title=Fears for the future survival of Wales' oldest university|publisher=Wales Online|date=7 August 2009|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref> it was not listed by Rüegg as meeting standard criteria for a university<ref>{{cite book|title=A History of the University in Europe|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|author=Walter Rüegg|date=2004|volume=3, Universities in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1800–1945)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=entlN4EEPUYC|isbn=9781139453028}}</ref> and lost a court case in 1951 against the [[Ministry of Education (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Education]] in which it sought to receive recognition as a university.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://oxcheps.new.ox.ac.uk/casebook/Resources/STDAVI_1%20DOC.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030509051852/http://oxcheps.new.ox.ac.uk/casebook/Resources/STDAVI_1%20DOC.pdf | url-status=dead | archive-date=9 May 2003 | title=St David's College, Lampeter v Ministry of Education 1951 | access-date=30 December 2014 }}(PDF)</ref>
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| {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|WAL}}) ([[Aberystwyth]])|| {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|WAL}}) ([[Aberystwyth]])|| [[Aberystwyth University]] || 1872<ref name=Ruegg687 /> (as college offering degree courses; university 2007)||Founded in 1872 as University College Wales, offering courses leading to degrees of the [[University of London]], it became a founder member of the University of Wales in 1894.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/university/history/timelinepart1/|title=Early Days|publisher=[[Aberystwyth University]]|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref> It claims to be "Wales's oldest university",<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/university/future/|title=Investing over £100m in your future|quote=Together they will ensure that Wales's oldest university will be well placed to survive the challenges of the twenty-first century – Aberystwyth's third century of existence.|publisher=[[Aberystwyth University]]|access-date=30 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001093619/https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/university/future/|archive-date=1 October 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> but was listed by Rüegg as a college of the University of Wales rather than as a university.<ref name=Ruegg687 /> It became an independent university (as Aberystwyth University) in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/university/history/timelinepart3/|title=College by the sea to College on the hill|publisher=Aberystwyth University|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref>
|}

=== Latin America and the Caribbean ===
{{Main|List of colonial universities in Latin America}}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- valign="top"
! colspan=2| Location
! width="15%" rowspan=2| Current name
! width="5%" rowspan=2| Year
! width="50%" rowspan=2| Notes
|-
! width="15%"| Current
! width="15%"| Original
|- valign="top"
| {{flag|Anguilla}} {{flag|Antigua and Barbuda}} {{flag|Bahamas}} {{flag|Barbados}} {{flag|Belize}} {{flag|British Virgin Islands}} {{flag|Cayman Islands}} {{flag|Dominica}} {{flag|Grenada}} {{flag|Jamaica}} {{flag|Montserrat}} {{flag|St. Kitts and Nevis}} {{flag|St. Lucia}} {{flag|St. Vincent and the Grenadines}} {{flag|Trinidad and Tobago}} {{flag|Turks and Caicos}} || {{flag|Jamaica|1906}} ([[Kingston, Jamaica|Kingston]])
| [[University of the West Indies]] || 1948 (as affiliated college of the [[University of London]]; university 1962)|| First campus opened in Jamaica as the University College of the West Indies associated with the [[University of London]] in 1948. Gained independent university status in 1962.
|-
| {{flag|Argentina}} || {{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[Viceroyalty of Peru|Perú]])
([[Governorate of the Río de la Plata|Río de la Plata]])

([[Córdoba, Argentina|Córdoba]])
| [[National University of Córdoba]] || 1613 || Oldest university in Argentina.
|-
| {{flag|Belize}} || {{flag|Belize}} || [[University of Belize]] || 2000 ||
|-
| {{flag|Bolivia}} || {{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[Viceroyalty of Peru|Perú]])
([[Real Audiencia of Charcas|Charcas]])

[[Sucre|(La Plata)]]
| [[University of Saint Francis Xavier]] || 1624 || Founded in 1624 by order of King [[Philip IV of Spain|Philip IV]], and with the support of [[Pope Innocent XII]]. Full name is The Royal and Pontificial Major University of [[Francis Xavier|Saint Francis Xavier]] of Chuquisaca
|-
| colspan="2" rowspan="3" | {{flag|Brazil}}||[[Federal University of Rio de Janeiro]] || 1920 (precursors trace back to 1792) || Created in 1920 as University of Rio de Janeiro.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sociedades.cardiol.br/socerj/revista/2008_05/a2008_v21_n05_a13Albanesi.pdf |title=O Ensino, a Universidade e a Realidade |website=Sociedades.cardiol.br |access-date=2016-03-31}}</ref> Has as precursors the Polytechnic School (founded as Royal Academy of Artillery, Fortification and Design in 1792),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://fernandanascimento.com.br/ARTIGO_OS_CURSOS_DE_ENGENHARIA_NO_BRASIL_E_AS_TRANSFORMACOES_NOS_PROCESSOS_PRODUTIVOS.pdf |title=FERNANDA NASCIMENTO |access-date=2016-11-17 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://archive.today/20161118023158/http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://fernandanascimento.com.br/ARTIGO_OS_CURSOS_DE_ENGENHARIA_NO_BRASIL_E_AS_TRANSFORMACOES_NOS_PROCESSOS_PRODUTIVOS.pdf |archive-date=2016-11-18 }}</ref> the National College of Medicine (founded as Academy of Medicine and Surgery in 1808)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dichistoriasaude.coc.fiocruz.br/iah/P/verbetes/escancimerj.htm |title=Escola Anatômica, Cirúrgica e Médica do Rio de Janeiro |access-date=January 17, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130323023854/http://www.dichistoriasaude.coc.fiocruz.br/iah/P/verbetes/escancimerj.htm |archive-date=March 23, 2013 }}</ref> and by the National College of Law (founded in 1891).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.direito.ufrj.br/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9&Itemid=23|title=Direito – Histórico|author=Administrator|access-date=5 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://educa.fcc.org.br/pdf/rbedu/n10/n10a03.pdf |title=A Universidade do Brasil |website=Educa.fcc.org.br |access-date=2016-03-31}}</ref>
|-
|[[Federal University of Paraná]] || 1912 (closed in 1920, refounded in 1951) || Closed as university in 1920. Refounded as university in 1951.
|-
|[[Federal University of Amazonas]] || 1909 (closed in 1926, refounded in 1962, precursors trace back to 1909) || Has as precursor the Free University School of Manaós, founded on 17 January 1909. Became the University of Manaós in 1910. Closed 1926, reformed 1962 as the University of Amazonas.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ufam.edu.br/historia.html|title=Historia|work=Federal University of Amazona|access-date=12 August 2019|language=pt}}</ref>
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Chile}}||[[Universidad de Chile (university)|Universidad de Chile]] || 1842 || Successor to the [[Royal University of San Felipe|Real Universidad de San Felipe]], created in 1738. Oldest university in Chile.
|-
| {{flag|Colombia}} || {{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[Viceroyalty of Peru|Perú]])
[[New Kingdom of Granada|(New Granada)]]

[[Bogotá|(Santa Fe de Bogotá)]]
| [[Saint Thomas Aquinas University]] || 1580 || Founded in 1580 by the Dominican Order. It is the second-oldest university in the [[Americas]].
|-
|{{flag|Colombia}}
|{{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[Viceroyalty of Peru|Perú]])
[[New Kingdom of Granada|(New Granada)]]

[[Bogotá|(Santa Fe de Bogotá)]]
|[[Pontifical Xavierian University]]
|1623
|Founded in 1623 by the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit Order]]. First Jesuit university in Colombia. Temporarily closed between 1797 and 1930.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Costa Rica}}||[[University of Costa Rica]] || 1940 || The first institution dedicated to higher education in Costa Rica was the University of Saint Thomas (Universidad de Santo Tomás), which was established in 1843. That institution maintained close ties with the [[Catholic Church]] and was closed in 1888 by the progressive and anti-clerical government of President [[Bernardo Soto Alfaro]] as part of a campaign to modernize public education. The schools of law, agronomy, fine arts, and pharmacy continued to operate independently. In 1940, those four schools were re-united to establish the modern UCR, during the reformist administration of President [[Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia]].
|-
| {{flag|Cuba}} || {{flagcountry|Spain|1701}} ([[New Spain]])
[[Governorate of Cuba|(Cuba)]]

([[Havana]])
| [[Universidad de La Habana]] || 1728 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Dominica}}||[[Ross University School of Medicine]] || 1978 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Dominican Republic}}||[[Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo]] || 1914 || Successor to the [[Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino]] (founded by papal bull in 1538, royal charter in 1558) which closed in 1823.
|-
| {{flag|Ecuador}} || {{Flagicon|Gran Colombia|variant=1822}} [[Gran Colombia|Republic of Colombia]]
([[Gran Colombia]])

([[Quito]])
| [[Central University of Ecuador]] || 1826 ||
|-
| {{flag|El Salvador}} || {{flag|El Salvador|1839}} || [[Universidad de El Salvador]] || 1841 || Founded on 16 February 1841 by President [[Juan Lindo]].
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Grenada}}||[[St. George's University]] || 1976 ||
|-
| {{flag|Guatemala}} || {{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[New Spain]])
[[Real Audiencia of Guatemala|(Guatemala)]]

([[Guatemala City|Guatemala]])
| [[Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala]] || 1676 (as colegio in 1562) || The San Carlos University was the fourth university founded in the Americas, when [[Guatemala]] was part of the [[Viceroyalty of New Spain]]. It had five major transformations but never ceased teaching. It grew out of the Colegio de Santo Tomas de Aquino (a high school), founded in 1562 by Bishop [[Francisco Marroquin]]. The university's founder was King [[Charles II of Spain]] and it was consecrated by Pope [[Innocent XI]] in 1687. Activities were interrupted after the [[Act of Independence of Central America]] in 1821.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}
|-
| {{flag|Guyana}} || {{flag|British Guiana}} || [[University of Guyana]] || 1963 ||
|-
| rowspan="2" | {{flag|Haiti}} || {{flag|Haiti|1814}} || [[University of Haiti|Université d'État d'Haïti]] || 1820 ||
|-
|{{flag|USA|1912|name=United States occupation of Haiti}} || [[Haitian Adventist University|Université Adventiste d'Haïti]] || 1921 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Honduras}}||[[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras]] || 1847 ||
|-
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" | {{flag|Mexico}}||[[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México]] || 1910 || Traces its origins back to [[Real y Pontificia Universidad de México]] (1551–1865) but no institutional continuity.
|-
|[[Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo]] || 1917 (as university; college 1540)|| Founded in 1540 as ''Colegio de San Nicolás Obispo (St. Nicholas Bishop College)'' and later in 1543 was appointed ''Real Colegio de San Nicolás Obispo (Royal St. Nicholas Bishop College)'' by King [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Carlos I of Spain]]; it was converted into a university on 15 October 1917.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.umich.mx/historia.html|title=Historia|language=es|publisher=Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo|access-date=12 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Panama}}||[[Universidad de Panamá]] || 1935 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Paraguay}}||[[Universidad Nacional de Asunción]] || 1889 ||
|-
| {{flag|Peru}} || {{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[New Spain|Perú]])
[[Viceroyalty of Peru|(Perú)]]

([[Lima]])
| [[National University of San Marcos]] || 1551 || Also known as the "Dean university of the Americas"; It is the first officially established ([[Privilege (legal ethics)|privilege]] by [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor]]) and the longest continuously operating university in the Americas.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Peru}}||[[National University of Saint Augustine]] || 1828 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Puerto Rico}}||[[University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras]] || 1903 || Original campus of the [[University of Puerto Rico]]
|-
| {{flag|Suriname}} || {{flag|Kingdom of the Netherlands}} || [[Anton de Kom University]] || 1968 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Uruguay}}||[[Universidad de la República]] || 1849 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|United States Virgin Islands}}||[[University of the Virgin Islands]] || 1967 (degree awarding; college 1962; university 1986) || Established by act of legislature in 1962. Opened in 1963 as the College of the Virgin Islands, offering only associate degrees. First bachelor's degree programmes 1967. Became the University of the Virgin Islands in 1986.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://uvi.edu/administration/about-uvi/history.aspx|title=History|work=University of the Virgin Islands|access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>
|-
| {{flag|Venezuela}} || {{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[New Spain|Perú]])
[[Captaincy General of Venezuela|(Venezuela)]]

([[Caracas]])
| [[Central University of Venezuela]] || 1721 ||
|-
|}

=== North America ===
{{See also|Colonial colleges|First university in the United States}}
In the United States, the [[colonial colleges]] awarded degrees from their foundation, but none were formally named as universities prior to the [[American Revolution]], leading to various claims to be the [[first university in the United States]]. The earliest Canadian institutions were founded as colleges, without degree awarding powers, and gained degree granting authority and university status later.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- valign="top"
! colspan=2 | Location
! width="15%" rowspan=2 | Current name
! width="5%" rowspan=2 | Year
! width="50%" rowspan=2 | Notes
|-
! width="15%" | Current
! width="15%" | Original
|- valign="top"

| {{flag|Bermuda}}|| || [[University of the West Indies]] || 2009 (Bermudian membership)|| First campus opened in Jamaica as the University College of the West Indies associated with the [[University of London]] in 1948. Gained independent university status in 1962. Bermuda joined the university in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100716145556/http://cavehill.uwi.edu/news/releases/release.asp?id=132|archive-date=16 July 2010|url=http://cavehill.uwi.edu/news/releases/release.asp?id=132|title=Bermuda joins the UWI Family|work=University of the West Indies}}</ref> Bermuda has also had a community college, [[Bermuda College]], since 1974.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Canada}} ([[Halifax, Nova Scotia]])|| {{Flagicon|United Kingdom|variant=1801}} [[Nova Scotia]] ([[Windsor, Nova Scotia|Windsor]]) || [[University of King's College]] ||1802 (as university; collegiate school 1789)|| Traces its roots back to the [[Columbia University|King's College]] in [[New York City]], which was first founded in 1754. Following the [[American Revolution]], [[United Empire Loyalist|Loyalists]] at the college fled to Windsor, Nova Scotia, and established as the King's Collegiate School in 1789. It received a royal charter in 1802 establishing it (after the model of [[Trinity College, Dublin|Trinity College Dublin]]) as "The Mother of a University", making it the oldest chartered university in Canada.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ll-r5R08t7YC&pg=PA26|pages=26–27|title=Deeper Imprint: The Footsteps of Archbishop Arthur Gordon Peters|author=Kirby Walsh|publisher=Cape Breton University Press|date= 2003|isbn=9780920336953}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://ukings.ca/campus-community/about-kings/history|title=History|publisher=University of King's College|access-date=1 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7jM5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT29|title=A History of Higher Education in Canada 1663–1960|author=Robin S. Harris |publisher=University of Toronto Press|date= 15 December 1976 |page=29|isbn=9781487589806}}</ref> A fire destroyed the original university in 1920, and the institution relocated to Halifax.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Greenland}} ([[Nuuk]])|| {{flag|Greenland}} ([[Nuuk]]) || [[University of Greenland]] ||1989 (as university; college 1983) || Established 1983, took name University of Greenland 1987, formal university status by legislation since 1 September 1989.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uk.uni.gl/about-us/history.aspx|title=History|publisher=University of Greenland|access-date=12 February 2017}}</ref>
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagicon|France}} [[Saint Pierre and Miquelon]]|| Institut Frecker || 1975 (part of [[Memorial University of Newfoundland]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mi.mun.ca/users/mslaney/learn_univ_camp_frecker.htm|title=Institut Frecker|work=Memorial University of Newfoundland|access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>||
|-
| {{flagcountry|USA}} ([[Cambridge, Massachusetts]])|| {{Flagicon|United States|variant=1776}} [[Massachusetts]] ([[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]]) || [[Harvard University]] ||1636 || Founded in 1636, named Harvard College in 1639, chartered in 1650. Oldest institution of higher education in the United States. Officially recognised as a university by the [[Massachusetts]] Constitution of 1780.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.harvard.edu/about-harvard/harvard-glance/history|title=History|publisher=Harvard University|access-date=1 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.harvard.edu/about-harvard/harvard-glance/history/historical-facts|title=Historical Facts|publisher=Harvard University|access-date=1 February 2017}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|USA}} ([[Williamsburg, Virginia]])|| {{Flagicon|United States|variant=1776}} [[Virginia]] ([[Middle Plantation (Virginia)|Middle Plantation]]) || [[College of William & Mary|The College of William & Mary]] ||1693 (continuously since 1888)|| Chartered in 1693. Claims to be the "first college to become a university" in the US, in 1779.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wm.edu/about/rankings/coolfacts/index.php|title=Cool facts|publisher=College of William and Mary|access-date=1 February 2017}}</ref> Named as a ''studium generale'' in its royal charter, leading to the additional claim that it was "a university by grant, a ''studium generale ex privilegio'' as the medieval jurists would have said it, since 1693".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wmlawreview.org/university-1693-new-light-william-marys-claim-title-oldest-university-united-states|title=A UNIVERSITY IN 1693: NEW LIGHT ON WILLIAM & MARY'S CLAIM TO THE TITLE "OLDEST UNIVERSITY IN THE UNITED STATES"|work=William & Mary Law Review|date=15 October 2020|author1=Thomas J. McSweeney|author2=Katharine Ello|author3=Elsbeth O'Brien}}</ref>
Briefly closed during two different periods: from 1861 to 1869 due to the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] and postwar financial problems, and 1882 to 1888 due to continued financial difficulties.
|-
| {{flagcountry|USA}} ([[Philadelphia]], Pennsylvania)|| {{Flagicon|United States|variant=1776}} [[Pennsylvania]] ([[Pennsylvania Colony]])|| [[University of Pennsylvania]] ||1755 || Traces its roots to a [[charity school]] founded in 1740. Collegiate charter 1755. Claims to be "the first American institution of higher education to be named a university" (in 1779).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.upenn.edu/about/history| title=Penn's Heritage|publisher=University of Pennsylvania|access-date=1 February 2017}}</ref>
|}

=== Oceania ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- valign="top"
! colspan=2 | Location
! width="15%" rowspan=2 | Current name
! width="5%" rowspan=2 | Year
! width="50%" rowspan=2 | Notes
|-
! width="15%" | Current
! width="15%" | Original
|- valign="top"
| {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|NSW}})|| {{noflag|[[New South Wales]]}} || [[University of Sydney]] ||1850 || Oldest in New South Wales, Australia and Oceania.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|VIC}})|| {{noflag|[[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]}} || [[University of Melbourne]] ||1853 || Oldest in Victoria.
|-
| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|AU-SA}})|| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|South Australia|1870}} || [[University of Adelaide]] ||1874 || Oldest in South Australia.
|-
|[[University of South Australia]] ||1889 || UniSA was formed in 1991 by the merger of the South Australian Institute of Technology with three South Australian College of Advanced Education campuses.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|TAS}})|| {{flagcountry|Tasmania}} || [[University of Tasmania]] ||1890 || Oldest in Tasmania.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|QLD}})||[[University of Queensland]] ||1909 || Oldest in Queensland.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|AU-WA}})||[[University of Western Australia]] ||1911 || Oldest in Western Australia.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|ACT}})||[[Australian National University]] ||1946 || Oldest in Australian Capital Territory.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|AU-NT}})||[[Charles Darwin University]] ||1989|| Founded as University of the Northern Territory in 1989, merged with other institutions to form Charles Darwin University in 2003.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cdu.edu.au/25th-anniversary|title=Celebrating 25 Years of University Education in the Northern Territory|work=Charles Darwin University|access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|Cook Islands}} {{flagcountry|Fiji}} {{flagcountry|Kiribati}} {{flagcountry|Marshall Islands}} {{flagcountry|Nauru}} {{flagcountry|Niue}} {{flagcountry|Samoa}} {{flagcountry|Solomon Islands}} {{flagcountry|Tokelau}} {{flagcountry|Tonga}} {{flagcountry|Tuvalu}} {{flagcountry|Vanuatu}} || {{flagicon|Fiji|colonial}} [[Colony of Fiji]]|| [[University of the South Pacific]] ||1968|| Regional university, operating in (and owned by the governments of) 12 Pacific island nations. Main campus in Fiji.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Guam}}|| {{flagcountry|Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands|1965}} || [[University of Guam]] ||1965 (degree granting; college 1952; university 1968)||
|-
| {{flagcountry|PNG}}|| {{flagcountry|PNG|1965}} || [[University of Papua New Guinea]] ||1965|| First university in Papua New Guinea.
|-
| {{flagcountry|NZL}} ({{flagcountry|Otago}})|| [[File:Flag of New Zealand Government Ships 1867.svg|20px]] [[New Zealand]] ([[Dunedin]]) || [[University of Otago]] ||1869|| Oldest in New Zealand.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|NZL}} ([[Auckland]])||[[University of Auckland]] ||1883 || Oldest in the [[North Island]].
|}

== See also ==
* [[List of Islamic seminaries#List of oldest Islamic seminaries|List of oldest Islamic seminaries]]
* [[List of medieval universities]]
* [[List of oldest institutions in continuous operation]]

== References ==

=== Notes ===
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=== Citations ===
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List of oldest universities in continuous operation

2023-04-06T10:40:10Z

UserArtificial820029: Inclusion of Sungkyunkwan

{{Short description|Historical list of Universities}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}}
{{broader|Oldest higher-learning institutions}}
[[File:Mediaeval universities.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|A 1911 map of [[Medieval university|medieval universities]] in Europe]]
[[File:Archiginnasio ora blu Bologna.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|The [[University of Bologna]] in [[Bologna]], Italy, is the world's oldest university in continuous operation.<ref name="de Ridder-Symoens">de Ridder-Symoens, Hilde: [https://books.google.com/books?id=5Z1VBEbF0HAC ''A History of the University in Europe: Volume 1, Universities in the Middle Ages''], Cambridge University Press, 1992, {{ISBN|0-521-36105-2}}, pp. 47–55</ref>]]
[[File:1 christ church hall 2012.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|A dining hall at the [[University of Oxford]] in [[Oxford]], England, the world's second-oldest university and oldest in the [[English (language)|English-speaking]] world]]
[[File:Cam colls from johns.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Partial view of the [[University of Cambridge]] in [[Cambridge]], England, the world's third-oldest university]]
This is a '''list of the oldest existing universities in continuous operation''' in the world.

Inclusion in this list is determined by the date at which the educational institute first met the traditional definition of a [[university]] used by academic historians{{refn|'The statement that all universities are descended either directly or by migration from these three prototypes [Oxford, Paris, and Bologna] depends, of course, on one's definition of a university. And I must define a university very strictly here. A university is something more than a center of higher education and study. One must reserve the term ''university'' for—and I'm quoting Rashdall here—"a scholastic guild, whether of masters or students, engaged in higher education and study," which was later defined, after the emergence of universities, as "studium generale".'<ref name="Hyde 1991">{{cite book | last = Hyde | first = J. K. | editor-last = Bender | editor-first = Thomas | chapter = Universities and Cities in Medieval Italy | title = The university and the city: from medieval origins to the present | place = Oxford | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 1991 | pages = 13–14 | isbn = 978-0-19-506775-0 }}</ref>|group=Note}}{{Specify |reason=the source does not claim this is the definition used by most or all academic historians |date=February 2021}} although it may have existed as a different kind of institution before that time.<ref name="Hyde 1991" /> This definition limits the term "university" to institutions with distinctive structural and legal features that developed in [[Europe]], and which make the university form different from other institutions of higher learning in the pre-modern world, even though these may sometimes now be referred to popularly as universities. To be included in the list below, the university must have been founded before 1500 in Europe or be the oldest university derived from the medieval European model in a country or region. It must also be still in operation, with institutional continuity retained throughout its history. So some early universities, including the [[University of Paris]], founded around the beginning of the 13th century<ref name=Verger/> but abolished by the [[French Revolution]] in 1793,<ref name="Jones, 2006">{{cite book | last = Jones | first = Colin | chapter = Queen of Cities | title = Paris : The Biography of a City | place = Paris | publisher = Penguin Books | year = 2006 | pages = 60 | isbn = 978-0-14-303671-5}}</ref> are excluded. Some institutions reemerge, but with new foundations, such as the modern University of Paris, which came into existence in 1896 after the ''Louis Liard law'' disbanded [[Napoleon]]'s [[University of France]] system.

The word ''university'' is derived from the {{lang-la|universitas magistrorum et scholarium}}, which approximately means "community of teachers and scholars". The [[University of Bologna]] in [[Bologna]], Italy, where teaching began around 1088 and which was organised into a university in the late twelfth century, is the world's oldest university in continuous operation,<ref>de Ridder-Symoens, Hilde: [https://books.google.com/books?id=5Z1VBEbF0HAC ''A History of the University in Europe: Volume 1, Universities in the Middle Ages''], Cambridge University Press, 1992, {{ISBN|0-521-36105-2}}, pp. 47–55</ref> and the first university in the sense of a higher-learning and degree-awarding institute.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wyjnHZ1IIlgC&pg=PA18 |title=The Challenge of Bologna|author=Paul L. Gaston |year=2010 |page=18 |isbn=978-1-57922-366-3 |access-date=25 December 2022}}</ref><ref name="Hunt Janin 2008">Hunt Janin: "The university in medieval life, 1179–1499", McFarland, 2008, {{ISBN|0-7864-3462-7}}, p. 55f.</ref><ref name="de Ridder-Symoens"/> The origin of many [[Medieval university|medieval universities]] can be traced back to the [[Catholic]] [[cathedral school]]s or [[monastic school]]s, which appeared as early as the 6th century and were run for hundreds of years as such before their formal establishment as universities in the [[High Middle Ages|high medieval period]].<ref name="Riché 1978 126–7, 282–98">{{Cite book | last = Riché | first = Pierre | title = Education and Culture in the Barbarian West: From the Sixth through the Eighth Century | publisher = University of South Carolina Press | location = Columbia | year = 1978 | isbn = 978-0-87249-376-6 |pages=126–127, 282–298}}</ref>

[[Ancient higher-learning institutions]], such as those of [[ancient Greece]], [[History of Iran|ancient Persia]], [[ancient Rome]], [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantium]], [[ancient China]], [[History of India|ancient India]] and the [[Muslim world|Islamic world]], are not included in this list owing to their cultural, historical, structural and legal differences from the medieval European university from which the modern university evolved.{{refn|"No one today would dispute the fact that universities, in the sense in which the term is now generally understood, were a creation of the [[Middle Ages]], appearing for the first time between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It is no doubt true that other civilizations, prior to, or wholly alien to, the [[Middle Ages|medieval]] [[Western world|West]], such as the [[Roman Empire]], [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantium]], [[History of Islam|Islam]], or [[Ancient China|China]], were familiar with forms of higher education which a number of historians, for the sake of convenience, have sometimes described as universities.Yet a closer look makes it plain that the institutional reality was altogether different and, no matter what has been said on the subject, there is no real link such as would justify us in associating them with [[Medieval university|medieval universities]] in the West. Until there is definite proof to the contrary, these latter must be regarded as the sole source of the model which gradually spread through the whole of Europe and then to the whole world. We are therefore concerned with what is indisputably an original institution, which can only be defined in terms of a historical analysis of its emergence and its mode of operation in concrete circumstances."<ref>Verger, Jacques: "Patterns", in: Ridder-Symoens, Hilde de (ed.): ''A History of the University in Europe. Vol. I: Universities in the Middle Ages'', Cambridge University Press, 2003, {{ISBN|978-0-521-54113-8}}, pp. 35–76 (35):</ref>|group=Note}}{{refn|"Thus the university, as a form of social organization, was peculiar to [[medieval Europe]]. Later, it was exported to all parts of the world, including the [[Muslim]] East; and it has remained with us down to the present day. But back in the Middle Ages, outside of Europe, there was nothing anything quite like it anywhere."<ref>Makdisi, George: "Madrasa and University in the Middle Ages", ''[[Studia Islamica]]'', No. 32 (1970), pp. 255–264 (264):</ref>|group=Note}}<ref name="Rüegg">Rüegg, Walter: "Foreword. The University as a European Institution", in: ''A History of the University in Europe. Vol. 1: Universities in the Middle Ages'', Cambridge University Press, 1992, {{ISBN|0-521-36105-2}}, pp. XIX–XX.</ref>

== Medieval origins ==
{{Main|Medieval university}}

The university as an [[institution]] was historically rooted in [[Middle Ages|medieval]] society, which it in turn influenced and shaped. Academic historian Walter Rüegg asserts that:<ref name="Rüegg" />

{{blockquote|The university is a European institution; indeed, it is the European institution ''par excellence''. There are various reasons for this assertion. As a community of teachers and taught, accorded certain rights, such as [[Academic freedom|administrative autonomy]] and the determination and realisation of curricula (courses of study) and of the objectives of research as well as the award of publicly recognised degrees, it is a creation of [[Middle Ages|medieval Europe]], which was the Europe of [[Pope|papal]] Christianity [...].}}

== Modern spread ==
From the [[early modern period]] onwards, the university spread from the [[Western culture#Medieval West|medieval Latin West]] across the globe, eventually replacing [[Ancient higher-learning institutions|all other higher-learning institutions]] and becoming the preeminent institution for higher education everywhere. The process occurred in the following chronological order:<ref>Rüegg, Walter (ed.): ''Geschichte der Universität in Europa'', 3 vols., C.H. Beck, München 1993, {{ISBN|3-406-36956-1}}</ref>
* Southern and Western Europe (from the 11th or 12th century)
* Central and Northern Europe (from the 14th or 15th century)
* Americas (from the 16th century)
* Australia (from the 19th century)
* Asia and Africa (from the 19th or 20th century), with the exception of the [[Philippines]], where the [[University of Santo Tomas]] was established in the 17th century.

== Founded as universities before 1500 ==
{{Main|List of medieval universities}}

This list includes [[medieval universities]] that were founded before 1500 and which have retained institutional continuity since then (excluding not only those that ceased to exist, but also those that merged into or split away to an institution which is regarded as newly established). Several of these have been closed for brief periods: for example the [[University of Siena]] was closed 1805{{ndash}}1815 during [[Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)|the Napoleonic wars]], and universities in the [[Czech Republic]] and [[Poland]] were closed during [[German-occupied Europe|Nazi occupation]], 1938–1945.

Universities are dated from when, according to scholars, they first met the definition of a university. In cases such as the universities of [[University of Bologna|Bologna]] and [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] which trace their history back to teaching in individual schools prior to their formation into a university, or which existed in another form prior to being a university, the date in the list below is thus later than the date given by the institutions for their foundation.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! width="10%" rowspan=2 | Year
! rowspan=2 | University
! colspan=2 | Location
! width="50%" rowspan=2 | Notes
|-
! Original !! Current
|- valign="top"
| 1180–1190<ref>{{cite book|work=[[A History of the University in Europe]]|volume=1, Universities in the Middle Ages|page=48|title=Patterns|author=Jacques Verger|editor1=Hilde de Ridder-Symoens|editor2=Walter Rüegg|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|date=16 October 2003|isbn=9780521541138|quote=There is no indication, however, that up until around 1180, the Bolognese law schools were anything other than private schools opened and run by each master after his own fashion, gathering together the students that had entered into an agreement with him and paid him fees (collectae) in return for his teaching. The crucial change would seem to have taken place around the years 1180–90. ... The masters, who were themselves mainly Bolognese in origin, agreed from 1189 to swear an oath to the commune not to seek to transfer the ''studium'' elsewhere. The students, on the other hand, began to group themselves in nations, according to their places of origin (we hear of the Lombard nation as early as 1191), and these were soon federated into 'universities' with elected rectors at their head.
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Z1VBEbF0HAC&pg=PA48}}</ref> (teaching from c. 1088)
| [[University of Bologna]]
| [[File:Corona ferrea monza (heraldry).svg|24px]] [[Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)|Kingdom of Italy]], {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}}
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Bologna]], Italy
| Law schools existed in Bologna from the second half of the 12th century, with 1088 often considered to be the date on which teaching outside of ecclesiastical schools began.<ref name="Verger Bologna">{{cite web|url=https://www.unibo.it/en/university/who-we-are/our-history/university-from-12th-to-20th-century|title=The University from the 12th to the 20th century|publisher=University of Bologna|access-date=14 February 2021}}</ref> In 1158, petitions by Bolognese doctors of law led to Emperor [[Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor|Barbarossa]] granting the "Authentic ''Habita''", which granted various rights to students and masters but did not name Bologna or any other particular place of study.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/universitiesinpo0000unse/page/34/mode/2up|author=J.K. Hyde|pages=34–35|date=1972|publisher=Johns Hopkins Press|editor1=John W. Baldwin|editor2=Richard A. Goldthwaite|title=Commune, University, and Society in Early Medieval Bologna|work=Universities in politics; case studies from the late Middle Ages and early modern period|isbn=9780801813726}}</ref> However, it is unlikely that the university had become organised by the 1150s, and this may have been as late as the 1180s.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UcmTz4j-XIIC|page=6|title=The Universities of the Italian Renaissance|author=Paul F. Grendler|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|date=3 November 2004|isbn=9781421404233|quote=it is not likely that enough instruction and organization existed to merit the term university before the 1150s, and it might not have happened before the 1180s}}</ref> The law schools appear to have remained independent, private entities until around 1180, but became organised over the following decade. In 1189 the masters made an agreement with the commune not to transfer the ''studium'' to another town, while the Lombard students were organised into a '[[Nation (university)|nation]]' by 1191.<ref name="Verger Bologna"/><ref name="Brockliss Bologna Paris">{{cite book|quote=The first indications of the gestation of a scholars' guild comes from Bologna in 1189 when the commune forced the masters to swear not to transfer the ''studium'' to another town. Thereafter, evidence confirming that Bologna had become a ''universitas'' and announcing similar developments elsewhere proliferate. The collective identity of the many Paris schools received some sort of official recognition in 1194 when their scholars were implicitly given a grant of clerical immunity by Pope Celestine III, which were confirmed six years later by the king, Philip II. By 1208 a university had definitely begun to take shape. In that year the city's bishop, who claimed the right to license private teachers and interfere in their teaching, accepted that the masters could form an autonomous guild and police themselves, albeit under his ultimate control. In 1215 the pope blessed this arrangement by granting the fledgling university is first statutes.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iMDmCwAAQBAJ&pg=PR46|title=The University of Oxford: A History|author=L. W. B. Brockliss|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|date= 2016|page=6|isbn = 9780199243563}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| 1200–1214<ref name="Verger Oxford">{{cite book|quote=There were schools in operation in Oxford from at least as early as the middle of the twelfth century; an embryonic university organization was in existence from 1200, even before the first papal statutes (1214), which were complemented by royal charters, had established its first institutions|pages=52–53|work=[[A History of the University in Europe]]|volume=1, Universities in the Middle Ages|title=Patterns|author=Jacques Verger|editor1=Hilde de Ridder-Symoens|editor2=Walter Rüegg|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|date=16 October 2003|isbn=9780521541138|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Z1VBEbF0HAC&pg=PA52}}</ref> (teaching from c. 1096)
| [[University of Oxford]]
| {{flag|Kingdom of England}}
| {{flagicon|UK}} [[Oxford]], United Kingdom
| Teaching existed in Oxford from the late 11th century,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iMDmCwAAQBAJ&pg=PR51|title=The University of Oxford: A History|author=L. W. B. Brockliss|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|date= 2016|page=11|isbn=9780199243563}}</ref> with the university giving the date of 1096 for the earliest classes.<ref name="OxHist">{{cite web |url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/about/organisation/history |title=Introduction and history |publisher=University of Oxford |quote=As the oldest university in the English speaking world, Oxford is a unique and historic institution. There is no clear date of foundation of Oxford University, but teaching existed at Oxford in some form in 1096 and developed rapidly from 1167, when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris.|access-date=4 February 2017}}</ref> However, it was not until the early 13th century that the schools in Oxford took on an organised character. In 1201 a papal letter described John Grimm as ''magister scolarum Oxonie''.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7zorDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA48|title=The Medieval English Universities: Oxford and Cambridge to C. 1500|author= Alan B. Cobban|page=48|publisher=Taylor & Francis|date= 5 July 2017|isbn=9781351885805}}</ref> In 1209 the masters suspended their teaching in Oxford and moved to other towns (including [[Cambridge]], leading to the foundation of the [[University of Cambridge|university there]]),<ref name="Oxford1209">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/oxford/low/people_and_places/history/newsid_8405000/8405640.stm|date=18 December 2009|title=The hanging of the clerks in 1209|work=[[BBC News]]|author=Simon Bailey}}</ref> returning after a [[Papal bull|bull]] issued on 20 June 1214 by the [[papal legate]], [[Niccolò de Romanis]], that granted a number of rights to the university and established the office of [[Chancellor (university)|chancellor]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iMDmCwAAQBAJ&pg=PR53|title=The University of Oxford: A History|author=L. W. B. Brockliss|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|date= 2016|pages=13–16|isbn=9780199243563}}</ref> Both Oxford and Cambridge were granted rights of discipline over students and of fixing rents in letters issued by King [[Henry III of England|Henry III]] in 1231.<ref name=Carpenter>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FLbdk_L9TYQC&pg=PA463|page=463|title=The Struggle for Mastery: Britain, 1066–1284|author=David A. Carpenter|publisher=Oxford University Press|date= 2003|isbn=9780195220001}}</ref> A royal charter, sometimes referred to as the Magna Carta of the university, was granted in 1244, awarding further rights to the university.<ref>{{cite book|page=274|title=The Endowments of the University and Colleges to circa 1348|author1=Trevor Henry Aston|author2 = Rosamond Faith |
work=The History of the University of Oxford: The early Oxford schools|editor=Trevor Henry Aston|publisher=Clarendon Press|date=1984|isbn=9780199510115|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AkJO3TAxMtwC&pg=PA274}}</ref> The university received a papal bull ''Querentes in agro'' in 1254, with a first version issued on 27 September and a second version on 6 October. The first version followed the common form of privileges granted to [[Monastery|monastic houses]], confirming the liberties and immunities granted to the university and placing the members of the university under papal protection, but the second version (which was the version recorded in the papal register) explicitly recognised and approved the existence of the university as a scholarly community and confirmed its "liberties, ancient customs and approved statutes".<ref>{{cite book|pages=103–104|title=The University in State and Church|author= C H Lawrence|work=The History of the University of Oxford: The early Oxford schools|editor=Trevor Henry Aston|publisher=Clarendon Press|date=1984|isbn=9780199510115|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AkJO3TAxMtwC&pg=PA103}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| 1209–1225<ref name=Verger>{{cite book|pages=62–65, 68|work=[[A History of the University in Europe]]|volume=1, Universities in the Middle Ages|title=Patterns|author=Jacques Verger|editor1=Hilde de Ridder-Symoens|editor2=Walter Rüegg|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|date=16 October 2003|isbn=9780521541138|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Z1VBEbF0HAC&pg=PA62}}</ref>
| [[University of Cambridge]]
| {{flag|Kingdom of England}}
| {{flagicon|UK}} [[Cambridge]], United Kingdom
| Founded by scholars leaving [[Oxford]] after a dispute caused by the execution of three scholars in 1209.<ref name="Oxford1209"/> The university was organised under a chancellor by 1225.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iMDmCwAAQBAJ&pg=PR58|title=The University of Oxford: A History|author=L. W. B. Brockliss|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|date= 2016|page=18|isbn=9780199243563}}</ref> The university takes 1209 as its official anniversary.<ref name=Cambridge800>{{cite web|title=800th anniversary|url=http://www.cam.ac.uk/univ/800/|publisher=University of Cambridge|access-date=7 January 2012}}</ref> Along with Oxford, Cambridge was granted rights of discipline over its students and of fixing rents in letters issued by King [[Henry III of England|Henry III]] in 1231.<ref name=Carpenter/> It received papal recognition as an academic corporation via an [[indult]] granted by [[Pope Gregory IX]] in 1233 and was named as a ''[[studium generale]]'' in the [[papal bull]] ''Inter singula'' in 1318. The traditional view was that this raised it to a ''studium generale'' but more recent scholarship (which is now generally, although not universally, accepted) sees the bull as confirming, rather than conferring, this status.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7zorDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA59|title=The Medieval English Universities: Oxford and Cambridge to C. 1500|author= Alan B. Cobban|pages=58, 59|publisher=Taylor & Francis|date= 5 July 2017|isbn=9781351885805}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1OMGDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA162|pages=162–163|work=Law as Profession and Practice in Medieval Europe: Essays in Honor of James A. Brundage|editor1=Kenneth Pennington|editor2= Melodie Harris Eichbauer|publisher=Routledge |date=15 April 2016 |title=When did Cambridge become a ''studium generale''|author=Patrick Zutshi|isbn=9781317107682}}</ref>
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| 1218–1219<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Salamanca]]
| [[File:Leon banner.svg|border|26px|Pennant of the Kingdom of León]] [[Kingdom of León]]
| {{flagicon|Spain}} [[Salamanca]], Spain
| The oldest university in the Hispanic world. The university was founded by [[Alfonso IX]] of León in 1218 and recognised by a papal bull from [[Pope Alexander IV]] in 1255.<ref name="usal">{{cite web|url=http://m.usal.es/webusal/en/node/941?bcp=conocenos|language=es|title=Reseña Histórica de la USAL|publisher=University of Salamanca|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref>
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| 1222<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Padua]]
| [[File:Flag of Bologna.svg|border|26px]] [[Padua#Emergence of the Commune|Medieval commune of Padua]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Padua]], Italy
| Founded by scholars and professors after leaving [[Bologna]]. Awarded the first degree in the world to be conferred on a woman, [[Elena Cornaro Piscopia]], in 1678.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.unipd.it/en/history|title=History|publisher=University of Padua|access-date=19 February 2021}}</ref><ref name=cathen>{{cite book|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15188a.htm|title=Universities|author=Pace, E. |date=1912|work= The Catholic Encyclopedia|publisher= New York: Robert Appleton Company|via=New Advent|access-date=1 February 2017}}</ref>
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| 1224<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Naples Federico II]]
| [[File:King Manfred of Sicily Arms.svg|20px]] [[Kingdom of Sicily]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Naples]], Italy
| Claims to be the oldest public university in the world,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.international.unina.it/ |publisher=University of Naples Frederico II|access-date=19 February 2021|title=International Unina}}</ref> as one of the first to be founded by a head of state, [[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor|Frederick II]], [[Holy Roman Emperor]] and king of [[Kingdom of Sicily|Sicily]]. Refounded in 1234, 1239 and 1465, and closed 1490–1507.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.international.unina.it/history/|title=History|publisher=University of Naples Frederico II|access-date=19 February 2021}}</ref>
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| 1290<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Coimbra]]
| [[File:PortugueseFlag1248.svg|20px|Flag of Portugal (1248–1385]] [[Portugal in the Middle Ages|Kingdom of Portugal]] 
| {{flagicon|Portugal}} [[Coimbra]], Portugal
| Originally established in [[Lisbon]] but relocated to Coimbra from 1308 to 1338 and again from 1354 to 1377,<ref name=Verger/> before finally moving permanently to Coimbra in 1537.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Nature|date=1 January 1938|title=The Quatercentenary of the University of Coimbra|author=F. G. Donnan|volume=141|issue=3558|page=63|doi=10.1038/141063a0|bibcode=1938Natur.141...63D|s2cid=4122832|doi-access=free}}</ref>
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| 1293 (Papal recognition 1346)<ref name=Verger/>
|[[University of Valladolid]]
| [[File:Banner of arms crown of Castille Habsbourg style.svg|border|26px|Pennant of the Crown of Castile]] [[Crown of Castile]]
|{{flagicon|Spain}} [[Valladolid]], Spain
| Founded in the late 13th century,<ref name=Verger/> probably by the city,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9otEuneTZ74C&pg=PA559|page=559|title=La educación en la Hispania antigua y medieval|author=Bernabé Bartolomé Martínez|language=es|publisher=Ediciones Morata|date=1 January 1992|isbn=9788471123749}}</ref> with the first documented reference dating from 1293.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://relint.uva.es/inicio/internacional/espanol/estudiantes/guia-bienvenida/la-universidad-de-valladolid/#|title=Foreign Students Guide|publisher=University of Valladolid|access-date=20 February 2021}}</ref>
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| 1308<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Perugia]]
| [[File:Emblem of the Papacy SE.svg|22px|Coat of arms of the Papal States]] [[Papal States]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Perugia]], Italy
| The university traces its history back to 1276 and statutes were granted in 1306 prior to the [[Papal bull|bull]] of [[Pope Clement V]] of 8 September 1308.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unipg.it/en/university/history|title=History|publisher=University of Perugia|access-date=20 February 2020}}</ref>
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| 1347<ref name=Verger/>
| [[Charles University]]
| [[File:Blason Boheme.svg|22px|Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Bohemia]] [[Kingdom of Bohemia]], {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}}
| {{flagicon|Czech Republic}} [[Prague]], Czech Republic
| Faculties of theology, law and medicine closed during the [[Bohemian Reformation]], leaving only the faculty of liberal arts. Became Charles-Ferdinand University after the [[Thirty Years' War]], with all four faculties restored. Split into German and Czech parts in 1882; the Czech branch restored the name Charles University after independence in 1918 and closed briefly during [[German-occupied Europe|Nazi occupation]] (1939–1945) while the German branch closed permanently in 1945.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cuni.cz/UKEN-106.html |title=History of Charles University |publisher=Charles University |access-date=20 February 2021}}</ref>
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| 1357<ref name=Verger/> (originally 1246–1252)<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Siena]]
| [[File:Siena-Stemma.png|18px|Coat of arms of Siena]] [[Republic of Siena]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Siena]], Italy
| Claims to have been founded in 1240 by the [[Mediæval commune|Commune]] of [[Siena]],<ref name=Siena>{{cite web|url=http://www.unisi.it/ateneo/storia-dellateneo|language=it|publisher=University of Siena|access-date=4 February 2017|title=Storia dell'Ateneo}}</ref> although Rashdall dates the proclamation of the Studium to 1246, when [[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor|Frederick II]] tried to place a ban on scholars travelling to Bologna, the date also given by Verger.<ref name=Verger/> Was granted some exemptions from taxes by Pope [[Innocent II]] in 1252, but closed shortly after when the scholars returned to Bologna. Attempted revivals in 1275 and (fed by further short-lived migrations of scholars from Bologna) in 1321 and 1338 were unsuccessful. Gained an Imperial Bull in 1357 "granting it ''de novo'' the 'privileges of a Studium Generale.{{' "}}, but was not firmly established until "[i]n 1408 a fresh grant of privileges was obtained from [[Pope Gregory XII]]".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iW7E7LQiu8kC&pg=PA31|pages=31–34|author=[[Hastings Rashdall]]|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|date=2010|title=The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages: Volume 2, Part 1|isbn=9781108018111}} Originally publisher 1895</ref> Closed temporarily in 1808–1815 when [[Napoleon]]ic forces occupied [[Tuscany]].<ref name=Siena />
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| 1361<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Pavia]]
| [[File:Coat of arms of the House of Visconti (1277).svg|18px|House of Visconti]][[Visconti of Milan|Domain of the House of Visconti]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Pavia]], Italy
| Transferred to [[Piacenza]] 1398–1412.<ref name=Verger/> Closed for short periods during the [[Italian Wars]], [[Napoleonic wars]], and [[Revolutions of 1848]].
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| 1364<ref name="Verger" /> (re-established in 1400)<ref name="Verger" />
| [[Jagiellonian University]]
| [[File:Alex K Kingdom of Poland3.svg|22px]] [[Kingdom of Poland]]
| {{flagicon|Poland}} [[Kraków]], Poland
| Founded by King [[Casimir III of Poland|Casimir the Great]] as a ''studium generale'' in 1364. After the death of Casimir the Great in 1370, the development of the university stalled, with lectures being held in various places across the city, including in professors' houses, churches and in the [[Wawel Castle|Wawel]] cathedral school. The faculty of theology was re-opened in 1397 by Queen [[Jadwiga of Poland|Jadwiga]] who left a large endowment to the university upon her death in 1399. The university was formally re-established on 26 July 1400 by King [[Jogaila|Władysław Jagiełło]]. After Kraków was incorporated into the [[Austrian Empire]], the university was merged with Lwów University from 1805 to 1809. The university was forcibly shut down during the German [[Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)]]. The staff was deported to [[Nazi concentration camps]], and many of its collections were deliberately destroyed by the occupying German authorities. Underground lectures continued for around 800 students during this period and the university formally reopened in 1945.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.uj.edu.pl/en_US/about-university/history|title=History|publisher=Jagiellonian University|access-date=14 March 2021}}</ref>
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| 1365<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Vienna]]
| rowspan="2" | {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}}
| {{flagicon|Austria}} [[Vienna]], Austria
| Founded by [[Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria]], granted papal assent in 1384 by [[Pope Urban VI]]. The oldest university in the contemporary [[Geographical distribution of German speakers|German-speaking world]]; it remains a question of definition whether Charles University in Prague was also German-speaking when founded. Due to its strong association with the [[Catholic Church]], the university suffered setbacks during the [[Reformation]], but never ceased operation.
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| 1385<ref name=Verger/>
| [[Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg]]
| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Heidelberg]], Germany
| Oldest [[List of universities in Germany|university in Germany]]. Pope Urban VI granted permission for the founding of a university in October 1385 to [[Rupert I, Elector Palatine]]; teaching began in June 1386. Gradually declined during the 17th and 18th centuries until re-established as a state-owned institution by [[Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden|Karl Friedrich, Grand Duke of Baden]] in 1803.
|-
|1398<ref>{{Cite web |title=성균관대학교 {{!}} 대학정보 {{!}} 성대역사 / 상징 {{!}} 성대역사 {{!}} 약사 {{!}} 고전 대학시대 |url=https://www.skku.edu:443/skku/about/s620/sub02_01.do |access-date=2023-04-06 |website=www.skku.edu |language=ko}}</ref>
|[[Sungkyunkwan University|Sungkyunkwan]] (''Seonggyungwan'' / ''Sŏnggyun’gwan'')
|{{flag|Joseon}}
|{{flagicon|South Korea}} [[Seoul]], Republic of Korea
|Established in 1398 by [[Taejo of Joseon|Taejo]] as the highest educational institution in Joseon. Relocation of the original ''[[Gukjagam|Sŏnggyun’gwan]]'' in [[Kaesong|Kaesŏng]], which was established in 992 by [[Seongjong of Goryeo|Seongjong]] as the highest educational institution in [[Goryeo]].
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| c. 1400<ref name=Verger/> (originally 1343 to c. 1360)<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Pisa]]
| [[File:Shield of the Republic of Pisa.svg|22px|Coat of arms of the Republic of Pisa]] [[Republic of Pisa]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Pisa]], Italy
| Established 1343 but closed around 1360; refounded at the start of the 15th century.<ref name=Verger/> Formally founded on 3 September 1343 by a [[Papal bull|bull]] of [[Pope Clement VI]], although according to the university "a number of scholars claim its origin dates back to the 11th century". Transferred to [[Pistoia]], [[Prato]] and [[Florence]] between 1494 and 1543.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unipi.it/index.php/history|title=The University of Pisa and its history|publisher=University of Pisa|access-date=20 February 2021}}</ref>
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| 1404<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Turin]]
| {{flag|Duchy of Savoy}}
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Turin]], Italy
|
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| 1409<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Leipzig]]
| {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}}
| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Leipzig]], Germany
|
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| 1410<ref name=Verger/>–1413<ref name="St Andrews">{{cite web | url = https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/about/history/brief/ | title = A brief history of the University | publisher = University of St Andrews| access-date = 20 February 2021}}</ref>
| [[University of St Andrews|University of St. Andrews]]
| {{flag|Kingdom of Scotland}}
| {{flagicon|UK}} [[St Andrews|St. Andrews]], United Kingdom
| A school of higher studies was founded in 1410 and was chartered by Bishop [[Henry Wardlaw]] in 1411. Full university status conferred by a [[papal bull]] of [[Antipope Benedict XIII]] on 28 August 1413.<ref name="St Andrews"/>

The university was founded in 1410 when a group of [[Augustinians|Augustinian]] clergy, driven from the [[University of Paris]] by the [[Western Schism|Avignon schism]] and from the universities of [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] by the [[Anglo-Scottish Wars]], formed a society of higher learning in St Andrews, which offered courses of lectures in divinity, logic, philosophy, and law. St Andrews was the obvious choice — "for centuries, it was the heart of the Scottish church and political activities"<ref>{{cite book |last1=Reid |first1=Norman |title=Ever to Excel |date=2011 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |location=Edinburgh |isbn=9781845860592}}</ref> and "the seat of the greatest bishopric in Scotland and location of a monastery noted as a centre for learning".<ref>{{cite web |title=A brief history of the University |url=https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/about/history/brief/ |website=University of St Andrews |access-date=10 October 2021}}</ref> A [[charter]] of privilege was bestowed upon the society of masters and scholars by the [[Archbishop of St Andrews|Bishop of St Andrews]], [[Henry Wardlaw]],<ref name="Wardlaw, Henry, d.1440, Bishop of St Andrews">{{Cite DNB|last=Sprott |first=George Washington |wstitle=Wardlaw, Henry|volume=59|pages=352-353}}</ref> on 28 February 1411.<ref name="Meadieval university">{{Cite web|title=Meadieval university|url=http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/media/court-office/documents/medieval_university.pdf|access-date=3 January 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130722053757/http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/media/court-office/documents/medieval_university.pdf|archive-date=22 July 2013}}</ref> Wardlaw then successfully petitioned the [[Antipope Benedict XIII|Avignon Pope Benedict XIII]] to grant the school university status by issuing a series of [[papal bull]]s, which followed on 28 August 1413.<ref name="Scotland1837">{{Cite book|author=Great Britain. Commission for Visiting the Universities and Colleges of Scotland|title=University of St. Andrews|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iCwPAQAAMAAJ&pg=Pag173|year=1837|publisher=W. Clowes and Sons|pages=173–}}</ref> King [[James I of Scotland]] confirmed the [[charter]] of the university in 1432. Subsequent kings supported the university, with King [[James V of Scotland]] "confirming privileges of the university" in 1532.<ref name="St Andrews history of the university">{{Cite web|title=A brief history of the University|publisher=University of St Andrews|url=http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/about/history/brief/|access-date=9 January 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last1=Lyon|first1=C.J.|title=History of St. Andrews, episcopal, monastic, academic, and civil ..., Volume 2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oe49AAAAcAAJ&q=james+V++st+andrews+university+1532&pg=PA234|publisher=Tait |year = 1843| pages =230–34|access-date=9 January 2016|quote=King James I of Scotland confirmed the charter of the university in 1432...There are four ...confirmations by James V; in the year 1532...}}</ref>
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| 1419<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Rostock]]
| {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}}
| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Rostock]], Germany
| Continuous operation during the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]] is disputed. Some sources state that "the Catholic university of Rostock closed altogether and the closure was long enough to make the refounded body feel a new institution".<ref>{{cite book|author=Owen Chadwick|title=The Early Reformation on the Continent|publisher= [[Oxford University Press]]|date= 2003| page=257|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cebhjuoZTu4C&pg=PA257|isbn=9780191520501}}</ref> and that "[the university] fell into complete decay after the beginning of the Reformation in (1523) when the university revenues were lost and matriculations ceased".<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=10194|title=University of Rostock|encyclopedia=Catholic Encyclopedia|publisher=Robert Appleton Company New York, NY|via=Catholic Online|year=1907–1912}}</ref> However, [[Johann Oldendorp]] is reported by several sources as having held a professorship at the university from 1526 to 1534, although this is not proven beyond doubt,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cpr.uni-rostock.de/resolve/id/cpr_person_00003634|title= Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensum|access-date = 14 March 2021|publisher = University of Rostock}}</ref> and other historians refer to "the remaining university lecturers" as supporting plans to restore the university revenues in 1532 (which was eventually accomplished via the Rostock Formula concordiae in 1563).<ref>{{cite book|title=Die Universität Rostock 1418–1563: eine Hochschule im Spannungsfeld zwischen Stadt, Landesherren und wendischen Hansestädten|author=Marko A. Pluns|publisher=[[Böhlau Verlag]] |date= 2007|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nRZ0X7y3tYEC&pg=PA194|page=194|isbn=9783412200398}}</ref> There are records of a number of professors being appointed in 1551, including [[Joannes Aurifaber Vratislaviensis|Johannes Aurifaber]], [[David Chytraeus]], and {{ill|Johann Draconites|de}}.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3WTnCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA113|page=113|title=Reformation Readings of the Apocalypse: Geneva, Zurich, and Wittenberg|author=Irena Dorota Backus|publisher= [[Oxford University Press]]|date= 2000|isbn=9780195138856}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://matrikel.uni-rostock.de/id/100018678|title=Immatrikulation von Ioannes Draconites|publisher=University of Rostock|access-date=4 February 2017|language=de}}</ref>
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| 1430<ref name=Verger/> (originally 1391–1394)<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Ferrara]]
| [[File:Arms of the house of Este (1).svg|18px|House of Este]] [[House of Este]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Ferrara]], Italy
|
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| 1431<ref name=Verger/> (originally 1303 to c. 1400)<ref name=Verger/>
| [[Sapienza University of Rome]]
| [[File:Emblem of the Papacy SE.svg|22px|Coat of arms of the Papal States]] [[Papal States]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Rome]], Italy
| Founded in 1303 but closed at the end of the 14th century; refounded 1431.<ref name=Verger/>
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| 1444<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Catania]]
| {{flagicon|Two Sicilies|sicily}} [[Kingdom of Sicily]]
| {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Catania]], Italy
|
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| 1450<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Barcelona]]
| [[File:Estandarte de la Corona de Aragon.svg|22px|Standard of the Crown of Aragon]] [[Crown of Aragon]]
| {{flagicon|Spain}} [[Barcelona]], Spain
| Founded by [[Alfonso V of Aragon]] on 3 September 1450 as the ''[[Studium Generale|Estudi General]] de Barcelona''. From 1401 the city had a [[Medieval medicine of Western Europe|medical school]] founded by [[Martin of Aragon|King Martin of Aragon]] (the ''Estudi General de Medecina de Barcelona''), to which a faculty of arts was added in 1402. Before this, there were chairs of higher education (associated with the cathedral, the Dominican Convent of Santa Carolina, and the ''escoles majors'' supported by the city's governing council) from the 13th century.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ub.edu/web/portal/en/the-ub/the-university/history/|title=The University of Barcelona: More than five centuries of history|publisher=University of Barcelona|access-date=24 February 2021}}</ref>
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| 1451<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Glasgow]]
| {{flag|Kingdom of Scotland}}
| {{flagicon|UK}} [[Glasgow]], United Kingdom
| Founded by papal bull in 1451, it is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four [[ancient universities]]. Along with the universities of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and St Andrews, the university was part of the Scottish Enlightenment during the 18th century.
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| 1456<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Greifswald]]
| rowspan="4" | {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}}
| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Greifswald]], Germany
| Some professors from [[Rostock]] taught temporarily in Greifswald between 1437 and 1443 due to unrest in Rostock. The university was founded in 1456 by [[Wartislaw IX, Duke of Pomerania|Duke Wartislaw IX]] with the approval of [[Pope Callixtus III]] on the initiative of Heinrich Rubenow, Lord Mayor of Greifswald (and first rector). Teaching paused temporarily during the [[Protestant Reformation]] (1527–39).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.uni-greifswald.de/en/university/history/university-chronicle/|title=Chronicle of the University of Greifswald|publisher=University of Greifswald|access-date=24 February 2021}}</ref>
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| 1457<ref name=Verger/>
| [[Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg]]
| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Freiburg]], Germany
| A [[papal bull]] of 1455 authorised the [[Prince-Bishopric of Constance|Bishop of Constance]] to establish a university, and in 1457 a ducal charter from [[Albert VI, Archduke of Austria]] founded the university.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/universitieseur07rashgoog/page/n288/mode/1up|page=268|title= The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages: pt. 1. Italy. Spain. France. Germany. Scotland, etc|publisher= Clarendon Press|author=Hastings Rashdall|year=1895}}</ref>
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| 1459<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Basel]]
| {{flagicon|Switzerland}} [[Basel]], Switzerland
|
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| 1459<ref name=Verger/>–1472<ref name=Ingolstadt>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/universitieseur07rashgoog/page/n290|pages=270–272|title= The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages: pt. 1. Italy. Spain. France. Germany. Scotland, etc|publisher= Clarendon Press|author=Hastings Rashdall|year=1895}}</ref>
| [[Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich]]
| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Munich]], Germany
| Founded in [[Ingolstadt]] in 1472; with a [[papal bull]] obtained in 1459 from [[Pope Pius II]] by [[Louis the Rich]], transferred to [[Landshut]] in 1800 and then to Munich in 1826.<ref name=Ingolstadt/>
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| 1475<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Copenhagen]]
| {{flag|Kingdom of Denmark}} within the {{flag|Kalmar Union}}
| {{flagicon|Denmark}} [[Copenhagen]], Denmark
|
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| 1476<ref name=Verger/>
| [[Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen]]
| {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}}
| {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Tübingen]], Germany
|
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| 1477<ref name=Verger/>
| [[Uppsala University]]
| [[File:Svensk_flagg_1815.svg|20px|link=]] [[Kingdom of Sweden]] within the {{flag|Kalmar Union}}
| {{flagicon|Sweden}} [[Uppsala]], Sweden
| Established in 1477 by the Catholic Archbishop [[Jakob Ulvsson]]. Decayed due to political unrest in the first decade of the 16th century and then the [[Reformation]] in the 1520s and 30s, remaining "only an idea without real content" until re-chartered in 1595.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/history/summary/|title=The history of Uppsala University|publisher=Uppsala University|access-date=14 March 2021}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| 1495<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Aberdeen]]
| {{flag|Kingdom of Scotland}}
| {{flagicon|UK}} [[Aberdeen]], United Kingdom
| [[King's College, Aberdeen|King's College]] was founded by a [[papal bull]] in 1495 and then [[Marischal College]] in 1593; they merged in 1860.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abdn.ac.uk/about/history/our-history.php|title=History|publisher=University of Aberdeen|access-date=11 March 2021}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| 1499<ref name=Verger/>
| [[Complutense University of Madrid]]
| [[File:Banner of arms crown of Castille Habsbourg style.svg|border|26px|Pennant of the Crown of Castile]] [[Crown of Castile]]
| {{flagicon|Spain}} [[Madrid]], Spain
| A ''studium generale'' was founded by [[Sancho IV of Castile]] in 1293 in [[Alcalá de Henares]]. Very little is known of this institution over the next two centuries.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://biblioteca.ucm.es/historica/bc-herencia|title=La herencia de la universidad medieval|language=Spanish|access-date=14 March 2021|publisher=Complutense University of Madrid Library}}</ref> In 1499 a [[papal bull]] was granted by [[Pope Alexander VI]] authorising Archbishop [[Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros|Cisneros]] to establish a ''Colegio Mayor'' in Alcalá with the same powers as the universities of [[University of Salamanca|Salamanca]] and [[University of Valladolid|Vallodolid]], from which date Verger considers it a university.<ref name=Verger/> The new university opened in 1509.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://biblioteca.ucm.es/historica/bc-fundacion|title=La fundación cisneriana: el Colegio Mayor de San Ildefonso|language=Spanish|access-date=14 March 2021|publisher=Complutense University of Madrid Library}}</ref> The university was moved to Madrid in 1836 by royal decree.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://biblioteca.ucm.es/historica/bc-traslado|title=Traslado de la Universidad Complutense a Madrid|language=Spanish|access-date=14 March 2021|publisher=Complutense University of Madrid Library}}</ref>
|- valign="top"
| 1500<ref name=Verger/>
| [[University of Valencia]]
| [[File:Estandarte de la Corona de Aragon.svg|22px|Standard of the Crown of Aragon]] [[Crown of Aragon]]
| {{flagicon|Spain}} [[Valencia]], Spain
|
|}

== Oldest universities by country or region after 1500 still in operation ==
The majority of European countries had universities by 1500. Many universities were established at institutes of learning such as schools and colleges that may have been founded significantly earlier but were not classed as universities upon their foundation; this is normally described in the notes for that institution. In some countries (particularly the US and those influenced by its culture), degree-granting higher education institutions that would normally be called universities are instead called colleges, in this case both the oldest institution that would normally be regarded as a university and the oldest institution (if different) to actually be called a university are given. In many parts of the world the first university to have a presence was an institution based elsewhere (often the [[University of London]] via the affiliation of a local college); where this is different from the first locally established university both are given.

=== Africa ===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! colspan=2 | Location
! width=120px rowspan=2 | Current name
! width=160px rowspan=2 | Year
! rowspan=2 | Notes
|-
! width=120px|Current
! width=120px|Original
|-
| {{flagcountry|Algeria}} ([[Algiers]])|| {{flagicon|FRA}} [[French Algeria]] ([[Algiers]]) || [[University of Algiers]] ||1909 ||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Angola}} ([[Luanda]])|| {{flagicon|POR}} [[Portuguese Angola]] ([[Luanda]]) || [[Agostinho Neto University]] ||1962 || Founded as ''Estudos Gerais Universitários de Angola''. Was renamed ''Universidade de Luanda'' (University of Luanda) in 1968. After [[Angolan War of Independence|Angolan independence]] from [[Portugal]] in 1975, the institution was renamed the University of Angola (''Universidade de Angola''). In 1985 it was renamed ''Agostinho Neto University'', in honour of [[Agostinho Neto]], the first President of Angola.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Benin}} ([[Abomey-Calavi]])|| {{flagicon|Benin}} [[Republic of Dahomey]] ([[Abomey-Calavi]]) ||[[University of Abomey-Calavi]]||1970||Originally the University of Dahomey. Renamed the National University of Benin in 1975 and took its current name in 2001.
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Botswana}} ([[Gaborone]], [[Francistown]], [[Maun, Botswana|Maun]])||[[University of Botswana]]||1964 (as part of the [[University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland]]; university 1982)||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Burkina Faso}} ([[Ouagadougou]])|| [[File:Flag_of_Upper_Volta.svg|23px]] [[Republic of Upper Volta]] ([[Ouagadougou]]) ||[[University of Ouagadougou]]||1974||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Burundi}} ([[Bujumbura]]) || [[File:Flag of Burundi (1962–1966).svg|23px]] [[Kingdom of Burundi]] ([[Bujumbura]]) || [[University of Burundi]]||1964||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Cameroon}} ([[Yaoundé]]) || [[File:Flag_of_Cameroon_(1961-1975).svg|23px]] [[Federal Republic of Cameroon]] ([[Yaoundé]]) || [[University of Yaoundé]] || 1962 || In 1993 following a university reform the University of Yaounde was split into two ([[University of Yaoundé I]] and [[University of Yaoundé II]]) following the university branch-model pioneered by the [[University of Paris]].
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Cape Verde}} ([[Praia]])||[[Jean Piaget University of Cape Verde]] ||2001|| As a result of the merger of the two previously existing higher education establishments (ISE and ISECMAR)
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Central African Republic}} ([[Bangui]])||[[University of Bangui]]||1969||
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Chad}} ([[N'Djamena]])||[[University of N'Djamena]]||1971||Originally the University of Chad, renamed the University of N'Djamena 1994.
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Comoros}} ([[Moroni, Comoros|Moroni]])||[[University of the Comoros]]||2003<ref>{{cite news|author=Wagdy Sawahel|date=15 July 2016|title=Higher education struggles under multiple pressures|work=University World News|url=https://www.universityworldnews.com/post-mobile.php?story=2016070208521759}}</ref>||
|-
| colspan=1|{{flagcountry|Democratic Republic of the Congo}} ([[Kinshasa]])||[[File:Flag of Congo Free State.svg|23px]] [[Belgian Congo]] ([[Kinshasa]])||[[University of Kinshasa]]||1954|| Originator established as the [[Lovanium University]], affiliated to the [[Catholic University of Leuven (1835–1968)|Catholic University of Leuven]]. Merged into the [[National University of Zaire]] in 1971 then demerged under its current name in 1981.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Republic of the Congo}} ([[Brazzaville]]) || [[File:Flag_of_the_People's_Republic_of_Congo.svg|23px]] [[People's Republic of the Congo]] ([[Brazzaville]]) || [[Marien Ngouabi University]]||1971|| Founded as the University of Brazzaville in 1971, changed to current name in 1977.
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Djibouti}} ([[Djibouti City]])||[[University of Djibouti]]||2006||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Egypt}} ([[Giza]])|| {{flagicon|EGY|variant=1882}} [[Khedivate of Egypt]] ([[Cairo]]) || [[Cairo University]] ||1908|| The oldest university in Egypt and second oldest higher education institution (after [[Al-Azhar University]], which was founded as a [[madrasa]] c. 970 and became a university in 1962)
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Equatorial Guinea}} ([[Malabo]])||[[National University of Equatorial Guinea]]||1995||
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Eritrea}} ([[Mai Nefhi]])||[[Eritrea Institute of Technology]]||2003|| Founded following the closure of the [[University of Asmara]], which had been established as a college in 1958
|-
| {{flagcountry|Eswatini}} ([[Kwaluseni]])||{{flagcountry|Swaziland}} ([[Kwaluseni]])||[[University of Eswatini]]||1964 (as part of the [[University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland]]; university 1982)|| Originally established as the University of Swaziland, changed to current name in 2018
|-
| {{flagcountry|Ethiopia}} ([[Addis Ababa]])|| {{flagicon|ETH|variant=1897}} [[Ethiopian Empire]] ([[Addis Ababa]]) || [[University of Addis Ababa]] ||1950 (as college offering degree courses; university 1962)|| The university was originally called the University College of Addis Ababa in 1950, offering courses leading to degrees of the [[University of London]]. It became Haile Selassie I University in 1962, named after the Ethiopian Emperor [[Haile Selassie|Haile Selassie I]]. The institution received its current name in 1975.
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Gabon}} ([[Libreville]])||[[Omar Bongo University]]||1970|| Founded as the National University of Gabon and took current name in 1978
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Gambia}} ([[Serekunda]])||[[University of the Gambia]]||1999||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Ghana}} ([[Accra]])|| {{flagcountry|Gold Coast}} ([[Accra]]) || [[University of Ghana]] ||1948 (as affiliate college of the [[University of London]]; university 1961)<ref>{{cite web|title=University of Ghana | Legon|url=http://www.ug.edu.gh/index1.php?linkid=243&sublinkid=72|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130601144614/http://www.ug.edu.gh/index1.php?linkid=243&sublinkid=72|archive-date=1 June 2013|access-date=15 August 2013|publisher=Ug.edu.gh}}</ref>|| Founded as the University College of the Gold Coast, an affiliate college of the [[University of London]] which supervised its academic programmes and awarded the degrees. It gained full university status in 1961.
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Guinea}} ([[Conakry]])||[[Gamal Abdel Nasser University of Conakry]]||1962||
|-
| colspan=2 rowspan=2|{{flagcountry|Guinea-Bissau}} ([[Bissau]])||[[Universidade Colinas de Boé]]||2003||
|-
|[[Universidade Amílcar Cabral]]||2003||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Ivory Coast}} ([[Abidjan]])||[[Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny]] ||1964 (as main campus of the University of Abidjan; university 1996)||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Kenya}} ([[Nairobi]])||[[File:Flag of Kenya (1921–1963).svg|link=[[:File:Flag of British East Africa]].svg|23px]] [[Kenya Colony|Colony and Protectorate of Kenya]]
([[Nairobi]])
| [[University of Nairobi]] ||1961 (as affiliate college of the [[University of London]]; college 1956; university 1970)|| Oldest in Kenya. Established 1956 as the ''Royal Technical College''. Renamed the ''Royal College of Nairobi'' when it became affiliated to the [[University of London]] in 1961. On 20 May 1964, was renamed ''University College Nairobi'' when it was admitted as a constituent college of inter-territorial [[University of East Africa]]. In 1970, it transformed into the first national university in Kenya and was renamed the University of Nairobi.<ref name="J. M. Hyslop 1964 286–302">{{cite journal|jstor=41821619|title=The University of East Africa|author= J. M. Hyslop|journal= Minerva|volume= 2|issue=3|date= 1964| pages=286–302|doi=10.1007/BF01097318|s2cid=145768841}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|Kenya}} ([[Nairobi]])||[[File:Flag of Kenya (1921–1963).svg|link=[[:File:Flag of British East Africa]].svg|23px]] [[Kenya Colony|Colony and Protectorate of Kenya]]
([[Nairobi]])
| [[Egerton University]] ||1939 as a farm school; 1987 as university||Founded in 1939, and was originally named Egerton Farm School. It was established by a land grant of 740 acres (3 km2) by [[Maurice Egerton, 4th Baron Egerton]]. The school's original purpose was to prepare white European youth for careers in agriculture. By 1955, the name had changed to Egerton Agricultural College. A one-year certificate course and a two-year diploma course in agriculture were offered. In 1958, Lord Egerton donated another 1,100 acres (4.5 km2) of land. Soon afterward, the college opened its doors to people of all races from Kenya and other African countries in 1956. In 1979, with support from the Government of Kenya and [[USAID]], the college expanded yet again, becoming part of the University of Nairobi system. In 1987, the college was recognized as a chartered public university.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Our Profile|url=https://www.egerton.ac.ke/our-profile|access-date=2021-08-16|website=Egerton University|language=en-gb}}</ref>
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Lesotho}} ([[Roma, Lesotho|Roma]])||[[National University of Lesotho]]||1964 (as part of the [[University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland]]; college 1945; university 1975||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Liberia}} ([[Monrovia]])||[[University of Liberia]] ||1951 (college 1863)|| Building on Liberia College founded in 1863
|-
| {{flagcountry|Libya}} ([[Benghazi]] & [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]])|| {{flagicon|LBY|variant=1956}} [[Kingdom of Libya]] ([[Benghazi]]) || [[University of Libya]] ||1956|| A royal decree was issued on 15 December 1955 for the founding of the university. The first faculty to be formed was the Faculty of Literature in Benghazi, and the royal palace "Al Manar", from which [[Idris of Libya|King Idris I]] of Libya declared its independence on 24 December 1951, was assigned to be the campus. Later divided to University of Benghazi and [[University of Tripoli]], the names were changed again during [[History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi|Gaddafi's era]], but now they have reinstated their original names.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Madagascar}} ([[Antananarivo]])|| {{flagicon|FRA}} [[French Madagascar|Colony of Madagascar and Dependencies]] ([[Antananarivo]]) || [[University of Antananarivo]] ||1961 (as university; institute for advanced studies 1955)|| Founded December 1955 as the Institute for Advanced Studies in Antananarivo. Renamed the University of Madagascar in 1961.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Malawi}} ([[Zomba, Malawi|Zomba]], [[Blantyre]] & [[Lilongwe]])||[[University of Malawi]] ||1965 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Mali}} ([[Bamako]])||[[University of Bamako]] ||1996 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Mauritania}} ([[Nouakchott]])||[[University of Nouakchott Al Aasriya]] ||1981 ||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Mauritius}} ([[Moka]])|| {{flagicon|Mauritius|1923}} [[British Mauritius]] ([[Moka]]) || [[University of Mauritius]] || 1965 || The Faculty of Agriculture is the oldest faculty of the university. It was founded in 1914 as the School of Agriculture in 1914, and in 1966 it was incorporated into the newly established University of Mauritius.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Morocco}} ([[Fez, Morocco|Fez]]) || [[File:Flag of Morocco (780 1070) (1258 1659).svg|23px]] [[Idrisid dynasty|Idrisid Kingdom of Morocco]] ([[Fez, Morocco|Fez]]) || [[University of Al Quaraouiyine]] ||1965 (as university; madrasa 859)|| Traces its origins back to the al-Qarawiyyin mosque and associated [[madrasa]] founded by [[Fatima al-Fihri]] in 859, and was named a university in 1965. It is the oldest continuously operating institution of higher learning in the world,<ref>{{cite web|title=Oldest higher-learning institution, oldest university|url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/oldest-university|access-date=30 June 2020|work=Guinnes World Records}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Medina of Fez|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/170|access-date=30 June 2020|work=World Heritage List|publisher=[[UNESCO]]}}</ref> though only became an official university in 1965.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Morocco}} ([[Rabat]])||[[Mohammed V University]] ||1957|| Founded as University of Rabat
|-
| {{flagcountry|Mozambique}} ([[Maputo]])|| {{flagicon|POR}} [[Portuguese Mozambique]] ([[Maputo|Lourenço Marques]]) || [[Eduardo Mondlane University]] ||1962 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Namibia}} ([[Windhoek]])||[[University of Namibia]] ||1992||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Niger}} ([[Niamey]])||[[Abdou Moumouni University]] ||1974|| Originally the University of Niamey
|-
|{{flagcountry|Nigeria}} ([[Ibadan]])|| [[File:Flag of Nigeria (1914–1952).svg|23px]] [[Colonial Nigeria|Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria]] ([[Yaba, Lagos]]) || [[University of Ibadan]] ||1949 (as affiliated college of the [[University of London]]; college 1932; university 1962)|| Founded as ''Yaba College'' in 1932 in [[Yaba, Lagos]], as the first [[Tertiary education|tertiary educational institute]] in Nigeria. Yaba College was transferred to Ibadan, becoming the ''University College of Ibadan'', in 1948<ref>{{cite book|last=Nkulu|first=Kiluba L.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ms9Bs9fUmpcC&pg=PA52|title=Serving the Common Good: an African perspective on higher education|publisher=Peter Lang|year=2005|isbn=978-0-8204-7626-1|page=54}}</ref> and was a university college associated with the [[University of London]]. Independent university since 1962.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=University of Ibadan History|url=https://www.ui.edu.ng/History|access-date=1 Feb 2021|website=University of Ibadan}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|Nigeria}} ([[Nsukka]])|| {{flagicon|Nigeria}} [[Federation of Nigeria]] ([[Nsukka]]) || [[University of Nigeria, Nsukka]] ||1960<ref>{{cite web|title=History/Overview|url=http://www.unn.edu.ng/administration/office-of-the-vice-chancellor/records-unit/|access-date=12 February 2017|publisher=University of Nigeria}}</ref>|| First university in Nigeria.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Rwanda}} ([[Kigali]])|| {{flagcountry|Rwanda|1962}} ([[Kigali]]) || [[University of Rwanda]] ||1963|| Founded as the National University of Rwanda in 1963; incorporated into the University of Rwanda 2013
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|São Tomé and Príncipe}} ([[São Tomé]])||[[University of São Tomé and Príncipe]] ||2014 (as university; polytechnic school 1996)||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Sahrawi Republic}} ([[Tifariti]])||[[University of Tifariti]] ||2013||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Senegal}} ([[Dakar]])||{{flagicon|France}}[[French Senegal]] ([[Dakar]])||[[Cheikh Anta Diop University]] ||1957||
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Seychelles}} ([[Anse Royale]])||[[University of Seychelles]] ||2009||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Sierra Leone}} ([[Freetown]])|| [[File:Flag of Sierra Leone (1916–1961).svg|23px]] [[Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate]] ([[Freetown]]) || [[Fourah Bay College]] ||1876 (as affiliated college of [[Durham University]]; college 1827; part of [[University of Sierra Leone]] 1967)|| Oldest university-level institution in Africa. Founded as a missionary school to train teachers in 1827. Became an affiliated college of [[Durham University]] in 1876 and awarded first degrees in West Africa in 1878. Became part of the federal University of Sierra Leone in 1967.<ref>{{cite web|title=Fourah Bay College (1827 – )|date=13 January 2010|url=http://www.blackpast.org/gah/fourah-bay-college-1827|access-date=3 October 2015|publisher=BlackPast.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|date=2012|title=The First BA in Africa|url=https://issuu.com/durhamfirst/docs/dug2379_durham_first_32_aw4_web/7|magazine=Durham First|issue=32|page=7}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|Somalia}} ([[Mogadishu]])|| {{flagdeco|Italy}} [[Trust Territory of Somaliland]] ([[Mogadishu]]) || [[Somali National University]] ||1954 ||
|-
| {{flagcountry|RSA}} ([[Pretoria]])|| {{flagicon|Cape Colony}} [[Cape Colony]] ([[Cape Town]]) || [[University of South Africa]] ||1873|| Originally founded as the [[University of the Cape of Good Hope]] in 1916 it was transformed into the federal University of South Africa (Unisa) and relocated to Pretoria.
|-
| {{flagcountry|South Sudan}} ([[Juba]]) || {{flagicon|Sudan}} [[History of Sudan (1969–1985)|Democratic Republic of the Sudan]] ([[Juba]]) ||[[University of Juba]]||1975||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Sudan}} ([[Khartoum]]) || [[File:Flag of Sudan (1956–1970).svg|23px]] [[History of Sudan (1956–69)|Republic of the Sudan]] ([[Khartoum]]) || [[University of Khartoum]] ||1956 (as university; college 1902)<ref>{{cite web|title=Historical Background|url=http://www.uofk.edu/en/about/historical|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030025742/http://www.uofk.edu/en/about/historical|archive-date=30 October 2013|access-date=11 November 2013|publisher=[[University of Khartoum]]}}</ref>|| Renamed from Gordon Memorial College, founded 1902, when it gained full university status in 1956
|-
|{{flagcountry|Tanzania}} ([[Dar es Salaam]]) || [[File:Flag of Tanganyika (1923–1961).svg|23px]] [[Tanganyika (territory)|Tanganyika Territory]] ([[Dar es Salaam]]) ||[[University of Dar es Salaam]] || 1961 (as affiliated college of the [[University of London]]; part of the [[University of East Africa]] 1963; university 1970)||
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Togo}} ([[Lomé]]) ||[[University of Lomé]]||1970|| Originally the University of Benin, changed to current name in 2001
|-
| {{flagcountry|Tunisia}} ([[Tunis]]) || [[File:Umayyad Flag.svg|23px]] [[Umayyad Caliphate]] ([[Tunis]]) || [[University of Ez-Zitouna]] ||1961 (as university; madrasa c. 737)|| Traces its origins back to the Al-Zaytuna [[madrasa]] founded around 737, it gained university status in 1961
|-
| {{flagcountry|Uganda}} ([[Kampala]])|| [[File:Flag of the Uganda Protectorate.svg|23px]] [[Uganda Protectorate|British Protectorate of Uganda]] ([[Kampala]]) || [[Makerere University]] ||1922||Started as a technical college in 1922. Then became an [[Affiliated school|affiliate college]] of the [[University of London]]; part of the [[University of East Africa]] 1963. It would become an independent University<ref>[https://www.mak.ac.ug/about-makerere About Makerere]</ref> 1970.
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Zambia}} ([[Lusaka]]) ||[[University of Zambia]]||1966||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Zimbabwe}} ([[Harare]])|| {{flagcountry|Southern Rhodesia}} ([[Harare|Salisbury]]) || [[University of Zimbabwe]] ||1952 (as affiliated college of the [[University of London]]; university 1970)||Founded in 1952 as University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. University of Rhodesia from 1970 and University of Zimbabwe from 1980
|}

=== Asia ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- valign="top"
! colspan=2 | Location
! width="15%" rowspan=2 | Current name
! width="5%" rowspan=2 | Year
! width="50%" rowspan=2 | Notes
|-
! width="15%" | Current
! width="15%" | Original
|- valign="top"
| {{flagcountry|Afghanistan}} ([[Kabul]])|| {{flagicon|Kingdom of Afghanistan}} [[Kingdom of Afghanistan]] ([[Kabul]]) || [[Kabul University]] ||1931|| Founded in 1931, formally opened 1932.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Bahrain}} ([[Sakhir]], [[Isa Town]])||[[University of Bahrain]] ||1986||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Bangladesh}} ([[Dhaka]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Dhaka|Dacca]], [[Bengal Presidency]]) || [[University of Dhaka]] ||1921|| First university in Bangladesh, opened 1 July 1921.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.du.ac.bd/main_menu/the_university/about|title=The University|publisher= Dhaka college|access-date=12 February 2017}}</ref>
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Bhutan}} ([[Thimphu]])||[[Royal University of Bhutan]] ||2003||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Brunei}} ([[Bandar Seri Begawan]])||[[University of Brunei Darussalam]] ||1985||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Cambodia}} ([[Phnom Penh]])|| {{flagicon|Cambodia|1863}} [[French Protectorate of Cambodia]] ([[Phnom Penh]]) || [[Royal University of Fine Arts]] ||1918||
|-
| rowspan="4" | {{flagcountry|PRC}}||[[Song Empire]] ([[Yuelu Mountain]], [[Changsha, Hunan]]) || [[Hunan University]] ||1903 (as university; academy 976)|| Known in Chinese as 湖南大学. The university was originally called the [[Yuelu Academy]] in 976 and was converted into Hunan Institute of Higher Learning (with university status) in 1903. It was later renamed [[Hunan Normal University|Hunan Normal College]], Hunan Public Polytechnic School, and finally Hunan University in 1926.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=_ZAwDwAAQBAJ&dq=oldest+learning+institute+china+still+exist&pg=PA74 Library World Records, 3d ed.; by Godfrey Oswald]</ref>
|-
| rowspan="3" |{{flagicon|Qing dynasty|1862}} [[Qing Empire]] 
|[[Peking University]]
|1898
|First modern national university in China, whose original name was Imperial University of Peking (京师大学堂). It is the successor of [[Guozijian (Beijing)|Guozijian]], or Imperial College, which was founded in 1306.
|-
|[[Tianjin University]]
|1895
|The first higher education institution in China. It was established in 1895 as Imperial Tientsin University (天津北洋西學學堂) and later Peiyang University (北洋大學). In 1951, after restructuring, it was renamed Tianjin University, and became one of the largest multidisciplinary engineering universities in China.
|-
|[[Nanjing University]]||1902|| Traces its origins to a Confucian institution [[taixue|Taihsueh]] (太學), which was founded in 258. Known in Chinese as Jinling University (金陵大学). Was a private university later merged with the public University of Nanjing (南京大学). First institution in China to use the English term "university". Educational institutions were closed in China on 13 June 1966 due to the Cultural Revolution, reopening in July 1967.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://people.hofstra.edu/alan_j_singer/CoursePacks/ChinasGreatProletarianCulturalRevolution.pdf|title=China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution|author1=Kerry Schaefer|author2=Lisa Torre|access-date=11 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324103237/http://people.hofstra.edu/alan_j_singer/CoursePacks/ChinasGreatProletarianCulturalRevolution.pdf|archive-date=24 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|East Timor}}|| [[National University of East Timor]] ||2000||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Hong Kong}}|| {{flagcountry|Hong Kong|1910}} || [[The University of Hong Kong]] ||1911 (as university; college 1887)|| Founded as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese in 1887, incorporated as a university in 1911
|-
| rowspan=2|{{flagcountry|India}} ([[New Delhi]])
| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Aligarh]], [[United Provinces of British India]]) ||[[Jamia Milia Islamia]]
|1920|| Moved from [[Aligarh]] to New Delhi in 1925 and to its current location in 1936.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jmi.ac.in/aboutjamia/profile/history/historical_note-13|title=History|publisher=Jamia Milia Islamia|access-date=17 September 2022}}</ref>
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| {{flag|British Raj}} (New Delhi) ||[[Delhi University]]
|1922|| First university established in Delhi, affiliating four older colleges ([[St. Stephen's College, Delhi|St Stephen's College]], [[Hindu College, Delhi|Hindu College]], [[Zakir Husain Delhi College]] and [[Ramjas College]])
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| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Serampore]])|| {{flagicon|DEN}} [[Danish India]] ([[Serampore]]) || [[Serampore College]] ||1827 (as university; college 1818)|| Incorporated and granted university status and the right to award degrees by royal charter of [[Frederick VI of Denmark]] on 23 February 1827, endorsed by the Bengal Government Act 1918.<ref>{{cite news|
url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/todays-paper/tp-life/article1115067.ece|title=Colonial Archive|author=Sankar Ray|work=[[The Hindu]]| date=11 April 2008|access-date=12 February 2017}}</ref>
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| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Kolkata]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]]) || [[University of Calcutta]] || rowspan="3" |1857|| First full-fledged multi-disciplinary university in [[South Asia]]. The [[University of Mumbai|University of Bombay]] and the [[University of Madras]] were subsequently established in the same year
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| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Mumbai]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Bombay]], [[Bombay Presidency]]) || [[University of Mumbai]] || Called the University of Bombay until 1996.
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| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Chennai]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Madras]], [[Madras Presidency]]) || [[University of Madras]] ||
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| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Aligarh]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Aligarh]], [[North-Western Provinces]]) ||[[Aligarh Muslim University]] || rowspan="1" |1920 (college 1875)|| Established as Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College in 1875; became Aligarh Muslim University in 1920.
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| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Allahabad]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Allahabad]], [[United Provinces of British India]]) || [[University of Allahabad]] || rowspan="1" |1887||
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| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Chandigarh]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Punjab]], [[United Provinces of British India]]) ||[[Panjab University]] || rowspan="1" |1882||<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/features/panjab-university-journey-and-evolution-382148 | title=Panjab University: Journey and evolution }}</ref>
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| {{flagcountry|India}} ([[Varanasi]])|| {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Banaras]], [[United Provinces of British India]]) ||[[Banaras Hindu University]] || rowspan="1" |1916||
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| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Indonesia}}|| rowspan="2" | {{flagicon|Netherlands}} [[Dutch East Indies]] || [[University of Indonesia]] ||1924 (as ''hogeschool''; medical school 1851; university 1947)|| Incorporates the medical school founded as the Dokter-Djawa School Batavia in 1851, which became the ''Geneeskundige Hogeschool'' in 1927 and the ''Rechts Hogeschool'' founded in 1924.
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|[[Bandung Institute of Technology]] ||1920|| Founded as ''Technische [[Hogeschool#Netherlands|Hogeschool]]''. Renamed in 1959.
|-

| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Iran}}|| {{flagicon|Iran|1925}} [[Imperial State of Persia]] || [[University of Tehran]] ||1934|| Founded by [[Rezā Shāh]], incorporating portions of the [[Dar ul-Funun (Persia)|Dar ul-Funun]] Polytechnic Institute (1851) and the [[Tehran School of Political Sciences]] (1899)
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| {{flagicon|Iran|1925}} [[Sublime State of Persia]] || [[Kharazmi University]] ||1974|| Named after [[Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi|Khwarizmi]] (c. 780–850), Persian mathematician, astronomer and geographer. It was established in 1919 as the Central Teachers' Institute and gained university status as Tarbiat Moallem University of Tehran in 1974. It changed its name to Kharazmi University on January 31, 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-03-30 |title=Kharazmi University |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/kharazmi-university |access-date=2022-06-23 |website=Times Higher Education (THE) |language=en}}</ref>
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| {{flagcountry|Iraq}}|| {{flagicon|Iraq|1924}} [[Kingdom of Iraq]] || [[University of Baghdad]] ||1956 || The Iraqi Royal College of Medicine was established in 1928
|-
| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Israel}}|| {{flagcountry|Ottoman Empire}} || [[Technion – Israel Institute of Technology]] ||1912 (opened 1924)|| Founded in 1912, but formal teaching began in 1924
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|{{flagicon|FRA}}{{flagicon|UK}} [[Occupied Enemy Territory Administration]] || [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] ||1918 ||
|-
| rowspan="3" | {{flagcountry|Japan}}|| rowspan="3" | {{flag|Empire of Japan}} || [[University of Tokyo]] ||1877 || Previous names are University of Tokyo (1877–1886), Imperial University (1886–1897), and Tokyo Imperial University (1897–1947). Its origins include a private college of Confucian studies founded by Hayashi Razan in 1630,<ref>須藤敏夫『近世日本釈奠の研究』（思文閣出版、2001年） {{ISBN|978-4-7842-1070-1}}</ref> Tenmonkata (The Observatory, 1684)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/gen03/b03_02_j.html |title=東京大学 [東京大学の歴史]沿革略図 |publisher=U-tokyo.ac.jp |access-date=15 August 2013}}</ref> and Shutōsho (Smallpox Vaccination Centre, 1849).<ref>深瀬泰旦著『天然痘根絶史』恩文閣出版、2002年9月 {{ISBN|4-7842-1116-0}}</ref> The university was established in 1877 by the merger of three institutions: Shoheiko (Japanese and Chinese Literature, established 1789), Yogakusho (Occidental Studies, established 1855) and Shutosho (Vaccinations, established 1860), originally as Tokyo University before becoming the Imperial University and then Tokyo Imperial University before reverting to its original name after World War II.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/about/chronology.html| title=Chronology|publisher=Tokyo University|access-date=8 April 2017}}</ref>
|-
|[[Keio University]] ||1920 (as university; school for Dutch studies 1858) || Founded as a "school for [[Rangaku|Dutch studies]]" in 1858. College with three university departments (literature, law and economics) established 1890. Accredited as a university by the Japanese government in 1920.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.keio.ac.jp/en/about/history/index.html|title=History|publisher=Keio University|access-date=8 April 2017}}</ref>
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|[[Ryukoku University]] ||1876 (as "Daikyoko (Great School)"; school 1639; university 1922)|| Traces its origins to a school for Buddhist monks of the [[Nishi Hongan-ji]] denomination founded in 1639. Assumed its current name and became a university under the University Ordinance in 1922.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ryukoku.ac.jp/english2/about/e_history.html|title=The Spirit of Tradition and Innovation Embodied in the 370 Year History of Ryukoku|publisher=Ryukoku University|quote=Daikyoko (Great School) established in September, 1876, as the highest institution of the educational system promulgated by the Nishi-Hongwanji organization … 1922 Renamed Ryukoku University Became a university under University Ordinance|access-date=8 April 2017}}</ref>
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Jordan}}||[[University of Jordan]] ||1962||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Kazakhstan}}|| {{flagcountry|Soviet Union}} ([[Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic]]) || [[Al-Farabi Kazakh National University]] ||1933 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Kuwait}}||[[University of Kuwait]] ||1966||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Kyrgyzstan}}||{{flagcountry|Soviet Union}} ([[Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic]])||[[Kyrgyz National University]] ||1951 (as university; institute of education 1925)||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Laos}}||[[National University of Laos]] ||1996||
|-
| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Lebanon}}|| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Ottoman Empire}} || [[American University of Beirut]] ||1866 (as degree-awarding college; university 1920)|| Originally Syrian Protestant College, chartered by the [[New York (state)|State of New York]], took current name in 1920
|-
|[[Saint Joseph University]] ||1872||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Macau}}|| {{flagcountry|Macau|colonial}} || [[University of Macau]] ||1981|| Established as University of East Asia in 1981, renamed 1991
|-
| {{flagcountry|Malaysia}}
|{{flagicon|UK}} [[British Malaya]]||[[University of Malaya]] ||1905|| Established as Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School on 13 July 1905 in Singapore
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Maldives}}||[[Maldives National University]] ||1998 (as degree awarding college; university 2011)|| Established in 1998 as the Maldives College of Higher Education, establishing its first degree course in 2000. Became the Maldives National University in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mnu.edu.mv/history/|title=History|work=Maldives National University|access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>
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| {{flagcountry|Mongolia}}|| {{flagicon|Mongolia|1924}} [[Mongolian People's Republic]] || [[National University of Mongolia]] ||1942||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Myanmar}}|| {{flagcountry|British Burma}} || [[Rangoon University]] ||1878<ref>{{cite news| url=https://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE7AQ02420111127 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402093336/http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE7AQ02420111127 | url-status=dead | archive-date=2 April 2015 | work=Reuters | title=Yangon – From stately city to crumbling symbol of isolation | date=27 November 2011}}</ref>||
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| {{flagcountry|Nepal}}|| {{flagcountry|Nepal|old}} || [[Tribhuvan University]] ||1959<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tribhuvan-university.edu.np/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=173&Itemid=232 |title=About Us |publisher=Tribhuvan-university.edu.np |access-date=15 August 2013}}</ref>||
|-
| {{flagcountry|North Korea}}|| {{flagicon|USSR}} Korea ([[Provisional People's Committee for North Korea]]) || [[Kim Il-sung University]] ||1946||
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagcountry|Oman}} || [[Sultan Qaboos University]] ||1986<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.squ.edu.om/About/About-SQU/Campus-Profile|title=Campus Profile|work=Sultan Qaboos University|access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>||
|-
| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Pakistan}}|| rowspan="2" | {{flag|British Raj}} ([[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]]) || [[University of the Punjab]] ||1882|| Established by [[British Raj|British colonial authorities]] in 1882 as the first university in what would become Pakistan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pu.edu.pk/page/show/AboutUs.html|title=About Us|publisher=University of the Punjab|access-date=8 April 2017}}</ref>
|-
|[[Government College University, Lahore]] ||1864 (as affiliated college of the [[University of Calcutta]]; university 2002)|| Established as Government College, Lahore, 1864. Became an independent university in 2002.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://punjablaws.gov.pk/laws//443.html|title=The Government College University, Lahore Ordinance 2002|website= Punjab Laws Online|access-date=8 April 2017}}</ref>
|-
|{{flagcountry|Palestine}}||[[File:Flag of the Israel Defense Forces.svg|20px]] [[Israeli Military Governorate]]||[[Bethlehem University]]||1973<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bethlehem.edu/about/mission-history|title=Mission and History|work=Bethlehem University|access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>||
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| {{flagcountry|Philippines}}|| {{flagicon|Spanish Empire|1785}} [[Captaincy General of the Philippines]] || [[University of Santo Tomas]] ||1645 (college 1611) || Founded on 28 April 1611 by the [[Order of Preachers]] and raised to university status by [[Pope Innocent X]] in 1645. The [[National Historical Commission of the Philippines]] recognizes it as the oldest university in the country as well as in Asia.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nhcp.gov.ph/asias-oldest-university-the-royal-and-pontifical-university-of-santo-tomas/|title=Asia's Oldest University, The Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas|publisher=National Historical Commission of the Philippines|date=4 September 2012|author=Quennie Ann J. Palafox|access-date=7 September 2020}}</ref>
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Qatar}}||[[Qatar University]] ||1977<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.qu.edu.qa/about|title=About|work=Qatar University|access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Saudi Arabia}}||[[King Saud University]] ||1957||
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| {{flagcountry|Singapore}}|| {{flagcountry|Straits Settlements}} || [[National University of Singapore]] ||1905|| Founded as Straits and Federated Malay States Government Medical School
|-
| rowspan="2" |{{flagcountry|South Korea}}||rowspan="2" |{{flag|Joseon}} || [[Sungkyunkwan University]] ||1895 (as university; royal institution 1398) || [[Sungkyunkwan]] was established in 1398 as the highest educational institution of the Joseon Dynasty. In 1895, Sungkyunkwan was reformed into a modern three-year university after the national state examination was abolished the previous year. It was again reorganized as Sungkyunkwan University in 1946 at the end of the Japanese occupation of Korea.
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|[[Ewha Womans University]]||1946 (as university; school 1886)||Established in 1886 as the Ewha Haktang mission school for girls, started higher education in 1910, and was reorganized as Ewha Womans University in 1946.
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| {{flagcountry|Sri Lanka}}|| {{flagcountry|British Ceylon}} || [[University of Colombo]] ||1942|| Formed in 1942 as the [[University of Ceylon]] by the amalgamation of University College Colombo (established 1921) and [[Ceylon Medical College]] (established in 1870). Was part of the University of Sri Lanka 1972–1978.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cmb.ac.lk/index.php/history/|title=History|publisher=University of Colombo|access-date=8 April 2017}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|Syria}}|| [[File:Flag of the State of Damascus.svg|20px]] [[State of Damascus]] || [[University of Damascus]] ||1923|| Founded in 1923 through the merger of the School of Medicine (established 1903) and the Institute of Law (established 1913)
|-
| {{flagcountry|TWN}}|| {{flagicon|Empire of Japan}} [[Taiwan under Japanese rule|Japanese Taiwan]]|| [[National Taiwan University]] ||1928 || Founded as Taihoku (Taipei) Imperial University
|-
| {{flagcountry|Tajikistan}}||{{flagcountry|USSR}} ([[Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic]])||[[Tajik National University]] ||1947||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Turkmenistan}}||{{flagcountry|USSR}} ([[Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic]])||[[Turkmen State University]] ||1950 (as university; pedagogical institute 1931)||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Thailand}}||[[Chulalongkorn University]] ||1917 (as university; college 1899)||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|UAE}}||[[United Arab Emirates University]] ||1976||
|-
| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Vietnam}}|| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|French Indochina}} || [[Hanoi Medical University]] ||1902||
|-
|[[Vietnam National University, Hanoi]] ||1904|| Originally the University of Indochina, first full subject university in Vietnam.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Yemen}}|| {{flagcountry|Yemen Arab Republic}} || [[Sana'a University]] ||1970||
|-
|}

=== Europe ===
While Europe had 143 universities in 1789, the [[French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars]] took a heavy toll, reducing the number to 83 by 1815. The universities of France were abolished<ref name="Jones, 2006"/> and over half of the universities in both Germany and Spain were destroyed. By the mid 19th century, Europe had recovered to 98 universities.<ref name=Ruegg3>{{cite book|title=A History of the University in Europe|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|author=Walter Rüegg|date=2004|volume=3, Universities in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1800–1945)|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=entlN4EEPUYC&pg=PA4|page=3|chapter=1 Themes|isbn=9781139453028}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- valign="top"
! colspan=2 | Location
! width="15%" rowspan=2 | Current name
! width="5%" rowspan=2 | Year
! width="50%" rowspan=2 | Notes
|-
! width="15%" | Current
! width="15%" | Original
|- valign="top"
| {{flagcountry|Albania}} ([[Tirana]])||{{flagicon|Albania|1946}} [[People's Socialist Republic of Albania]] ([[Tirana]]) ||[[University of Tirana]] ||1957 || Originally established in 1957 as the State University of Tirana through merging of five existing institutes of higher education, the most important of which was the Institute of Sciences, founded in 1947.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Albania}} ([[Shkodër]])||{{flagicon|Albania|1946}} [[People's Socialist Republic of Albania]] ([[Shkodër]])||[[University of Shkodër "Luigj Gurakuqi"]] || 1957 ||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Armenia}} ([[Yerevan]])|| {{flagicon|Armenia|1918}} [[First Republic of Armenia]] ([[Gyumri|Alexandropol]]) || [[Yerevan State University]] || 1919 ||
|-
| {{flagcountry|Austria}} ([[Graz]])||{{flagicon|Austria}} [[Archduchy of Austria]], {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Graz]]) ||[[University of Graz]] ||1585 (continuous from 1827)|| Founded in 1585 by Archduke Charles II of Austria. Closed 1782–1827.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Austria}} ([[Innsbruck]])||{{flagicon|Austria}} [[Archduchy of Austria]], {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Innsbruck]]) || [[University of Innsbruck]] || 1669 (continuous from 1826)|| Originally established as a [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] school in 1562 before becoming a university in 1669. Closed as a university from 1782 to 1826.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Azerbaijan}} ([[Baku]])||{{flagicon|Azerbaijan|1918}} [[Azerbaijan Democratic Republic]] ([[Baku]])|| [[Baku State University]] ||1919 || In 1930, the government ordered the university shut down in accordance with a reorganization of higher education, and the university was replaced with the Supreme Pedagogical Institute. In 1934 the university was reestablished.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Belgium}} ([[Flemish Region]]) ([[Ghent]])|| {{flagicon|Netherlands}} [[United Kingdom of the Netherlands]] ([[Ghent]]) ||[[Ghent University]] ||1817|| Established in 1817 by [[William I of the Netherlands]]
|-
| {{flagcountry|Belgium}} ([[Wallonia]]) ([[Liège]])||{{flagicon|Netherlands}} [[United Kingdom of the Netherlands]] ([[Liège]])||[[University of Liège]]||1817 || Established in 1817 by [[William I of the Netherlands]]
|-
| {{flagcountry|Belgium}} ([[Flemish Region]] and [[Wallonia]]) ([[Leuven]] and [[Louvain-la-Neuve]])||{{flag|Belgium|1830}} ([[Mechelen]])||[[KU Leuven]] and [[UCLouvain]]|| 1834 || Founded as the [[Catholic University of Mechelen|Catholic University of Belgium]] in [[Mechelen|Mechlin]] on 8 November 1834 by the bishops of Belgium. Moved to Leuven on 1 December 1835, after the suppression of the [[State University of Leuven]], where it took the name [[Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968)|Catholic University of Louvain]].{{refn|The [[Court of Cassation (Belgium)|Court of Cassation of Belgium]] ruled 26 November 1846, that this new Catholic University of Louvain founded in Mechlin in 1834 does not have any links with the Old University of Louvain founded in 1425 and abolished in 1797 and can not be regarded as continuing it: "The Catholic University of Louvain can not be regarded as continuing the old University of Louvain", in, ''Table générale alphabétique et chronologique de la Pasicrisie Belge contenant la jurisprudence du Royaume de 1814 à 1850'', Brussels, 1855, p. 585, column 1, alinea 2. See also: ''Bulletin Usuel des Lois et Arrêtés'', 1861, p.166. To see also this rule of the ''Cour d'Appel'' of 1844: ''La Belgique Judiciaire'', 28 July 1844 n° 69, p. 1 : "''Cour d'Appel de Bruxelles. Deuxième chambre. L'université libre de Louvain ne représente pas légalement l'antique université de cette ville. Attendu que cette université (l'ancienne Université de Louvain), instituée par une bulle papale, de concert avec l'autorité souveraine, formait un corps reconnu dans l'État, ayant différentes attributions, dont plusieurs même lui étaient déléguées par le pouvoir civil; Attendu que ce corps a été supprimé par les lois de la république française; Attendu que l'université existant actuellement à Louvain ne peut être considérée comme continuant celle qui existait en 1457, ces deux établissemens ayant un caractère bien distinct, puisque l'université actuelle, non reconnue comme personne civile, n'est qu'un établissement tout-à-fait privé, résultat de la liberté d'enseignement, en dehors de toute action du pouvoir et sans autorité dans l'État...''".

"Court of Appeal of Brussels. Second Chamber. The Free University of Louvain is not legally representend the old university in that city. Whereas this University (formerly University of Louvain), established by a papal bull, together with the sovereign authority, formed a body recognized by the State, with different functions, many of which even he was delegated by the civil power. And whereas this body was removed by the laws of the French Republic; Whereas the currently existing university in Leuven can not be regarded as continuing that which existed in 1457, these two establishments with a distinct character, since the currently university is not recognized as legal person, and is institution is entirely private, the result of academic freedom, apart from any action without authority and power in the state."

According to Arlette Graffart,<ref>"La matricule de l'Université de Louvain (1817–1835)", in : ''Album Carlos Wyffels'', Bruxelles, 1987, p. 177</ref> only the State University of Louvain, deserves to be considered as the "resurrection of this one" : "elle seule ⟨the [[State University of Louvain]]⟩ et non point celle qui vit le jour en 1834 à l'initiative des évêques de Belgique, c'est-à-dire l'université catholique de Malines devenue de Louvain l'année suivante".|group=Note}} In 1968, it split to form two institutions: Dutch-speaking [[Katholieke Universiteit Leuven|Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven]] and French-speaking [[Université catholique de Louvain]].
|-
| {{flagcountry|Belgium}} ([[Brussels|Brussels – Capital Region]])||{{flag|Belgium|1830}} ([[Brussels]])||[[Université libre de Bruxelles]] and [[Vrije Universiteit Brussel]] || 1834|| Founded in 1834 as the ''Université libre de Belgique'' (Free University of Belgium). In 1836, it changed its name to Université libre de Bruxelles. On 1 October 1969, the university was split into two sister institutions: the French-speaking ''Université libre de Bruxelles'' and the Dutch-speaking ''Vrije Universiteit Brussel''. Both names mean Free University of Brussels in English, so neither uses the English translation as it is ambiguous.
|-
| {{flagcountry|BIH}} ([[Sarajevo]]) || {{flag|Yugoslavia|alias}} ([[Sarajevo]]) || [[University of Sarajevo]] || 1949||
|-
| rowspan="1" | {{flagcountry|Bulgaria}} ([[Sofia]]) || {{flagicon|Bulgaria|1878}} [[Principality of Bulgaria]] ([[Sofia]])|| [[Sofia University]] || 1904 ("higher pedagogical course" from 1888)<ref>{{cite journal|last=Pundeff|first=Marin|title=The University of Sofia at Eighty|journal=Slavic Review|volume=27|issue=3|pages=438–446|date=September 1968|jstor=2493343|doi=10.2307/2493343|s2cid=164056461 }}</ref> ||
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| {{flagcountry|Croatia}} ([[Zagreb]])||{{flag|Kingdom of Croatia (Habsburg)}} ([[Zagreb]]) || [[University of Zagreb]] || 1669 || History of the university began on 23 September 1669, when the [[Holy Roman Emperor]] [[Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor|Leopold I]] issued a decree granting the establishment of the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit Academy]] of the Royal Free City of Zagreb. Decree was accepted at the Council of the Croatian Kingdom on 3 November 1671.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Czech Republic}} ([[Olomouc]])||{{flagicon|Bohemia}} [[Lands of the Bohemian Crown|Bohemian crown lands]], {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Olomouc]]) || [[Palacký University]] || 1573 || Originally known as Olomouc [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]] University.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Denmark}} ([[Copenhagen]]) ||[[Technical University of Denmark]] || 1829 ||Was founded in 1829 as the ''College of Advanced Technology''
|-
| {{flagcountry|Estonia}} ([[Tartu]])|| [[File:Svensk_flagg_1815.svg|20px|link=]] [[Kingdom of Sweden]] ([[Tartu|Dorpat]])|| [[University of Tartu]] || 1632 (continuous operation since 1802)||Founded as Academia Gustaviana in the then Swedish province of [[Livonia]]. It was closed from 1710 to 1802.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Finland}} ([[Helsinki]])||[[File:Svensk_flagg_1815.svg|20px|link=]] [[Kingdom of Sweden]] ([[Turku|Åbo]]) || [[University of Helsinki]] || 1640 ||Founded as the [[Royal Academy of Turku]] (Swedish: ''Kungliga Akademin i Åbo''). It was shut down by the [[Great Fire of Turku]] in 1827. The [[University of Helsinki]] was founded the next year, in 1828, and it started operating in 1829. The University of Helsinki sees itself as continuation of the Royal Academy of Turku.
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| {{flagcountry|France}} ([[Paris]])||{{flag|Kingdom of France|seme}} ([[Paris]]) || [[Sorbonne University]]||1150–1250 (continuous operation since 1896)|| Emerged around 1150 as a corporation associated with the cathedral school of [[Notre-Dame de Paris|Notre Dame de Paris]], it was considered the second-oldest university in Europe. Officially chartered in 1200 by [[Philip II of France]] and recognised in 1215 by [[Pope Innocent III]], it was often nicknamed after its theology collegiate institution, College of Sorbonne, founded about 1257 by [[Robert de Sorbon]] and charted by [[Louis IX of France]]. It was abolished in 1793 by the [[French Revolution]],<ref name="Jones, 2006"/> and was replaced by [[Napoleon]] on 1 May 1806 by the ''[[University of France]]'' system. In 1896 the Louis Liard law allowed the founding of a new University of Paris. In 1970, it split into 13 separate universities and numerous specialised institutions of higher education. In 2018, [[Sorbonne University]] was formed from the [[Paris-Sorbonne University]] (created from the faculty of humanities of the University of Paris) and [[Pierre and Marie Curie University]] (created from the faculty of science and medicine of the University of Paris).<ref>[https://www.studyinternational.com/news/consolidation-of-two-elite-paris-universities-confirmed-for-2018/#ueqSveXzd4FU54uu.97 Study International, Consolidation of two elite Paris universities confirmed for 2018]</ref><ref>[https://thepienews.com/news/mega-university-planned-for-pariss-left-bank/ The Pie News, Mega university planned for Paris's Left Bank]</ref>
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| {{flagcountry|France}} ([[Occitania (administrative region)|Occitanie]])||[[File:Flag_of_Occitania.svg|25px]] [[County of Toulouse]] ([[Toulouse]]) ||[[Université fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées]] || continuous operation since 1896|| Founded by [[papal bull]] in 1229 as the University of Toulouse. It closed in 1793 due to the [[French Revolution]], and reopened in 1896. In 1969, it split into three separate universities and numerous specialised institutions of higher education. It no longer represents a single university, as it is now the collective entity which federates the universities and specialised institutions of higher education in the region.
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| {{flagcountry|France}} ([[Montpellier]])||[[File:Bandera del Reino de Mallorca.svg|25px]] [[Kingdom of Majorca]] ([[Montpellier]]) ||[[University of Montpellier]] [[Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III|Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3]] || continuous operation since 1896|| The world's oldest medicine faculty was established before 1137 and operated continuously until the [[French Revolution]]. University by [[papal bull]] in 1289. It closed in 1793 due to the French Revolution, and reopened in 1896. The university of Montpellier was officially re-organised in 1969 after a students' revolt. It was split into its successor institutions the [[University of Montpellier 1]] (comprising the former faculties of medicine, law, and economy), [[Montpellier 2 University|Montpellier 2]] (science and technology) and [[Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III|Montpellier 3]] (social sciences, humanities and liberal arts). On 1 January 2015, the [[University of Montpellier 1]] and the [[Montpellier 2 University|University of Montpellier 2]] merged to form the newly recreated University of Montpellier.<ref name="lamarseillaise1">{{cite web|url=http://www.lamarseillaise.fr/herault-du-jour/education/34545-l-universite-de-montpellier-a-l-epreuve-de-la-fusion |title=L'université de Montpellier à l'épreuve de la fusion – Journal La Marseillaise |publisher=Lamarseillaise.fr |access-date=14 October 2015}}</ref><ref name="umontpellier2">{{cite web|author=Université |url=http://www.umontpellier.fr/universite/histoire-de-luniversite/ |title=Université de Montpellier » Histoire de l'Université |publisher=Umontpellier.fr |date=20 June 2014 |access-date=14 October 2015}}</ref> Meanwhile, the [[Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III|Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3]] remains a separate institution.
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| {{flagcountry|France}} ([[Aix-en-Provence]], [[Marseille]]) || [[File:Drapeau de Provence « ancien ».svg|22px]] [[County of Provence]], {{flag|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Aix-en-Provence|Aix]]) ||[[Aix-Marseille University]] || continuous operation since 1896||Founded in 1409 as the University of Provence, and in 1792, dissolved, along with twenty-one other universities. In 1896 it was reformed as the University of Aix-Marseille, one of 17 self-governing regional universities financed by the state. In 1968 it was divided into two institutions, the University of Provence (Aix-Marseille I) as a school of languages and letters, and the University of Aix-Marseille (Aix-Marseille II) as primarily a school of medicine and sciences. In 1973 the University of Law, Economics and Science (Aix-Marseille III) was added. In 2012 the three universities merged and was renamed Aix-Marseille University.
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| {{flagcountry|France}} ([[Lille]])||[[File:Generieke_vlag_van_Vlaanderen.svg|22px]] [[County of Flanders]], [[File:Bandera_cruz_de_Borgoña_2.svg|22px]] [[Spanish Netherlands]] ([[Douai]]) ||[[University of Lille]] || 1559|| Founded by [[Philip II of Spain]] in 1559 as the [[University of Douai]]. It closed in 1795 due to the [[French Revolution]], and reopened in 1808. In 1887, it was transferred as University of Lille 27 km away from Douai. In 1971, it split into three separate universities. At the beginning of 2018, the three universities merged to form again the University of Lille.
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| {{flagcountry|Germany}} ([[Wittenberg]] [[Halle (Saale)|Halle]])|| {{flagcountry|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Wittenberg]]) || [[Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg]] || 1502 ||Established in 1502 as the University of Wittenberg. Merged with University of Halle (founded 1691) in 1817.
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| {{flagcountry|Germany}} ([[Frankfurt/Oder]])|| {{flagcountry|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Frankfurt/Oder]]) || [[European University Viadrina|European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)]] || 1506 (continuous operation from 1991) ||Established in 1506 as the ''Alma Mater Viadrina''. Relocated and merged with the [[University of Wrocław|Leopoldina]] in Breslau (present-day [[Wrocław]], Poland) in 1811. Reestablished in Frankfurt (Oder) in 1991 after [[German reunification]].
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| {{flagcountry|Georgia}} ([[Tbilisi]])||{{flag|Democratic Republic of Georgia}} ([[Tbilisi]]) || [[Tbilisi State University]] ||1918|| Founded in 1918 as Tbilisi State University
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| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Gibraltar}}||[[University of Gibraltar]] || 2015<ref>{{cite news|author=Guy Clapperton|title=The new campus on the Rock – part 2 |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/newstatesman-gibraltar/special-features/2015/09/new-campus-rock-part-2|access-date=15 October 2019|work=New Statesman|publisher=Progressive Digital Media|date=22 September 2015}}</ref>||
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| {{flagcountry|Greece}} ([[Athens]])|| {{flag|Kingdom of Greece|1831}} ([[Athens]])||[[National and Kapodistrian University of Athens]] || 1837<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.uoa.gr/about_us/|title=about us|work= National and Kapodistrian University of Athens|access-date=11 August 2019}}</ref>||
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| rowspan="1" | {{flagcountry|Hungary}} ([[Budapest]])|| {{flag|Kingdom of Hungary}} ([[Trnava|Nagyszombat]]) || [[Eötvös Loránd University]] ||1635||Founded in 1635 by the archbishop and theologian [[Péter Pázmány]] as the ''University of Nagyszombat''. Renamed Royal Hungarian University of Science in 1769. The university was moved to [[Buda]] (today part of Budapest) in 1777. The university moved to its final location in [[Pest, Hungary|Pest]] (now also part of Budapest) in 1784 and was renamed Royal University of Pest. It has been renamed three times since then: University of Budapest (1873–1921), (Hungarian Royal Pázmány Péter University (1921–1950), and since 1950, Eötvös Loránd University.
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| {{flagcountry|Iceland}} ([[Reykjavík]])||{{flagcountry|Denmark}} ([[Reykjavík]]) || [[University of Iceland]] || 1911||
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| {{flagcountry|Ireland}} ([[Dublin]])||{{flag|Kingdom of Ireland}} ([[Dublin]]) ||[[University of Dublin]] ||1592|| Founded by Queen [[Elizabeth I]] and modelled after the [[Collegiate university|collegiate universities]] of [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]]. Only one college was ever established, [[Trinity College, Dublin|Trinity College Dublin]], making the two designations effectively synonymous.
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| {{flagcountry|Italy}} ([[Urbino]])|| [[File:Corona ferrea monza (heraldry).svg|24px]] [[Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)|Kingdom of Italy]], {{flagcountry|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Urbino]]) || [[University of Urbino]] || 1506 ||
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| {{flagcountry|Kosovo}}{{efn|{{Kosovo-note}}}} ([[Pristina]])||{{flag|Yugoslavia|alias}} ([[Pristina]]) || [[University of Pristina]] || 1969||
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| {{flagcountry|Latvia}} ([[Riga]])||{{flag|Russian Empire}} ([[Riga]])||[[Riga Technical University]] ||1862|| First established as Riga Polytechnicum in 1862
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| {{flagcountry|Liechtenstein}} ([[Vaduz]]) || {{flagcountry|Liechtenstein}} ([[Vaduz]])|| [[University of Liechtenstein]] ||1961|| Successor to the Abendtechnikum Vaduz in 1992
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| {{flagcountry|Lithuania}} ([[Vilnius]])|| [[File:Flaga_Rzeczypospolitej_Obojga_Narodow_ogolna.svg|22px]] [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] ([[Vilnius]]) ||[[Vilnius University]] || 1579 (continuous operation since 1919)|| Founded as the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit Academy]] of Vilnius; the university was closed from 1832 to 1919 and again in 1943–44
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| {{flagcountry|Luxembourg}} ([[Esch-sur-Alzette]]) || {{flagcountry|Luxembourg}} ([[Esch-sur-Alzette]])|| [[University of Luxembourg]] || 2003||
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| {{flagcountry|Malta}} ([[Msida]])|| {{flagicon|Sovereign Military Order of Malta}} [[Hospitaller Malta]] ([[Valletta]]) || [[University of Malta]] || 1769 || First established as the [[Collegium Melitense]] by the Jesuits in 1592
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| {{flagcountry|Netherlands}} ([[Leiden]])||{{flag|Dutch Republic}} ([[Leiden]]) || [[Leiden University]] || 1575|| Although formally still part of the [[Habsburg Netherlands]], Leiden sided with the [[Dutch Revolt]] in 1572
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|{{flagcountry|Netherlands}} ([[Groningen]])||{{flag|Dutch Republic}} ([[Groningen]]) || [[University of Groningen]] || 1614||Together with [[Leiden University]], it was one of the only two Dutch universities to retain their status during the [[Kingdom of Holland|Napoleonic occupation of the Netherlands.]]
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| {{flagcountry|Netherlands}} ([[Utrecht]])||{{flag|Dutch Republic}} ([[Utrecht]]) || [[Utrecht University]] || 1636||The Utrecht University was abolished during the Napoleonic era, reorganized as a French Imperial School for Higher Education. Only after the defeat of Napoleon and the establishment of the [[United Kingdom of the Netherlands|Kingdom of the Netherlands]] in 1815 was it to be reconstituted as a university.
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| {{flagcountry|North Macedonia}} ([[Skopje]])||{{flag|Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia}} ([[Skopje]]) || [[Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje]] || 1946 ||
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| {{flagcountry|Norway}} ([[Oslo]])||{{flag|Denmark–Norway}} ([[Oslo|Christiania]]) || [[University of Oslo]] || 1811||Founded as The Royal Frederik's University
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| {{flagcountry|Poland}} ([[Wrocław]])|| {{flagicon|Bohemia}} [[Lands of the Bohemian Crown|Bohemian crown lands]], {{Flag|Holy Roman Empire}} ([[Breslau]])||[[University of Wrocław]] || 1702|| Founded in 1702 by [[Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor]] as the university ''Leopoldina''. It has been renamed five times since then: ''Universitas Literarum Vratislaviensis'' in 1742 by [[Frederick II of Prussia|King Frederick II of Prussia]], ''Silesian Friedrich Wilhelm University in Breslau'' in 1811, ''University of Breslau'' in the second half of the 19th century, ''Bolesław Bierut university'' between 1952 and 1989, and since 1989, ''University of Wrocław''.
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| {{flagcountry|Poland}} ([[Warsaw]])|| {{flagicon|Poland|1815}} [[Congress Poland|Kingdom of Poland]], {{flag|Russian Empire}}
|[[University of Warsaw]] ||1816||Founded as a Royal University on 19 November 1816, when the Partitions of Poland separated Warsaw from the older [[University of Kraków]] (founded in 1364).
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|{{flagcountry|Portugal}} ([[Porto]])||{{flag|Kingdom of Portugal}} ([[Porto]]) ||[[University of Porto]]|| 1836 (university 1911)||First established as Polytechnic University of Porto and Medical-Surgical School of Porto since 1836
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|{{flagcountry|Portugal}} ([[Lisbon]])||{{flag|Portuguese Republic}} ([[Lisbon]]) ||[[University of Lisbon]]|| 1911||Successor to the Lisbon General Study'','' 1290
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| {{flagcountry|Romania}} ([[Iași]])|| [[File:Flag of the United Principalities of Romania (1862 - 1866).svg|20px]] [[United Principalities]] ([[Iași]]) || [[Alexandru Ioan Cuza University]] || 1860<ref name="Study-in-romania.ro">{{cite web |url=http://www.study-in-romania.ro/historyofeducation.htm |title=Study in Romanian – Learn & Live Freely |publisher=Study-in-romania.ro |access-date=15 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150611181940/http://www.study-in-romania.ro/historyofeducation.htm |archive-date=11 June 2015 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref name="Uaic.ro">{{cite web|url=http://www.uaic.ro/en/university-2/short-history/ |title=Short history |publisher=Alexandru Ioan Cuza University|access-date=10 August 2017}}</ref>||Successor to the [[Princely Academy, Iaşi|Princely Academy from Iaşi]], 1642, and [[Academia Mihăileană]], 1835<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uaic.ro/en/university-2/university/timeline/|title=Timeline|publisher=Alexandru Ioan Cuza University|access-date=10 August 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811150130/http://www.uaic.ro/en/university-2/university/timeline/|archive-date=11 August 2017}}</ref>
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| {{flagcountry|Romania}} ([[Bucharest]])|| [[File:Flag of the United Principalities of Romania (1862 - 1866).svg|20px]] [[United Principalities]] ([[Bucharest]]) || [[University of Bucharest]] ||1864<ref name="Study-in-romania.ro" /><ref name="Unibuc.ro">{{cite web |url=http://www.unibuc.ro/en/main_scv_en |title=University of Bucharest – EN Home Page |publisher=University of Bucharest |date=1 January 1980 |access-date=15 August 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329034235/http://www.unibuc.ro/en/main_scv_en |archive-date=29 March 2012 }}</ref>||Successor to the [[Saint Sava College]], 1694
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| {{flagcountry|Romania}} ([[Cluj-Napoca]])||{{flag|Principality of Transylvania}} ([[Cluj-Napoca|Kolozsvár]])|| [[Babeș-Bolyai University]] || 1518 (continuous operation since 1919)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://u-szeged.hu/download.php?docID=7855|title=A Szegedi Tudományegyetem és elődei története (1581–2011)|author=Makk F., Marjanucz, L.|publisher=University of Szeged|date=2011|isbn=9789633060940}}</ref><ref name="Study-in-romania.ro" /><ref name="A significant history">{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130808134307/http://www.ubbcluj.ro/en/despre/misiune/istoric.html|archive-date=8 August 2013|url=http://www.ubbcluj.ro/en/despre/misiune/istoric.html |title=A significant history |publisher=[[Babeș-Bolyai University|Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca]] |access-date=11 November 2013}}</ref> || Academic successor of [[Jesuit Academy of Cluj|Academia / Universitas Claudiopolitana]] (1581), continued by [[Franz Joseph University]] (1872), King Ferdinand I University (1919), and [[Babeș-Bolyai University]] in its current form (1959).
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| {{flagcountry|Russia}} ([[Saint Petersburg]])|| {{flag|Russian Empire}} ([[Saint Petersburg]]) || [[Saint Petersburg State University]] || 1724 (continuous from 1819)||Claims to be the successor of the university established along with the Academic Gymnasium and the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences on 24 January 1724 by a decree of [[Peter the Great]]. In the period between 1804 and 1819, Saint Petersburg University officially did not exist
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| {{flagcountry|Russia}} ([[Moscow]])|| {{flag|Russian Empire}} ([[Moscow]])||[[Moscow State University]] || 1755||Founded in 1755 as [[Imperial Moscow University]]
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| {{flagcountry|Serbia}} ([[Belgrade]])||{{flag|Kingdom of Serbia}} ([[Belgrade]])|| [[University of Belgrade]] || 1808||Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-based departments into a single university, under current name from 1905; Orthodox Christian [[Lyceum]] in 1794; Teacher's college in 1778.
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| {{flagcountry|Slovakia}} ([[Bratislava]])|| {{flag|Czechoslovakia}} ([[Bratislava]])||[[Comenius University]] || rowspan="2" |1919||
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| {{flagcountry|Slovenia}} ([[Ljubljana]])||{{flagcountry|Kingdom of Yugoslavia|name=Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes}} ([[Ljubljana]]) || [[University of Ljubljana]] ||
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| {{flagcountry|Spain}} ([[Seville]])|| {{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[Seville]]) || [[University of Seville]] || 1505 ||
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| colspan="2" | [[File:Svensk_flagg_1815.svg|20px|link=]] [[Kingdom of Sweden]] ([[Lund]]) || [[Lund University]] || 1666||A Franciscan Studium Generale was founded in Lund in 1425, as the first university in Northern Europe, but as a result of the [[Protestant Reformation]] the operations of the catholic university were suspended.
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| {{flagcountry|Switzerland}} ([[Lausanne]])|| {{flag|Old Swiss Confederacy}} ([[Lausanne]]) || [[University of Lausanne]] ||1537||
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| colspan="2" | {{flag|Switzerland}} ([[Zurich]]) || [[University of Zurich]] || 1833 (incorporating colleges dating to 1525)||University established in 1833, taking in the [[Carolinum, Zürich|Carolinum]] theology college, dating to 1525, and colleges of law and medicine.
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| rowspan="2" | {{flag|Turkey}} ([[Istanbul]])||rowspan="2" | {{flag|Ottoman Empire}} ([[Constantinople]])||[[Istanbul Technical University]] || 1773 (university 1928)||Founded in 1773 as [[Turkish Naval Academy|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]] by the Ottoman Sultan [[Mustafa III]], but became a state university in 1928.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.itu.edu.tr/en/about-itu/general/history |title=Istanbul Technical University |publisher=Itu.edu.tr |access-date=15 August 2013}}</ref>
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| [[Istanbul University]] || 1453 (university 1933)||
Its ultimate origins lie in a [[madrasa]] and institute of higher education founded by the Ottoman Sultan [[Mehmed II]] in 1453; was reformed to a Western style of education with multiple faculties of sciences in 1846; gained university status in 1933.
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| {{flagcountry|Ukraine}} ([[Kharkiv]])|| {{flag|Russian Empire}} ([[Kharkiv]]) || [[National University of Kharkiv|V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University]] || 1804||
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| {{flagcountry|Ukraine}} ([[Lviv]]) || [[File:Flaga_Rzeczypospolitej_Obojga_Narodow_ogolna.svg|22px]] [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] ([[Lwów]]) || [[Lviv University]] || 1661 (continuous from 1850) ||Operated from 1661 to 1773, 1784–1805, 1817–1848, and since 1850.
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| {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|SCO}}) ([[Edinburgh]])|| {{flag|Kingdom of Scotland}} ([[Edinburgh]]) || [[University of Edinburgh]] || 1582–3<ref name=Ruegg680>{{cite book|title=A History of the University in Europe|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|author=Walter Rüegg|date=2004|volume=3, Universities in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1800–1945)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=entlN4EEPUYC&pg=PA680|page=680|isbn=9781139453028}}</ref>|| Formally established as the ''Tounis College'' (Town's College) under the authority of a [[royal charter]] granted to the Town of Edinburgh by King [[James VI and I|James VI]] of Scotland on 14 April 1582.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gteIvcJ5GVMC&pg=PA100|title=Commerce and Culture: Edinburgh, Edinburgh University, and the Scottish Enlightenment|page=100|work= The University and the City: From Medieval Origins to the Present|author=Nicholas Phillipson|editor= Thomas Bender|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|date=1988|isbn=9780195067750}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QE-P0ffkTUoC&pg=PA42|title=Edinburgh|pages=42–43|author=Michael Lynch|work= Charters of Foundation and Early Documents of the Universities of the Coimbra Group|editor=Jos. M. M. Hermans, Marc Nelissen|publisher=Leuven University Press|date= 2005|isbn=9789058674746}}</ref> It opened its doors to students in October 1583.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ed.ac.uk/about/our-history|title=Our History|publisher=University of Edinburgh|access-date=15 August 2017}}</ref>
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| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|ENG}}) ([[Durham, England|Durham]])||[[Durham University]] || 1832<ref name=Ruegg684>{{cite book|title=A History of the University in Europe|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|author=Walter Rüegg|date=2004|volume=3, Universities in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1800–1945)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=entlN4EEPUYC&pg=PA684|page=684|isbn=9781139453028}}</ref>|| Claims to be the [[Third oldest university in England debate|third oldest university in England]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Durham University Undergraduate Prospectus 2015|publisher=[[Durham University]] | url=http://issuu.com/communicationsoffice/docs/ugp2015_complete_prospectus_web_ppp|page=6|quote=We are the third oldest university in England and one of the world's leading centres of scholarship and learning}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dur.ac.uk/about/shaped/|title=Our history and values|quote=Henry VIII and Oliver Cromwell's attempts to formally establish a University for the North in Durham were subsumed by politics and North-South rivalries, and it was not until 1832, as the Prince-Bishopric declined lost his powers, was Durham finally endowed with the Castle and lands and granted degree awarding powers by the king as England's third University|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref> 
Listed by Rüegg in [[A History of the University in Europe]] as meeting standard criteria for recognition as a university from 1832.<ref name=Ruegg684 />

Established under the authority of the University of Durham Act 1832.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/actsrelatingtoe00parlgoog|pages=[https://archive.org/details/actsrelatingtoe00parlgoog/page/n415 389]|title=Acts Relating to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England|publisher=Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England|date=1844|last1=Parliament|first1=Great Britain}}</ref> Recognised as a university in the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 and the Established Church Act 1836.<ref>{{cite book|quote=nothing herein contained shall affect or interfere with the rights and privileges granted by charter or Act of Parliament to the University of Durham|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4_RQAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA225|page=225|title=A Collection of Statutes of Practical Utility|last1=Chitty|first1=Joseph|year=1837}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|quote=that the Bishop of Durham do in future hold the castle of Durham in trust for the University of Durham|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4_RQAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA148|page=148|title=A Collection of Statutes of Practical Utility|date=1837|last1=Chitty|first1=Joseph}}</ref> Incorporated and confirmed by Royal Charter in 1837 and degrees granted equal privileges with those of Oxford and Cambridge by the Attorneys and Solicitors Act 1837.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dur.ac.uk/about/governance/charter/|publisher=[[Durham University]]|title=About Durham University – Royal Charter|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref><ref name="1837act">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jls0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA277|page=277|title=The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|publisher=His Majesty's Statute and Law Printers|date=1837}}</ref>
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| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|ENG}}) ([[London]])||[[University of London]] || 1836<ref name=Ruegg684 />||Claims to be the third oldest university in England on the basis of the date of its charter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.london.ac.uk/history.html|title=History|publisher=University of London|access-date=30 September 2015|quote=The University of London was founded by Royal Charter on 28 November 1836 and is the third oldest university in England.}}</ref> 
Listed by Rüegg as meeting standard criteria for recognition as a university from 1836.<ref name=Ruegg684 />

Established by Royal Charter as degree awarding examining body for [[King's College London]] and [[University College London]] (see below), the London medical schools, and other institutions.<ref>{{cite book|title=University of London – The Historical Record, 1836–1912|publisher=University of London|date=1912|pages=7–24|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vyPiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA7}}</ref> Degrees granted equal privileges with those of [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] by the Attorneys and Solicitors Act 1837.<ref name="1837act" /> [[University College London]] (founded 1826; charter 1836) and [[King's College London]] (charter 1829<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=08ZLAAAAcAAJ|title=The charter and by-laws of King's College, London|date=1830|last1=(London)|first1=King's College}}</ref>) claim to be the third and fourth oldest universities in England,<ref>{{cite web|title=Living in London|quote=London offers a scene and status unrivalled by any other city. UCL, England's third oldest university, is at the heart of what has been described as 'the knowledge capital of the world'.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151127131250/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/accommodation/living-london|archive-date=27 November 2015|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/accommodation/living-london|publisher=University College London|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Undergraduate Prospectus 2015|publisher=University College London|url=http://issuu.com/ucl-pams/docs/ugp_15_all|page=7}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/facts/index.aspx|publisher=King's College London|title=About King's}}</ref> but did not offer degree courses prior to the foundation of the University of London<ref>{{cite journal|journal=[[Penny Cyclopaedia]]|title=University College London
|publisher=[[Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge]]|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_bS-H_-NYM4IC/page/n28 23]–28|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_bS-H_-NYM4IC|date=1843}}</ref> and did not gain their own degree awarding powers until 2005 and 2006 respectively.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/media/library/degreepowers|title=UCL granted degree awarding powers|date=27 September 2005|publisher=University College London|access-date=12 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160410145742/https://www.ucl.ac.uk/media/library/degreepowers|archive-date=10 April 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921224332/https://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/governance/about/index.aspx |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/governance/about/index.aspx |archive-date=21 September 2015 |title=King's Governance |publisher=King's College London |access-date=12 February 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> They are listed by Rüegg as colleges of the University of London rather than as a universities.<ref name="Ruegg684" />
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| {{flagcountry|UK}} ([[Northern Ireland]]) ([[Belfast]])|| {{flagcountry|UK}} ([[History of Ireland (1801–1923)|Ireland]]) ([[Belfast]])|| [[Queen's University Belfast]] || 1845<ref name=Ruegg684 /> (as college offering degree courses; university 1908)||Oldest university in Northern Ireland. Listed by Rüegg as meeting standard criteria for recognition as a university from 1845.<ref name=Ruegg684 /> 
Founded 1845, as a university college offering courses leading to degrees of the [[Queen's University of Ireland]] then the [[Royal University of Ireland]], gained university status in 1908.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.qub.ac.uk/Discover/About-Queens/History-and-heritage/|title=History and Heritage|date=March 2016 |quote=Queen's University Belfast was founded by Royal Charter in 1845. One of three Queen's Colleges in Ireland, with the others being in Cork and Galway, it became a university in its own right in 1908.|publisher=[[Queen's University Belfast]]|access-date=28 January 2017}}</ref>
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| {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|WAL}}) ([[Cardiff]])|| {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|WAL}}) ([[Aberystwyth]], [[Bangor, Gwynedd|Bangor]], [[Cardiff]])|| [[University of Wales]] || 1893<ref name=Ruegg687>{{cite book|title=A History of the University in Europe|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|author=Walter Rüegg|date=2004|volume=3, Universities in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1800–1945)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=entlN4EEPUYC&pg=PA687|page=687|isbn=9781139453028}}</ref>|| Founded by Royal Charter in 1893 as a federal university with three constituent colleges – Aberystwyth, Bangor and Cardiff – the university was the first and oldest university in Wales. Listed by Rüegg as meeting standard criteria for recognition as a university from 1893<ref name=Ruegg687 />
|-
| {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|WAL}}) ([[Carmarthen]], [[Lampeter]], [[Swansea]])|| {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|WAL}}) ([[Carmarthen]], [[Lampeter]])|| [[University of Wales Trinity Saint David]] || 1852 (limited degree awarding powers; as college 1822) ||The university was founded as [[St David's College, Lampeter|St David's College]] (Coleg Dewi Sant) in 1822 "to provide a liberal education to members of the clergy" and was incorporated by royal charter in 1828.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uwtsd.ac.uk/news/press-releases/press-releases-2014/the-university-of-wales-trinity-saint-david-celebrates-founders-day.html|title=The University of Wales Trinity Saint David celebrates Founders Day|date=17 November 2014|access-date=30 September 2015|publisher=[[University of Wales Trinity Saint David]]}}</ref> It was renamed St David's University College (Coleg Prifysgol Dewi Sant) in 1971, when it became part of the federal University of Wales. It was again renamed [[University of Wales, Lampeter]] in 1996 in line with moves elsewhere in the University of Wales. In 2010 it merged with [[Trinity University College]] to form the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wales.ac.uk/en/NewsandEvents/News/General/UniversityofWalesTrinitySaintDavidReceivesRoyalApproval.aspx|title=University of Wales Trinity Saint David Receives Royal Approval|date=23 July 2010|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref> Although described as the oldest university in Wales,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2009/apr/17/lampeter-merge-trinity|title=End of an era for Lampeter, the oldest university in Wales|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=17 April 2009|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/fears-future-survival-wales-oldest-2086978|title=Fears for the future survival of Wales' oldest university|publisher=Wales Online|date=7 August 2009|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref> it was not listed by Rüegg as meeting standard criteria for a university<ref>{{cite book|title=A History of the University in Europe|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|author=Walter Rüegg|date=2004|volume=3, Universities in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1800–1945)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=entlN4EEPUYC|isbn=9781139453028}}</ref> and lost a court case in 1951 against the [[Ministry of Education (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Education]] in which it sought to receive recognition as a university.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://oxcheps.new.ox.ac.uk/casebook/Resources/STDAVI_1%20DOC.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030509051852/http://oxcheps.new.ox.ac.uk/casebook/Resources/STDAVI_1%20DOC.pdf | url-status=dead | archive-date=9 May 2003 | title=St David's College, Lampeter v Ministry of Education 1951 | access-date=30 December 2014 }}(PDF)</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|WAL}}) ([[Aberystwyth]])|| {{flagcountry|UK}} ({{flagcountry|WAL}}) ([[Aberystwyth]])|| [[Aberystwyth University]] || 1872<ref name=Ruegg687 /> (as college offering degree courses; university 2007)||Founded in 1872 as University College Wales, offering courses leading to degrees of the [[University of London]], it became a founder member of the University of Wales in 1894.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/university/history/timelinepart1/|title=Early Days|publisher=[[Aberystwyth University]]|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref> It claims to be "Wales's oldest university",<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/university/future/|title=Investing over £100m in your future|quote=Together they will ensure that Wales's oldest university will be well placed to survive the challenges of the twenty-first century – Aberystwyth's third century of existence.|publisher=[[Aberystwyth University]]|access-date=30 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001093619/https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/university/future/|archive-date=1 October 2015|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> but was listed by Rüegg as a college of the University of Wales rather than as a university.<ref name=Ruegg687 /> It became an independent university (as Aberystwyth University) in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/university/history/timelinepart3/|title=College by the sea to College on the hill|publisher=Aberystwyth University|access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref>
|}

=== Latin America and the Caribbean ===
{{Main|List of colonial universities in Latin America}}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- valign="top"
! colspan=2| Location
! width="15%" rowspan=2| Current name
! width="5%" rowspan=2| Year
! width="50%" rowspan=2| Notes
|-
! width="15%"| Current
! width="15%"| Original
|- valign="top"
| {{flag|Anguilla}} {{flag|Antigua and Barbuda}} {{flag|Bahamas}} {{flag|Barbados}} {{flag|Belize}} {{flag|British Virgin Islands}} {{flag|Cayman Islands}} {{flag|Dominica}} {{flag|Grenada}} {{flag|Jamaica}} {{flag|Montserrat}} {{flag|St. Kitts and Nevis}} {{flag|St. Lucia}} {{flag|St. Vincent and the Grenadines}} {{flag|Trinidad and Tobago}} {{flag|Turks and Caicos}} || {{flag|Jamaica|1906}} ([[Kingston, Jamaica|Kingston]])
| [[University of the West Indies]] || 1948 (as affiliated college of the [[University of London]]; university 1962)|| First campus opened in Jamaica as the University College of the West Indies associated with the [[University of London]] in 1948. Gained independent university status in 1962.
|-
| {{flag|Argentina}} || {{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[Viceroyalty of Peru|Perú]])
([[Governorate of the Río de la Plata|Río de la Plata]])

([[Córdoba, Argentina|Córdoba]])
| [[National University of Córdoba]] || 1613 || Oldest university in Argentina.
|-
| {{flag|Belize}} || {{flag|Belize}} || [[University of Belize]] || 2000 ||
|-
| {{flag|Bolivia}} || {{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[Viceroyalty of Peru|Perú]])
([[Real Audiencia of Charcas|Charcas]])

[[Sucre|(La Plata)]]
| [[University of Saint Francis Xavier]] || 1624 || Founded in 1624 by order of King [[Philip IV of Spain|Philip IV]], and with the support of [[Pope Innocent XII]]. Full name is The Royal and Pontificial Major University of [[Francis Xavier|Saint Francis Xavier]] of Chuquisaca
|-
| colspan="2" rowspan="3" | {{flag|Brazil}}||[[Federal University of Rio de Janeiro]] || 1920 (precursors trace back to 1792) || Created in 1920 as University of Rio de Janeiro.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sociedades.cardiol.br/socerj/revista/2008_05/a2008_v21_n05_a13Albanesi.pdf |title=O Ensino, a Universidade e a Realidade |website=Sociedades.cardiol.br |access-date=2016-03-31}}</ref> Has as precursors the Polytechnic School (founded as Royal Academy of Artillery, Fortification and Design in 1792),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://fernandanascimento.com.br/ARTIGO_OS_CURSOS_DE_ENGENHARIA_NO_BRASIL_E_AS_TRANSFORMACOES_NOS_PROCESSOS_PRODUTIVOS.pdf |title=FERNANDA NASCIMENTO |access-date=2016-11-17 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://archive.today/20161118023158/http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://fernandanascimento.com.br/ARTIGO_OS_CURSOS_DE_ENGENHARIA_NO_BRASIL_E_AS_TRANSFORMACOES_NOS_PROCESSOS_PRODUTIVOS.pdf |archive-date=2016-11-18 }}</ref> the National College of Medicine (founded as Academy of Medicine and Surgery in 1808)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dichistoriasaude.coc.fiocruz.br/iah/P/verbetes/escancimerj.htm |title=Escola Anatômica, Cirúrgica e Médica do Rio de Janeiro |access-date=January 17, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130323023854/http://www.dichistoriasaude.coc.fiocruz.br/iah/P/verbetes/escancimerj.htm |archive-date=March 23, 2013 }}</ref> and by the National College of Law (founded in 1891).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.direito.ufrj.br/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9&Itemid=23|title=Direito – Histórico|author=Administrator|access-date=5 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://educa.fcc.org.br/pdf/rbedu/n10/n10a03.pdf |title=A Universidade do Brasil |website=Educa.fcc.org.br |access-date=2016-03-31}}</ref>
|-
|[[Federal University of Paraná]] || 1912 (closed in 1920, refounded in 1951) || Closed as university in 1920. Refounded as university in 1951.
|-
|[[Federal University of Amazonas]] || 1909 (closed in 1926, refounded in 1962, precursors trace back to 1909) || Has as precursor the Free University School of Manaós, founded on 17 January 1909. Became the University of Manaós in 1910. Closed 1926, reformed 1962 as the University of Amazonas.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ufam.edu.br/historia.html|title=Historia|work=Federal University of Amazona|access-date=12 August 2019|language=pt}}</ref>
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Chile}}||[[Universidad de Chile (university)|Universidad de Chile]] || 1842 || Successor to the [[Royal University of San Felipe|Real Universidad de San Felipe]], created in 1738. Oldest university in Chile.
|-
| {{flag|Colombia}} || {{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[Viceroyalty of Peru|Perú]])
[[New Kingdom of Granada|(New Granada)]]

[[Bogotá|(Santa Fe de Bogotá)]]
| [[Saint Thomas Aquinas University]] || 1580 || Founded in 1580 by the Dominican Order. It is the second-oldest university in the [[Americas]].
|-
|{{flag|Colombia}}
|{{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[Viceroyalty of Peru|Perú]])
[[New Kingdom of Granada|(New Granada)]]

[[Bogotá|(Santa Fe de Bogotá)]]
|[[Pontifical Xavierian University]]
|1623
|Founded in 1623 by the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuit Order]]. First Jesuit university in Colombia. Temporarily closed between 1797 and 1930.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Costa Rica}}||[[University of Costa Rica]] || 1940 || The first institution dedicated to higher education in Costa Rica was the University of Saint Thomas (Universidad de Santo Tomás), which was established in 1843. That institution maintained close ties with the [[Catholic Church]] and was closed in 1888 by the progressive and anti-clerical government of President [[Bernardo Soto Alfaro]] as part of a campaign to modernize public education. The schools of law, agronomy, fine arts, and pharmacy continued to operate independently. In 1940, those four schools were re-united to establish the modern UCR, during the reformist administration of President [[Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia]].
|-
| {{flag|Cuba}} || {{flagcountry|Spain|1701}} ([[New Spain]])
[[Governorate of Cuba|(Cuba)]]

([[Havana]])
| [[Universidad de La Habana]] || 1728 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Dominica}}||[[Ross University School of Medicine]] || 1978 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Dominican Republic}}||[[Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo]] || 1914 || Successor to the [[Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino]] (founded by papal bull in 1538, royal charter in 1558) which closed in 1823.
|-
| {{flag|Ecuador}} || {{Flagicon|Gran Colombia|variant=1822}} [[Gran Colombia|Republic of Colombia]]
([[Gran Colombia]])

([[Quito]])
| [[Central University of Ecuador]] || 1826 ||
|-
| {{flag|El Salvador}} || {{flag|El Salvador|1839}} || [[Universidad de El Salvador]] || 1841 || Founded on 16 February 1841 by President [[Juan Lindo]].
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Grenada}}||[[St. George's University]] || 1976 ||
|-
| {{flag|Guatemala}} || {{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[New Spain]])
[[Real Audiencia of Guatemala|(Guatemala)]]

([[Guatemala City|Guatemala]])
| [[Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala]] || 1676 (as colegio in 1562) || The San Carlos University was the fourth university founded in the Americas, when [[Guatemala]] was part of the [[Viceroyalty of New Spain]]. It had five major transformations but never ceased teaching. It grew out of the Colegio de Santo Tomas de Aquino (a high school), founded in 1562 by Bishop [[Francisco Marroquin]]. The university's founder was King [[Charles II of Spain]] and it was consecrated by Pope [[Innocent XI]] in 1687. Activities were interrupted after the [[Act of Independence of Central America]] in 1821.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}
|-
| {{flag|Guyana}} || {{flag|British Guiana}} || [[University of Guyana]] || 1963 ||
|-
| rowspan="2" | {{flag|Haiti}} || {{flag|Haiti|1814}} || [[University of Haiti|Université d'État d'Haïti]] || 1820 ||
|-
|{{flag|USA|1912|name=United States occupation of Haiti}} || [[Haitian Adventist University|Université Adventiste d'Haïti]] || 1921 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Honduras}}||[[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras]] || 1847 ||
|-
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" | {{flag|Mexico}}||[[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México]] || 1910 || Traces its origins back to [[Real y Pontificia Universidad de México]] (1551–1865) but no institutional continuity.
|-
|[[Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo]] || 1917 (as university; college 1540)|| Founded in 1540 as ''Colegio de San Nicolás Obispo (St. Nicholas Bishop College)'' and later in 1543 was appointed ''Real Colegio de San Nicolás Obispo (Royal St. Nicholas Bishop College)'' by King [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Carlos I of Spain]]; it was converted into a university on 15 October 1917.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.umich.mx/historia.html|title=Historia|language=es|publisher=Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo|access-date=12 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Panama}}||[[Universidad de Panamá]] || 1935 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Paraguay}}||[[Universidad Nacional de Asunción]] || 1889 ||
|-
| {{flag|Peru}} || {{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[New Spain|Perú]])
[[Viceroyalty of Peru|(Perú)]]

([[Lima]])
| [[National University of San Marcos]] || 1551 || Also known as the "Dean university of the Americas"; It is the first officially established ([[Privilege (legal ethics)|privilege]] by [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor]]) and the longest continuously operating university in the Americas.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Peru}}||[[National University of Saint Augustine]] || 1828 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Puerto Rico}}||[[University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras]] || 1903 || Original campus of the [[University of Puerto Rico]]
|-
| {{flag|Suriname}} || {{flag|Kingdom of the Netherlands}} || [[Anton de Kom University]] || 1968 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|Uruguay}}||[[Universidad de la República]] || 1849 ||
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flag|United States Virgin Islands}}||[[University of the Virgin Islands]] || 1967 (degree awarding; college 1962; university 1986) || Established by act of legislature in 1962. Opened in 1963 as the College of the Virgin Islands, offering only associate degrees. First bachelor's degree programmes 1967. Became the University of the Virgin Islands in 1986.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://uvi.edu/administration/about-uvi/history.aspx|title=History|work=University of the Virgin Islands|access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>
|-
| {{flag|Venezuela}} || {{flagcountry|Spain|1506}} ([[New Spain|Perú]])
[[Captaincy General of Venezuela|(Venezuela)]]

([[Caracas]])
| [[Central University of Venezuela]] || 1721 ||
|-
|}

=== North America ===
{{See also|Colonial colleges|First university in the United States}}
In the United States, the [[colonial colleges]] awarded degrees from their foundation, but none were formally named as universities prior to the [[American Revolution]], leading to various claims to be the [[first university in the United States]]. The earliest Canadian institutions were founded as colleges, without degree awarding powers, and gained degree granting authority and university status later.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- valign="top"
! colspan=2 | Location
! width="15%" rowspan=2 | Current name
! width="5%" rowspan=2 | Year
! width="50%" rowspan=2 | Notes
|-
! width="15%" | Current
! width="15%" | Original
|- valign="top"

| {{flag|Bermuda}}|| || [[University of the West Indies]] || 2009 (Bermudian membership)|| First campus opened in Jamaica as the University College of the West Indies associated with the [[University of London]] in 1948. Gained independent university status in 1962. Bermuda joined the university in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100716145556/http://cavehill.uwi.edu/news/releases/release.asp?id=132|archive-date=16 July 2010|url=http://cavehill.uwi.edu/news/releases/release.asp?id=132|title=Bermuda joins the UWI Family|work=University of the West Indies}}</ref> Bermuda has also had a community college, [[Bermuda College]], since 1974.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Canada}} ([[Halifax, Nova Scotia]])|| {{Flagicon|United Kingdom|variant=1801}} [[Nova Scotia]] ([[Windsor, Nova Scotia|Windsor]]) || [[University of King's College]] ||1802 (as university; collegiate school 1789)|| Traces its roots back to the [[Columbia University|King's College]] in [[New York City]], which was first founded in 1754. Following the [[American Revolution]], [[United Empire Loyalist|Loyalists]] at the college fled to Windsor, Nova Scotia, and established as the King's Collegiate School in 1789. It received a royal charter in 1802 establishing it (after the model of [[Trinity College, Dublin|Trinity College Dublin]]) as "The Mother of a University", making it the oldest chartered university in Canada.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ll-r5R08t7YC&pg=PA26|pages=26–27|title=Deeper Imprint: The Footsteps of Archbishop Arthur Gordon Peters|author=Kirby Walsh|publisher=Cape Breton University Press|date= 2003|isbn=9780920336953}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://ukings.ca/campus-community/about-kings/history|title=History|publisher=University of King's College|access-date=1 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7jM5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT29|title=A History of Higher Education in Canada 1663–1960|author=Robin S. Harris |publisher=University of Toronto Press|date= 15 December 1976 |page=29|isbn=9781487589806}}</ref> A fire destroyed the original university in 1920, and the institution relocated to Halifax.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Greenland}} ([[Nuuk]])|| {{flag|Greenland}} ([[Nuuk]]) || [[University of Greenland]] ||1989 (as university; college 1983) || Established 1983, took name University of Greenland 1987, formal university status by legislation since 1 September 1989.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uk.uni.gl/about-us/history.aspx|title=History|publisher=University of Greenland|access-date=12 February 2017}}</ref>
|-
| colspan=2|{{flagicon|France}} [[Saint Pierre and Miquelon]]|| Institut Frecker || 1975 (part of [[Memorial University of Newfoundland]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mi.mun.ca/users/mslaney/learn_univ_camp_frecker.htm|title=Institut Frecker|work=Memorial University of Newfoundland|access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>||
|-
| {{flagcountry|USA}} ([[Cambridge, Massachusetts]])|| {{Flagicon|United States|variant=1776}} [[Massachusetts]] ([[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]]) || [[Harvard University]] ||1636 || Founded in 1636, named Harvard College in 1639, chartered in 1650. Oldest institution of higher education in the United States. Officially recognised as a university by the [[Massachusetts]] Constitution of 1780.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.harvard.edu/about-harvard/harvard-glance/history|title=History|publisher=Harvard University|access-date=1 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.harvard.edu/about-harvard/harvard-glance/history/historical-facts|title=Historical Facts|publisher=Harvard University|access-date=1 February 2017}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|USA}} ([[Williamsburg, Virginia]])|| {{Flagicon|United States|variant=1776}} [[Virginia]] ([[Middle Plantation (Virginia)|Middle Plantation]]) || [[College of William & Mary|The College of William & Mary]] ||1693 (continuously since 1888)|| Chartered in 1693. Claims to be the "first college to become a university" in the US, in 1779.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wm.edu/about/rankings/coolfacts/index.php|title=Cool facts|publisher=College of William and Mary|access-date=1 February 2017}}</ref> Named as a ''studium generale'' in its royal charter, leading to the additional claim that it was "a university by grant, a ''studium generale ex privilegio'' as the medieval jurists would have said it, since 1693".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wmlawreview.org/university-1693-new-light-william-marys-claim-title-oldest-university-united-states|title=A UNIVERSITY IN 1693: NEW LIGHT ON WILLIAM & MARY'S CLAIM TO THE TITLE "OLDEST UNIVERSITY IN THE UNITED STATES"|work=William & Mary Law Review|date=15 October 2020|author1=Thomas J. McSweeney|author2=Katharine Ello|author3=Elsbeth O'Brien}}</ref>
Briefly closed during two different periods: from 1861 to 1869 due to the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] and postwar financial problems, and 1882 to 1888 due to continued financial difficulties.
|-
| {{flagcountry|USA}} ([[Philadelphia]], Pennsylvania)|| {{Flagicon|United States|variant=1776}} [[Pennsylvania]] ([[Pennsylvania Colony]])|| [[University of Pennsylvania]] ||1755 || Traces its roots to a [[charity school]] founded in 1740. Collegiate charter 1755. Claims to be "the first American institution of higher education to be named a university" (in 1779).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.upenn.edu/about/history| title=Penn's Heritage|publisher=University of Pennsylvania|access-date=1 February 2017}}</ref>
|}

=== Oceania ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|- valign="top"
! colspan=2 | Location
! width="15%" rowspan=2 | Current name
! width="5%" rowspan=2 | Year
! width="50%" rowspan=2 | Notes
|-
! width="15%" | Current
! width="15%" | Original
|- valign="top"
| {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|NSW}})|| {{noflag|[[New South Wales]]}} || [[University of Sydney]] ||1850 || Oldest in New South Wales, Australia and Oceania.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|VIC}})|| {{noflag|[[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]}} || [[University of Melbourne]] ||1853 || Oldest in Victoria.
|-
| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|AU-SA}})|| rowspan="2" | {{flagcountry|South Australia|1870}} || [[University of Adelaide]] ||1874 || Oldest in South Australia.
|-
|[[University of South Australia]] ||1889 || UniSA was formed in 1991 by the merger of the South Australian Institute of Technology with three South Australian College of Advanced Education campuses.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|TAS}})|| {{flagcountry|Tasmania}} || [[University of Tasmania]] ||1890 || Oldest in Tasmania.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|QLD}})||[[University of Queensland]] ||1909 || Oldest in Queensland.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|AU-WA}})||[[University of Western Australia]] ||1911 || Oldest in Western Australia.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|ACT}})||[[Australian National University]] ||1946 || Oldest in Australian Capital Territory.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|Australia}} ({{flagcountry|AU-NT}})||[[Charles Darwin University]] ||1989|| Founded as University of the Northern Territory in 1989, merged with other institutions to form Charles Darwin University in 2003.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cdu.edu.au/25th-anniversary|title=Celebrating 25 Years of University Education in the Northern Territory|work=Charles Darwin University|access-date=13 August 2019}}</ref>
|-
| {{flagcountry|Cook Islands}} {{flagcountry|Fiji}} {{flagcountry|Kiribati}} {{flagcountry|Marshall Islands}} {{flagcountry|Nauru}} {{flagcountry|Niue}} {{flagcountry|Samoa}} {{flagcountry|Solomon Islands}} {{flagcountry|Tokelau}} {{flagcountry|Tonga}} {{flagcountry|Tuvalu}} {{flagcountry|Vanuatu}} || {{flagicon|Fiji|colonial}} [[Colony of Fiji]]|| [[University of the South Pacific]] ||1968|| Regional university, operating in (and owned by the governments of) 12 Pacific island nations. Main campus in Fiji.
|-
| {{flagcountry|Guam}}|| {{flagcountry|Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands|1965}} || [[University of Guam]] ||1965 (degree granting; college 1952; university 1968)||
|-
| {{flagcountry|PNG}}|| {{flagcountry|PNG|1965}} || [[University of Papua New Guinea]] ||1965|| First university in Papua New Guinea.
|-
| {{flagcountry|NZL}} ({{flagcountry|Otago}})|| [[File:Flag of New Zealand Government Ships 1867.svg|20px]] [[New Zealand]] ([[Dunedin]]) || [[University of Otago]] ||1869|| Oldest in New Zealand.
|-
| colspan="2" | {{flagcountry|NZL}} ([[Auckland]])||[[University of Auckland]] ||1883 || Oldest in the [[North Island]].
|}

== See also ==
* [[List of Islamic seminaries#List of oldest Islamic seminaries|List of oldest Islamic seminaries]]
* [[List of medieval universities]]
* [[List of oldest institutions in continuous operation]]

== References ==

=== Notes ===
{{reflist|30em|group=Note}}
{{notelist|30em}}

=== Citations ===
{{Reflist}}

{{Lists of European universities and colleges by era}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Oldest Universities In Continuous Operation}}
[[Category:Lists of universities and colleges]]
[[Category:Educational institutions by year of establishment| ]]
[[Category:Lists of education-related superlatives]]
[[Category:Oldest things]]

Oud

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UserArtificial820029: Added bipa.

{{Short description|Persian pear-shaped stringed musical instrument}}
{{Other uses|Oud (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox instrument
| name = Oud
| names = {{lang-ar|عود}}, {{lang-fa|عود}}
| image = File:oud2.jpg
| image_capt = Syrian-made oud crafted by Abdo Nahat in 1921
| background =
| classification = *[[String instruments]]
*[[Lute|Necked bowl lutes]]
| hornbostel_sachs = 321.321-6
| hornbostel_sachs_desc = Composite [[chordophone]] sounded with a [[plectrum]]
| developed = [[Islamic Golden Age]]
| range =
| related = *[[Angélique (instrument)|Angélique]]
*[[Archlute]]
*[[Barbat (lute)]]
*[[Baglamas|Baglamadaki]]
*[[Bağlama]]
*[[Bipa]]
*[[Biwa]]
*[[Bouzouki]]
*[[Çifteli]]
*[[Cobza]]
*[[Cümbüş]]
*[[Daguangxian]]
*[[Đàn tỳ bà]]
*[[Dombra]]
*[[Domra]]
*[[Dutar]]
*[[Kobza]]
*[[Lavta]]
*[[Liuqin]]
*[[Lute]]
*[[Mandocello]]
*[[Mandola]]
*[[Mandolin]]
*[[Mandolute]]
*[[Pandura]]
*[[Pipa]]
*[[Qanbus]]
*[[Rud]]
*[[Šargija]]
*[[Bağlama|Saz]]
*[[Setar]]
*[[Tanbur]]
*[[Tanbur (Turkish)]]
*[[Tar (Azerbaijani instrument)]]
*[[Tembûr]]
*[[Theorbo]]
*[[Torban]]
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The '''oud''' ({{lang-ar|عود|translit=ʿūd}}, {{IPA-ar|ʕuːd|pron}};<ref>{{cite web |year=1971 |title=The Arab World |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o54eAAAAMAAJ&q=oud+arabic+origin+word+instrument}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |year=1984 |title=Arab Perspectives |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DdEMAQAAMAAJ&q=oud+arabic+origin+word+instrument}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=oud—Definition of oud in English by Oxford Dictionaries |url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/oud |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403010505/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/oud |archive-date=3 April 2019 |access-date=3 October 2018 |website=Oxford Dictionaries—English}}</ref>) is a short-neck lute-type, [[pear]]-shaped, fretless [[String instrument|stringed instrument]]<ref>{{Cite news|last=Mackle|first=Jenna |date=July 5, 2020 |title=The Oud Instrument |newspaper=Ethnic Musical |url=https://www.ethnicmusical.com/oud/oud-instrument/}}</ref> (a [[chordophone]] in the [[Hornbostel–Sachs|Hornbostel–Sachs classification of instruments]]), usually with 11 strings grouped in six [[Course (music)|courses]], but some models have five or seven courses, with 10 or 13 strings respectively.

The oud is very similar to other types of [[lute]], and to Western lutes.<ref name="mottola-kyvelos">{{cite journal | last = Mottola | first = R. M. | title = Constructing the Middle Eastern Oud with ter Kyvelos | journal = American Lutherie | issue = 94, 95 | date = Summer–Fall 2008}}</ref> Similar instruments have been used in the [[Middle East]], [[North Africa]] (specifically the [[Maghreb]], [[Egypt]] and [[Sudan]]), and [[Central Asia]] for thousands of years, including [[Mesopotamia]], [[Egypt]], the [[Caucasus]], the [[Levant]], [[Anatolian Greeks|Greek Anatolia]], [[Albania]] and [[Bulgaria]]; there may even be prehistoric antecedents of the lute.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The archaeomusicology of the Ancient Near East|author=Dumbrill, Richard J. |date=2005|publisher=Trafford|isbn=9781412055383|location=Victoria, B.C.|pages=308|oclc=62430171}}</ref> The oud, as a fundamental difference with the western lute, has no [[fret]]s and a smaller [[neck (guitar)|neck]]. It is the direct successor of the Persian [[Barbat (lute)|Barbat]] lute.<ref name=":0">{{cite grove |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.28694 |year=2001 |last1=Poché |first1=Christian |title='Ūd |quote=(oud; pl.: ʿīdān). Short-necked plucked lute of the Arab world, the direct ancestor of the European lute, whose name derives from al-ʿūd ('the lute'). Known both from documentation and through oral tradition, it is considered the king, sultan or emir of musical instruments, 'the most perfect of those invented by the philosophers'. Ikhwān al-Safāʾ: Rasāʾil [Letters] (1957), i, 202). It is the principal instrument of the Arab world, Somalia and Djibouti, and is of secondary importance in Turkey (ut, a spelling used in the past but now superseded by ud), Iran, Armenia and Azerbaijan (ud). It plays a lesser role in Greece (outi), where it has given rise to a long-necked model (laouto); the latter is used in rustic and folk contexts, while the ʿūd retains pre-eminently educated and urban associations. In eastern Africa it is known as udi; in recent decades it has also appeared in Mauritania and Tajikistan. [...] The emergence of the ʿūd on the stage of history is an equally complex matter. Two authors of the end of the 14th century (Abū al-Fidā, or Abulfedae, and Abū al-Walīd ibn Shihnāh) place it in the reign of the Sassanid King Sh[ā]pūr I (241–72). Ibn Shihnāh added that the development of the ʿūd was linked to the spread of Manicheism, and its invention to Manes himself, a plausible theory because the disciples of Manes encouraged musical accompaniments to their religious offices. Reaching China, their apostolate left traces of relations between West and East, seen in a short-necked lute similar to the ʿūd (Grünwedel, 1912). But the movement's centre was in southern Iraq, whence the ʿūd was to spread towards the Arabian peninsula in the 7th century. However, the texts mentioning the introduction to Mecca of the short-necked lute as the ʿūd were all written in the 9th and 10th centuries. The ʿūd spread to the West by way of Andalusia }}</ref> The oldest surviving oud is thought to be in Brussels, at the [[Musical Instrument Museum (Brussels)|Museum of Musical Instruments]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oudmigrations.com/2016/03/02/alexandria-to-brussels-1839/|title=Alexandria to Brussels, 1839|website=oudmigrations|date=2 March 2016|access-date=2016-04-15}}</ref>

An early description of the "modern" oud was given by 11th-century musician, singer and author [[Ibn al-Haytham|Al-Hasan Ibn al-Haytham]] ({{circa|965–1040}}) in his compendium on music ''Ḥāwī al-Funūn wa Salwat al-Maḥzūn''. The first known complete description of the ''‛ūd'' and its construction is found in the epistle ''Risāla fī-l-Luḥūn wa-n-Nagham'' by 9th-century philosopher of the Arabs [[Al-Kindi|Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |url=http://foredofico.org/CERMAA/?attachment_id=482|title=Théories de l'échelle et pratiques mélodiques chez les Arabes – Volume 1 : L'échelle générale et les genres – Tome 1 : Théories gréco-arabes de Kindī (IXe siècle) à Ṭūsī (XIIIe siècle)|last=Beyhom|first=Amine|publisher=Geuthner|year=2010|isbn=978-2-7053-3840-4|location=Paris}}</ref> Kindī's description stands thus:

<blockquote>[and the] length [of the ''‛ūd''] will be: thirty-six joint fingers—with good thick fingers—and the total will amount to three ''ashbār''.<ref group=Notes>The ''shibr'' (singular of ''ashbār'') is a measurement unit which equals roughly 18-24 cm, depending on the hand. It equates to the measured length between the tip of the thumb and the tip of the auricular finger when stretched flat and in opposite directions. The shibr otherwise measures 12 fingers (36:3): a "full" finger should be about 2 cm in width.</ref> And its width: fifteen fingers. And its depth seven and a half fingers. And the measurement of the width of the bridge with the remainder behind: six fingers. Remains the length of the strings: thirty fingers and on these strings take place the division and the partition, because it is the sounding [or "the speaking"] length. This is why the width must be [of] fifteen fingers as it is the half of this length. Similarly for the depth, seven fingers and a half and this is the half of the width and the quarter of the length [of the strings]. And the neck must be one third of the length [of the speaking strings] and it is: ten fingers. Remains the vibrating body: twenty fingers. And that the back (soundbox) be well rounded and its "thinning" (kharţ) [must be done] towards the neck, as if it had been a round body drawn with a compass which was cut in two in order to extract two ''‛ūds''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Beyhom|first=Amine|year=2011|others=Paper for 'The Oud from Its Sumerian Origins to Modern Times', ICONEA Conference 2011 – 1–3 December 2011|title=Two persistent misapprehensions about the ''ʿūd''|url=http://foredofico.org/CERMAA/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Amine-Beyhom-Two-common-errors-about-the-‛ŪD-from-iconea2011web.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://foredofico.org/CERMAA/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Amine-Beyhom-Two-common-errors-about-the-‛ŪD-from-iconea2011web.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|journal=Iconea 2011|pages=81–110 (85)}}</ref></blockquote>

In [[Pre-Islamic Arabia]] and Mesopotamia, the stringed instruments had only three strings, with a small musical box and a long neck without any [[tuning pegs]]. But during the Islamic era the musical box was enlarged, a fourth string was added, and the base for the tuning pegs (Bunjuk) or [[pegbox]] was added. In the first centuries of (pre-Islamic) Arabian civilisation, the stringed instruments had four courses (one string per course—double-strings came later), tuned in successive fourths. Curt Sachs said they were called (from lowest to highest pitch) ''bamm'', ''maṭlaṭ'', ''maṭnā'' and ''zīr''.<ref name=sachs>{{cite book |last=Sachs |first=Curt |date=1940 |title=The History of Musical Instruments |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofmusical00sach|url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofmusical00sach/page/254 254] |isbn=9780393020687 | quote= classic number of strings was four pairs ... ''bamm'', ''maṭlaṭ'', ''maṭnā'', ''zīr'' ... A fifth pair of strings, above ''zīr'' seems to have been introduced as early as the ninth century ...}}</ref> "As early as the ninth century" a fifth string ''ḥād'' ("sharp") was sometimes added "to make the range of two octaves complete".<ref name=sachs/> It was highest in pitch, placed lowest in its positioning in relation to other strings. Modern tuning preserves the ancient succession of fourths, with adjunctions (lowest or highest courses), which may be tuned differently following regional or personal preferences. Sachs gives one tuning for this arrangement of five pairs of strings, d, e, a, d', g'.<ref name=sachs/>

Historical sources indicate that [[Ziryab]] (789–857) added a fifth string to his oud.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=neYsAQAAIAAJ&q=oud+word+origin | title=Iraq| year=1984}}</ref> He was well known for founding a school of music in [[Al-Andalus|Andalusia]], one of the places where the oud or lute entered Europe. Another mention of the fifth string was made by Al-Hasan Ibn al-Haytham in ''Ḥāwī al-Funūn wa Salwat al-Maḥzūn''.

==Names and etymology==
{{See also|Rud}}
{{multiple image
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}}The {{lang-ar|العود}} (''{{transl|ar|DIN|al-ʿūd or oud}}'') literally denotes a thin piece of wood similar to the shape of a straw. It may refer to the wooden [[plectrum]] traditionally used for playing the oud, to the thin strips of wood used for the back, or to the wooden soundboard that distinguishes it from similar instruments with skin-faced bodies.<ref name="Iranica">{{cite web|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/barbat|title=Encyclopaedia Iranica - Barbat|last=During|first=Jean|date=1988-12-15|publisher=Iranicaonline.org|access-date=2012-02-04}}</ref> [[Henry George Farmer]] considers the similitude between ''{{transl|ar|DIN|al-ʿūd}} ''and ''al-ʿawda'' ("the return" – of bliss).<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Farmer|first=Henry George|year=1939|title=The Structure of the Arabian and Persian Lute in the Middle Ages|journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society|issue=1|pages=41–51 (49)|quote=... from a work entitled Kitāb kashf al-humūūm ... 'ūd (lute) is derived from al-'awda ("the return" meaning the days of pleasure may return [in the joy of the music of the lute] ...)|jstor=25201835}}</ref>

Multiple theories have been proposed for the origin of the Arabic name '''oud'''. One non-academic author stated his belief that oud means "from wood" and "stick" in Arabic.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_88190O7gG8C&q=OUD+MEANS+WOOD+ARABIC&pg=PT126 | title=Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music| isbn=9780307489760| last1=Kurtz| first1=Glenn| date=2008-11-19}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WsNP3bAH_3MC&q=OUD+MEANS+WOOD+ARABIC&pg=PA98 | title=Egypt| isbn=9781426205217| last1=Humphrey| first1=Andrew| year=2009}}</ref> In 1940 [[Curt Sachs]] contradicted or refined that idea, saying oud meant ''flexible stick'', not wood.<ref name=sachs1>{{cite book |title= The History of Musical Instruments |last=Sachs |first= Kurt |publisher= W. W. Norton & Company |place= New York |date= 1940|pages= 253|quote=the principal meaning of this word ['ūd] is not 'wood,' as generally supposed, but 'flexible stick'.}}</ref> A western scholar of Islamic musical subjects, Eckhard Neubauer, suggested that ''oud'' may be an Arabic borrowing from the [[Persian language|Persian]] word ''rōd'' or ''rūd'', which meant string.<ref>{{cite book |author= Douglas Alton Smith |title= ''A History of the Lute from Antiquity to the Renaissance'' |page= 9 |publisher= Lute Society of America (LSA)|date= 2002|isbn= 0-9714071-0-X}}.</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pourjavady |first1=Amir Hossein |title=Review of The Science of Music in Islam. Vols. 1-2, Studies in Oriental Music; The Science of Music in Islam. Vol. 3, Arabisch Musiktheorie von den Anfängen bis zum 6./12. Jahrhundert, Eckhard Neubauer; The Science of Music in Islam. Vol. 4, Der Essai sur la musique orientale von Charles Fonton mit Zeichnungen von Adanson, Eckhard Neubauer, Fuat Sezgin |journal=Asian Music |date=2000 |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=206–209 |doi=10.2307/834339 |jstor=834339 }}</ref> Another researcher, archaeomusicologist [[Richard Dumbrill (musicologist)|Richard J. Dumbrill]], suggests that ''rud'' came from the Sanskrit ''rudrī'' (रुद्री, meaning "string instrument") and transferred to Arabic (a Semitic language) through a Semitic language.<ref name=dumbrill>{{cite book|last=Dumbrill|first = Richard J.|date=1998|title=The Archaeomusicology of the Ancient Near East|location=London|publisher=Tadema Press|page=319|quote='rud' comes from the Sanskrit 'rudrī', which means 'stringed instrument' ... The word spreads on the one hand via the Indo-European medium into the Spanish 'rota'; French 'rotte'; Welsh 'crwth', etc, and on the other, via the Semitic medium, into Arabic ‘ud ; Ugaritic ‘d ; Spanish 'laúd'; German 'Laute'; French 'luth' ...}}</ref> While the authors of these statements about the meanings or origins of the word may have accessed linguistic sources, they were not linguists.

However, another theory according to Semitic language scholars, is that the Arabic ''ʿoud'' is derived from Syriac ''ʿoud-a'', meaning "wooden stick" and "burning wood"—cognate to [[Biblical Hebrew]] ''’ūḏ'', referring to a stick used to stir logs in a fire.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.assyrianlanguages.org/sureth/dosearch.php?searchkey=17090&language=id|title=Search Entry|website=www.assyrianlanguages.org|access-date=3 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://biblehub.com/hebrew/181.htm|title=Strong's Hebrew: 181. אוּד (ud) – a brand, firebrand|website=biblehub.com|access-date=2018-03-24}}</ref>

Names for the instrument in different languages include {{lang-ar|عود}} ''{{transl|ar|DIN|ʿūd or ʿoud}}'' ({{IPA-ar|ʕu(ː)d, ʢuːd}}, plural: {{lang|ar|أعواد}} ''{{transl|ar|DIN|aʿwād}}''), {{lang-hy|ուդ}}, [[Syriac language|Syriac]]: {{lang|aii|ܥܘܕ}} ''{{transl|aii|ūd}}'', {{lang-el|ούτι}} ''{{transl|el|oúti}}'', {{lang-he|עוּד}} ''{{transl|he|ud}}'', {{lang-fa|بربط}} ''{{transl|fa|barbat}}'' (although the [[Barbat (lute)|barbat]] is a different lute instrument), {{lang-tr|ud}} or {{lang|tr|ut}},<ref>{{Cite web |title=Güncel Türkçe Sözlük'te Söz Arama |url=http://tdk.org.tr/TR/SozBul.aspx?F6E10F8892433CFFAAF6AA849816B2EF05A79F75456518CA&kelime=ut |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311013511/http://tdk.org.tr/TR/SozBul.aspx?F6E10F8892433CFFAAF6AA849816B2EF05A79F75456518CA&kelime=ut|archivedate=March 11, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Azerbaijani language|Azeri]]: ''ud'', and {{lang-so|cuud}} 𐒋𐒓𐒆 or ''kaban'' 𐒏𐒖𐒁𐒖𐒒.

==History==
===Musical instruments from pre-history===
{{See also|Lute#History and evolution of the lute}}

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| caption2 = Hellenistic banquet scene from the 1st century AD, [[Hadda, Afghanistan|Hadda]], [[Gandhara]]. Short-necked, 2-string lute held by player, far right
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[[File:Relief or architectural ornament with an oudh player, Iran, 11th-12th century, slip-painted earthenware - Royal Ontario Museum - DSC04641.JPG|thumb|upright|left|alt=Oud type instrument iran 11th-12th centuries ad|Iran, 11th or 12th century A.D. Earthenware statue of a musician playing a short-necked, lute-style instrument]]

The complete history of the development of the lute family is not fully compiled at this date, but archaeomusicologists have worked to piece together a lute family history. The highly influential organologist Curt Sachs distinguished between the "long-necked lute" and the short-necked variety.<ref name=sachsshortlong>{{cite book |last=Sachs |first=Curt |date=1940 |title=The History of Musical Instruments |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofmusical00sach|url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofmusical00sach/page/251 251], 253 |isbn=9780393020687 }}</ref> Douglas Alton Smith argues the long-necked variety should not be called lute at all because it existed for at least a millennium before the appearance of the short-necked instrument that eventually evolved into what is now known the lute.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Smith|first1=Douglas Alton|title=A History of the Lute from Antiquity to the Renaissance|date=2002|publisher=Lute Society of America (LSA)|isbn=978-0-9714071-0-7}}</ref>

Musicologist [[Richard Dumbrill (musicologist)|Richard Dumbrill]] today uses the word more categorically to discuss instruments that existed millennia before the term "lute" was coined.<ref name=dumbrill1>{{Cite book |title=The archaeomusicology of the Ancient Near East |author=Dumbrill, Richard J. |date=2005 |publisher=Trafford |pages=305–310 |isbn=9781412055383 |location=Victoria, B.C. |oclc=62430171 |quote=The long-necked lute would have stemmed from the bow-harp and eventually became the tunbur; and the fat-bodied smaller lute would have evolved into the modern Oud. ... the lute pre-dated the lyre which can therefore be considered as a development of the lute, rather than the contrary, as had been thought until quite recently ... Thus the lute not only dates but also locates the transition from musical protoliteracy to musical literacy ...}}</ref> Dumbrill documented more than 3000 years of iconographic evidence for the lutes in Mesopotamia, in his book ''The Archaeomusicology of the Ancient Near East''. According to Dumbrill, the lute family included instruments in [[Mesopotamia]] prior to 3000 BC.<ref name=Dumbrillp321>{{harvnb|Dumbrill|1998|p=321}}</ref> He points to a [[cylinder seal]] as evidence; dating from {{circa}} 3100 BC or earlier (now in the possession of the British Museum); the seal depicts on one side what is thought to be a woman playing a stick "lute".<ref name="Dumbrillp321"/><ref name=Britishmuseum>{{cite web |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1447477&partId=1&people=24615&peoA=24615-3-17&page=1 |publisher=British Museum |title=Cylinder Seal, Culture/period Uruk, Date (circa) 3100BC, Museum number 41632}}</ref> Like Sachs, Dumbrill saw length as distinguishing lutes, dividing the Mesopotamian lutes into a long-necked variety and a short.<ref name=Dumbrillp310>{{harvnb|Dumbrill|1998|p=310}}</ref> He focuses on the longer lutes of Mesopotamia, and similar types of related necked chordophones that developed throughout ancient world: [[ancient Greece|Greek]], [[Ancient Egypt|Egyptian]] (in the [[Middle Kingdom of Egypt|Middle Kingdom]]), Elamites, [[Hittites|Hittite]], [[Ancient Rome|Roman]], [[Bulgars|Bulgar]], [[Turkic peoples|Turkic]], [[India]]n, [[China|Chinese]], [[Armenian people|Armenian]]/[[Cilician]], [[Phoenicia|Canaanite/Phoenician]], [[History of ancient Israel and Judah|Israelite/Judean]], and various other cultures. He names among the long lutes, the [[pandura]], the [[panduri]], [[tambur]] and [[tanbur]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Dumbrill |first=Richard J. |date=2005 |title=The Archaeomusicology of the Ancient Near East |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nlm1Kbc7P5UC&q=dumbrill%2C+long+lutes&pg=PA320 |location=Victoria, British Columbia |publisher=Trafford Publishing |pages=319–320 |isbn=978-1-4120-5538-3|quote=The long-necked lute in the OED is orthographed as tambura; tambora, tamera, tumboora; tambur(a) and tanpoora. We have an Arabic Õunbur; Persian tanbur; Armenian pandir; Georgian panturi. and a Serbo-Croat tamburitza. The Greeks called it pandura; panduros; phanduros; panduris or pandurion. The Latin is pandura. It is attested as a Nubian instrument in the third century BC. The earliest literary allusion to lutes in Greece comes from Anaxilas in his play The Lyre-maker as 'trichordos' ... According to Pollux, the trichordon [''sic''] was Assyrian and they gave it the name pandoura ... These instruments survive today in the form of the various Arabian ''tunbar'' ...}}</ref>

The line of short-necked lutes was further developed to the east of Mesopotamia, in [[Bactria]] and [[Gandhara]], into a short, almond-shaped lute.<ref name=Iranica/><ref name=gabdharalute>{{cite web |url= https://www.pinterest.com/pin/518195500845626868/ |title=Pakistan, Swat Valley, Gandhara region Lute Player; From a group of Five Celestial Musicians, 4th-5th century Sculpture; Stone, Gray schist, 10 1/8 x 4 3/4 x 2 1/2 in. (25.7 x 12.1 x 6.4 cm)|last1= Kasidah|publisher= Pinterest.com|access-date=March 25, 2015}} Musician playing a 4th-to-5th-Century lute, excavated in Gandhara, and part of a Los Angeles County Art Museum collection of ''Five Celestial Musicians''</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1980.15|title= Bracket with two musicians 100s, Pakistan, Gandhara, probably Butkara in Swat, Kushan Period (1st century-320)|publisher= The Cleveland Museum of Art|access-date=March 25, 2015}}</ref> Curt Sachs talked about the depictions of Gandharan lutes in art, where they are presented in a mix of "Northwest Indian art" under "strong Greek influences".<ref name=sachs2>{{cite book |last=Sachs |first=Curt |date=1940 |title= The History of Musical Instruments |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofmusical00sach|url-access=registration |location= New York |publisher= W. W. Norton & Company |pages= [https://archive.org/details/historyofmusical00sach/page/159 159–161]|isbn=9780393020687 }}</ref> The short-necked lutes in these Gandhara artworks were "the venerable ancestor of the Islamic, the Sino-Japanese and the European lute families."<ref name=sachs2/> He described the Gandhara lutes as having a "pear-shaped body tapering towards the short neck, a frontal stringholder, lateral pegs, and either four or five strings."<ref name=sachs2/> The oldest images of short-necked lutes from the area that Sachs knew of were "Persian figurines of the 8th century B.C.," found in excavations at Suza, but he knew of nothing connecting these to the Oud-related Gandharan art 8 centuries later.<ref name=sachs2/>

===Gandhara to Spain, the Persian barbat and Arab oud go to Europe===

Bactria and Gandhara became part of the [[Sasanian Empire]] (224–651). Under the Sasanians, a short almond shaped lute from Bactria came to be called the [[barbat (lute)|barbat]] or barbud, which was developed into the later Islamic world's ''oud'' or ''ud''.<ref name=iranica>{{cite web|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/barbat |title=Encyclopaedia Iranica – Barbat |publisher=Iranicaonline.org |date=1988-12-15 |access-date=2012-02-04}}</ref> The oud is most likely the combination of the Barbat, with the Ancient Greek [[Barbiton]], giving the Barbat a lower pitched tone and the playing of Maqams in Middle Eastern and [[Byzantine music]]. When the [[Umayyad conquest of Hispania|Umayyads conquered Hispania]] in 711, they brought their ud along, into a country that had already known a lute tradition under the Romans, the [[pandura]]. An oud is depicted as being played by a seated musician<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://universes.art/en/art-destinations/jordan/desert-castles/qusayr-amra/audience-hall/img-10|title=Musician and dancing woman, Qusayr Amra. Art Destination Jordan|website=universes.art}}</ref> in [[Qasr Amra]] of the [[Umayyad dynasty]], one of the earliest depictions of the instrument as played in early Islamic history.

During the 8th and 9th centuries, many musicians and artists from across the Islamic world flocked to Iberia.<ref name=Menocal>{{Citation|title=The Literature of Al-Andalus|editor1=María Rosa Menocal |editor2=Raymond P. Scheindlin |editor3=Michael Anthony Sells |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2000}}</ref> Among them was [[Ziryab|Abu l-Hasan ‘Ali Ibn Nafi‘]] (789–857),<ref name="Gill">{{cite book|last=Gill|first=John|title=Andalucia: A Cultural History|year=2008|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-01-95-37610-4|page=81|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gGY2fSXko5kC&pg=PA81}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Lapidus|first=Ira M.|title=A History of Islamic Societies |year=2002|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn= 9780521779333|page=311|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I3mVUEzm8xMC&pg=PA311}}</ref> a prominent musician who had trained under [[Ishaq al-Mawsili]] ({{Died in|850}}) in [[Baghdad]] and was exiled to Andalusia before 833 AD. He taught and has been credited with adding a fifth string to his oud<ref name=iranica/> and with establishing one of the first schools of [[music]] in [[Emirate of Córdoba|Córdoba]].<ref name="Davila?">{{cite magazine|title=Fixing a Misbegotten Biography: Ziryab in the Mediterranean World|author=Davila, Carl|publisher=Al-Masaq |magazine=Islam in the Medieval Mediterranean |volume=21 |number=2 |year=2009}}</ref>

By the 11th century, Muslim Iberia had become a center for the manufacture of instruments. These goods spread gradually to [[Provence]], influencing French [[troubadour]]s and [[trouvères]] and eventually reaching the rest of Europe. While Europe developed the lute, the ''oud'' remained a central part of Arab music, and broader Ottoman music as well, undergoing a range of transformations.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oudmigrations.com/2016/03/08/journeys-of-ottoman-ouds/|title=The journeys of Ottoman ouds|website=oudmigrations|date=8 March 2016|access-date=2016-04-26}}</ref>

Although the major entry of the short lute was in western Europe, leading to a variety of lute styles, the short lute entered Europe in the East as well; as early as the sixth century, the Bulgars brought the short-necked variety of the instrument called [[Komuz]] to the Balkans.

===Origins theory from religious and philosophical beliefs===
[[File:Aleppo-Music0Band.jpg|thumb|left|[[Syria]]n musicians in [[Aleppo]] with an oud, circa 1915]]
According to Abū Ṭālib al-Mufaḍḍal (a-n-Naḥawī al-Lughawī) ibn Salma (9th century), who himself refers to Hishām ibn al-Kullā, the oud was invented by [[Lamech (descendant of Cain)|Lamech]], the descendant of [[Adam]] and [[Cain and Abel|Cain]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Kitāb al-Malāhī wa Asmāʾihā min Qibal al-Mūsīqā|last=ibn Salma|first=Abū Ṭālib al-Mufaḍḍal (a-n-Naḥawī al-Lughawī)|publisher=Al-Hay’a al-Miṣriyya al-ʿĀmma li-l-Kitāb|year=1984|location=Cairo - Egypt|pages=13–14|quote=ذكر هشام بن الكلّى أنّ أول من عمل العود فضرب به رجل من بني قابيل، ويقال: قايين بن آدم، يقال له: لامك، وكان عمّر زمانا طويلاً، ولم يكن يولد لهُ، فتزوّج خمسين امرأة وتسرّى بمائتي سريّة [...] ثم ولد له غلام قبل أن يموت بعشر سنين، فاشتد فرحه، فلما أتت على الغلام خمس سنين مات، فجزع عليه جزعًا شديدًا، فأخذه فعلّقه على شجرة، فقال: لا تذهب صورته عن عيني حتى يتقطّع أشلاء أو أموت، فجعل لحمه يقع عن عظامه حتى بقيت الفخذ بالساق والقدم والأصابع، فأخذ عودًا فشقّه ورقّقه وجعل يؤلف بعضه على بعض، فجعل صدره على صورة الفخذ، والعنق على صورة الساق، والإبريق على قدر القدم، والملاوي كالأصابع، وعلّق عليه أوتارًا كالعروق، ثم جعل يضرب به ويبكي وينوح حتى عمي، فكان أول من ناح، وسمّى الذي اتّخذ: عودًا، لأنه اتُخذ من عود}}</ref> Another hypothetical attribution says that its inventor was [[Mani (prophet)|Mani]].<ref name=":0"/> Ibn a-ṭ-Ṭaḥḥān adds two possible mythical origins: the first involves the Devil, who would have lured the "People of David" into exchanging (at least part of) their instruments with the oud. He writes himself that this version is not credible. The second version attributes, as in many other cultures influenced by Greek philosophy, the invention of the oud to "Philosophers".<ref name=":1" />

====Central Asia====
One theory is that the oud originated from the Persian instrument called a ''barbat ''(Persian: بربط ) or ''barbud'', a lute indicated by Marcel-Dubois to be of Central Asian origin. The earliest pictorial image of the barbat dates back to the 1st century BC from ancient northern [[Bactria]] and is the oldest evidence of the existence of the barbat.<ref name="BARBAT">{{cite web |last1=During |first1=J |title=BARBAT |url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/barbat |website=Encyclopaedia Iranica}}</ref> Evidence of a form of the barbaṭ is found in a Gandhara sculpture from the 2nd-4th centuries AD which may well have been introduced by the [[Kushan]] aristocracy, whose influence is attested in Gandharan art.<ref name="BARBAT"/> The name barbat itself meant ''short-necked lute'' in [[Middle Persian|Pahlavi]], the language of the [[Sasanian Empire]], through which the instrument came west from Central Asia to the Middle East, adopted by the Persians.<ref name=Iranica/><ref name=centralasia>{{Cite book |last= Blum|first= Stephen|title = Oxford Music Online|date=20 January 2001 |publisher= Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online|quote= The ‘ūd (lute) is believed to be a later development of a pre-Islamic Persian instrument called barbat...[was part of] eastwards diffusion of Middle Eastern and Central Asian chordophones... the pipa, likewise derived from the barbat or from its prototype|doi = 10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.05284|chapter= Central Asia}}</ref>

The barbat (possibly known as mizhar, kirān, or muwatter, all skin topped versions) was used by some Arabs in the sixth century.<ref name=EncyclopiaIslam>{{cite book|title=First Encyclopaedia of Islam: 1913-1936|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ro--tXw_hxMC&pg=PA986|year=1993|publisher=BRILL|location=Leiden|isbn=978-90-04-09796-4|page=986}}</ref> At the end of the 6th century, a wood topped version of the Persian-styled instrument was constructed by al Nadr, called "ūd", and introduced from Iraq to Mecca.<ref name=EncyclopiaIslam/> This Persian-style instrument was being played there in the seventh century.<ref name=EncyclopiaIslam/> Sometime in the seventh century it was modified or "perfected" by [[Mansour Zalzal]], and the two instruments (barbat and "ūd shabbūt") were used side by side into the 10th century, and possibly longer.<ref name=EncyclopiaIslam/> The two instruments have been confused by modern scholars looking for examples, and some of the ouds identified may possibly be barbats.<ref name=EncyclopiaIslam/> Examples of this cited in the ''[[Encyclopedia of Islam]]'' include a lute in the [[Cantigas de Santa Maria]] and the frontispiece from ''The Life and Times of Ali Ibn Isa'' by Harold Bowen.<ref name=EncyclopiaIslam/>

The oldest pictorial record of a short-necked lute-type ''vīnā'' dates from around the 1st to 3rd centuries AD.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Karaikudi S.|first=Subramanian|year=1985|title=An introduction to the Vina|journal=Asian Music|volume=16|issue=2|pages=7–82 (10)|quote=We find representations of the nissāri vinas in sculptures, paintings, terracotta figures, and coins in various parts of India […]. The lute type vina [...] is represented in Amaravati, Nagarjunakonda, Pawaya (Gupta period), Ajanta paintings (300-500 A.D.) [...]. These varieties are plucked by the right hand and played by the left hand|doi=10.2307/833772|jstor=833772}}</ref> The site of origin of the oud seems to be Central Asia.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Picken|first=Laurence|year=1955|title=The origin of the short lute|journal=The Galpin Society Journal|volume=8|pages=32–42 (40)|quote=With the evidence as yet available, it is reasonable to place the site of origin of the short lute in Central Asia, perhaps among Iranised Turco-Mongols, within the area of the ancient first-century kingdom of the Kusanas. This conclusion must not be taken to exclude the possibility that short lutes first appeared somewhat earlier and somewhat further to the West-in Parthia, for example; but at present the evidence of the Kusana reliefs is the only evidence of their existence in the first century[...] The lutes of the Kusanas would seem to be the first representations of undoubted short ovoid lutes; and Fu Hsüan’s essay, one of the first texts in any language devoted to a short lute, though not to an ovoid lute.|doi=10.2307/842155|jstor=842155}}</ref> The ancestor of the oud, the barbat was in use in pre-Islamic Persia. Since the Safavid period, and perhaps because of the name shift from barbat to oud, the instrument gradually lost favor with musicians.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Lawergren|first=Bo|year=2001|title=Iran|journal=The New Grove|pages=521–546 (534)}}</ref>

The [[Turkic peoples]] had a similar instrument called the ''[[komuz|kopuz]]''.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last=Chabrier|first=Jean-Claude|year=2008|title=ʿŪd|journal=Encyclopedia of Islam|pages=534|quote=The ḳabūs (al-Ḥid̲j̲āz), ḳabbūṣ (ʿUmān), ḳanbūṣ (Ḥaḍramawt), ḳupūz or ḳūpūz (Turkey) is a very old instrument. Ewliyā Čelebi [q.v.] says that the ḳūpūz was invented by a vizier of Meḥemmed II (d. 886/1481) named Aḥmed Pas̲h̲a Hersek Og̲h̲lu. He describes it as being a hollow instrument, smaller than the s̲h̲as̲h̲tār, and mounted with three strings (Travels, i/2, 235). On the other hand, Ibn G̲h̲aybī says that the ḳūpūz rūmī had five double strings. The instrument is no longer used by the Turks, although it has survived under the name of kobza, koboz, in Poland, Russia, and the Balkans, but here it is the lute proper and not a barbaṭ type}}</ref> This instrument was thought to have magical powers and was brought to wars and used in military bands. This is noted in the [[Göktürk]] monument inscriptions{{Citation needed|date=January 2017}}. The military band was later used by other Turkic state's armies and later by Europeans.<ref name=":4">Fuad Köprülü, ''Türk Edebiyatında İlk Mutasavvıflar'' (First Sufis in Turkish Literature), Ankara University Press, Ankara 1966, pp. 207, 209.; Gazimihal; Mahmud Ragıb, ''Ülkelerde Kopuz ve Tezeneli Sazlarımız'', Ankara University Press, Ankara 1975, p. 64.; ''Musiki Sözlüğü'' (Dictionary of Music), M.E.B. İstanbul 1961, pp. 138, 259, 260.; Curt Sachs, ''The History of Musical Instruments'', New York 1940, p. 252.</ref>{{Verify source|date=January 2017}}

==Types==

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===Arabian oud, Turkish oud, and Persian barbat===
Modern-day ouds fall into three categories: [[Arab world|Arabian]], [[Turkey|Turkish]], and [[Iran|Persian]], the last also being known as [[barbat (lute)|barbat]].<ref name=majnunn>{{cite web |url=https://majnuunmusicanddance.com/persian-oud-barbat/ |title=Persian Oud – Barbat |last=Goldrick |first=Navid |date=16 August 2013 |website=majnunn music and dance |access-date=31 March 2018 |quote=Because of these efforts the Arabic Oud and the Barbat are now once again part of the Iranian musical landscape. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204085552/https://majnuunmusicanddance.com/persian-oud-barbat/ |archive-date=4 December 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

This distinction is not based solely on geography; the Arabic oud is found not only in the [[Arabian Peninsula]] but throughout the Arab world.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sonsdelorient.com/en/cordes/oud.html |title= Oud |author= |website= sonsdelorient.com|access-date=9 August 2018 }}</ref> Turkish ouds have been played by [[Anatolian Greeks]], where they are called outi, and in other locations in the Mediterranean.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.arabinstruments.com/types-of-ouds |title= Types of ouds |author= |website=arabinstruments.com |access-date=9 August 2018 }}</ref> The [[Iraq]]i oud, [[Egypt]]ian oud and [[Syrian]] oud, are normally grouped under the term 'Arabian oud' because of their similarities, although local differences may occur, notably with the Iraqi oud.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.oudforguitarists.com/types-of-ouds-ultimate-oud-buyers-guide-1/|title=Types of Ouds : The Ultimate Oud Buyers' Guide Part 1 – Oud for Guitarists|date=2013-09-17|newspaper=Oud for Guitarists|language=en-US|access-date=2017-01-27}}</ref> However, all these categories are very recent, and do not do justice to the variety of ouds made in the 19th century, and also today.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oudmigrations.com/2016/03/08/journeys-of-ottoman-ouds/|title=The journeys of Ottoman ouds|date=2016-03-08|website=oudmigrations|access-date=2016-04-26}}</ref>

Arabian ouds are normally larger than their Turkish and Persian counterparts, producing a fuller, deeper sound, whereas the sound of the Turkish oud is more taut and shrill, not least because the Turkish oud is usually (and partly) tuned [[major second|one whole step]] higher than the Arabian.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oudcafe.com/stringing_and_tuning.htm|title=OUD CAFE – Stringing & Tuning|website=www.oudcafe.com|access-date=2017-01-27}}</ref> Turkish ouds tend to be more lightly constructed than Arabian with an [[Wood finishing|unfinished]] [[sound board (music)|sound board]], lower [[action (music)|string action]] and with [[course (music)|string courses]] placed closer together. Turkish ouds also tend to be higher pitched and have a "brighter timbre".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.arabinstruments.com/about-the-turkish-oud |title=About the Turkish oud|author= |website= arabinstruments.com|access-date= 9 August 2018}}</ref> Arabian ouds have a [[scale length (string instruments)|scale length]] of between 61 cm and 62 cm in comparison to the 58.5 cm scale length for Turkish. There exists also a variety of electro-acoustic and electric ouds.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oudforguitarists.com/types-of-ouds-ultimate-oud-buyers-guide-1/|title=Types of Ouds : The Ultimate Oud Buyers' Guide Part 1 – Oud for Guitarists|date=17 September 2013|access-date=3 October 2018}}</ref>

The modern Persian barbat resembles the oud, although differences include a smaller body, longer neck, a slightly raised fingerboard, and a sound that is distinct from that of the oud.<ref name=majnunn/> See more information at the page: [[Barbat (lute)]].

The [[cümbüş]] is a Turkish instrument that started as a hybrid of the oud and the [[banjo]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Cümbüş|url=http://www.campin.me.uk/Music/Cumbus/|access-date=2020-10-12|website=www.campin.me.uk}}</ref>

=== Tuning ===
[[File:Oud open Strings.ogg|thumb|The [[Musical tuning#Open strings|open strings]] played on an oud tuned in the Arabic pattern "D2 G2 A2 D3 G3 C4"]]
Different ways of tuning the oud exist within the different oud traditions. Among those playing the oud in the Arabic tradition, a common older pattern of tuning the strings is (low pitch to high): D2 G2 A2 D3 G3 C4 on single string courses or D2, G2 G2, A2 A2, D3 D3, G3 G3, C4 C4 for a course of two strings.<ref name=stringinsdb>{{cite web |url=https://stringedinstrumentdatabase.aornis.com/n.htm |title= Stringed Instrument Database N-O|author= |website= stringedinstrumentdatabase.aornis.com|access-date=8 August 2018 }}</ref><ref name=parfitt>{{cite web |url=http://oudipedia.info/tuning.html |title=Tuning the oud |last=Parfitt |first=David |website= oudipedia.info|access-date=8 August 2018 }}</ref> In the Turkish tradition, the "Bolahenk" tuning, is common, (low pitch to high): C#2 F#2 B2 E3 A3 D4 on instruments with single string courses or C#2, F#2 F#2, B2 B2, E3 E3, A3 A3, D4 D4 on instruments with courses of two strings.<ref name=stringinsdb/><ref name=parfitt/> The C2 and F2 are actually tuned 1/4 of a tone higher than a normal c or f in the Bolahenk system.<ref name=stringinsdb/><ref name=parfitt/>

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Many current Arab players use this tuning: C2 F2 A2 D3 G3 C4 on the standard tuning instruments, and some use a higher pitch tuning, F A D G C F

===Zenne oud===

The Zenne oud, often translated as a ''women's oud'' or ''female oud'' is a smaller version of the oud designed for those with smaller hands and fingers.<ref name=stringinsdb2>{{cite web |url=https://stringedinstrumentdatabase.aornis.com/n.htm |title= Stringed Instrument Database N-O|author= |website= stringedinstrumentdatabase.aornis.com|access-date=8 August 2018 |quote=Smaller version ... often played by those with smaller hands ...}}</ref> It usually has a scale length of 55–57 cm, instead of the 60–62 cm of the Arabic oud, and the 58.5 cm of the Turkish oud.<ref name=stringinsdb/>

===Oud arbi and oud ramal===

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The oud ''arbi'' is a North African variant of the oud with a longer neck and only four courses.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://stringedinstrumentdatabase.aornis.com/n.htm|title=The Stringed Instrument Database: N-O|website=stringedinstrumentdatabase.aornis.com|access-date=3 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://khoudir-oud.com/Seiten/Instr_Andalusisch.html|title=Andalusische Oud|website=khoudir-oud.com|access-date=3 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://oudmigrations.com/2016/03/07/but-is-it-an-oud/|title=But is it an oud? - oudmigrations|date=7 March 2016|access-date=3 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://oudmigrations.com/2017/08/14/the-oud-of-tunisia/|title=The oud of Tunisia – oudmigrations|date=14 August 2017|access-date=3 October 2018}}</ref> It is not to be confused with the differently shaped and tuned [[kwitra]]. The oud arbi is tuned in a re-entrant tuning of G3 G3, E4 E4, A3 A3, D4 D4.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://stringedinstrumentdatabase.aornis.com/n.htm|title=The Stringed Instrument Database: N–O |website=stringedinstrumentdatabase.aornis.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://atlasofpluckedinstruments.com/africa.htm#north|title=ATLAS of Plucked Instruments – Africa|website=atlasofpluckedinstruments.com}}</ref>

===Oud kumethra===
The ''oud kumethra'', also known as ''pregnant oud'' or ''pear oud'' is an oud with the body in a pear-like shape. This type is relatively uncommon and mostly from Egypt.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://atlasofpluckedinstruments.com/middle_east.htm|title=ATLAS of Plucked Instruments - Middle East|website=atlasofpluckedinstruments.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://funjdiaz.net/museo/ficha.cfm?id=58 |title=Instrumentos Musicales en los Museos de URUEÑA|website=funjdiaz.net}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://experiencesicily.com/2014/11/04/mixing-it-oud/ |title=Mixing It Oud |first=Allison |last=Scola |date=November 4, 2014 |website=Experience Sicily}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=OUD LUTE CONSTRUCTION |url=http://inthegapbetween.free.fr/pierre/PROCESS_PROJECT/process_oud.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://inthegapbetween.free.fr/pierre/PROCESS_PROJECT/process_oud.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Electric oud===
A more experimental version is the oud counterpart to the electric guitar, used by the Franco-Algerian Folktronica band [[Speed Caravan]].{{cn|date=August 2022}}

==See also==
[[File:OUD.ogg|thumb|right|Introduction to ''Hob Eh'', composed by [[Baligh Hamdi]]]]
*[[Arabic music]]
*[[Arabic Oud House]]
*[[Armenian music]]
*[[Byzantine music]]
*[[Music of Palestine]]
*[[List of oud makers]]
*[[List of oud players]]
*[[Middle Eastern and North African music traditions|Middle Eastern and North East African music traditions]]
*[[Somali music]]
*[[Turkish music]]
*[[Music of Iraq]]
*[[Zaidoon Treeko]]

== Notes ==
<references group=Notes/>

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==Further reading==
* Rebuffa, David. ''Il Liuto, L'Epos'', (Palermo, 2012), pp. 22–34.

==External links==
{{Commons category|Ouds}}
* [http://collection-media.yale.edu/catalog/3904015#.U9fpUFZH-f0 Yale Collection of Music Instruments]

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List of regions of the United Kingdom by Human Development Index

2023-02-14T02:00:25Z

UserArtificial820029: Comparable countries. 2021 update.

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[[File:Regions of the United Kingdom by HDI (2017).svg|thumb|400x400px|Map of the regions of the United Kingdom by HDI in 2017. '''Legend:'''
{{legend|#00023a|> 0.950}}
{{legend|#000074|0.930–0.950}}
{{legend|#0010c0|0.910–0.930}}
{{legend|#4769ff|0.890–0.910}}
{{legend|#aabdef|< 0.890}}]]
This is a '''list of [[International Territorial Level|ITL 1 statistical regions of the United Kingdom]] (formerly [[Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics|NUTS]] 1) by [[Human Development Index]] as of 2021.'''<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab|url=https://globaldatalab.org/shdi/shdi/GBR/?levels=1%2B4&interpolation=1&extrapolation=0&nearest_real=0&years=2019|url-status=live|access-date=|website=hdi.globaldatalab.org|language=en}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+'''[[International Territorial Level|ITL 1 statistical regions of the United Kingdom]] by [[Human Development Index]]''' as of 2021.
|-
! colspan="3" style="color:#090;" | Very high human development
!
|-
! Rank !! ITL 1 Region !! HDI (2021)<ref name=":0" />
!Comparable countries/regions
|-
|| 1 || {{Flagicon|ENG}} [[Greater London]] ||0.973
|[[Hamburg]] (0.972)
|-
|| 2 || {{Flagicon|ENG}} [[South East England]] ||0.942
|[[Germany]] (0.942)
|- style="background:#e6e6e6"
|| – || '''{{GBR}} (average)''' || '''0.929'''
|[[Luxembourg]] (0.930)
|-
| 3 || {{Flagicon|ENG}} [[South West England]] || 0.925
|[[South Korea|Republic of Korea]]; [[Japan]] (0.925)
|-
| 4 || {{SCO}} || 0.921
|[[United States]] (0.921)
|-
| 5 || {{Flagicon|ENG}} [[East of England]] || 0.917
|[[Slovenia]] (0.918)
|-
| 6 || {{Flagicon|ENG}} [[North West England]] || 0.915
|[[Austria]] (0.916)
|-
| 7 || {{Flagicon|ENG}} [[East Midlands]] || 0.914
|[[Austria]] (0.916)
|-
| 8 || {{Flagicon|ENG}} [[West Midlands (region)|West Midlands]] || 0.913
|[[United Arab Emirates]] (0.911)
|-
|| 9 || {{Flagicon|ENG}} [[Yorkshire and the Humber]] || 0.908
|[[Spain]] (0.905)
|-
| 10 || {{Flagicon|ENG}} [[North East England]] || 0.901
|[[France]] (0.901)
|-
| 11 || {{WAL}}||0.898
|[[Cyprus]] (0.896)
|-
| 12 || {{flagicon|Northern Ireland|union}} [[Northern Ireland]] ||0.896
|[[Cyprus]] (0.896)
|}

== References ==

{{reflist}}
{{Subnational entities by Human Development Index}}

[[Category:Human Development Index|United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Economy of the United Kingdom-related lists|Human Development Index]]
[[Category:Ranked lists of country subdivisions|United Kingdom]]

List of administrative divisions of Greater China by Human Development Index

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{{China divisions by}}

This is a list of the first-level [[administrative divisions of China|administrative divisions]] of the [[China|People's Republic of China]] (PRC), including all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, and [[special administrative regions of China|special administrative regions]] in order of their [[Human Development Index]] (HDI), along with the [[Republic of China]] (ROC, Taiwan). The 2018/2019 figures for PRC/ROC division come from the Subnational Human Development Index (SHDI), published by the Global Data Lab at [[Radboud University]]. The index did not cover [[Macau]], a special administrative region of the PRC. Only divisions of [[Mainland China]] are given ranking numbers in the list as the national HDI for China which calculated by the annual [[United Nations Development Programme|UNDP]] [[Human Development Report]] is exclusively applied to mainland only.

== List of administrative divisions by HDI ==
[[File:Administrative divisions of China by HDI (2019).svg|thumb|450px|Administrative divisions of the Mainland China and Taiwan by Human Development Index (2019). 
{{Legend|#003135|Very high (≥ 0.800)}}
{{Legend|#00726a|High (0.700 – 0.799)}}
{{Legend|#00bfac|Medium (0.550 – 0.699)}}]]

=== The Subnational Human Development Database (2021 data) ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin: 1ex auto 1ex auto"
|-
! class="sort" |Rank
! class="sort" |Provincial-level division / National average

! class="sort" | HDI (2021) <ref name="SHDI">
{{cite web|url=https://globaldatalab.org/shdi/shdi/CHN/?levels=1%2B4&interpolation=0&extrapolation=0&nearest_real=0&years=2019%2B2018|title= Human Development Indices (5.0)- China|publisher= Global Data Lab|access-date=9 June 2021}}</ref>

!Comparable countries
|-
! colspan="3" style="color:#090;" | Very high human development
!
|-
| –
|''{{flag|Hong Kong}}''{{Efn|Hong Kong and Macau are [[special administrative regions of China|special administrative regions]] of the [[China|People's Republic of China]].|name=sar|group=}}

| 0.952

|[[Australia]] (0.951)
|- style="background:#e6e6e6"
| –
|{{flag|Republic of China (Taiwan)}}{{Efn|Taiwan is under separate rule by the [[Taiwan|Republic of China]] as a de facto independent state since 1950, but is claimed by the [[China|People's Republic of China]] as [[Taiwan Province, People's Republic of China|a province]]. The ROC also claims the [[Mainland China|mainland]] as its constitutional-defined territory.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-16164639|title=Taiwan Country Profile|work=World Affairs Journal|access-date=2020-08-29|language=en}}</ref>|name=twn|group=}}

| 0.926{{efn|name=taiwan|In the 2018 Subnational Human Development Index (SHDI) Database, from which the HDIs of every first-level administrative regions of China except Macao are acquired, Taiwan's HDI was 0.880.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://globaldatalab.org/shdi/shdi/CHN/?levels=1%2B4&interpolation=0&extrapolation=0&nearest_real=0&years=2018|title=GDL Area Database|publisher= Subnational Human Development Index (SHDI)|access-date=12 March 2021}}</ref> However, from 2019 onward, Taiwan and Hong Kong are no longer included in the SHDI Database among Chinese divisions.<ref name="SHDI"/> By contrast, the HDIs which published by the Statistical Bureau of Taiwan in its 2019 & 2020 reports were displayed as 0.911 in 2018, and 0.916 in 2019 respectively.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dgbas.gov.tw/public/Data/02416246DBUFBVDH.pdf|title=國情統計通報（第 019 號）|publisher= Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, Taiwan (ROC)|date=4 February 2020|access-date=26 January 2021|language=zh-tw}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dgbas.gov.tw/public/Data/112116036FDX2D8F3.pdf|title=國情統計通報（第 014 號）|publisher= Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, Taiwan (ROC)|date=21 January 2021|access-date=26 January 2021|language=zh-tw}}</ref> The cause of discrepancy was due to lack of available national data in the UNDP database for Taiwan. The SHDI claimed that the data collection for Taiwan was also derived from the Taiwanese [[Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics]];<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2019.38|author=Smits, J., Permanyer, I.|title=The Subnational Human Development Database. Sci Data 6, 190038|journal=Scientific Data |publisher= The Subnational Human Development Database|date=12 March 2019|volume=6 |page=190038 |doi=10.1038/sdata.2019.38 |pmid=30860498 |pmc=6413757 |access-date=11 March 2021}}</ref> in this list the latter source is used as primary data.}}

|[[Japan]]; [[South Korea|Republic of Korea]] (0.925)
|-
| –
|''{{flag|Macau}}''{{Efn||name=sar|group=}}

| 0.922{{efn|Macao's HDI is not included in the SHDI database or any UNDP annual report. According to the 2021 annual report published by [[Statistics and Census Service (Macau)|Statistics and Census Service]] of the Government of Macao Special Administrative Region, the HDI for Macau was 0.922 in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dsec.gov.mo//getAttachment/b975a2eb-f733-43f7-b519-4d4dc6f74e2a/E_MN_PUB_2021_Y.aspx|title=Macau in Figures, 2021|publisher=澳門統計暨普查局(DSEC)|page=4|language=en|access-date=2021-06-09}}</ref>}}

|[[United States]] (0.921)
|-
|1
|[[Beijing]]

| 0.907

|[[Spain]] (0.905)
|-
|2
|[[Shanghai]]

| 0.880

|[[Poland]] (0.876)
|-
|3
|[[Tianjin]]

| 0.844

|[[Hungary]] (0.846)
|-
|4
|[[Jiangsu]]

| 0.810

|[[Trinidad and Tobago]] (0.810)
|-
|5
|[[Zhejiang]]

| 0.801

|[[Mauritius]] (0.802)
|-
! colspan="3" style="color:#0c0;" | High human development
!
|-
|6
|[[Guangdong]]
| 0.799
|[[Thailand]] (0.800)
|-
|7
|[[Liaoning]]

| 0.780

|[[Bosnia and Herzegovina]] (0.780)
|-
|8
|[[Inner Mongolia]]
| 0.777
|[[Bosnia and Herzegovina]] (0.780)
|-
| rowspan="2" |9
|[[Fujian]]

| rowspan="2" | 0.775

| rowspan="2" |[[Iran]] (0.774)
|-
|[[Hubei]]
|-
|11
|[[Chongqing]]
| 0.774
|[[Iran]] (0.774)
|-
|12
|[[Hainan]]

| 0.769

|[[North Macedonia]] (0.770)
|-
|13
|[[Shaanxi]]
| 0.768
|[[Dominican Republic]] (0.767)
|- style="background:#e6e6e6"
| –
|'''{{flag|People's Republic of China}} (Average)'''{{efn|Figures refer to [[mainland China]] only.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/human-development-report-2020-readers-guide|title=Human Development Report 2020: Reader's Guide|publisher= United Nation Development Program|date=2020|access-date=12 March 2021}}</ref>|name=|group=}}
|'''0.768'''
|[[Dominican Republic]] (0.767)
|-
|14
|[[Shandong]]

| 0.765

|[[Dominican Republic]] (0.767)
|-
|15
|[[Hunan]]

| 0.762

|[[Peru]] (0.762)
|-
|16
|[[Shanxi]]

| 0.758

|[[Armenia]] (0.759)
|-
|17
|[[Jilin]]

| 0.751

|[[Colombia]] (0.752)
|-
|18
|[[Henan]]

| 0.748

|[[Maldives]] (0.747)
|-
|19
|[[Jiangxi]]
| 0.747
|[[Maldives]] (0.747)
|-
| rowspan="2" |20
|[[Anhui]]

| rowspan="2" | 0.744

| rowspan="2" |[[Tonga]] (0.745)
|-
|[[Hebei]]
|-
|22
|[[Heilongjiang]]

| 0.743

|[[Tonga]] (0.745)
|-
|23
|[[Sichuan]]

| 0.740

|[[Ecuador]] (0.740)
|-
|24
|[[Xinjiang]]
| 0.738
|[[Mongolia]] (0.739)
|-
| rowspan="2" |25
|[[Guangxi]]

| rowspan="2" | 0.734

| rowspan="2" |[[Tunisia]] (0.731)
|-
|[[Ningxia]]
|-
! colspan="3" style="color:#fc0;" | Medium human development
!
|-
|27
|[[Yunnan]]

| 0.697

|[[Philippines]] (0.699)
|-
|28
|[[Qinghai]]
| 0.695
|[[Kyrgyzstan]] (0.692)
|-
|29
|[[Gansu]]
| 0.693
|[[Kyrgyzstan]] (0.692)
|-
|30
|[[Guizhou]]
| 0.690
|[[Venezuela]] (0.691)
|-
|31
|[[Tibet Autonomous Region|Tibet]]

| 0.614

|[[Namibia]] (0.615)
|}
'''Notes:'''
{{Notelist}}

== Trend ==

{| width=703px style="background:#F2F2F2;"
! colspan="5" | Legend
|-
| valign=top |
----
'''Very High human development'''
{{Legend|#003C00|0.900 and above}}
{{Legend|#007F00|0.850–0.899}}
{{Legend|#00C400|0.800–0.849}}
| valign=top |
----
'''High human development'''
{{Legend|#00F900|0.750–0.799}}
{{Legend|#D3FF00|0.700–0.749}}
| valign=top |
----
'''Medium human development'''
{{Legend|#FFFF00|0.650–0.699}}
{{Legend|#FFD215|0.600–0.649}}
{{Legend|#FFA83C|0.550–0.599}}
| valign=top |
----
{{Legend|#B9B9B9|Data unavailable}}
|}
<gallery caption="2010-2014 HDI" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
File:中國一級行政區人類發展指數一覽（2014年數據）.png|2014 data
File:2010 China HDI.png|2010 data
</gallery>

{| width=703px style="background: #F2F2F2;"
! colspan="5" | Legend
|-
| valign=top |
'''Very High human development'''
{{Legend|#007B00|0.900–0.949}}
| valign=top |
'''High human development'''
{{Legend|#00D000|0.850–0.899}}
{{Legend|#00FF00|0.800–0.849}}
| valign=top |
'''Medium human development'''
{{Legend|#D3FF00|0.750–0.799}}
{{Legend|#FFFF00|0.700–0.749}}
{{Legend|#FFD215|0.650–0.699}}
{{Legend|#FFA83C|0.600–0.649}}
{{Legend|#FF852F|0.550–0.599}}
{{Legend|#FF5B00|0.500–0.549}}
| valign=top |
'''Low human development'''
{{Legend|#FF0000|0.450–0.499}}
{{Legend|#A70000|0.400–0.449}}
{{Legend|#7F0000|0.350–0.399}}
| valign=top |
{{Legend|#B9B9B9|Data unavailable}}
|}
<gallery caption="1982-2008 HDI" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
File:2008nian Zhongguo Renlei Fazhan Zhishu.png |2008 data
File:2005nian Zhongguo Renlei Fazhan Zhishu.png |2005 data
File:2003nian Zhongguo Renlei Fazhan Zhishu.png |2003 data
File:1999nian Zhongguo Renlei Fazhan Zhishu.png |1999 data
File:1997nian Zhongguo Renlei Fazhan Zhishu.png |1997 data
File:1995nian Zhongguo Renlei Fazhan Zhishu.png |1995 data
File:1990nian Zhongguo Renlei Fazhan Zhishu.png |1990 data
File:1982nian Zhongguo Renlei Fazhan Zhishu.png |1982 data
</gallery>

== See also ==
{{Portal|China}}
* [[List of countries by Human Development Index]]

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

== External links ==

*[http://www.cn.undp.org United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in China]
**[http://www.cn.undp.org/content/china/en/home/publications.html Publications]

{{Subnational entities by Human Development Index}}

[[Category:Ranked lists of Chinese administrative divisions|Human development index]]
[[Category:Demographics of China|HDI]]
[[Category:Human Development Index|China]]
[[Category:Economy of China by province]]
[[Category:Economy of China-related lists|Human Development Index]]

List of Japanese prefectures by Human Development Index

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[[File:Japanese prefectures by HDI (2017).svg|thumb|Map of Japanese regions and prefectures by HDI in 2017. 
'''Legend:'''
{{legend|#00023a|> 0.930}}
{{legend|#000074|0.900 – 0.930}}
{{legend|#0010c0|0.890 – 0.900}}
{{legend|#4769ff|< 0.890}}|326x326px]]
This article presents a '''list of [[Japan]]ese [[Regions of Japan|regions]] by [[Human Development Index]]''' as of 2021. This article also includes a list of Japanese [[Prefectures of Japan|prefectures]] by historical HDI in 1990, 1995 and 2000 further below.

== Japanese regions by HDI (2021) ==
This is a list [[Regions of Japan|regions]] of Japan by Human Development Index as of 2023, using data from the year 2021, calculated using the [[Human Development Index#New method (2010 Index onwards)|new methodology]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab|url=https://globaldatalab.org/shdi/shdi/JPN/?levels=1%2B4&interpolation=1&extrapolation=0&nearest_real=0&years=2019|url-status=live|access-date=|website=hdi.globaldatalab.org|language=en}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! class="sort" | Rank
! class="sort" | Region
! class="sort" | HDI (2021)
!Comparable countries
|-
! colspan="3" style="color:#090;" | Very high human development
!
|-
| 1 ||style="text-align:left"| Southern [[Kantō region|Kantō]] ([[Saitama Prefecture|Saitama]], [[Chiba Prefecture|Chiba]], [[Tokyo]], [[Kanagawa Prefecture|Kanagawa]], [[Yamanashi Prefecture|Yamanashi]], [[Nagano Prefecture|Nagano]]) || 0.951
|[[Australia]] (0.951)
|-
| 2 ||style="text-align:left"| [[Kansai region|Kansai]] ([[Shiga Prefecture|Shiga]], [[Kyoto Prefecture|Kyoto]], [[Osaka Prefecture|Osaka]], [[Hyōgo Prefecture|Hyōgo]], [[Nara Prefecture|Nara]], [[Wakayama Prefecture|Wakayama]]) || 0.928
|[[United Kingdom]] (0.929)
|- style="background:#e6e6e6"
| – || style="text-align:left" | '''{{flag|Japan}}'''|| '''0.925'''
|[[South Korea|Republic of Korea]] (0.925)
|-
| 3 || style="text-align:left" | [[Tōkai region|Tōkai]] ([[Gifu Prefecture|Gifu]], [[Shizuoka Prefecture|Shizuoka]], [[Aichi Prefecture|Aichi]], [[Mie Prefecture|Mie]]) || 0.924
|[[South Korea|Republic of Korea]] (0.925)
|-
| 4 ||style="text-align:left"| [[Chūgoku region|Chūgoku]] ([[Tottori Prefecture|Tottori]], [[Shimane Prefecture|Shimane]], [[Okayama Prefecture|Okayama]], [[Hiroshima Prefecture|Hiroshima]], [[Yamaguchi Prefecture|Yamaguchi]]) || 0.921
|[[United States]] (0.921)
|-
| 5 ||style="text-align:left"| Northern [[Kantō region|Kantō]], [[Central Highland (Japan)|Koshin]] ([[Ibaraki Prefecture|Ibaraki]], [[Tochigi Prefecture|Tochigi]], [[Gunma Prefecture|Gunma]]) || 0.913
|[[United Arab Emirates]] (0.911)
|-
| 6 ||style="text-align:left"| [[Hokuriku region|Hokuriku]] ([[Niigata Prefecture|Niigata]], [[Toyama Prefecture|Toyama]], [[Ishikawa Prefecture|Ishikawa]], [[Fukui Prefecture|Fukui]]) || 0.908
|[[United Arab Emirates]] (0.911)
|-
| rowspan="2" | 7 ||style="text-align:left"| [[Shikoku]] ([[Tokushima Prefecture|Tokushima]], [[Kagawa Prefecture|Kagawa]], [[Ehime Prefecture|Ehime]], [[Kōchi Prefecture|Kōchi]]) || rowspan="2" | 0.905
| rowspan="2" |[[Spain]] (0.905)
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Kyushu]] ([[Fukuoka Prefecture|Fukuoka]], [[Saga Prefecture|Saga]], [[Nagasaki Prefecture|Nagasaki]], [[Kumamoto Prefecture|Kumamoto]], [[Ōita Prefecture|Ōita]], [[Miyazaki Prefecture|Miyazaki]], [[Kagoshima Prefecture|Kagoshima]], [[Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa]])
|-
| 9 ||style="text-align:left"| [[Hokkaido]] || 0.900
|[[France]] (0.903)
|-
| 10 ||style="text-align:left"| [[Tōhoku region|Tōhoku]] ([[Aomori Prefecture|Aomori]], [[Iwate Prefecture|Iwate]], [[Miyagi Prefecture|Miyagi]], [[Akita Prefecture|Akita]], [[Yamagata Prefecture|Yamagata]], [[Fukushima Prefecture|Fukushima]]) || 0.893
|[[Italy]] (0.895)
|-
|}

== Japanese prefectures by past HDI using old methodology ==
This is a list of Japanese [[Prefectures of Japan|prefectures]] by Human Development Index calculated using the [[Human Development Index#Old method (before 2010 Index)|old methodology]]. This data was taken from the 2007 paper "Gross National Happiness and Material Welfare in Bhutan and Japan" (Tashi Choden, Takayoshi Kusago, Kokoro Shirai, Centre for Bhutan Studies, Osaka University).
[[File:Japan HDI by Prefecture.png|thumb|300px|Map of the [[Prefectures of Japan|prefectures]] of [[Japan]] by HDI as of 2000.]]

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:0.5em auto"
! Rank !! Prefecture !! HDI (1990) !! HDI (1995) !! HDI (2000)
|-
|1||{{flag|Tokyo}}||0.9296||0.9448||0.9667
|-
|2||{{flag|Aichi Prefecture|name=Aichi}}||0.9115||0.9265||0.9460
|-
|3||{{flag|Shiga Prefecture|name=Shiga}}||0.9080||0.9229||0.9426
|-
|4||{{flag|Shizuoka Prefecture|name=Shizuoka}}||0.9056||0.9204||0.9402
|-
|5||{{flag|Fukui Prefecture|name=Fukui}}||0.9027||0.9204||0.9401
|-
|6||{{flag|Toyama Prefecture|name=Toyama}}||0.9031||0.9205||0.9392
|-
|7||{{flag|Osaka Prefecture|name=Osaka}}||0.9003||0.9177||0.9390
|-
|8||{{flag|Nagano Prefecture|name=Nagano}}||0.8980||0.9148||0.9365
|-
|9||{{flag|Ishikawa Prefecture|name=Ishikawa}}||0.8991||0.9163||0.9364
|-
|10||{{flag|Hiroshima Prefecture|name=Hiroshima}}||0.9032||0.9170||0.9361
|-
|11||{{flag|Kyoto Prefecture|name=Kyoto}}||0.8952||0.9123||0.9333
|-
|12||{{flag|Mie Prefecture|name=Mie}}||0.8934||0.9123||0.9329
|-
|13||{{flag|Kanagawa Prefecture|name=Kanagawa}}||0.8996||0.9119||0.9324
|-
|14||{{flag|Yamanashi Prefecture|name=Yamanashi}}||0.8944||0.9094||0.9319
|-
|15||{{flag|Okayama Prefecture|name=Okayama}}||0.8992||0.9152||0.9316
|-
|16||{{flag|Kagawa Prefecture|name=Kagawa}}||0.8945||0.9122||0.9304
|-
|17||{{flag|Gunma Prefecture|name=Gunma}}||0.8957||0.9117||0.9303
|-
|18||{{flag|Tochigi Prefecture|name=Tochigi}}||0.8955||0.9107||0.9294
|-
|19||{{flag|Niigata Prefecture|name=Niigata}}||0.8921||0.9095||0.9290
|-
|20||{{flag|Hyōgo Prefecture|name=Hyōgo}}||0.8950||0.9086||0.9290
|-
|21||{{flag|Ōita Prefecture|name=Ōita}}||0.8891||0.9076||0.9285
|-
|22||{{flag|Gifu Prefecture|name=Gifu}}||0.8921||0.9070||0.9263
|-
|23||{{flag|Hokkaidō}}||0.8863||0.9068||0.9260
|-
|24||{{flag|Ibaraki Prefecture|name=Ibaraki}}||0.8928||0.9080||0.9259
|-
|25||{{flag|Yamaguchi Prefecture|name=Yamaguchi}}||0.8924||0.9084||0.9258
|-
|26||{{flag|Miyagi Prefecture|name=Miyagi}}||0.8926||0.9071||0.9247
|-
|27||{{flag|Fukushima Prefecture|name=Fukushima}}||0.8880||0.9044||0.9241
|-
|28||{{flag|Tottori Prefecture|name=Tottori}}||0.8887||0.9045||0.9239
|-
|29||{{flag|Shimane Prefecture|name=Shimane}}||0.8858||0.9021||0.9231
|-
|30||{{flag|Fukuoka Prefecture|name=Fukuoka}}||0.8896||0.9061||0.9228
|-
|31||{{flag|Kumamoto Prefecture|name=Kumamoto}}||0.8872||0.9045||0.9225
|-
|32||{{flag|Ehime Prefecture|name=Ehime}}||0.8862||0.9047||0.9221
|-
|33||{{flag|Chiba Prefecture|name=Chiba}}||0.8868||0.9019||0.9219
|-
|34||{{flag|Yamagata Prefecture|name=Yamagata}}||0.8855||0.9014||0.9216
|-
|35||{{flag|Saga Prefecture|name=Saga}}||0.8810||0.9021||0.9189
|-
|36||{{flag|Iwate Prefecture|name=Iwate}}||0.8792||0.8998||0.9186
|-
|37||{{flag|Tokushima Prefecture|name=Tokushima}}||0.8831||0.9005||0.9182
|-
|38||{{flag|Nara Prefecture|name=Nara}}||0.8794||0.8944||0.9169
|-
|39||{{flag|Saitama Prefecture|name=Saitama}}||0.8811||0.8956||0.9166
|-
|40||{{flag|Kōchi Prefecture|name=Kōchi}}||0.8781||0.8964||0.9156
|-
|41||{{flag|Wakayama Prefecture|name=Wakayama}}||0.8770||0.8957||0.9155
|-
|42||{{flag|Miyazaki Prefecture|name=Miyazaki}}||0.8780||0.8959||0.9148
|-
|43||{{flag|Akita Prefecture|name=Akita}}||0.8777||0.8951||0.9142
|-
|44||{{flag|Nagasaki Prefecture|name=Nagasaki}}||0.8749||0.8949||0.9127
|-
|45||{{flag|Kagoshima Prefecture|name=Kagoshima}}||0.8762||0.8938||0.9127
|-
|46||{{flag|Okinawa Prefecture|name=Okinawa}}||0.8810||0.8940||0.9111
|-
|47||{{flag|Aomori Prefecture|name=Aomori}}||0.8698||0.8877||0.9065
|-
|}

==References==
<references />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090719150637/http://www.bhutanstudies.org.bt/main/pub_detail.php?pubid=102 Gross National Happiness and Material Welfare in Bhutan and Japan]

{{Subnational entities by Human Development Index}}

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[[Category:Lists of places in Japan|Prefectures by Human Development Index]]
[[Category:Economy of Japan-related lists|Prefectures by Human Development Index]]
[[Category:Ranked lists of country subdivisions|Japan, Human Development Index]]
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List of regions of South Korea by Human Development Index

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UserArtificial820029: Comparable countries.

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[[File:Regions of South Korea by HDI (2017).svg|thumb|Map of the South Korean regions by HDI in 2018. '''Legend:'''{{legend|#00023a|> 0.920}}{{legend|#000074|0.900 – 0.920}}{{legend|#0010c0|0.890 – 0.900}}{{legend|#4769ff|0.880 – 0.890}}{{legend|#aabdef|< 0.880}}]]
This is a '''list of regions of [[South Korea]] by [[Human Development Index]]''' as of 2023, with data for the year 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sub-national HDI - Subnational HDI - Global Data Lab|url=https://globaldatalab.org/shdi/shdi/KOR/?levels=1%2B4&interpolation=1&extrapolation=0&nearest_real=0&years=2019|url-status=live|access-date=|website=globaldatalab.org}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Rank
!Region
!HDI (2021)
!Comparable countries
|-
! colspan="3" style="color:#090;" |Very high human development
!
|-
|1
|[[Seoul Capital Area|Capital Area]] ([[Gyeonggi Province|Gyeonggi]], [[Seoul]], [[Incheon]])
|0.952
|[[Hong Kong]] (0.952)
|-
|2
|Gyeongnam [Southern [[Gyeongsang Province|Gyeongsang]]] ([[South Gyeongsang Province|South Gyeongsang]], [[Busan]], [[Ulsan]])
|0.936
|[[Canada]] (0.936)
|- style="background:#e6e6e6"
|–
|'''{{KOR}} (average)'''
|'''0.925'''
|[[Japan]] (0.925)
|-
|3
|[[Chungcheong Province|Chungcheong]] ([[North Chungcheong Province|North Chungcheong]], [[South Chungcheong Province|South Chungcheong]], [[Daejeon]], [[Sejong City|Sejong]])
|0.912
|[[United Arab Emirates]] (0.911)
|-
|4
|[[Jeju Province|Jeju]]
|0.907
|[[Spain]] (0.905)
|-
|5
|[[Jeolla Province|Jeolla]] ([[North Jeolla Province|North Jeolla]], [[South Jeolla Province|South Jeolla]], [[Gwangju]])
|0.906
|[[Spain]] (0.905)
|-
|6
|[[Gangwon Province, South Korea|Gangwon]]
|0.902
|[[France]] (0.903)
|-
|7
|Gyeongbuk [Northern [[Gyeongsang Province|Gyeongsang]]] ([[North Gyeongsang Province|North Gyeongsang]], [[Daegu]])
|0.857
|[[Andorra]] (0.858)
|}

== See also ==
* [[List of countries by Human Development Index]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

{{Subnational entities by Human Development Index}}

[[Category:Economy of South Korea-related lists|Human Development Index]]
[[Category:Human Development Index|Korea, South]]
[[Category:Ranked lists of country subdivisions|South Korea]]

List of regions of South Korea by Human Development Index

2023-02-06T15:03:20Z

UserArtificial820029: Administrative divisions.

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[[File:Regions of South Korea by HDI (2017).svg|thumb|Map of the South Korean regions by HDI in 2018. '''Legend:'''{{legend|#00023a|> 0.920}}{{legend|#000074|0.900 – 0.920}}{{legend|#0010c0|0.890 – 0.900}}{{legend|#4769ff|0.880 – 0.890}}{{legend|#aabdef|< 0.880}}]]
This is a '''list of regions of [[South Korea]] by [[Human Development Index]]''' as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sub-national HDI - Subnational HDI - Global Data Lab|url=https://globaldatalab.org/shdi/shdi/KOR/?levels=1%2B4&interpolation=1&extrapolation=0&nearest_real=0&years=2019|url-status=live|access-date=|website=globaldatalab.org}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Rank
!Region
!HDI (2021)
|-
! colspan="3" style="color:#090;" |Very high human development
|-
|1
|[[Seoul Capital Area|Capital Area]] ([[Gyeonggi Province|Gyeonggi]], [[Seoul]], [[Incheon]])
|0.952
|-
|2
|Gyeongnam [Southern [[Gyeongsang Province|Gyeongsang]]] ([[South Gyeongsang Province|South Gyeongsang]], [[Busan]], [[Ulsan]])
|0.936
|- style="background:#e6e6e6"
|–
|'''{{KOR}} (average)'''
|'''0.925'''
|-
|3
|[[Chungcheong Province|Chungcheong]] ([[North Chungcheong Province|North Chungcheong]], [[South Chungcheong Province|South Chungcheong]], [[Daejeon]], [[Sejong City|Sejong]])
|0.912
|-
|4
|[[Jeju Province|Jeju]]
|0.907
|-
|5
|[[Jeolla Province|Jeolla]] ([[North Jeolla Province|North Jeolla]], [[South Jeolla Province|South Jeolla]], [[Gwangju]])
|0.906
|-
|6
|[[Gangwon Province, South Korea|Gangwon]]
|0.902
|-
|7
|Gyeongbuk [Northern [[Gyeongsang Province|Gyeongsang]]] ([[North Gyeongsang Province|North Gyeongsang]], [[Daegu]])
|0.857
|}

== See also ==
* [[List of countries by Human Development Index]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

{{Subnational entities by Human Development Index}}

[[Category:Economy of South Korea-related lists|Human Development Index]]
[[Category:Human Development Index|Korea, South]]
[[Category:Ranked lists of country subdivisions|South Korea]]

List of regions of South Korea by Human Development Index

2023-02-06T15:01:31Z

UserArtificial820029: Administrative divisions.

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[[File:Regions of South Korea by HDI (2017).svg|thumb|Map of the South Korean regions by HDI in 2018. '''Legend:'''{{legend|#00023a|> 0.920}}{{legend|#000074|0.900 – 0.920}}{{legend|#0010c0|0.890 – 0.900}}{{legend|#4769ff|0.880 – 0.890}}{{legend|#aabdef|< 0.880}}]]
This is a '''list of regions of [[South Korea]] by [[Human Development Index]]''' as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sub-national HDI - Subnational HDI - Global Data Lab|url=https://globaldatalab.org/shdi/shdi/KOR/?levels=1%2B4&interpolation=1&extrapolation=0&nearest_real=0&years=2019|url-status=live|access-date=|website=globaldatalab.org}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Rank
!Region
!HDI (2021)
|-
! colspan="3" style="color:#090;" |Very high human development
|-
|1
|[[Seoul Capital Area|Capital Area]] ([[Gyeonggi Province|Gyeonggi]], [[Seoul]], [[Incheon]])
|0.952
|-
|2
|Gyeongnam ([[South Gyeongsang Province|South Gyeongsang]], [[Busan]], [[Ulsan]])
|0.936
|- style="background:#e6e6e6"
|–
|'''{{KOR}} (average)'''
|'''0.925'''
|-
|3
|[[Chungcheong Province|Chungcheong]] ([[North Chungcheong Province|North Chungcheong]], [[South Chungcheong Province|South Chungcheong]], [[Daejeon]], [[Sejong City|Sejong]])
|0.912
|-
|4
|[[Jeju Province|Jeju]]
|0.907
|-
|5
|[[Jeolla Province|Jeolla]] ([[North Jeolla Province|North Jeolla]], [[South Jeolla Province|South Jeolla]], [[Gwangju]])
|0.906
|-
|6
|[[Gangwon Province, South Korea|Gangwon]]
|0.902
|-
|7
|Gyeongbuk ([[North Gyeongsang Province|North Gyeongsang]], [[Daegu]])
|0.857
|}

== See also ==
* [[List of countries by Human Development Index]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

{{Subnational entities by Human Development Index}}

[[Category:Economy of South Korea-related lists|Human Development Index]]
[[Category:Human Development Index|Korea, South]]
[[Category:Ranked lists of country subdivisions|South Korea]]

List of administrative divisions of Greater China by Human Development Index

2023-02-06T14:56:35Z

UserArtificial820029: Update for 2021 data.

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{{China divisions by}}

This is a list of the first-level [[administrative divisions of China|administrative divisions]] of the [[China|People's Republic of China]] (PRC), including all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, and [[special administrative regions of China|special administrative regions]] in order of their [[Human Development Index]] (HDI), along with the [[Republic of China]] (ROC, Taiwan). The 2018/2019 figures for PRC/ROC division come from the Subnational Human Development Index (SHDI), published by the Global Data Lab at [[Radboud University]]. The index did not cover [[Macau]], a special administrative region of the PRC. Only divisions of [[Mainland China]] are given ranking numbers in the list as the national HDI for China which calculated by the annual [[United Nations Development Programme|UNDP]] [[Human Development Report]] is exclusively applied to mainland only.

== List of administrative divisions by HDI ==
[[File:Administrative divisions of China by HDI (2019).svg|thumb|450px|Administrative divisions of the Mainland China and Taiwan by Human Development Index (2019). 
{{Legend|#003135|Very high (≥ 0.800)}}
{{Legend|#00726a|High (0.700 – 0.799)}}
{{Legend|#00bfac|Medium (0.550 – 0.699)}}]]

=== The Subnational Human Development Database (2019 data) ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin: 1ex auto 1ex auto"
|-
! class="sort" |Rank
! class="sort" |Provincial-level division / National average

! class="sort" | HDI (2021) <ref name="SHDI">
{{cite web|url=https://globaldatalab.org/shdi/shdi/CHN/?levels=1%2B4&interpolation=0&extrapolation=0&nearest_real=0&years=2019%2B2018|title= Human Development Indices (5.0)- China|publisher= Global Data Lab|access-date=9 June 2021}}</ref>

|-
! colspan="3" style="color:#090;" | Very high human development
|-
| –
|''{{flag|Hong Kong}}''{{Efn|Hong Kong and Macau are [[special administrative regions of China|special administrative regions]] of the [[China|People's Republic of China]].|name=sar|group=}}

| 0.949

|-
| –
|''{{flag|Macau}}''{{Efn||name=sar|group=}}

| 0.922{{efn|Macao's HDI is not included in the SHDI database or any UNDP annual report. According to the 2021 annual report published by [[Statistics and Census Service (Macau)|Statistics and Census Service]] of the Government of Macao Special Administrative Region, the HDI for Macau was 0.922 in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dsec.gov.mo//getAttachment/b975a2eb-f733-43f7-b519-4d4dc6f74e2a/E_MN_PUB_2021_Y.aspx|title=Macau in Figures, 2021|publisher=澳門統計暨普查局(DSEC)|page=4|language=en|access-date=2021-06-09}}</ref>}}

|- style="background:#e6e6e6"
| –
|{{flag|Republic of China (Taiwan)}}{{Efn|Taiwan is under separate rule by the [[Taiwan|Republic of China]] as a de facto independent state since 1950, but is claimed by the [[China|People's Republic of China]] as [[Taiwan Province, People's Republic of China|a province]]. The ROC also claims the [[Mainland China|mainland]] as its constitutional-defined territory.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-16164639|title=Taiwan Country Profile|work=World Affairs Journal|access-date=2020-08-29|language=en}}</ref>|name=twn|group=}}

| 0.916{{efn|name=taiwan|In the 2018 Subnational Human Development Index (SHDI) Database, from which the HDIs of every first-level administrative regions of China except Macao are acquired, Taiwan's HDI was 0.880.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://globaldatalab.org/shdi/shdi/CHN/?levels=1%2B4&interpolation=0&extrapolation=0&nearest_real=0&years=2018|title=GDL Area Database|publisher= Subnational Human Development Index (SHDI)|access-date=12 March 2021}}</ref> However, from 2019 onward, Taiwan and Hong Kong are no longer included in the SHDI Database among Chinese divisions.<ref name="SHDI"/> By contrast, the HDIs which published by the Statistical Bureau of Taiwan in its 2019 & 2020 reports were displayed as 0.911 in 2018, and 0.916 in 2019 respectively.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dgbas.gov.tw/public/Data/02416246DBUFBVDH.pdf|title=國情統計通報（第 019 號）|publisher= Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, Taiwan (ROC)|date=4 February 2020|access-date=26 January 2021|language=zh-tw}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dgbas.gov.tw/public/Data/112116036FDX2D8F3.pdf|title=國情統計通報（第 014 號）|publisher= Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, Taiwan (ROC)|date=21 January 2021|access-date=26 January 2021|language=zh-tw}}</ref> The cause of discrepancy was due to lack of available national data in the UNDP database for Taiwan. The SHDI claimed that the data collection for Taiwan was also derived from the Taiwanese [[Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics]];<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2019.38|author=Smits, J., Permanyer, I.|title=The Subnational Human Development Database. Sci Data 6, 190038|journal=Scientific Data |publisher= The Subnational Human Development Database|date=12 March 2019|volume=6 |page=190038 |doi=10.1038/sdata.2019.38 |pmid=30860498 |pmc=6413757 |access-date=11 March 2021}}</ref> in this list the latter source is used as primary data.}}

|-
|1
|[[Beijing]]

| 0.907

|-
|2
|[[Shanghai]]

| 0.880

|-
|3
|[[Tianjin]]

| 0.844

|-
|4
|[[Jiangsu]]

| 0.810

|-
! colspan="3" style="color:#0c0;" | High human development
|-
|5
|[[Zhejiang]]

| 0.801

|-
|6
|[[Guangdong]]
| 0.799
|-
|7
|[[Liaoning]]

| 0.780

|-
|8
|[[Inner Mongolia]]
| 0.777
|-
| rowspan="2" |9
|[[Fujian]]

| rowspan="2" | 0.775

|-
|[[Hubei]]
|-
|11
|[[Chongqing]]
| 0.774
|-
|12
|[[Hainan]]

| 0.769

|-
|13
|[[Shaanxi]]
| 0.768
|- style="background:#e6e6e6"
| –
|'''{{flag|People's Republic of China}} (Average)'''{{efn|Figures refer to [[mainland China]] only.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/human-development-report-2020-readers-guide|title=Human Development Report 2020: Reader's Guide|publisher= United Nation Development Program|date=2020|access-date=12 March 2021}}</ref>|name=|group=}}
|'''0.768'''
|-
|14
|[[Shandong]]

| 0.765

|-
|15
|[[Hunan]]

| 0.762

|-
|16
|[[Shanxi]]

| 0.758

|-
|17
|[[Jilin]]

| 0.751

|-
|18
|[[Henan]]

| 0.748

|-
|19
|[[Jiangxi]]
| 0.747
|-
| rowspan="2" |20
|[[Anhui]]

| rowspan="2" | 0.744

|-
|[[Hebei]]
|-
|22
|[[Heilongjiang]]

| 0.743

|-
|23
|[[Sichuan]]

| 0.740

|-
|24
|[[Xinjiang]]
| 0.738
|-
| rowspan="2" |25
|[[Guangxi]]

| rowspan="2" | 0.734

|-
|[[Ningxia]]
|-
! colspan="3" style="color:#fc0;" | Medium human development
|-
|27
|[[Yunnan]]

| 0.697

|-
|28
|[[Qinghai]]
| 0.695
|-
|29
|[[Gansu]]
| 0.693
|-
|30
|[[Guizhou]]
| 0.690
|-
|31
|[[Tibet Autonomous Region|Tibet]]

| 0.614

|}
'''Notes:'''
{{Notelist}}

== Trend ==

{| width=703px style="background:#F2F2F2;"
! colspan="5" | Legend
|-
| valign=top |
----
'''Very High human development'''
{{Legend|#003C00|0.900 and above}}
{{Legend|#007F00|0.850–0.899}}
{{Legend|#00C400|0.800–0.849}}
| valign=top |
----
'''High human development'''
{{Legend|#00F900|0.750–0.799}}
{{Legend|#D3FF00|0.700–0.749}}
| valign=top |
----
'''Medium human development'''
{{Legend|#FFFF00|0.650–0.699}}
{{Legend|#FFD215|0.600–0.649}}
{{Legend|#FFA83C|0.550–0.599}}
| valign=top |
----
{{Legend|#B9B9B9|Data unavailable}}
|}
<gallery caption="2010-2014 HDI" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
File:中國一級行政區人類發展指數一覽（2014年數據）.png|2014 data
File:2010 China HDI.png|2010 data
</gallery>

{| width=703px style="background: #F2F2F2;"
! colspan="5" | Legend
|-
| valign=top |
'''Very High human development'''
{{Legend|#007B00|0.900–0.949}}
| valign=top |
'''High human development'''
{{Legend|#00D000|0.850–0.899}}
{{Legend|#00FF00|0.800–0.849}}
| valign=top |
'''Medium human development'''
{{Legend|#D3FF00|0.750–0.799}}
{{Legend|#FFFF00|0.700–0.749}}
{{Legend|#FFD215|0.650–0.699}}
{{Legend|#FFA83C|0.600–0.649}}
{{Legend|#FF852F|0.550–0.599}}
{{Legend|#FF5B00|0.500–0.549}}
| valign=top |
'''Low human development'''
{{Legend|#FF0000|0.450–0.499}}
{{Legend|#A70000|0.400–0.449}}
{{Legend|#7F0000|0.350–0.399}}
| valign=top |
{{Legend|#B9B9B9|Data unavailable}}
|}
<gallery caption="1982-2008 HDI" widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="4">
File:2008nian Zhongguo Renlei Fazhan Zhishu.png |2008 data
File:2005nian Zhongguo Renlei Fazhan Zhishu.png |2005 data
File:2003nian Zhongguo Renlei Fazhan Zhishu.png |2003 data
File:1999nian Zhongguo Renlei Fazhan Zhishu.png |1999 data
File:1997nian Zhongguo Renlei Fazhan Zhishu.png |1997 data
File:1995nian Zhongguo Renlei Fazhan Zhishu.png |1995 data
File:1990nian Zhongguo Renlei Fazhan Zhishu.png |1990 data
File:1982nian Zhongguo Renlei Fazhan Zhishu.png |1982 data
</gallery>

== See also ==
{{Portal|China}}
* [[List of countries by Human Development Index]]

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

== External links ==

*[http://www.cn.undp.org United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in China]
**[http://www.cn.undp.org/content/china/en/home/publications.html Publications]

{{Subnational entities by Human Development Index}}

[[Category:Ranked lists of Chinese administrative divisions|Human development index]]
[[Category:Demographics of China|HDI]]
[[Category:Human Development Index|China]]
[[Category:Economy of China by province]]
[[Category:Economy of China-related lists|Human Development Index]]

List of regions of South Korea by Human Development Index

2023-02-06T14:52:48Z

UserArtificial820029: Update for 2021 data.

{{Short description|none}}
[[File:Regions of South Korea by HDI (2017).svg|thumb|Map of the South Korean regions by HDI in 2018. '''Legend:'''{{legend|#00023a|> 0.920}}{{legend|#000074|0.900 – 0.920}}{{legend|#0010c0|0.890 – 0.900}}{{legend|#4769ff|0.880 – 0.890}}{{legend|#aabdef|< 0.880}}]]
This is a '''list of regions of [[South Korea]] by [[Human Development Index]]''' as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sub-national HDI - Subnational HDI - Global Data Lab|url=https://globaldatalab.org/shdi/shdi/KOR/?levels=1%2B4&interpolation=1&extrapolation=0&nearest_real=0&years=2019|url-status=live|access-date=|website=globaldatalab.org}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Rank
!Region
!HDI (2021)
|-
! colspan="3" style="color:#090;" |Very high human development
|-
|1
|[[Seoul Capital Area]]
|0.952
|-
|2
|[[South Gyeongsang Province|South Gyeongsang]], [[Busan]], [[Ulsan]]
|0.936
|- style="background:#e6e6e6"
|–
|'''{{KOR}} (average)'''
|'''0.925'''
|-
|3
|[[North Chungcheong Province|North Chungcheong]], [[South Chungcheong Province|South Chungcheong]]
|0.912
|-
|4
|[[Jeju Province|Jeju]]
|0.907
|-
|5
|[[North Jeolla Province|North Jeolla]], [[South Jeolla Province|South Jeolla]]
|0.906
|-
|6
|[[Gangwon Province, South Korea|Gangwon]]
|0.902
|-
|7
|[[North Gyeongsang Province|North Gyeongsang]], [[Daegu]]
|0.857
|}

== See also ==
* [[List of countries by Human Development Index]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

{{Subnational entities by Human Development Index}}

[[Category:Economy of South Korea-related lists|Human Development Index]]
[[Category:Human Development Index|Korea, South]]
[[Category:Ranked lists of country subdivisions|South Korea]]

List of Japanese prefectures by Human Development Index

2023-02-06T14:51:37Z

UserArtificial820029: Update for 2021 data.

{{Short description|None}}
[[File:Japanese prefectures by HDI (2017).svg|thumb|Map of Japanese regions and prefectures by HDI in 2017. 
'''Legend:'''
{{legend|#00023a|> 0.930}}
{{legend|#000074|0.900 – 0.930}}
{{legend|#0010c0|0.890 – 0.900}}
{{legend|#4769ff|< 0.890}}|326x326px]]
This article presents a '''list of [[Japan]]ese [[Regions of Japan|regions]] by [[Human Development Index]]''' as of 2021. This article also includes a list of Japanese [[Prefectures of Japan|prefectures]] by historical HDI in 1990, 1995 and 2000 further below.

== Japanese regions by HDI (2021) ==
This is a list [[Regions of Japan|regions]] of Japan by Human Development Index calculated using the [[Human Development Index#New method (2010 Index onwards)|new methodology]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab|url=https://globaldatalab.org/shdi/shdi/JPN/?levels=1%2B4&interpolation=1&extrapolation=0&nearest_real=0&years=2019|url-status=live|access-date=|website=hdi.globaldatalab.org|language=en}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! class="sort" | Rank
! class="sort" | Region
! class="sort" | HDI (2021)
|-
! colspan="3" style="color:#090;" | Very high human development
|-
| 1 ||style="text-align:left"| Southern [[Kantō region|Kantō]] ([[Saitama Prefecture|Saitama]], [[Chiba Prefecture|Chiba]], [[Tokyo]], [[Kanagawa Prefecture|Kanagawa]], [[Yamanashi Prefecture|Yamanashi]], [[Nagano Prefecture|Nagano]]) || 0.951
|-
| 2 ||style="text-align:left"| [[Kansai region|Kansai]] ([[Shiga Prefecture|Shiga]], [[Kyoto Prefecture|Kyoto]], [[Osaka Prefecture|Osaka]], [[Hyōgo Prefecture|Hyōgo]], [[Nara Prefecture|Nara]], [[Wakayama Prefecture|Wakayama]]) || 0.928
|- style="background:#e6e6e6"
| – || style="text-align:left" | '''{{flag|Japan}}'''|| '''0.925'''
|-
| 3 || style="text-align:left" | [[Tōkai region|Tōkai]] ([[Gifu Prefecture|Gifu]], [[Shizuoka Prefecture|Shizuoka]], [[Aichi Prefecture|Aichi]], [[Mie Prefecture|Mie]]) || 0.924
|-
| 4 ||style="text-align:left"| [[Chūgoku region|Chūgoku]] ([[Tottori Prefecture|Tottori]], [[Shimane Prefecture|Shimane]], [[Okayama Prefecture|Okayama]], [[Hiroshima Prefecture|Hiroshima]], [[Yamaguchi Prefecture|Yamaguchi]]) || 0.921
|-
| 5 ||style="text-align:left"| Northern [[Kantō region|Kantō]], [[Central Highland (Japan)|Koshin]] ([[Ibaraki Prefecture|Ibaraki]], [[Tochigi Prefecture|Tochigi]], [[Gunma Prefecture|Gunma]]) || 0.913
|-
| 6 ||style="text-align:left"| [[Hokuriku region|Hokuriku]] ([[Niigata Prefecture|Niigata]], [[Toyama Prefecture|Toyama]], [[Ishikawa Prefecture|Ishikawa]], [[Fukui Prefecture|Fukui]]) || 0.908
|-
| rowspan="2" | 7 ||style="text-align:left"| [[Shikoku]] ([[Tokushima Prefecture|Tokushima]], [[Kagawa Prefecture|Kagawa]], [[Ehime Prefecture|Ehime]], [[Kōchi Prefecture|Kōchi]]) || rowspan="2" | 0.905
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Kyushu]] ([[Fukuoka Prefecture|Fukuoka]], [[Saga Prefecture|Saga]], [[Nagasaki Prefecture|Nagasaki]], [[Kumamoto Prefecture|Kumamoto]], [[Ōita Prefecture|Ōita]], [[Miyazaki Prefecture|Miyazaki]], [[Kagoshima Prefecture|Kagoshima]], [[Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa]])
|-
| 9 ||style="text-align:left"| [[Hokkaido]] || 0.900
|-
| 10 ||style="text-align:left"| [[Tōhoku region|Tōhoku]] ([[Aomori Prefecture|Aomori]], [[Iwate Prefecture|Iwate]], [[Miyagi Prefecture|Miyagi]], [[Akita Prefecture|Akita]], [[Yamagata Prefecture|Yamagata]], [[Fukushima Prefecture|Fukushima]]) || 0.893
|-
|}

== Japanese prefectures by past HDI using old methodology ==
This is a list of Japanese [[Prefectures of Japan|prefectures]] by Human Development Index calculated using the [[Human Development Index#Old method (before 2010 Index)|old methodology]]. This data was taken from the 2007 paper "Gross National Happiness and Material Welfare in Bhutan and Japan" (Tashi Choden, Takayoshi Kusago, Kokoro Shirai, Centre for Bhutan Studies, Osaka University).
[[File:Japan HDI by Prefecture.png|thumb|300px|Map of the [[Prefectures of Japan|prefectures]] of [[Japan]] by HDI as of 2000.]]

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:0.5em auto"
! Rank !! Prefecture !! HDI (1990) !! HDI (1995) !! HDI (2000)
|-
|1||{{flag|Tokyo}}||0.9296||0.9448||0.9667
|-
|2||{{flag|Aichi Prefecture|name=Aichi}}||0.9115||0.9265||0.9460
|-
|3||{{flag|Shiga Prefecture|name=Shiga}}||0.9080||0.9229||0.9426
|-
|4||{{flag|Shizuoka Prefecture|name=Shizuoka}}||0.9056||0.9204||0.9402
|-
|5||{{flag|Fukui Prefecture|name=Fukui}}||0.9027||0.9204||0.9401
|-
|6||{{flag|Toyama Prefecture|name=Toyama}}||0.9031||0.9205||0.9392
|-
|7||{{flag|Osaka Prefecture|name=Osaka}}||0.9003||0.9177||0.9390
|-
|8||{{flag|Nagano Prefecture|name=Nagano}}||0.8980||0.9148||0.9365
|-
|9||{{flag|Ishikawa Prefecture|name=Ishikawa}}||0.8991||0.9163||0.9364
|-
|10||{{flag|Hiroshima Prefecture|name=Hiroshima}}||0.9032||0.9170||0.9361
|-
|11||{{flag|Kyoto Prefecture|name=Kyoto}}||0.8952||0.9123||0.9333
|-
|12||{{flag|Mie Prefecture|name=Mie}}||0.8934||0.9123||0.9329
|-
|13||{{flag|Kanagawa Prefecture|name=Kanagawa}}||0.8996||0.9119||0.9324
|-
|14||{{flag|Yamanashi Prefecture|name=Yamanashi}}||0.8944||0.9094||0.9319
|-
|15||{{flag|Okayama Prefecture|name=Okayama}}||0.8992||0.9152||0.9316
|-
|16||{{flag|Kagawa Prefecture|name=Kagawa}}||0.8945||0.9122||0.9304
|-
|17||{{flag|Gunma Prefecture|name=Gunma}}||0.8957||0.9117||0.9303
|-
|18||{{flag|Tochigi Prefecture|name=Tochigi}}||0.8955||0.9107||0.9294
|-
|19||{{flag|Niigata Prefecture|name=Niigata}}||0.8921||0.9095||0.9290
|-
|20||{{flag|Hyōgo Prefecture|name=Hyōgo}}||0.8950||0.9086||0.9290
|-
|21||{{flag|Ōita Prefecture|name=Ōita}}||0.8891||0.9076||0.9285
|-
|22||{{flag|Gifu Prefecture|name=Gifu}}||0.8921||0.9070||0.9263
|-
|23||{{flag|Hokkaidō}}||0.8863||0.9068||0.9260
|-
|24||{{flag|Ibaraki Prefecture|name=Ibaraki}}||0.8928||0.9080||0.9259
|-
|25||{{flag|Yamaguchi Prefecture|name=Yamaguchi}}||0.8924||0.9084||0.9258
|-
|26||{{flag|Miyagi Prefecture|name=Miyagi}}||0.8926||0.9071||0.9247
|-
|27||{{flag|Fukushima Prefecture|name=Fukushima}}||0.8880||0.9044||0.9241
|-
|28||{{flag|Tottori Prefecture|name=Tottori}}||0.8887||0.9045||0.9239
|-
|29||{{flag|Shimane Prefecture|name=Shimane}}||0.8858||0.9021||0.9231
|-
|30||{{flag|Fukuoka Prefecture|name=Fukuoka}}||0.8896||0.9061||0.9228
|-
|31||{{flag|Kumamoto Prefecture|name=Kumamoto}}||0.8872||0.9045||0.9225
|-
|32||{{flag|Ehime Prefecture|name=Ehime}}||0.8862||0.9047||0.9221
|-
|33||{{flag|Chiba Prefecture|name=Chiba}}||0.8868||0.9019||0.9219
|-
|34||{{flag|Yamagata Prefecture|name=Yamagata}}||0.8855||0.9014||0.9216
|-
|35||{{flag|Saga Prefecture|name=Saga}}||0.8810||0.9021||0.9189
|-
|36||{{flag|Iwate Prefecture|name=Iwate}}||0.8792||0.8998||0.9186
|-
|37||{{flag|Tokushima Prefecture|name=Tokushima}}||0.8831||0.9005||0.9182
|-
|38||{{flag|Nara Prefecture|name=Nara}}||0.8794||0.8944||0.9169
|-
|39||{{flag|Saitama Prefecture|name=Saitama}}||0.8811||0.8956||0.9166
|-
|40||{{flag|Kōchi Prefecture|name=Kōchi}}||0.8781||0.8964||0.9156
|-
|41||{{flag|Wakayama Prefecture|name=Wakayama}}||0.8770||0.8957||0.9155
|-
|42||{{flag|Miyazaki Prefecture|name=Miyazaki}}||0.8780||0.8959||0.9148
|-
|43||{{flag|Akita Prefecture|name=Akita}}||0.8777||0.8951||0.9142
|-
|44||{{flag|Nagasaki Prefecture|name=Nagasaki}}||0.8749||0.8949||0.9127
|-
|45||{{flag|Kagoshima Prefecture|name=Kagoshima}}||0.8762||0.8938||0.9127
|-
|46||{{flag|Okinawa Prefecture|name=Okinawa}}||0.8810||0.8940||0.9111
|-
|47||{{flag|Aomori Prefecture|name=Aomori}}||0.8698||0.8877||0.9065
|-
|}

==References==
<references />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090719150637/http://www.bhutanstudies.org.bt/main/pub_detail.php?pubid=102 Gross National Happiness and Material Welfare in Bhutan and Japan]

{{Subnational entities by Human Development Index}}

[[Category:Prefectures of Japan| Human Development Index]]
[[Category:Lists of places in Japan|Prefectures by Human Development Index]]
[[Category:Economy of Japan-related lists|Prefectures by Human Development Index]]
[[Category:Ranked lists of country subdivisions|Japan, Human Development Index]]
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[[Category:Economy of Japan by prefecture| Human Development Index]]

Gwangyang

2023-01-31T08:18:15Z

UserArtificial820029: Romanization

{{Infobox settlement
| name = Gwangyang
| native_name = {{lang|ko-Hang|광양시}}
| settlement_type = [[Cities of South Korea|Municipal City]]
| translit_lang1 = Korean
| translit_lang1_type1 = [[Hangul]]
| translit_lang1_info1 = {{lang|ko-Hang|{{linktext|광|양|시}}}}
| translit_lang1_type2 = [[Hanja]]
| translit_lang1_info2 = {{lang|ko-Hant|{{linktext|光|陽|市}}}}
| translit_lang1_type3 = {{nowrap|Revised Romanization}}
| translit_lang1_info3 = Gwangyang-si
| translit_lang1_type4 = {{nowrap|McCune-Reischauer}}
| translit_lang1_info4 = Kwangyang-si
| image_skyline = Gwangyangstadium4.jpg
| imagesize =
| image_caption =
| image_map = South Jeolla-Gwangyang.svg
| mapsize =
| map_caption = Location in South Korea
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flag|South Korea}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[Regions of Korea|Region]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Honam]]
| population_blank1_title = Dialect
| population_blank1 = [[Jeolla dialect|Jeolla]]
| area_total_km2 = 446.08
| population_as_of = November, 2022
| population_total = 152,184
| population_density_km2 = auto
| government_footnotes = 
| leader_party =
| leader_title = Mayor
| leader_name = Jeong In-hwa (정인화)
| leader_title1 =
| leader_name1 = 
| parts_type = [[Administrative divisions of South Korea|Administrative divisions]]
| parts = 1 ''eup'', 6 ''myeon'', 5 ''dong''
| image_blank_emblem = Gwangyang logo.png
| blank_emblem_type = Emblem of Gwangyang
| image_flag = Flag of Gwangyang.svg
| timezone1 = [[Korea Standard Time]]
| utc_offset1 = +9
| timezone1_DST =
| utc_offset1_DST =
| area_code = +82-61
}}
'''Gwangyang''' ({{IPA-ko|kwaŋ.jaŋ}}) is a [[Administrative divisions of South Korea|city]] in [[South Jeolla]] Province, [[South Korea]]. Gwangyang city is the home of [[POSCO|POSCO's]] Gwangyang Steel Works, the largest facility of its kind in the world.
The city is also home to [[K League Classic]] football side [[Jeonnam Dragons]].

Gwangyang is at the centre of development for the [[Gwangyang Bay Area Free Economic Zone]] (GFEZ), the third-largest among the six [[free economic zone]]s of South Korea, covering 92.7 square kilometers. The Free Economic Zone focus on port container handling, steel production, shipbuilding as well as leisure facilities. The area has become a mega business hub, exploiting its accessibility to China.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2010-11-22|title=Gwangyang free economic zone emerges as mega hub|url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/tech/2022/01/419_76769.html|access-date=2022-01-15|website=koreatimes|language=en}}</ref>

Famous people from Gwangyang include [[National Intelligence Service (South Korea)|National Intelligence Service]] head [[Kim Seung-kew]].

To the north of the city is the county of Gurye, to the east along the Seomjin River is the county of Hadong in Gyeongsangnam-do, and to the south is the Gwangyang Bay.

Mountains in the city include Baegunsan (백운산, 1,217m), to the south is Gayasan (가야산, 497m) and Gubonghwasan (구봉화산, 473m). Baegunsan is the second-highest mountain in Jeollanam-do with the exception of Jirisan (지리산, 1,915 m).

The average yearly temperature is {{convert|13.7|°C|1}}, the average in January is {{convert|0.1|°C|1}}, and the average in July is {{convert|27.8|°C|1}}. The average yearly precipitation is {{convert|1296|mm|2|abbr=on}}

As of October 14, 2007 plans are being set up and a referendum is being planned for a merging of the cities of [[Yeosu]], [[Suncheon, South Korea|Suncheon]] and Gwangyang into a new metropolitan city, taking advantage of the Gwangyang Bay Free Economic Zone, Yeosu's Expo 2012 bid and port facilities, Suncheon's educational institutes and Gwangyang's POSCO plant.[https://web.archive.org/web/20071024012001/http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200709/200709070009.html]

==Climate==
{{Weather box
| location = Gwangyang (1991–2020 normals)
| metric first = Y
| single line = Y

| Jan high C = 7.3
| Feb high C = 9.9
| Mar high C = 14.6
| Apr high C = 20.2
| May high C = 25.2
| Jun high C = 27.9
| Jul high C = 30.1
| Aug high C = 31.5
| Sep high C = 27.9
| Oct high C = 22.9
| Nov high C = 16.2
| Dec high C = 9.3
| year high C = 20.3

| Jan mean C = 1.9
| Feb mean C = 3.8
| Mar mean C = 8.2
| Apr mean C = 13.7
| May mean C = 18.7
| Jun mean C = 22.4
| Jul mean C = 25.6
| Aug mean C = 26.5
| Sep mean C = 22.4
| Oct mean C = 16.3
| Nov mean C = 9.8
| Dec mean C = 3.6
| year mean C = 14.4

| Jan low C = -2.7
| Feb low C = -1.1
| Mar low C = 2.5
| Apr low C = 7.8
| May low C = 12.9
| Jun low C = 18.0
| Jul low C = 22.3
| Aug low C = 22.8
| Sep low C = 17.9
| Oct low C = 10.9
| Nov low C = 4.6
| Dec low C = -1.1
| year low C = 9.6

| precipitation colour = green
| Jan precipitation mm = 20.8
| Feb precipitation mm = 41.2
| Mar precipitation mm = 68.6
| Apr precipitation mm = 108.9
| May precipitation mm = 132.9
| Jun precipitation mm = 177.3
| Jul precipitation mm = 308.2
| Aug precipitation mm = 289.0
| Sep precipitation mm = 145.6
| Oct precipitation mm = 66.0
| Nov precipitation mm = 43.1
| Dec precipitation mm = 22.7
| year precipitation mm = 1424.3

| unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm
| Jan precipitation days = 3.9
| Feb precipitation days = 4.0
| Mar precipitation days = 6.1
| Apr precipitation days = 7.6
| May precipitation days = 8.3
| Jun precipitation days = 8.7
| Jul precipitation days = 13.5
| Aug precipitation days = 11.9
| Sep precipitation days = 8.0
| Oct precipitation days = 4.4
| Nov precipitation days = 5.5
| Dec precipitation days = 3.7
| source = [[Korea Meteorological Administration]]<ref name= KMA>
{{cite web
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220129211110/https://data.kma.go.kr/resources/normals/pdf_data/korea_pdf_0106_v2.pdf
| archive-date = 29 January 2022
| url = https://data.kma.go.kr/resources/normals/pdf_data/korea_pdf_0106_v2.pdf
| title = Climatological Normals of Korea (1991 ~ 2020)
| publisher = Korea Meteorological Administration
| access-date = 4 April 2022
| language = ko}}</ref><ref>
{{cite web
| url = https://data.kma.go.kr/climate/average30Years/selectAverage30YearsKoreaFileset.do?pgmNo=716
| publisher = Korea Meteorological Administration
| access-date = 4 April 2022
| script-title = ko:우리나라 기후평년값 - 파일셋
| language = ko}}</ref><ref name= KMAstationdata>
{{cite web
| url = https://data.kma.go.kr/climate/average30Years/selectAverage30YearsKoreaList.do?pgmNo=188
| publisher = Korea Meteorological Administration
| access-date = 4 April 2022
| script-title = ko:우리나라 기후평년값 - 그래프
| language = ko}}</ref>
}}

==Symbols==
* Tree : Gorosoe
* Bird : Sea gull
* Flower : Camellia

==Gwangyang Steel Works==
The [[steel mill|Steel Works]] in Gwangyang is [[POSCO|POSCO's]] second mill in the country after the mill in [[Pohang]]. The mill boasts having the largest [[steel]] plant in the world, the most modern technology, and the best facilities for steel [[manufacturing]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2014}} It presently produces coil used for making [[bridge]]s, iron structures, [[car]]s, refrigerators, and more. Its production capacity averages about 18 million tons per year. This plant is also a [[tourist attraction|tourist destination]] for many people, attracting more than 300,000 people from around the globe.

==Location==
Gwangyang is a strategically important city situated in the southern center of the Korean peninsula. For these geopolitical reasons, Gwangyang is a city which functions as an axis for the balanced development of the country covering South Jeolla area with western parts of [[Mokpo]] and [[Muan]].<ref>[지역에서 성장동력 찾는다] (1) 호남광역권 : 광주ㆍ전남북 공동투자로 '서남광역개발(주)' 설립을 2008.01.24</ref>

==Places of interest==
Gwangyang is home to many unique natural and cultural sites as well as many different festivals during the four seasons.
Points of interest include:
# The Baegun mountains
# Maehwa Village
# Yudang Park
# The Natural Resort Park.
The festivals include:
# The Baegun Mountain Medicinal Water Festival
# The Maehwa Culture Festival
# The Jeoneo Fish Festival

==Festival==
Gwangyang is famous for its beautiful apricot trees. In Korean, Ume flower is called maehwa(매화) and it has been honored for its early blooming. Because of its characteristic, the Gwangyang Maehwa Festival is the earliest opened festival in the whole [[Jeollanam-do]] area.<ref>[전남] 섬진강변 매화 절정! [[YTN]] 2007-03-16</ref>

Other festivals in Gwangyang are the Baegunsan Mountain Gorosoe Festival, Seomjingang Culture Festival and the Gwangyang Sutbulgui Festival.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gwangyang.go.kr/02en/index.gwangyang?menuCd=DOM_000000905003000000|title=Gwangyang Festivals}}</ref>

==International relations==
{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in South Korea}}

===Twin towns – Sister cities===
Gwangyang is [[Twin towns and sister cities|twinned]] with:
{|class="wikitable"
|- valign="top"
|
*{{flagdeco|ROK}} [[Songpa-gu]], [[Seoul]]
*{{flagdeco|ROK}} [[Pohang]], [[Gyeongsangbukdo]]
*{{flagdeco|ROK}} [[Hadong]], [[Gyeongsangnamdo]]
*{{flagdeco|PHL}} [[Cagayan de Oro]], Philippines<ref>[http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=1461351149576 ''Cagayan De Oro City adopts Gwangyang, Korea as sister city''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102121654/http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=1461351149576 |date=2012-11-02 }}, Philippine Information Agency Retrieved 10 2012</ref>
||

*{{flagdeco|AUT}} [[Linz]], Austria
*{{flagdeco|PRC}} [[Dalian]], China
*{{flagdeco|PRC}} [[Shenzhen]], China<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.szfao.gov.cn/zwgk/wsz/201103/t20110322_1645217.htm |script-title=zh:友好城市 |trans-title=Friendly cities |date=2011-03-22 |publisher=Shenzhen Foreign Affairs Office |access-date=2013-08-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140719025116/http://www.szfao.gov.cn/zwgk/wsz/201103/t20110322_1645217.htm |archive-date=2014-07-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.szfao.gov.cn/ygwl/yxyc/ycgy/201101/t20110120_1631663.htm |script-title=zh:国际友好城市一览表 |trans-title=International Friendship Cities List |date=2011-01-20 |publisher=Shenzhen Foreign Affairs Office |access-date=2013-08-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113092638/http://www.szfao.gov.cn/ygwl/yxyc/ycgy/201101/t20110120_1631663.htm |archive-date=2013-11-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.szfao.gov.cn/ygwl/yxyc/yhjl/ |script-title=zh:友好交流 |trans-title=Friendly exchanges |date=2011-09-13 |publisher=Shenzhen Foreign Affairs Office |access-date=2013-08-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112101846/http://www.szfao.gov.cn/ygwl/yxyc/yhjl/ |archive-date=2014-11-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|PRC}} [[Chengdu]], China
*{{flagdeco|RUS}} [[Astrakhan]], Russia
|}

==See also==
* [[Hwanggeum-dong, Gwangyang]]
* [[List of cities in South Korea]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==

{{commons category|Gwangyang}}
{{Wikivoyage}}
*[http://www.gwangyang.go.kr/ Gwangyang City government home page (in Korean)]
*[http://www.gwangyang.go.kr/02en/index.gwangyang Gwangyang City government home page (in English)]

{{South Jeolla}}
{{Metropolitan cities of South Korea}}
{{coord|34|56|N|127|41|E|display=title|region:KR-46_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki}}

[[Category:Gwangyang| ]]
[[Category:Cities in South Jeolla Province]]
[[Category:Port cities and towns in South Korea]]

Suncheon

2023-01-31T08:17:13Z

UserArtificial820029: Romanization

{{About|the city in South Korea|the city in North Korea|Sunchon}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Suncheon
| native_name = {{lang|ko-Hang|순천시}}
| settlement_type = [[Cities of South Korea|Municipal City]]
| translit_lang1 = Korean
| translit_lang1_type1 = [[Hangul]]
| translit_lang1_info1 = {{lang|ko-Hang|{{linktext|순|천|시}}}}
| translit_lang1_type2 = [[Hanja]]
| translit_lang1_info2 = {{lang|ko-Hant|{{linktext|順|天|市}}}}
| translit_lang1_type3 = {{nowrap|Revised Romanization}}
| translit_lang1_info3 = Suncheon-si
| translit_lang1_type4 = {{nowrap|McCune–Reischauer}}
| translit_lang1_info4 = Sunch'ŏn-si
| image_skyline = Suncheon3.jpg
| imagesize =
| image_caption = Photograph of Suncheon bay and reed fields in October, 2008.
| image_map = South Jeolla-Suncheon.svg
| mapsize =
| map_caption = Location in South Korea
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = South Korea
| subdivision_type1 = [[Regions of Korea|Region]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Honam]]
| population_blank1_title = Dialect
| population_blank1 = [[Jeolla dialect|Jeolla]]
| area_total_km2 = 907.21
| population_as_of = November, 2022
| population_total = 278,809
| population_density_km2 = auto
| government_footnotes = 
| leader_party =
| leader_title = Mayor
| leader_name = No Gwan-gyu (노관규)
| leader_title1 =
| leader_name1 = 
| parts_type = [[Administrative divisions of South Korea|Administrative divisions]]
| parts = 1 ''eup'', 10 ''myeon'', 12 ''dong''
| blank_emblem_type = Emblem of Suncheon
| image_flag = Flag of Suncheon.svg
| coordinates = {{coord|34|57|02|N|127|29|15|E|display=inline,title|region:KR-46_type:city}}

| timezone1 = [[Korea Standard Time]]
| utc_offset1 = +9
| timezone1_DST =
| utc_offset1_DST =
| area_code = +82-61
}}

'''Suncheon''' ({{IPA-ko|sʰun.tsʰʌn}}) (''Suncheon-si'') is a [[Administrative divisions of South Korea|city]] in [[South Jeolla Province]], South Korea. It is a scenic agricultural and industrial city of around 280,000 people near [[Suncheon Bay]]. It is located in the southeastern corner of Jeollanam-do, just over an hour south-east of [[Gwangju]]. Forty minutes south of Suncheon is the port city of [[Yeosu]], and twenty minutes to the east of Suncheon is [[Gwangyang]].
It is currently experiencing strong development due to being included as part of the ''Gwangyang Bay Free Economic Zone'', one of three newly created [[Free Economic Zone]]s (FEZs) in South Korea due to open within the next decade. As of October 14, 2007 plans are being set up and a referendum is being planned for a merging of the cities of [[Yeosu]], Suncheon and [[Gwangyang]] into a new metropolitan city, taking advantage of the Gwangyang Bay Free Economic Zone, Yeosu's [[Expo 2012]] bid and port facilities, Suncheon's educational institutes and Gwangyang's [[POSCO]] plant.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200709/200709070009.html |title=Yeosu, Surrounding Cities to Merge|access-date=2007-10-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024012001/http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200709/200709070009.html |archive-date=2007-10-24 }}</ref>

==History==

*Era of Samhan: Territory of Mahan
*Era of the three kingdoms: a territory of Baekje, named Gampyeong-gun
*Era of the unified Silla: named Seungpyeong-gun in 757, the 16th year of King Gyeongdeok's reign
*Era of Koryeo: renamed Seungju in 940, Taejo's 23rd year on the throne.
*Era of Koryeo: called Seungpyeong-gun in 1036, Seongjong's second year as king.
*Era of Koryeo: raised to the status of Seungju-mok in 1309, the year Chungseon becomes king.
*Taejong established the Suncheon Dohobu in the 13th year of reign, 1413.
*Changed to Suncheon-gun in 1895, under Gojong's reign.
*November 1, 1931: Suncheon-gun Suncheon-myeon becomes Suncheon-eup.
*August 15, 1949: 9 ri's of Dosa-myeon and part of Haeryong-myeon (Wangji, Jorye, and Yeonhyang) are annexed by Suncheon on August 13, 1949. The area is elevated to the City of Sunche on the 15th. Other surrounding areas are put into the district of Seungju-gun.
*January 1, 1995: reborn as 'Suncheon City' after annexing Seungju-gun.

===Yeosu–Suncheon Rebellion===
{{main|Yeosu–Suncheon Rebellion}}

In October 1948, a rebellion swept Yeosu, Suncheon, and nearby towns, when South Korean soldiers refused to take part in the suppression of the ongoing [[Jeju Uprising|Jeju uprising]]. The rebel forces killed a number of ROK soldiers, police, officials, and landlords. A couple days later, the rebellion was crushed by the South Korean military. Civilians thought to have aided the rebellion were also summarily executed.

==Tourism==

=== 2013 Suncheon Garden Exposition ===

*[[2013 Suncheon Garden Expo Korea]]: The 2013 Suncheon Garden Expo Korea was the first of its kind to be held in Korea. The Expo focused on green industry development such as solar energy, sustainable garden development and electronic transportation. It showcased green technologies, international garden exhibits, and wetland conservation. The Expo grounds, its permanent gardens, arboretum, wetland center, and connecting [[monorail]] to [[Suncheon Bay]] are maintained for continued tourism.

=== Temples ===

*[[Songgwang Temple]]: It is one of the [[Three Jewel Temples of Korea]] and a popular place for [[Jinul]]. The temple is located in Sinpyeong-ri, Songgwang-myeon. It is one of the Sambosachal along with Haein temple of Habcheon and Tongdo Temple of Yangsan. Jinul strived here to renew the tradition of [[Buddhism]] 800 years ago. The temple bore 16 state monks in the past. Today, the temple is home for monks from overseas and is a place to study the Buddhist culture of Korea. The temple was first built at the end of Silla Kingdom and named Gilsang Temple. It was then renamed in the [[Goryeo]] dynasty under the reign of Myeongjong, to Songgwang Temple. Reconstructions were done after it was burnt down in the [[Joseon dynasty]], but was severely damaged again in 1948 and 1951. At present, 33 complexes have been restored after 8 reconstruction projects from 1984 to 1988. The temple has a total of 26 cultural assets, including 17 national cultural assets and 9 local ones.
*[[Seonamsa]]: Seonamsa of Mount Jogye is located in Jukak-ri, Seungju-eup, Suncheon. In the [[Baekje]] Kingdom, Adohwasang had first built a small temple in the mountain and named it Biroam of Cheongnyangsan Mountain. The temple was named Seonamsa later in the [[Silla]] Kingdom by state monk [[Doseon]]. Seonamsa is known to be a mixture of the various sects of Buddhism of the [[Goryeo]] dynasty. Cheontaejong was established here 900 years ago by Ui Cheon and the monk's heirs have been carried down to the present age. Seonamsa, like Songgwangsa, is a library for studies of Korean Buddhist culture. A total of 18 cultural assets are found here, including 7 treasures and 11 local cultural assets.
*Cheonjaam, Ssanghyangsu: Belongs to the Chinese juniper family, and is technically named Juniperus Chinensi Limme. The height is 12.5 m and the circumference is 3.98m. The tree is about 700 years old. According to the legend, the cane used by a Buddhist on his way back from China had grown into the tree. The tree is uniquely twisted form.
*Natural monument No, 88 (designated on Dec. 3, 1962).
*Ieub-ri, Songgwang-myeon (Songgwang Temple).
*Area 600 pyeong (1.98 km2).

=== Castles ===
*[[Nagan Castle]], the only remaining [[Joseon]] castle in South Jeolla Province. It is well preserved and has many festivals like the Namdo food festival.
*[[Suncheon Japanese Castle]], a Japanese castle built during the [[Japanese invasions of Korea]].

=== Mountains ===
*Jogyesan: The mountain where [[Songgwang Temple]] and [[Seonamsa]] are located.
*Geumjeonsan: Surrounding north of [[Nagan Castle]].
*Bonghwasan: The nearest mountain from the center of the city. There's Jukdobong Park having a lookout pavilion.

=== Parks ===
*[[Suncheon Bay Ecological Park]]: The world's fifth biggest tideland, featuring reed beds and there many types of birds. The reverve was designated as a preservation zone by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries in 2003.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Bizwire|first=Korea|title=Suncheon Bay Wetland Reserve Returns to Top 100 Tourist Spot List|url=http://koreabizwire.com/suncheon-bay-wetland-reserve-returns-to-top-100-tourist-spot-list/129704|access-date=2021-10-15|website=Be Korea-savvy|language=en-US}}</ref>
*[[Suncheon Bay National Garden|Suncheonman Bay National Garden]]: This garden is home to over 790,000 trees and was stablished on a plot of {{cvt|1.112|km2}} to help protect Suncheon Bay.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-02-12|title=Suncheon Bay Garden|url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/culture/2021/10/141_173546.html|access-date=2021-10-15|website=koreatimes|language=en}}</ref>
*Goindol Park, a dolmen park in Hwasun, Suncheon: [[Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa Dolmen Sites]] were designated as a [[World Heritage Site]] by [[UNESCO]] in 2000.
*Suncheon Open Film Location: Drama film set located in the neighborhood of Jorye-dong. This set was created to film movies and dramas in 2006. The village is split in three eras: 1950's Suncheon, 1960's Seoul Bongcheong-dong Village and 1970's Seoul suburb.
*[[Naganeupseong]] Folk Village: a historic village representing the traditional lifestyle and cultural landscape in the Joseon Dynasty. It was originally and administrative town and has preserved traditional elements such as a fortress, government buildings and private houses.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Centre|first=UNESCO World Heritage|title=Naganeupseong, Town Fortress and Village|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5598/|access-date=2021-10-15|website=UNESCO World Heritage Centre|language=en}}</ref>

=== Museums ===

* The '''[https://www.suncheon.go.kr/tour/tourist/0010/0002/ Deep-Rooted Tree Museum] (순천시립 뿌리깊은나무 박물관)''' is located close to ''Naganeupseong Walled Town''. A collection of Korean famous magazine’s founder, ''Han Chang-gi''; as well as artifacts from the Bronze Age to the present era are displayed. The museum also features 6,500 articles including Korean vintage literature books, folk arts, ceramics, and traditional items of clothing from the Three Kingdoms era, in which visitors could sense the ancient-modern Korean culture and lifestyles.

=== Filming Locations ===

* '''''Jorye-dong''''', which is located in Suncheon is the largest filming site in Korea that preserves the 60s and 80s buildings. Visitors could experience vintage village life in the 1960s and 1980s, as there are 200 houses with 39,669.6 m². A remake drama written by Kim Soo-Hyeon <Love & Ambition> starring actor [[Lee Byung-hun]] and actress [[Soo Ae|Soo-ae]] was filmed in Jorye-dong, Suncheon. Other hit movies and dramas such as <You are far Away> (2008) and <Giant> (2010) were also shot in the same city.
* In 2021, the [[Korea Tourism Organization]] released a music video in collaboration with Korea’s famous hip-hop label [[AOMG]] and Higher Music to produce a soundtrack to highlight the attractions and cultural heritage in Korea. The clips of the music video were filmed in Suncheon, which demonstrates the coexistence of tradition and contemporary lifestyles In Korea.

==Slogans==
On its website, Suncheon is dubbed by its city council as ''the City of Beautiful People'', and its slogan is "Aha! Suncheon."<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.namdonews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=149916|title='Aha! Suncheon' Suncheon city brand slogan confirmed Four colors to promote urban image|date=2005-10-18|access-date=2018-04-28|language=ko}}</ref>

==Climate==
{{Weather box
| location = Suncheon (1991–2020 normals)
| metric first = Y
| single line = Y

| Jan high C = 7.0
| Feb high C = 9.5
| Mar high C = 14.1
| Apr high C = 19.5
| May high C = 24.4
| Jun high C = 26.9
| Jul high C = 29.4
| Aug high C = 30.8
| Sep high C = 27.4
| Oct high C = 22.5
| Nov high C = 15.8
| Dec high C = 9.1
| year high C = 19.7

| Jan mean C = 2.5
| Feb mean C = 4.3
| Mar mean C = 8.5
| Apr mean C = 14.0
| May mean C = 18.9
| Jun mean C = 22.4
| Jul mean C = 25.5
| Aug mean C = 26.6
| Sep mean C = 22.6
| Oct mean C = 16.9
| Nov mean C = 10.5
| Dec mean C = 4.4
| year mean C = 14.8

| Jan low C = -1.3
| Feb low C = 0.1
| Mar low C = 3.8
| Apr low C = 9.0
| May low C = 14.1
| Jun low C = 18.7
| Jul low C = 22.7
| Aug low C = 23.5
| Sep low C = 18.8
| Oct low C = 12.5
| Nov low C = 6.2
| Dec low C = 0.4
| year low C = 10.7

| precipitation colour = green
| Jan precipitation mm = 21.1
| Feb precipitation mm = 44.2
| Mar precipitation mm = 65.8
| Apr precipitation mm = 118.2
| May precipitation mm = 141.7
| Jun precipitation mm = 190.4
| Jul precipitation mm = 307.9
| Aug precipitation mm = 275.4
| Sep precipitation mm = 165.6
| Oct precipitation mm = 67.2
| Nov precipitation mm = 45.3
| Dec precipitation mm = 24.6
| year precipitation mm = 1467.4

| unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm
| Jan precipitation days = 3.7
| Feb precipitation days = 4.5
| Mar precipitation days = 6.1
| Apr precipitation days = 7.7
| May precipitation days = 8.4
| Jun precipitation days = 9.0
| Jul precipitation days = 13.0
| Aug precipitation days = 11.8
| Sep precipitation days = 8.0
| Oct precipitation days = 4.4
| Nov precipitation days = 5.4
| Dec precipitation days = 3.9
| year precipitation days =

| Jan snow days = 8.8
| Feb snow days = 5.5
| Mar snow days = 2.4
| Apr snow days = 0.1
| May snow days = 0.0
| Jun snow days = 0.0
| Jul snow days = 0.0
| Aug snow days = 0.0
| Sep snow days = 0.0
| Oct snow days = 0.0
| Nov snow days = 1.3
| Dec snow days = 6.4
| year snow days = 24.6
| source = [[Korea Meteorological Administration]] (snowy days 1981–2010)<ref name= KMA>
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| url = https://data.kma.go.kr/resources/normals/pdf_data/korea_pdf_0106_v2.pdf
| title = Climatological Normals of Korea (1991 ~ 2020)
| publisher = Korea Meteorological Administration
| access-date = 4 April 2022
| language = ko}}</ref><ref>
{{cite web
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| access-date = 4 April 2022
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| publisher = Korea Meteorological Administration
| access-date = 4 April 2022
| script-title = ko:우리나라 기후평년값 - 그래프
| language = ko}}</ref><ref name= KMAnormals>
{{cite web
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| archive-date = 7 December 2016
| url = http://www.kma.go.kr/down/Climatological_2010.pdf
| publisher = Korea Meteorological Administration
| access-date = 8 December 2016
| title = Climatological Normals of Korea
| date = 2011}}</ref>
}}

==Twin towns – sister cities==
{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in South Korea}}
Suncheon is [[Sister city|twinned]] with:
{{div col|colwidth=20em}}
*{{flagicon|TUR}} [[Antalya]], Turkey<ref>{{cite web |title=Sister Cities|url=http://genclikmeclisi.antalya.bel.tr/i/sister-cities|website=antalya.bel.tr|publisher=Antalya|access-date=2020-06-02}}</ref>
*{{flagicon|USA}} [[Columbia, Missouri|Columbia]], United States<ref>{{cite web |title=Sister Cities|url=https://www.como.gov/arts/sister-cities/|website=como.gov|publisher=City of Columbia|access-date=2020-06-02}}</ref>
*{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Izumi, Kagoshima|Izumi]], Japan<ref>{{cite web |title=海外姉妹都市|url=https://www.city.kagoshima-izumi.lg.jp/page/page_01704.html|website=city.kagoshima-izumi.lg.jp|publisher=Izumi, Kagoshima|language=ja|access-date=2020-06-02}}</ref>
*{{flagicon|SRB}} [[Kragujevac]], Serbia<ref>{{cite web |title=Градови пријатељи|url=https://www.kragujevac.rs/o-kragujevcu/gradovi-prijatelji/|website=kragujevac.rs|publisher=Kragujevac|language=sr|access-date=2020-06-02}}</ref>
*{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Nantes]], France<ref>{{cite web |title=Déclaration d'amitié Nantes-Cardiff|url=https://metropole.nantes.fr/actualites/2020/institutions/nantes-cardiff|website=nantes.fr|publisher=Nantes|language=fr|access-date=2020-06-02}}</ref>
*{{flagicon|CHN}} [[Taiyuan]], China<ref>{{cite web |title=순천시, 중국 산시성 타이위안시와 자매도시협약 체결|url=https://www.suncheon.go.kr/mayor/0004/0001/?boardId=bbs_0000000000000055&mode=view&cntId=259&category=|website=suncheon.go.kr|publisher=Suncheon|language=ko|access-date=2020-06-02}}</ref>
{{div col end}}

==Notable people from Suncheon==
* [[Kai (entertainer, born 1994)|Kai]] (Real Name: ''Kim Jong-in'', [[Hangul]]: 김종인), singer, rapper, dancer, actor, model and K-pop idol, member of K-pop boygroup [[Exo (group)|Exo]], the sub unit [[Exo (group)|Exo-K]] and the K-pop [[Supergroup (music)|Superboygroup]] [[SuperM]].
* [[Lee Seul-bi]] ([[Hangul]]: 이슬비), South Korean actress
* Minhee (Real Name: ''Kang Min-hee'', [[Hangul]]: 강민희), singer, dancer and [[K-pop]] idol, member of [[K-pop]] boygroup [[Cravity]].
* [[Kim Ok-vin]], South Korean actress
* Jun (Real Name: ''Park Jun-hee'', [[Hangul]]: 박준희), singer, dancer and [[K-pop]] idol, leader and member of [[K-pop]] boygroup [[A.C.E (South Korean band)|A.C.E]].
* Hae Yoon (Real Name: ''Park Hae-yoon'', [[Hangul]]: 박해윤), singer, dancer and [[K-pop]] idol, leader and member of [[K-pop]] girlgroup [[Cherry Bullet]].
* [[Jang Hyun-seung|Hyunseung]] (Real Name: ''Jang Hyun-seung'', [[Hangul]]: 장현승), singer, dancer and [[K-pop]] idol, former member of [[K-pop]] boygroup [[Highlight (band)|Beast]].
* [[Gongchan]] (Real Name: ''Gong Chan-sik'', [[Hangul]]: 공찬식), singer, dancer, model, actor, [[MC]] and [[K-pop]] idol, member of [[K-pop]] boygroup [[B1A4]]
* [[Jung Chae-yeon|Chaeyeon]] (Real Name: ''Jung Chae-yeon'', [[Hangul]]: 정채연), singer, dancer, model, actress and [[K-pop]] idol, member of [[K-pop]] girlgroup [[DIA (group)|DIA]] and former member of [[K-pop]] girlgroup [[I.O.I]]
* [[Yoon Shi-yoon]] (Real Name: ''Yoon Dong-gu,'' [[Hangul]]: 윤동구), South Korean actor
* [[Miryo]] (Real Name: ''Jo Mi-hye'', [[Hangul]]: 조미혜), singer-songwriter, rapper, dancer, record producer and [[K-pop idol]], member of [[K-pop]] girlgroup [[Brown Eyed Girls]]
*[[Eyedi]] (Real name: ''Nam Yujin'', [[Hangul]]: 남유진), singer, songwriter, and actress under Bace Camp Studios, former contestant on Mixnine.
*Kang Heodallim(Real name: ''Kang Kyeong-sun'', Hangul: 강경순), [[blues]] singer-songwriter
*Park Gyeul(Hangul: 박결), South Korea Golf Player
*Park Cho-seon(Hangul: 박초선), a female [[Pansori]] Korean classical musician and eponymous poet during the [[Korea under Japanese rule|Japanese colonial period]].

==See also==
* [[List of cities in South Korea]]
* [[Geography of South Korea]]
* [[Suncheon Hyocheon High School]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
{{Commons category|Suncheon}}
{{Wikivoyage}}
* [http://www.suncheon.go.kr/kr/ Suncheon city government home page (in Korean)]

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{{Metropolitan cities of South Korea}}
{{Most populous cities in South Korea}}

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[[Category:Biosphere reserves of South Korea]]

Mokpo

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| name = Mokpo
| native_name = {{lang|ko-Hang|목포시}}
| settlement_type = [[Cities of South Korea|Municipal city]]
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| translit_lang1_type1 = [[Hangul]]
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| translit_lang1_info4 = Mokp'o-si
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| image_caption = Panorama view of Mokpo from Yudalsan
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| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{Flagu|South Korea}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[Provinces of South Korea|Province]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[South Jeolla Province|South Jeolla]]
| area_total_km2 = 50.08
| population_as_of = November, 2022
| population_total = 217,041
| population_density_km2 = auto
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| leader_title = Mayor
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'''Mokpo''' ({{IPA-ko|mok̚.pʰo}}; ''Mokpo-si'') is a [[Administrative divisions of South Korea|city]] in [[Jeollanam-do|South Jeolla Province]], [[South Korea]], located at the southwestern tip of the [[Korean Peninsula]], close to [[Yudal mountain]]. Mokpo has frequent high-speed train services to [[Seoul]], and is the terminus for a number of ferry routes serving islands in the adjacent [[Yellow Sea]] and [[Dadohaehaesang National Park|Dadohae National Maritime Park]].

During the [[Korea under Japanese rule|Japanese Occupation]] (1910–1945), Mokpo served as a crucial port for both commercial ventures and public transportation, due to its location along the sea routes between the [[Japanese archipelago]] and the [[Chinese mainland]]. The large number of islands surrounding Mokpo have also served as a protective barrier, making the city less vulnerable to high tides and [[tsunami]]s. In the occupation era, large residential areas were built to accommodate the Japanese colonists, which are now the city's historic districts. The end of [[World War II]] and Korea's independence in 1945 were responsible for the city slowly losing its position as a host to major government organizations and wartime industries. This led to a reduction in the size of Mokpo, which is currently a mid-sized city of the [[Honam]] region.

== Etymology ==
The term Mokpo (木浦 in [[Hanja]]) loosely translates as "the harbour with a large portion of forests". This terminology initially appeared in the ''[[Goryeosa]]'' (''History of Goryeo''). Therefore, some historians argue that the city's name referred to trees within the region of the port of Mokpo. Another theory suggests that the "mok" in the city's name refers to "the throat," a metaphor for the importance of the city's location as an entrance to the [[Yellow Sea]].<ref>{{cite book|script-title=ko:우리나라 문화여행 알면 재미있고 모르면 후회하는|trans-title=Korean cultural tour: It's fun if you know, regret if you don't|year=2005|publisher=Geoin Publishing|author=Park Young-soo|language=ko}}{{page needed|date=August 2022}}</ref>

== History ==

=== Mahan and Three Kingdoms eras ===
Mokpo belonged to the [[Mahan confederacy]] during the early era of the three Han confederacies during the [[Samhan]] period, and was called Mul'ahye-gun while under the control of the [[Baekje]] kingdom. After [[Silla]] defeated Baekje, Mokpo's region was absorbed, and its name was changed to Myeonju. In 946, its name was once again changed to Mullyang-gun, and it became part of the Muan prefecture, in the Haeyang province. At the time, the prefecture of Muan referred to a much larger area, which incorporated not only Mokpo but also the area currently called [[Muan]] and several islands of [[Sinan, Jeollanam-do|Sinan county]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://tour.mokpo.go.kr/ |title=Tour and Culture of Mokpo, Mokpo city hall |access-date=8 April 2011 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150412061544/http://tour.mokpo.go.kr/ |archive-date=12 April 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> According to a [[Korean Broadcasting System|KBS]] documentary, coastal and offshore areas of Mokpo witnessed superior productivity of crops, and important shipping routes to [[Naju]] were established along the Yeongsan River.<ref>{{cite book|script-title=ko:역사스페셜2|trans-title=History Special 2|publisher=Hyohyeong Publishing|author=KBS History Special Team|year=2001|page=48|language=ko}}</ref>

=== Goryeo and Joseon dynasties ===
[[File:Statue of Admiral Yi Sun-sin in Mokpo, South Korea - 2011.jpg|thumb|left|To commemorate his role in the region's history, a statue of Admiral [[Yi Sun-sin]] now stands guard over Mokpo.]]What is today known as Mokpo had its origins in the [[Goryeo dynasty|Goryeo period]]. That dynasty's founder, [[Taejo of Goryeo|Wang Geon]], was serving as a general for [[later Goguryeo]] (also known as [[Taebong]]), ruled by [[Gung Ye]]. Taebong covered the central area of the Korean peninsula including current-day [[Gaeseong]], which was then called Song'ak.

As a naval power, [[Wang Geon]] was ordered to attack the kingdom of [[Later Baekje]], which, like later Goguryeo, was a kingdom which emerged after the disintegration of [[Unified Silla]]. The operation met fairly successful results. During this time, Wang Geon met his second queen, [[Queen Janghwa]], with whom he had a son, who eventually became [[Hyejong of Goryeo]].

In 1439, 21 years after King [[Sejong]] of the [[Joseon Dynasty]] came to power, the Mokpo garrison (jin) was established, which was designed to control twelve offshore islands. During the [[Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)]], Admiral [[Yi Sun-sin]] established a garrison of naval forces at Mokpo and the island of Goha, to secure a base for provisions and ship repairs, such as the [[turtle ship]]s, also known as the [[geobukseon]] and [[panokseon]].<ref>{{cite book|script-title=ko:이순신이 싸운 바다:한려수도|author=Bongoso Lee|page=217|trans-title=Hallyeosudo: The sea where Yi Sun-sin fought|date=2004|language=ko}}</ref>

=== Open port ===
On 1 October 1897, Mokpo became an open port, fifteen years after the opening of the port of [[Incheon]]. For Japan, Mokpo held a geographical advantage being located midway between [[Nagasaki]], Japan, and the [[Chinese mainland]]. Japan also valued Mokpo for its proximity to the abundant crops of the [[Jeolla]] provinces. After its opening, housing for Japanese settlers was rapidly developed to establish self-government.<ref>{{cite book|script-title=ko:한국의 쓰레기 2천년사|trans-title=2000 Years of Trash in Korea|author=Son Young-bae|publisher=Jisa Moon|year=1997|language=ko}}{{page needed|date=August 2022}}</ref> The Japanese settled predominately in what is today the Yudal-dong neighborhood, close to the main port. The Japanese consulate remained there until the establishment of the Japanese [[Japan-Korea Treaty of 1905|protectorate over Korea]].

The Japanese settlers gradually bought farmland in the vicinity of Mokpo, which had previously been illegal. These agricultural fields were desirable because they were inexpensive and not heavily taxed. The resulting harvests from these fields made rice cheaper in Japan, although the price of rice in Jeolla province doubled as a result.<ref>{{cite book|script-title=ko:해방(테마로 읽는 20세기 한국사)》|trans-title=Liberation (20c Korean history based on themes)|author=KBS Documentary Liberation Production Team|translator=Hanmin|year=2000|pages=18, 20|language=ko}}</ref> After 1905, the influx of Japanese settlers increased and they expanded into Geumhwa-dong, where many cherry trees were planted along the street. Japanese called this area "Sakuramachi", which means "the downtown of cherry blossom trees."<ref>{{cite book|script-title=ko:매춘의 역사|trans-title=History of Prostitution|author=Hong Seong Chul|translator=Seo Seok-yeon|year=1992|publisher=magpie|page=101|language=ko}}</ref> With Korea's full annexation by Japan in 1910, the city was given a new name, Mokpo-bu, and saw the construction of the colonial institution, the [[Oriental Development Company]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=EnCyber|title=History of Mokpo|publisher=Doosan Encyclopedia|language=ko}}</ref>

=== Under Japanese rule ===
: See also: [[Korea under Japanese rule]]
Mokpo's status as an open port made it a viable option to use the nearby county of [[Wando County|Wando]] as a link to the region's many offshore islands. In 1914, the completion of the [[Honam Line|Honam railway line]] connected the city to [[Daejeon]]. On 1 April 1914, the county of Mokpo-bu was divided into several administrative sections. Only the county's urban downtown area, Bunae-myeon, became what is today Mokpo City. Following Order Number 11 of the General Japanese Government of Korea, Muan county incorporated Jido, Palguem, and Docho, which were the other areas formerly comprising Mokpo-bu. During the Japanese colonial period, Mokpo's harbor was used to forcibly export the produce of the region.

In 1918, the colonists established ginning facilities for manufacturing large amounts of goods in both Mokpo and Iri (current [[Iksan]] in North Jeolla province).<ref>{{cite book|script-title=ko:«지방경제의 이해»|trans-title=Understanding the local economy|author1=Choi Nak Yeon (최낙연)|author2=Youngsa Park (박영사) |page=118|year=2003|url={{Google books|eVc2AQAAIAAJ|plainurl=yes}}|isbn=9788910204190|publisher=Pro-Insight International (博英社)|language=ko}}</ref> In 1932, the city incorporated parts of Muan, becoming the 6th largest city in the [[Korean peninsula]] with a population of 60,000. Indigenous products were cloth, rice, salt, and coastal foods.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://eng.mokpo.go.kr/home/eng/introduction/history/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921054632/http://eng.mokpo.go.kr/home/eng/introduction/history/|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 September 2013|title=History of Mokpo}}{{dead link|date=August 2022}}</ref> The harbor played an important role, supplying goods to Japan, including large quantities of cotton.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dna.naver.com/viewer/index.nhn?articleId=1935060500209206001&editNo=2&printCount=1&publishDate=1935-06-05&officeId=00020&pageNo=6&printNo=5211&publishType=00020&doNotReadAnyMore=notClose|author=Kim Hyuk Phil|title=Practical profits in joint market policy in Joseon|date=5 June 1935|publisher=Dong A Ilbo|access-date=2011-05-10|via=News library service powered by NHN}}{{dead link|date=August 2022}}</ref>

=== After independence ===
In 1949, Mokpo-Bu was redesignated Mokpo City, after the government altered the administrative region. In 1973 and 1987, large areas were added to Mokpo city, including one of the most famous tourist spots, Samhakdo (Three Crane Island). Samhakdo was reclaimed by connecting a series of islands, a process of landfill operations which lasted from 1968 to 1973. The island is divided into three major sections, and over six years the city constructed five bridges to link those three sections. In 2000, the city initiated a plan to restore a naturalized island for tourism, which brought tremendous criticism from environmental groups. On 1 March 2007, Samhakdo was opened to the public.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=001&aid=0001158582 |script-title=ko:옛 삼학도 모습|trans-title=The old three-year-old|date=2005-11-25|publisher=News Naver|access-date=2022-08-28|language=ko}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=003&aid=0000330208 |script-title=ko:목포 삼학도 35년만에 복원...1일 개방|trans-title=Mokpo Samhakdo restored after 35 years... Open for 1 day|author=Park Sang-soo|date=2007-03-01|publisher=News Naver|access-date=2022-08-28|language=ko}}</ref> Other projects in Mokpo included a coastal filling process near the North Harbor and the building of a new port in Chungmu-dong.

In 1980, the [[Gwangju Democratization Movement]] swept the area. In Mokpo, student movements were initiated by several people marching along the boulevard from [[Mokpo Station]] to the second plaza, carrying cards displaying the word "Freedom." Mokpo Station served as a hub for many groups supporting the people of Gwangju.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://eng.518.org/eng/html/main.html?act=dtl&TM18MF=05020000&idx=417&page=1 |title=5.18 Memorial Foundation |access-date=9 April 2011 |archive-date=3 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110303062453/http://eng.518.org/eng/html/main.html?act=dtl&TM18MF=05020000&idx=417&page=1 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

On 1 October 1997, Mokpo celebrated its centennial as a port city, and announced the second opening of the port. Mokpo is the hometown of former President [[Kim Dae-jung]], who received the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] in 2001.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2000/index.html|title=The Nobel Peace Prize 2000|date=2000|publisher=The Nobel Prize|access-date=2022-08-28}}</ref>

Following the [[sinking of MV Sewol]] on 16 April 2014, the ship was moved to Mokpo for salvage operations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20170409000203|title=Sewol finally moved ashore|date=2017-04-09|author=Kim Da-sol|publisher=The Korea Herald|access-date=2022-08-28}}</ref>

== Administration ==
[[File:Scenery of Mokpo city(South Korea).JPG|right|thumb|250px|A view of the city.]]

=== Mayor ===
Mokpo began its local government in 1994. In July 1995 it inaugurated its first mayor, Gwon I Dam, who had been the president of the Munhwa broadcasting corporation. The city's lack of supply in the past caused Gwon to focus on improving the city's water supplies. In 2000, the mayor officially provided aid for [[North Korea]] in the form of rice shipments.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=001&aid=0000125247 |script-title=ko:목포시, 밀가루 600t 북한 지원 |trans-title=Mokpo City to provide 600 tons of flour to North Korea|publisher=News Naver|date=12 January 2002|access-date=2022-08-28|language=ko}}</ref> However, Gwon came into conflict with the leaders of the [[Democratic Party (South Korea, 2005)|Democratic Party]] over fair election practices, causing him to leave the party. He filed a lawsuit against the Democratic Party, which the courts subsequently rejected.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=100&oid=047&aid=0000003308 |script-title=ko:민주당 목포시장 경선 ‘전태홍’씨 당선|trans-title=Democratic Party’s Mokpo Mayor, Jeon Tae-hong, was elected|author=Kim Yoo-seung |agency=OhMyNews |date=1 May 2002|access-date=2022-08-28}}</ref>

Jeon Tae Hong, the next mayor, made some important contributions to Mokpo's government,{{clarify|date=March 2014}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=100&oid=079&aid=0000021537 |script-title=ko:전태홍 목포 시장 뇌사, 인공호흡기로 연명|trans-title=Mokpo Mayor Jeon Tae-hong's brain dies, lives on with a ventilator |publisher=Nocut News |date=12 January 2005|access-date=2022-08-28}}</ref> but he died suddenly in 2005.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=081&aid=0000028028 |script-title=ko:전태홍 목포시장 돌연사|trans-title=Jeon Tae-hong, Mokpo Mayor's sudden death |website=naver.com news |date=13 January 2005|access-date=2022-08-28}}</ref> Following his death, Jeong Jong Deuk was elected mayor, promising protection of the tourism industry.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=100&oid=001&aid=0000990515 |script-title=ko:<4.30 당선자 인터뷰> 정종득 전남 목포시장|trans-title=<April 30 Interview> Jeong Jong-deuk, Mayor of Mokpo, Jeollanam-do |agency=[[Yonhap]] |date=30 April 2005|access-date=2022-08-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=100&oid=001&aid=0000990519 |script-title=ko:목포시장 민주당 정종득 후보 당선|trans-title=Mokpo Mayor Chung Jong-deuk, Democratic Party Candidate Elected |agency=[[Yonhap]] |date=30 September 2005|access-date=2022-08-28}}</ref> Once in office, Deuk responded to concerns about the depressed condition of the old downtown area by establishing the Office of Original City Replanning and adopted the slogan "City of Light."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=001&oid=098&aid=0000100253&|title=Enlightenment of Luminarie street in Mokpo|publisher=Yonhap|date=29 December 2005}}{{dead link|date=August 2022}}</ref>

Deuk was re-elected in 2006 and, during his second term, the city received several civil and tourism awards.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=001&aid=0001791443 |script-title=ko:목포시, '풀뿌리 경영 대상' 수상 |trans-title=Mokpo City, 'Grassroots Management Grand Prize'agency=[[Yonhap]] |date=20 October 2007|access-date=2022-08-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.asiatoday.co.kr/news/view.asp?seq=197584 |script-title=ko:‘제1회 한국관광대상’에 목포시-울릉군|trans-title=Mokpo-Ulleung-gun at the '1st Korea Tourism Awards'|publisher=Asiatoday |date=7 January 2009|access-date=2022-08-28}}</ref> He faced criticism from the local press regarding Mokpo's ability to draw people into the city and changing the attitudes regarding the city's imbalanced economy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mokposm.com/|date=26 May 2008 |script-title=ko:목포시민신문 원도심 활성화 실질적 지원책 시급 |language=ko |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100104190213/http://www.mokposm.com/|archive-date=2010-01-04}}{{nonspecific|date=August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mokposm.com/ |script-title=ko:원도심사업 보상업무 주먹구구 |language=ko |publisher=Newspaper of Mokpo civilians |date=14 March 2007 |access-date=9 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110312025535/http://www.mokposm.com/ |archive-date=12 March 2011 |url-status=dead }}{{nonspecific|date=August 2022}}{{dead link|date=August 2022}}</ref>

Another dispute arose in 2009, when non-governmental organizations based in Mokpo sued the government to disclose information about budgetary spending, which had been controlled by a city committee chosen by the mayor. The courts sided with the organizations, saying that the budget plan should be reported and monitored.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.cnbnews.com/category/read.html?bcode=65231 |script-title=ko:[전남] 법원, 목포시장 업무추진비 지출증빙자료 공개 판결|trans-title=[Jeonnam] Court decides to disclose evidence of Mokpo mayor's business promotion expenses|publisher=CNB News |date=11 January 2009 |access-date=7 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110823050407/http://news.cnbnews.com/category/read.html?bcode=65231 |archive-date=23 August 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== Disputes upon merge ===
In 2004, civil groups promoted merging the three adjacent communities: Sinan, Muan and Mokpo. On 25 September 2009, the city council of Mokpo officially submitted a plan to merge into one central government,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=100&oid=003&aid=0002949202 |script-title=ko:무안반도 통합 다섯번째 도전 '좌절'|trans-title=The fifth challenge of unification of the Muan Peninsula 'frustration'|date=2009-11-10|publisher=News Naver|access-date=2022-08-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://media.daum.net/press/view.html?cateid=1065&newsid=20090925170114630&p=yonhappr |script-title=ko:목포시, 행정안전부에 무안·신안·목포 자율통합 건의|trans-title=Mokpo City, Ministry of Public Administration and Security proposes autonomous integration of Muan, Shinan, and Mokpo|date=25 September 2009|newspaper=연합뉴스 보도자료 }}</ref> but the plan was voted down due to objections from the community.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=003&aid=0002949327 |script-title=ko:전남 무안반도.동부권 통합 무산…반대 우세|trans-title=Muan Peninsula, Jeollanam-do, and the eastern region failed to integrate… opposite dominance|date=2009-11-10|publisher=Newsis|access-date=2022-08-28}}</ref>

=== Population ===
In 2007, the population of Mokpo had increased to 90,000 households, with an average of 2.7 people per household. The population density was the 10th highest in South Korea, and it was the second fastest-growing region (after [[Gyeonggi-do|Gyeonggi province]]). In 2010, the [[Bank of Korea]] reported that the population of western South Jeolla province was declining due to several economic, social and educational issues.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=003&aid=0003515633|script-title=ko:"전남 서남부지역 인구 감소 '지속'|trans-title=Decreased population in southwestern Jeollanam-do 'continues'|publisher=Yonhap|date=2 November 2010|access-date=2022-08-28}}</ref>

== Education ==
{{See also|Education in South Korea}}
One of the oldest elementary schools, Bukgyo, was established in 1897 for the aristocracy during the [[Joseon Dynasty]], following Order No. 145 of the [[Gojong of the Korean Empire]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mokpobukkyo.es.jne.kr/user/indexSub.action?codyMenuSeq=161959&siteId=mokpobukkyo_es&menuUIType=sub|script-title=ko:학교연혁|trans-title=School history|publisher=Mokpobukkyo Elementary School|access-date=2022-08-28}}</ref> However, after its annexation by Japan, education in Mokpo was directed towards Japanese students.

Mokpo Commercial high school opened in 1920 as the first secondary-level school. Its name was later changed to Jeonnam Jeil high school. Former president Kim Dae Jung graduated from Jeil.

=== Universities ===
[[Mokpo National University]] (MNU) became a nationally supported school in 1976, after 30 years of existence. The school has become regionally famous for its shipbuilding research and other culturally related fields of study.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mokpo.ac.kr/index.9is |script-title=ko:국립목포대학교|website=www.mokpo.ac.kr|access-date=2022-08-28}}{{nonspecific|date=August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=003&aid=0000083168 |script-title=ko:목포대 누리사업 본격 출범|author=Seonggil Kang|trans-title=Full-scale launch of Mokpo University’s Nuri project|date=2004-09-08|publisher=Newsis|access-date=2022-08-28}}</ref> A 2007 study of national universities ranked MNU highly, equal with [[Seoul National University]] and [[Jeonnam National University]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=001&aid=0001967088 |script-title=ko:목포대 국립대 혁신 수준 평가서 '최우수'|trans-title=Mokpo National University Innovation Level Evaluation 'Best'|date=2008-02-20|publisher=News NAver|access-date=2022-08-28}}</ref> [[Mokpo National Maritime University]] is a government-funded school specializing in maritime-related studies.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mmu.ac.kr/main|script-title=ko:국립목포해양대학교|website=Mopko National Maritime University}}{{nonspecific|date=August 2022}}</ref> [[Mokpo Catholic University]] was established in 1967 as Sungshin Nursing College, and later expanded its vocational training to include other fields.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mcu.ac.kr/esub.php?section=intro&sub=2|title=History of Catholic University of Mokpo|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20070622163455/http://www.mcu.ac.kr/esub.php?section=intro&sub=2|archive-date=22 June 2007}}</ref>

== Economy ==
The harbor began operations earlier than other port cities on the Korean peninsula, allowing the city to experience growth, whereas growth in the country since its independence has concentrated on the [[Yeongnam]] area, where trade with Japan and Russia are viable due to the access of coastal routes. The addition of the [[Economy of China|Chinese economy]] into the local trade prospects increases the city's potential as a trade center via the [[Yellow Sea]].<ref>{{cite book|script-title=ko:한국, 과거를 딛고 미래를 보자|trans-title=Let's see the future over the past|author=Nam Deok-woo|publisher=[[Samsung Economic Research Institute]]|year=2007|page=369}}</ref>

=== Commerce ===
Until late 1980s, commerce had been concentrated around the original downtown near [[Mokpo Station]]. In the late 1990s, large residential areas were built in Yeonsan dong and Hadang, resulting in a significant outflow of the population of the city. This resulted in the city council adopting a bylaw to support the old downtown area,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=001&oid=098&aid=0000102027& |script-title=ko:네이버 뉴스}}{{dead link|date=August 2022}}</ref> however, the outward flow has only worsened.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.asiae.co.kr/article/2009021814394289765|script-title=ko:원도심활성화, 또 하나의 신도시건설 |trans-title=Revitalization of the original city center, construction of another new city|website=asiae.co.kr |date=19 February 2009|access-date=2022-08-29}}</ref>

Economic power has been notably imbalanced by the opening of [[Lotte Mart]] in 2001 and [[E-Mart]] in 2002.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://emart.shinsegae.com/branch/BRIntroduction01V.asp?JumID=E09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040630163325/http://emart.shinsegae.com/branch/BRIntroduction01V.asp?JumID=E09|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 June 2004|title=The profile of the E-mart at website}}</ref> [[Home plus]] is the solitary large-scale market in Mokpo, located in old downtown near the Munhwa broadcasting corporation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=101&oid=001&aid=0001890613 |script-title=ko:삼성 홈플러스 목포점 17일 개점|trans-title=Samsung Homeplus Mokpo store opened on the 17th |agency=Newsis |date=11 January 2008|access-date=2022-08-28}}</ref>

The one exception to the declining economy of the city are the fish markets of Dongmyeong and North Harbor which have been a magnet for tourists and local people looking for octopus or other indigenous products. The economic bureau of the city has spent ₩300 million on promoting the market since early 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=001&aid=0002508116 |script-title=ko:목포시 재래시장상품권 인기몰이 ‘왜’?|trans-title=‘Why?’|agency=[[Yonhap]] |date=18 February 2009|access-date=2022-08-28}}</ref>

=== Companies ===
Companies with operations in Mokpo include the [[Bohae]] brewing company and Haengnam [[chinaware]]. Bohae brewing company produces a brand of [[soju]] from the Honam area, of which the best selling product is maple soju ({{lang|ko|잎새주}}), the first company to using maple in the brewing of soju. Bohae also entered into a joint development with [[Asahi Breweries]] in Japan to expand its soju production operations. In 2008, Bohae became the first Korean brewing company to open up wine sales in the United States, with the exportation of its [[Rugby Ball]] wine.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.mk.co.kr/outside/view.php?year=2008&no=758689|script-title=ko:보해 복분자주, `럭비공 와인` 애칭으로 美서 호평|trans-title=Bohae bokbunja wine, popular in the United States with the nickname of 'rugby ball wine'|author=Bohae Brewing|date=2008-12-15|publisher=Maeil Business Newspaper|access-date=2022-08-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bohae.co.kr/theme/boh/html/history.php|script-title=ko:연혁|trans-title=History|publisher=Bohae Brewing|access-date=2022-08-28}}</ref>

Another major company is Haengnam chinaware, established in May 1942. Its headquarters is in Mokpo, with two other branches, one in Seoul for design and public relations, and another in [[Yeoju]] for production. In 1953, the company was the first in Korea to develop coffee cup sets.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://haengnam.en.ec21.com/company_history.html|title=Company History|publisher=Haengnam Chinaware Inc.|access-date=2022-08-28}}</ref> In 1963, they began trade in Hong Kong, with exports to China growing to more than 2 million dollars in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://economy.hankooki.com/lpage/industry/200810/e2008102816540347730.htm|script-title=ko:행남자기 "2009년 中수출 2배 확대"|trans-title=Haengman Ki "Doubling Exports to China in 2009"|author=Kim Heung-rok|date=2008-10-28|publisher=Hankooki|access-date=2022-08-28}}</ref> In 2011, its president signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of Environment of South Korea to develop a less pollutant-emitting process. The project also includes a publicity campaign to raise public awareness on environmental issues and their effect on rare species.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fnnews.com/view?ra=Sent0601m_View&corp=fnnews&arcid=0922282454&cDateYear=2011&cDateMonth=04&cDateDay=14|script-title=ko:행남자기，멸종위기 동·식물 보전나서|trans-title=Haengman period, conservation of endangered animals and plants|date=2011-04-14|publisher=Financial News|author=Cho Yong-cheol|access-date=2022-08-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://korea.kr/newsWeb/pages/brief/partNews2/view.do?dataId=155739362&call_from=extlink&call_from=extlink|script-title=ko:생물자원의 중요성, 도자기를 통해 알린다|trans-title=The importance of biological resources, through ceramics|date=2011-04-14|publisher=Korea.net|url-status=dead|archive-date=2011-10-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005212117/http://korea.kr/newsWeb/pages/brief/partNews2/view.do?dataId=155739362&call_from=extlink&call_from=extlink}}</ref>

=== Farming and fishing ===
Mokpo is made up of sparsely populated farmland, with 1,326 households under a half hectare. The area produces high quantities of rice, barley, and beans, with greens and fruits such as tomatoes, cucumbers, and oriental melons increasing in popularity since 2001.{{Citation needed|date=November 2013}}

Ships from the harbor often travel to [[Heuksando]] to fish for skate and hairtail. Mokpo's yield of marine products reached 26,862 tons in 2006, consisting chiefly of fish, with of shellfish, mollusks, and seaweeds also contributing to the total. Mokpo is known for its harvest of small octopus, although this has declined in recent years. The number of fishermen had dropped to fewer than 3,000, but has been rising since 2007.{{Citation needed|date=November 2013}}

=== Industries ===
The regional economy relies heavily on the Daebul industrial complex and [[Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries]] located near [[Yeongam]]. The imports of merchandise support the local economy of Mokpo as they pass through its harbor. The Halla group was the initial owners of Heavy Industries, until they were taken over by Hyundai, which changed the company name to Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries, with Samho meaning three lakes. By 2007, corporate profits amounted to more than 460 million, an increase of about 25% over those from 2006.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.donga.com/3/all/20090117/8685438/1? |script-title=ko:대불단지의 中企“전봇대 뽑으면 희망있다”|trans-title=The middle story of the Daebul Complex “There is hope if you pull out the electric pole”|date=17 January 2009|author=Jo Eun-ah|website=news.donga.com|access-date=2022-08-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Gang Seon won |trans-title=100 options for land dealers |script-title=ko: 《땅 투자자가 꼭 알아야 할 100가지》 |page=315}}</ref> South Jeolla province succeeded in attracting a series of investors for renewable energy companies like solar panels. Innovation Silicon Ltd, invested 10bn [[Korean won|won]] in developing a silicon producing complex.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.moneytoday.co.kr/view/mtview.php?type=1&no=2009011515174162780&outlink=1 |script-title=ko:'맞춤형 기업유치 전략'성과 빛났다|trans-title=
Highlighting strategic access for outdoor investment|date=2009-01-15|publisher=Moneytoday|access-date=2022-08-28}}</ref>

== Geography ==
Mokpo sits at the southern end of the Muan peninsula, although the city lies within Sinan county, which mostly consists of 1004 islands. Its neighbor, Muan county, extends northeastward, separated from Mokpo by the Yeongsan river. [[Yudal mountain]] (228m) sits at the center of old downtown, and is a source of pride within the city. Its nickname is Gaegol ({{Korean|개골}}), meaning weird-shaped rocks and peaks. The side of the mountain caused roads around the downtown area to have a hilly aspect. Nojeokbong is a historic site where General Yi Soon Shin made use of its shape during the [[Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)|Japanese invasion]]. The city has small mountains nearby: Mt. Ibam (121m) to the east, and Yangeul (156m) and Daebak (156m) to the north.<ref>{{cite book|script-title=ko:대한민국 웬만한곳 다있다|trans-title=Everywhere in Korea|author1=Park Young|author2=Joo-Hwan Oh|publisher=Samsung Publishing House|year=2007|language=ko}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mokpo.go.kr/open_content/administrative/organization/location/ |script-title=ko:존재하지 않는 페이지 입니다.오류에 의한 페이지 자동 이동 |trans-title= Introduce the geographical features|publisher=City of Mokpo|access-date=4 May 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.ph/ejfOX |archive-date=2014-08-30|language=ko}}</ref> The mouth of the Yeongsan River flows along the southern side of the city, containing 13 islands. The existence of a natural [[seawall]] created a natural safe harbor.

Most of the area of Mokpo consists of [[land reclamation]], including Samhakdo, North harbor ({{Korean|북항}}), and the new city of Hadang. According to the research by Mokpo National University, [[tributary|tributaries]] of the Yeongsan river crossed the central area of old downtown. This can be seen in the historic names of the Mokone Dong area: Namgyo-dong (southern side of bridge) and Bukgyo-dong (Northern side of bridge). Both names contained "gyo" ({{Korean|교|橋}}), meaning the bridge, indicating a bridge used to link the areas. Tideland reclamation projects removed large amounts of [[mud flat]]s, including Daebandong, Baekryundong and the coastal shore around Gatbawi. Additionally, the municipal boundaries include 7 [[desert island]]s.

The wall at the end of the Yeongsan river prevented damage from flooding during harsh typhoons. Meanwhile, the water quality of the river has worsened to the point where the ministry in charge of environmental protection began studying the impacts made by man-made structures. In 2010, the ministry's report recommended that the seawall should be widened and that the dirty water be pumped out of the riverbeds into the harbor.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.yonhapnews.co.kr/bulletin/2010/05/03/0200000000AKR20100503073900054.HTML?did=1179m |script-title=ko:영산강 하구둑 개선사업 환경영향평가 '부실' |trans-title=Yeongsan River Estuary Embankment Improvement Project 'Poor' in Environmental Impact Assessment|publisher=[[Yonhap]] |date=23 May 2010 |access-date=4 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402001639/http://www.yonhapnews.co.kr/bulletin/2010/05/03/0200000000AKR20100503073900054.HTML?did=1179m |archive-date=2 April 2012 |url-status=dead|language=ko}}</ref>

=== Climate ===
{{climate chart
| Mokpo
| −1.5 | 6.1 | 33.2
| −0.7 | 7.8 | 42.4
| 2.8 | 12.0 | 60.0
| 8.1 | 17.8 | 69.3
| 13.3 | 22.3 | 89.2
| 18.1 | 25.7 | 173.1
| 22.3 | 28.3 | 236.7
| 23.2 | 30.1 | 192.6
| 18.8 | 26.7 | 147.5
| 12.5 | 22.0 | 46.9
| 6.3 | 15.2 | 43.4
| 0.8 | 9.0 | 29.3
| float = right
| clear = both
| source 1 = Korea Meteorological Administration<ref name = KMA1 /> }}

Mokpo's weather station was built along with five other sites in Korea, and began observing weather conditions on 25 March 1904.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Kim Dong Shik (김동식) |author2=Kim Jung Hyun (김정현) |publisher=Maeil Economy |year=2006 |script-title=ko:《날씨경영 하늘에서 돈이 옵니다》 |page=173}}</ref> Mokpo's climate features a short spring and autumn, and it is cold and dry in the winter and warm and humid with seasonal winds in the summer. There is also significant rain in the summer, averaging {{convert|1163|mm|in}}. Mokpo is usually windy and foggy in the spring and autumn due to its location near the ocean. Mokpo's long period (annual average of 223 days) without frost creates suitable conditions for rice farming. However, its seacoast location and the influence of the continental climate on the city often cause a great disparity between the rise and fall of daily and yearly temperatures. Mokpo, along with the rest of Sinan County, has the highest level of sunlight in Korea, enabling more efficient use of solar energy plants and related energy sources.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kbizweek.com/cp/view.asp?vol_no=601&art_no=29&sec_cd=1702 |script-title=ko:전국은 지금 ‘태양의 도시’ 열풍 |trans-title=The nation is now 'City of the Sun' craze|publisher=Hankyung Business |date=11 June 2007|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-03-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331193936/http://magazine.hankyung.com/main.php?module=news&mode=sub_view&mkey=1&vol_no=601&art_no=29&sec_cd=1702|language=ko}}</ref> The frequency of [[yellow dust]] is quite similar to that of other cities like [[Seoul]] and [[Incheon]], occurring about 10–11 days per year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=003&aid=0002537514 |script-title=ko:전남, 수도권비해 황사발생 적고 농도 낮다|trans-title=Jeollanam-do has fewer occurrences of yellow dust and lower concentration than the metropolitan area|author=Bae Sang-hyun |agency=[[Yonhap]] |date=21 February 2009|access-date=2022-08-28|language=ko}}</ref>

The climate of Mokpo is a [[humid subtropical climate]] ([[Köppen climate classification|Köppen]]: ''Cfa''). Unexpected blizzards can sweep the region with strong gusts during winter, and the city experiences more than 30 days of snow, and 60 days below {{convert|0|°C|°F}}.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}} Mokpo sometimes falls within the range of passing typhoons, and may suffer peripheral damage, including heavy precipitation during the summer and early autumn. In 2004, [[2004 Pacific typhoon season#Typhoon Mindulle .28Igme.29|Typhoon Mindulle]] gave Mokpo a record rainfall of {{convert|64|mm|in}} per hour.

{{Weather box
| location = Mokpo (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1904–present)
| metric first = Y
| single line = Y

| Jan record high C = 18.0
| Feb record high C = 20.1
| Mar record high C = 22.4
| Apr record high C = 28.4
| May record high C = 31.0
| Jun record high C = 34.4
| Jul record high C = 37.0
| Aug record high C = 37.0
| Sep record high C = 34.2
| Oct record high C = 32.1
| Nov record high C = 26.5
| Dec record high C = 20.8
| year record high C =

| Jan high C = 5.8
| Feb high C = 7.6
| Mar high C = 11.9
| Apr high C = 17.5
| May high C = 22.3
| Jun high C = 25.7
| Jul high C = 28.4
| Aug high C = 30.0
| Sep high C = 26.5
| Oct high C = 21.5
| Nov high C = 14.9
| Dec high C = 8.3
| year high C = 18.4

| Jan mean C = 1.8
| Feb mean C = 3.0
| Mar mean C = 6.9
| Apr mean C = 12.4
| May mean C = 17.5
| Jun mean C = 21.6
| Jul mean C = 25.1
| Aug mean C = 26.3
| Sep mean C = 22.3
| Oct mean C = 16.6
| Nov mean C = 10.4
| Dec mean C = 4.2
| year mean C = 14.0

| Jan low C = -1.3
| Feb low C = -0.6
| Mar low C = 2.9
| Apr low C = 8.2
| May low C = 13.5
| Jun low C = 18.5
| Jul low C = 22.7
| Aug low C = 23.5
| Sep low C = 19.0
| Oct low C = 12.7
| Nov low C = 6.6
| Dec low C = 0.7
| year low C = 10.5

| Jan record low C = −14.2
| Feb record low C = -12.0
| Mar record low C = −7.5
| Apr record low C = −1.4
| May record low C = 3.2
| Jun record low C = 9.8
| Jul record low C = 14.8
| Aug record low C = 13.7
| Sep record low C = 8.4
| Oct record low C = 1.0
| Nov record low C = −5.5
| Dec record low C = −11.6
| year record low C =

| precipitation colour = green
| Jan precipitation mm = 31.8
| Feb precipitation mm = 36.8
| Mar precipitation mm = 64.9
| Apr precipitation mm = 80.3
| May precipitation mm = 91.3
| Jun precipitation mm = 150.2
| Jul precipitation mm = 220.7
| Aug precipitation mm = 209.0
| Sep precipitation mm = 137.7
| Oct precipitation mm = 58.9
| Nov precipitation mm = 48.9
| Dec precipitation mm = 37.2
| year precipitation mm = 1167.7

| unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm
| Jan precipitation days = 11.0
| Feb precipitation days = 8.9
| Mar precipitation days = 9.0
| Apr precipitation days = 8.7
| May precipitation days = 9.4
| Jun precipitation days = 9.8
| Jul precipitation days = 13.2
| Aug precipitation days = 12.4
| Sep precipitation days = 8.9
| Oct precipitation days = 6.2
| Nov precipitation days = 8.6
| Dec precipitation days = 11.1
| year precipitation days =

| Jan snow days = 9.5
| Feb snow days = 5.6
| Mar snow days = 1.9
| Apr snow days = 0.1
| May snow days = 0.0
| Jun snow days = 0.0
| Jul snow days = 0.0
| Aug snow days = 0.0
| Sep snow days = 0.0
| Oct snow days = 0.0
| Nov snow days = 1.2
| Dec snow days = 7.8
| year snow days =

| Jan humidity = 70.8
| Feb humidity = 70.0
| Mar humidity = 69.1
| Apr humidity = 69.7
| May humidity = 73.8
| Jun humidity = 79.8
| Jul humidity = 85.1
| Aug humidity = 81.8
| Sep humidity = 77.1
| Oct humidity = 70.6
| Nov humidity = 69.5
| Dec humidity = 70.0
| year humidity = 73.9

| Jan sun = 147.3
| Feb sun = 161.2
| Mar sun = 195.4
| Apr sun = 212.1
| May sun = 223.3
| Jun sun = 174.5
| Jul sun = 159.8
| Aug sun = 200.8
| Sep sun = 184.7
| Oct sun = 211.3
| Nov sun = 166.6
| Dec sun = 143.8
| year sun = 2180.8

|Jan percentsun = 45.7
|Feb percentsun = 50.1
|Mar percentsun = 49.6
|Apr percentsun = 52.3
|May percentsun = 49.9
|Jun percentsun = 39.5
|Jul percentsun = 35.8
|Aug percentsun = 49.1
|Sep percentsun = 48.2
|Oct percentsun = 59.7
|Nov percentsun = 53.5
|Dec percentsun = 46.8
|year percentsun= 48.0
| source = [[Korea Meteorological Administration]] (percent sunshine 1981–2010)<ref name= KMA>{{cite web| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220129211110/https://data.kma.go.kr/resources/normals/pdf_data/korea_pdf_0106_v2.pdf| archive-date = 29 January 2022| url = https://data.kma.go.kr/resources/normals/pdf_data/korea_pdf_0106_v2.pdf| title = Climatological Normals of Korea (1991 ~ 2020)| publisher = Korea Meteorological Administration| access-date = 4 April 2022| language = ko}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = https://data.kma.go.kr/climate/average30Years/selectAverage30YearsKoreaFileset.do?pgmNo=716| publisher = Korea Meteorological Administration| access-date = 4 April 2022| script-title = ko:우리나라 기후평년값 - 파일셋| language = ko}}</ref><ref name= KMAstationdata>{{cite web| url = https://data.kma.go.kr/climate/average30Years/selectAverage30YearsKoreaList.do?pgmNo=188| publisher = Korea Meteorological Administration| access-date = 4 April 2022| script-title = ko:우리나라 기후평년값 - 그래프| language = ko}}</ref><ref name= KMAextremes>{{cite web| url = https://data.kma.go.kr/climate/extremum/selectExtremumList.do?pgmNo=103| publisher = Korea Meteorological Administration| access-date = 4 April 2022| script-title = ko:순위값 - 구역별조회| language = ko}}</ref><ref name= KMAnormals>{{cite web| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161207185450/http://www.kma.go.kr/down/Climatological_2010.pdf| archive-date = 7 December 2016| url = http://www.kma.go.kr/down/Climatological_2010.pdf| publisher = Korea Meteorological Administration| access-date = 8 December 2016| title = Climatological Normals of Korea| date = 2011}}</ref>}}

== Transportation ==

=== Railroad ===
[[File:Korail Honam Line Mokpo Station.jpg|thumb|Mokpo Station]]
[[Mokpo station]] opened 15 May 1913, it is the final destination of [[Honam Line]] and accommodates over 1.2 million annually, as well as cargo shipments.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.daos.net/railway/info.htm?code=180|title=Daos Railroad station|language=ko|publisher=Daos Korea|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030608233704/http://www.daos.net/railway/info.htm?code=180|archive-date=8 June 2003}}</ref>

The station is located near Yudal mountain, in the southwestern part of the city. The railroad ends inside the station, although a freight-only line continued on to Samhakdo, carrying coal for the industrial factories. Because of potential danger, the city removed the rail extension in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/area/area_general/636643.html|script-title=ko:목포역~삼학도 철도 사라진다|trans-title=Mokpo Station-Samhakdo Railroad Disappears|author=Ahn Gwan-ok|publisher=Hani|date=2014-05-12|access-date=2022-08-28|language=ko}}</ref>

On 1 April 2004, [[Korea Train Express]] advertised a three-hour travel time from Seoul to Mokpo, however, the actual time was longer due to the number of stops along the Honam Line. Three-hour travel was only possible when limiting the train to four stops: [[Seodaejeon station|Seodaejeon]], [[Iksan station|Iksan]], [[Gwangju·Songjeong Station|Gwangjusongjeong]], and finally Mokpo. However, that service has not been available since 2008. Then, there were 10 trains from Yongsan station to Mokpo, with a travel time of 195 minutes.

Since 2015, there has been a high-speed [[KTX]] service linking Mokpo and [[Yongsan station|Yongsan Station]] within an average of 140 minutes. Limited services also allow passengers to travel further north to [[Seoul Station]] and [[Haengsin station]] in the city of [[Goyang]].{{citation needed|date=April 2020}}

=== Inland road ===
: '''See also''' :[[Roads and expressways in South Korea]]
The [[Seohaean Expressway]] connects Mokpo to Seoul via a 4-hour car ride. The Muan-Gwangju expressway was opened in 2008 to ease access to the Muan international airport.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}} In 2012, the [[Namhae Expressway|Mokpo to Gwangyang Highway]] opened, connecting the eastern and western ends of [[South Jeolla]], as well as continuing on to [[Busan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mbn.mk.co.kr/pages/news/newsView.php?category=mbn00009&news_seq_no=1183147 |script-title=ko:목포~광양 간 고속도로 개통…주행시간 1시간 단축|trans-title=Expressway between Mokpo and Gwangyang opened... Reduced driving time by 1 hour|date=2012-04-26|publisher=[[Maeil Broadcasting Network]]|access-date=2022-08-28|language=ko}}</ref>

[[South Korea National Route 1|National Route 1]] was planned to connect Mokpo to Sineuju in [[North Korea]]. After the [[Korean War]], however, the route was cut off at [[Imjingak]] near the truce village of [[Panmunjeom]]. It was not until 2000 when Route 1 was extended to North Korea's second largest city, [[Gaesung]].

=== Bus ===
Two companies provide most of the bus service in the local area. Since 2005, the companies and the city council agreed to expand the number of buses fueled by natural gas (NG), following a 3-year negotiation. The city agreed to assist the companies with a 21,000 US dollar per bus subsidy for each bus equipped with the NG equipment. As of 2006, 32 buses had been retrofitted with the natural gas equipment.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=001&oid=098&aid=0000107329&|script-title=ko:천연가스(CNG) 시내버스 운행|date=29 January 2006|language=ko}}{{dead link|date=August 2022}}</ref> The growing suburbs around the city created a demand for additional lines, but there is conflict between the needs of the city and the profit margin of those new lines.

Riders may transfer between buses, free of charge, beginning on 1 March 2007. The lines are classified as inner circle, outer line and artery, which follows the commuting system of [[Seoul Buses]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.seoul.co.kr/news/newsView.php?id=20070302012009|script-title=ko:목포시 시내버스 무료환승 실시|trans-title=[Local] Mokpo city bus free transfer|date=2 March 2007|publisher=City of Seoul|access-date=2022-08-28|language=ko}}</ref> Buses with a low-floor level were first deployed in South Jeolla province in 2007, although they still remain in limited service.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nodongilbo.com/news/articleViewAmp.html?idxno=26892|script-title=ko:목포시, 시내버스 저상버스 도입운행|trans-title=Mokpo City, city bus low-floor bus introduction operation|publisher=Rodong Ilbo|date=2007-11-02|access-date=2022-08-28}}</ref>

Since 2008, a semi-public bus system has been explored, with the intent of expanding the role of the city government in determining bus routes. The core goal is to share responsibility for operations as well as control over spending and income. However, [[Nongovernmental organization|NGOs]] have withheld support for the idea, resulting in the policy having not been implemented.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailian.co.kr/news/n_view.html?id=128113&sc=naver&kind=menu_code&keys=25|script-title=ko:목포경실련, 시내버스 준공영제 “사회적 합의가 우선|trans-title=Woo Sang-ho and Lee Jae-myung go to the front...|language=ko|publisher=Dailian|date=1 October 2008|access-date=2022-08-28}}</ref>

=== Airport ===
[[Muan International Airport]] is the airport serving Mokpo. Previously, [[Mokpo Airport]] operated as the region's airport. The crash of [[Asiana Airlines Flight 733]] in 1993 increased concerns about the airport, resulting in extending the runway 50 meters. However, the site still had fundamental drawbacks due to common foggy weather and the lack of related facilities.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=103&oid=001&aid=0001814230 |script-title=ko:<목포공항 38년만에 폐쇄..'역사의 뒤안길로'>|trans-title=<Closed Mokpo Airport after 38 years..'The road behind history'>|date=2007-11-09|publisher=News Naver|access-date=2022-08-28}}</ref> [[Korean Air]] abolished the Gimpo-Mokpo route and [[Asiana Airlines]] started to slash services in 2004 with the removal of the Mokpo-Jeju route. The air companies announced deficits due to the high-speed railroad.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=005&aid=0000147146 |script-title=ko:제주행 항공노선 지키려 ‘안간힘’|trans-title='Struggled' to keep the flight route to Jeju|date=2004-02-01|publisher=News Naver|author=Lee Sang-il|access-date=2022-08-28|language=ko}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=020&aid=0000220389 |script-title=ko:[광주/전남]목포공항 폐쇄 위기|trans-title=[Gwangju/Jeonnam] Mokpo Airport Closure Crisis|date=2003-12-26|publisher=News Naver|access-date=2022-08-28|language=ko}}</ref>

The alternative to Mokpo Airport was Muan International Airport, whose construction was delayed for many years, leading to disappointment among the local people. Eventually, however, the airport was constructed, and Mokpo Airport closed its doors in 8 November 2007.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}

=== Sea ===
[[File:Coastal area around Mokpo.JPG|right|thumb|200px|Frontal coast seen from Yudal Mountain]]
Mokpo has three harbors: one each for ferry service, trading and fishing. The main harbor is used to ferry customers and cargoes around nearby islands, while North harbor conducts ferry service to [[Nonghyup]]. Additionally, the newly built harbor is used for container shipping to China.

Over 80 sea-going lines have been available, notably for Heuksando, [[Hongdo]] and [[Jeju-do|Jeju]], as well as ferries linking Sinan county. In 2002, the first cruise-line to Shanghai was opened for operation,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=015&aid=0000569320|script-title=ko:목포~상하이 카페리 운항 .. 매주 2회 왕복|trans-title=Mokpo~Shanghai Car Ferry service .. 2 round trips per week|publisher=[[Korea Economy Daily]]|date=20 November 2002|access-date=2022-08-28|language=ko}}</ref> however, bankruptcy concerns forced the discontinuance of the cruise line after only five months. In July 2004, another attempt to start a cruise route to Shanghai, with a newly designed, smaller boat, failed due to Chinese objections.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=101&oid=001&aid=0000709862|script-title=ko:목포-상하이 뱃길 9월 재개|trans-title=Mokpo-Shanghai waterway resumes in September|language=ko|publisher=Yonhap|date=22 July 2004|access-date=2022-08-28|author=Jo Geun-young}}</ref>

The Mokpo coastal terminal was originally built during the 1980s, with the government beginning an update in 2003. The 30bn won, 4-story terminal opened in February 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=015&aid=0000758743|script-title=ko:<지역경제시대> 올해를 빛낸 기업 : 목포여객터미널, 국제항만타운으로|trans-title=[Era of local economy] Companies that shined this year: Mokpo Passenger Terminal, International Port Town|language=ko|date=24 November 2004|publisher=News Naver|author=Choi Seong-guk|access-date=2022-08-28}}</ref> Mokpo coastal terminal is currently configured to divide coastal from international travel.

The newly built harbor in Mokpo has seen a growing number of cargoes since it opened in 2004. The harbor set a record for civil investment in a seaport in South Korea.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=001&aid=0004813144|script-title=ko:목포항~中 상하이 컨테이너 항로 추가 개설|trans-title=Opened additional container routes from Mokpo Port to Shanghai in China|publisher=Yonhap|date=10 December 2010|author=Jo Geun-young|access-date=2022-08-28|language=ko}}</ref> Currently, sea routes have been established for China, Japan, [[Thailand]], and [[Indonesia]] with municipal support.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.donga.com/3/all/20110503/36889619/1|script-title=ko:목포시, 국제정기항로 개설 인센티브|trans-title=[Gwangju/Jeonnam] Mokpo City, Incentives for Opening International Regular Routes|publisher=Donga Ilbo|date=3 May 2011|author=Jung Seung-ho|access-date=2022-08-28|language=ko}}</ref> In January 2011, Samsung electronics decided to choose Mokpo as their chief exporting harbor for merchandise from its factory in Gwangju.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newsprime.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=182619|script-title=ko:삼성전자 백색가전제품 목포신항 통해 수출|trans-title=Exported Samsung Electronics' white home appliances through Mokpo New Port|date=2011-01-20|publisher=News Prime|author=Kim Seon-deok|language=ko|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-03-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320074509/http://www.newsprime.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=182619}}</ref>

==== Ferries at coastal terminal ====
{| class="wikitable" style="margin:1em; font-size:90%;"
|- style="background:#b0c4de; text-align:center;"
! Line
! Company
! Number
! Remarks
|-
| Heuksando, Hongdo, [[Gageodo]] || [https://web.archive.org/web/20030325042543/http://www.namhaegosok.co.kr/ Namhae Express]/Dongyang || Twice per day || Fastsailing
|-
| Chuja-Byeokpa-Heuksan-Hongdo || [https://web.archive.org/web/20090307233915/http://www.jindotr.co.kr/ Jindo Transportation] || Unverified ||
|-
| Jeju || [http://seaferry.co.kr Seaworld ferry] || Twice per day ||
|-
| Eupdong (Anjwa), Palguem, [[Amtaedo|Amtae]], Jaeun, Bigeum, Docho || [https://web.archive.org/web/20030325042543/http://www.namhaegosok.co.kr/ Daeheung] || ||Also available to depart from Aphae harbour of Sinan
|-
| Bokho (Anjwa), Jangsan, Haui, Sinui, Sangtae || Joyang || || Clippery Angel
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| Uidal, Dali, Yuledo and other islands || Sinjin, Johang || 5 times per day || 11 times during seawater pool in Uidal island
|}

==== Nonghyup ferry at North harbor ====
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|- style="background:#b0c4de; text-align:center;"
! Depart
! Arrival
! Company
! Remarks
|-
|North Harbor Songgong of Aphae|| Eupdong (Anjwa)|| Nonghyup at Anjwa ||
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|North Harbor Songgong of Aphae|| Gosan (Palguemdo) 5 small islands of Amtae|| Sinan Nonghyup ||
|-
|North Harbor || Biguem || Biguem Nonghyup ||
|-
|North Harbor || Docho || Docho Nonghyup ||
|}

== Culture ==

[[File:Yudalsan Mokpo at Night.jpg|thumb|Night Sight of Mokpo]]
[[File:Downtown of Mokpo.jpg|thumb|Old downtown with Luminarie]]
[[File:Korean marine relic pavilion, Mokpo.JPG|thumb|National maritime museum]]

=== Festivals ===
A flower festival is held at Yudal mountain every April and May. The festival of [[Largehead Hairtail]] ({{Korean|hangul=목포사랑은빛갈치축제}}) takes place around Yeongsan Lake every October. The festival is extremely popular among fishing fans and family tourists. A fishing contest is held, wherein great numbers of people take part, which is followed by a fireworks display.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://star.moneytoday.co.kr/view/stview.php?no=2008092418594012342&type=1&outlink=1 |script-title=ko:목포바다 은빛갈치축제' 화려한 밤 수놓는다|trans-title='Mokpo Sea Silver Cutlass Festival' is embroidered on a splendid night|publisher=Starnews |date=24 September 2008|author=Kim Gun-woo|access-date=2022-08-28}}</ref>

The Nanyeong Singing Memorial celebrates the famous singer, [[Lee Nan-young]], whose song, "The Tear of Mokpo" gained wide popularity. The memorial was started in 1968 by the Honam Maeil newspaper but was stopped, but was restarted by MBC Mokpo and is held every autumn.

=== City of Light ===
The city has a plan for promoting tourism in the old downtown, and South Jeolla province agreed to offer support for the city's plan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=100&oid=001&aid=0000958888|script-title=ko:전남도, 구도심권 정비 본격 추진|trans-title=Provincial office agrees on backup for supporting old downtown in several areas|publisher=Yonhap News|date=30 March 2005|author=Yeo Woon-chang|access-date=2022-08-28|language=ko}}</ref> This city's population decline has resulted in the closure of many shops, as well as a drastic reduction in the city's school system. For example, student enrollment at Sanjeong Elementary School has dropped to below 300 from a high of more than 3,000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=001&aid=0004795201 |script-title=ko:목포 산정초 기초학력 미달 '제로' 비결은}|trans-title=Mokpo Sanjeong Elementary School, the secret to 'zero' lack of basic education|date=2010-11-30|publisher=Yonhap News|author=Jo Geun-young|language=ko|access-date=2022-08-28}}</ref> The project, entitled, "A City of Light", called for establishing a light show along the street which runs next to the railway station.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}} However, environmentalists have lodged objections, arguing that the plan will have an irrevocable impact, harming the ecological balance of the mountain.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.hankooki.com/lpage/society/200601/h2006011919411275040.htm |script-title=ko:한국아이닷컴!|trans-title=[Jeonnam] 'City of Light' Mokpo, dark clouds|date=2006-01-19|author=Park Kyung-woo|website=news.hankooki.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319200936/http://news.hankooki.com/lpage/society/200601/h2006011919411275040.htm|archive-date=19 March 2012|language=ko}}</ref>

In the new downtown area, there is now a fountain, which times its waters and light show to the beat of the song. This was to be expanded, but has confronted opposition from several civil groups since 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.asiae.co.kr/uhtml/read.jsp?idxno=2009022213371886336|script-title=ko:[新목포지리지]왜 평화광장 앞 바다인가?|trans-title=Why in front of the peace plaza|date=23 February 2009|publisher=Asia Economics|access-date=2022-08-28|language=ko}}</ref>

=== Islands offshore ===
Outside of the harbor, thousands of islands dot the [[Yellow Sea]], several of which are actually part of Mokpo. The government has promoted a program of constructing infrastructure on each island. With the slogan of "Lovely island, Uai-dal", [[Hanok]] residences on these islands, each with a saltwater pool, have served as accommodations for tourists during the summer.

One of the most famous islands, Goha-do, was used as a base for naval forces in the late 16th century when Japan invaded Joseon. The Japanese navy created artificial caves on this island to conceal armaments from the [[Allies of World War II|Allies]] during the Second World War. Two air-raid shelters have been found. The Mokpo Bridge was publicly opened in June 2012.

=== Museums ===
Many museums in Mokpo are located near Gatbawi street, due to the city concentrating its investment to exhibition space in this area. The National Maritime museum is one of the oldest museums dedicated to the Korean naval and shipping traditions. The museum changed its name in 2009 to the Research Institute for Maritime History, due to its broadened function.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=103&oid=003&aid=0002646652 |script-title=ko:해양유물전시관, '문화재연구소'로 명칭 변경 |trans-title=Changed the name of the Marine Relics Exhibition Hall to the 'Cultural Heritage Research Center'|author=Park Sang-soo|agency=Newsis |date=28 April 2009|language=ko}}</ref> The Institute conducts surveys and research related to ancient ships, trade routes and relics, and is the only research institute for maritime relics in [[South Korea]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hankyung.com/news/app/newsview.php?aid=2007012515711|script-title=ko:목포 외달도 … 남도음식ㆍ갯벌체험ㆍ삼림욕, 청량감을 먹고 마셔요|trans-title=Mokpo Oedal Island … Namdo food, tidal flat experience, forest bathing, eating and drinking refreshing persimmons|date=2007-01-29|publisher=Hankyung|access-date=2022-08-28|language=ko}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=National Research Institute of Maritime Cultural Heritage|url=http://www.seamuse.go.kr/_publish/e-book/english/VIEW.HTM|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724185334/http://www.seamuse.go.kr/_publish/e-book/english/VIEW.HTM |archive-date=24 July 2011 |language=ko}}</ref>

The Mokpo Natural History Museum has a large collection of fossils from all over the world. It originally began as a single building, but has expanded into a second building, the Cultural Heritage Hall, which specializes in local relics dating as far back as prehistoric time. The museum has an extensive collection of samples and data regarding everything from dinosaur fossils to insects and [[cetacean]]s found in the Yellow Sea. One of the most significant displays is a nest of dinosaur eggs, found on Aphae island, which was restored and opened to the public in 2010. The eggs reach lengths greater than 40 cm, and have been dated to approximately 80 million years ago, during the [[Mesozoic]] period.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ytn.co.kr/_ln/0103_201012040856383040 |script-title=ko:8,000만 년 전 공룡알 둥지 화석 공개|trans-title=[Jeonnam] Fossils of 80 million-year-old dinosaur egg nests revealed|website=YTN |date=4 December 2010|access-date=2022-08-28|language=ko}}</ref> The [[Korea Forest Service]] chose the museum to record its samples of insects in a national database for biological resources in 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=003&aid=0002855489 |script-title=ko:목포자연사박물관 소장 곤충표본 DB 구축 |trans-title="Building a database of insect specimens in the Mokpo Natural History Museum"|author=Park Sang-soo|agency=Newsis |date=9 September 2009|access-date=2022-08-28|language=ko}}</ref>

Namnong Memorial Hall commemorates the famed [[Korean calligraphy|calligrapher]], Heo Gun. The Hall is situated within a [[Korean garden|Korean traditional garden]] and features exhibitions on different series of his works.

The Mokpo Ceramic Museum opened in 2008, was funded by the government to establish ceramics and china exhibits from notable manufacturers. Meanwhile, the Literature hall of Mokpo ({{Korean|hangul=목포문학관}}) is not far from the ceramic museum, and hosts literature classes for the general public, featuring specific writers or novels, to promote literature among the local population.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=001&aid=0003379248 |script-title=ko:목포문학관, 찾아가는 문학교실 '인기' |trans-title=Mokpo Literary Museum, Visiting Literature Class 'Popular'|author=Jo Geun-young|agency=[[Yonhap]] |date=14 July 2010|access-date=2022-08-28|language=ko}}</ref>

===Cuisine===

Being located close to the sea, the city's cuisine is characterized by [[seafood]] dishes. Mokpo is famous for [[hongeo-hoe]] ({{Korean|hangul = 홍어회}}), a strong smelling fermented dish featuring the [[Skate (fish)|skate]], a kind of [[ray fish]].
Other delicacies of Mokpo are: kimchi and [[pyeonyuk]] ({{Korean|hangul = 홍어삼합}}); a variant of [[yeonpo-tang]] containing [[Octopus minor|long arm octopus]]; [[Hoe (dish)|hoe]]; and seasoned ''[[Portunus trituberculatus]]''. The city started a public market for vendors selling their own delicacies, located downtown.
<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.asiatoday.co.kr/news/view.asp?seq=212623 |script-title=ko:목포시, “맛 집 거리” 입주자 모이세요! |trans-title=Mokpo city, get together for collecting delicious food street|date=2009-02-22|language=ko|author=Hwang Jin-yeon|publisher=Asiatoday|url-status=dead|archive-date=2011-09-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110904124405/http://www.asiatoday.co.kr/news/view.asp?seq=212623}}</ref>

=== Facilities for sports and cultural entertainment ===
Yudal Stadium is located next to the 100 Year Memorial Avenue. The stadium consists of ballpark and an eight lane track. Behind the stadium, local groups are able to use public tennis courts. The ground floor of the stadium houses committees of diverse sports.

The city has attracted many athletes to train in the area during the winter, due to sunny and warm weather, and numerous accommodations. The city has been very successful in reaching agreements with 127 teams, totaling almost 6,000 athletes, who trained during the winter in 2004.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=038&aid=0000258574 |trans-title=Come to Mokpo for winter training |author=Park Kyung-woo|language=ko|script-title=ko:스포츠 동계훈련 목포로 오세요 |date=23 November 2004 |agency=Hankook Ilbo|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-07-17|archive-url=https://archive.ph/MdzA}}</ref> Since 2005, the focus has been on track and field sports to boost the number of visiting athletes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=001&oid=098&aid=0000108469&|title=2006 National athletic contest in Mokpo|date=3 February 2006|publisher=News Naver|access-date=2022-08-28|language=ko}}{{dead link|date=August 2022}}</ref>

Recreational parks are located sparsely around Yudal mountain, while the city is in the process of constructing an additional park in the Samhakdo area.

The [[Mokpo Cultural Complex]] is located along the shore near [[Gatbawi (Mokpo)|Gatbawi]], consisting of two buildings, one for performance and the other for exhibition. However, the complex is limited by its seating capacity: a maximum of 700 people for the two-story building.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.mokpo.go.kr/home/www/life/culture/art/|script-title=ko:문화예술회관|trans-title=Culture and Arts Center|publisher=City of Mokpo|language=ko|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081018104255/http://www2.mokpo.go.kr/home/www/life/culture/art/|archive-date=18 October 2008}}</ref>

The Mokpo Civil Culture & Sports Center was built in 2003 to meet the needs of the increasing population in the downtown area. However, the operating fees have proven a burden to the province. It consists of three halls, with a capacity of more than 1,200 people.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=022&aid=0000011037|script-title=ko:[목포]체육센터 12월 개관|trans-title=Sports Center opened in December|publisher=Segye Ilbo|date=24 October 2003|access-date=2022-08-28|language=ko}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.mokpo.go.kr/home/www/life/culture/citicult/|script-title=ko:시민문화체육센터|trans-title=Mokpo sports/culture center|publisher=City of Mokopo|language=ko|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019014532/http://www2.mokpo.go.kr/home/www/life/culture/citicult/|archive-date=19 October 2008}}</ref>

There are two libraries in Mokpo. The Civil Library of Mokpo opened in 1974 at the old consulate of Japan. In 1989, it moved closer to Yudal stadium, and consists of 4 stories, with 1,636 seats. The library is home to over 360,000 books, as well as having internet-access research rooms.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=003&aid=0000061156|script-title=ko:목포시립도서관 민간위탁에 목포문화원|trans-title=Mokpo City Library entrusted to the private sector by Mokpo Cultural Center|date=2004-05-27|publisher=Newsis|access-date=2022-08-28|language=ko}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mokpocitylib.or.kr/|publisher=Mokpo City Library|title=Mokpo City Library|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110705075835/http://www.mokpocitylib.or.kr/|archive-date=5 July 2011|language=ko}}{{nonspecific|access-date=2022-08-28|date=August 2022}}</ref> The Public Library of Mokpo is located near North Harbor. It began as part of the Mokpo Educational Institute, but has since gained independence.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}

== Media ==
Branch offices of KBS and [[Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation|MBC]] exist in Mokpo. KBS Mokpo was established in 1942, at a location close to the Yeon dong area, prior to its move next to the current city hall in Yongdang. MBC Mokpo was initially planned as a radio station when it opened in 1967, using a frequency of 1386 kHz.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mokpombc.co.kr/sub07_mbc/sub0702.html|title=Company history at Mokpo MBC|publisher=Mokpo MBC|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-03-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322133027/http://www.mokpombc.co.kr/sub07_mbc/sub0702.html|language=ko}}</ref>

[[Far East Broadcasting Company|FEBC]] Mokpo opened an office in 1999, for Christian missions around the [[Honam]] area. For [[Cable television|cable broadcasting]], Honam Hanguk cable has its office in Hadang.

South of Mokpo at 34.679364 N 126.445148 E, there is a VLF-transmitter with two very tall masts ( height unknown).

==Notable people from Mokpo==
* [[Hyginus Kim Hee-jong]] (born 21 January 1947), the 5th [[Archbishop]] of [[Gwangju]] ([[Hangul]]: 김희중)
* [[Seo Su-yeon]] (born 8 January 1986), South Korean [[para table tennis]] player ([[Hangul]]: 서수연)
* [[Kim Bo-mi (field hockey)|Kim Bo-mi]] (born 7 October 1985), South Korean [[field hockey]] player ([[Hangul]]: 김보미)
* [[Eun Mihee]] (born 20 September 1960), South Korean novelist, writer, columnist, and college lecturer ([[Hangul]]: 은미희)
* [[Choi Jin-hyuk]] (born 9 February 1986), [[Demographics of South Korea|South Korea]]n actor (Real Name: ''Kim Tae-ho'', [[Hangul]]: 김태호)
* [[Jung Man-sik]] (born 11 December 1974), [[Demographics of South Korea|South Korea]]n actor ([[Hangul]]: 정만식)
* [[Kim Kyung-ho]] (born 7 June 1971), South Korean singer and [[wikt:rockstar|rock star]] ([[Hangul]]: 김경호)
* [[Soon-Tek Oh]] (1932–2018), [[Korean–American]] actor ([[Hangul]]: 오순택)
* [[Park Na-rae (comedian)|Park Na-rae]] (born 25 October 1985), South Korean comedian ([[Hangul]]: 박나래)
* [[Lee Nan-young]] (1916–1965), South Korean singer and actress ([[Hangul]]: 이난영)
* [[Nam Jin]] (born 27 September 1946), South Korean [[trot]] singer (Real Name: ''Kim Nam-jin'', [[Hangul]]: 김남진)
* [[Lee Donghae|Donghae]] (born 15 October 1986), singer-songwriter, rapper, dancer, model, producer, actor, businessman and [[K-pop idol]], member of [[K-pop]] boygroup [[Super Junior]] and its subgroups [[Super Junior-D&E]] and [[Super Junior-M]] (Real Name: ''Lee Dong-hae'', [[Hangul]]: 이동해)
* [[Choi Young-jae|Youngjae]] (born 17 September 1996), singer, dancer, actor, radio DJ, songwriter, producer and [[K-pop idol]], member of [[K-pop]] boygroup [[Got7]] (Real Name: ''Choi Young-jae'', [[Hangul]]: 최영재)
* [[Zelo]] (born 15 October 1996), singer, rapper, dancer, model, beatboxer and [[K-pop idol]], former member of [[K-pop]] boygroup [[B.A.P]] (Real Name: ''Choi Jun-hong'', [[Hangul]]: 최준홍)
*[[Oh Ji-ho]] (born 14 April 1976), a South Korean actor. ([[Hangul]]: 오지호)

== Health care ==
As of 2008, the number of doctors per capita was 11.41 per thousand, increasing from 10.45 of the prior year. The council of doctors in Mokpo city has stated that the ongoing economic improvement, as well as the growing populations, will cause the need for the construction of middle-sized or larger hospitals and clinics.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=003&aid=0002327988 |script-title=ko:목포시 의료기관 의사 수 '전국 최고' |trans-title=The number of doctors at medical institutions in Mokpo is 'the highest in the country'|agency=Newsis |date=14 October 2008|author=Park Sang-soo|language=ko}}</ref>

Mokpo National hospital was established in 1962, specifically for the treatment of [[tuberculosis]]. Originally a city hospital, the state took over operations in 2002.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tbmokpo.go.kr/mokpo/board/mokpoHtmlView.jsp?menu_cd=M_01_03_03&no=3 |script-title=ko:병원소개 |trans-title=Hospital History|publisher=Mokpo National Hospital|access-date=2022-08-28|language=ko}}</ref>

The ministry of Health chose Mokpo and Incheon as a sites for operating medical helicopters. Hankook hospital was officially designated the location for these emergency services.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.donga.com/3/all/20110415/36433585/1 |script-title=ko:응급전용 헬기 7월부터 인천-목포서 운영 |trans-title=Incheon-Mokpo Stations to operate emergency helicopters from July|publisher=Donga Ilbo |date=15 April 2011|access-date=2022-08-28|language=ko}}</ref>

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''Public medical institute''
* Mokpo Medical Center
* Mokpo National Hospital

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''General hospital''
* Hankook Hospital
* Dongshin University Oriental Hospital
* Mokpo Christian Hospital
* Joongang Hospital
* Mokpo Miz-i Hospital
* Mokpo MIR Dental Hospital

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== Sister cities ==
*{{flagdeco|JPN}} [[Beppu]], [[Ōita Prefecture|Ōita]], Japan (1984.10.01)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.city.beppu.oita.jp/51englishpage/sister/mokpo-si.html|title=Mokpo-si (Jeollanam-do, The Republic of Korea)|date=1984|publisher=City of Beppu|access-date=2022-08-28}}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|NOR}} [[Hammerfest]], Norway (1962.03.23){{citation needed|date=May 2015}}
*{{flagdeco|PRC}} [[Lianyungang]], Jiangsu, China (1992.11.01){{citation needed|date=May 2015}}
*{{flagdeco|ROK}} [[Changwon]], [[South Gyeongsang]] (1998.12.24)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://contents.masan.go.kr:8080/english_new/sister/sister.asp|title=Sister City|publisher=MASAN|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071223050043/http://contents.masan.go.kr:8080/english_new/sister/sister.asp |archive-date=23 December 2007}}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|ROK}} [[Seodaemun-gu]], [[Seoul]] (2005.04.18){{citation needed|date=August 2022}}
*{{flagdeco|PRC}} [[Xiamen]], Fujian, China (2007.07.25){{citation needed|date=May 2015}}
*{{flagdeco|KOR}} [[Jeonju]], [[North Jeolla]], South Korea (2020.08.15)

== Symbols of Mokpo ==
* City Flower – [[White Magnolia]]
* City Tree – [[Loquats]]
* City Bird – [[Crane (bird)|Crane]]

== Images ==
<gallery>
File:Fukuyama-Cho in Mokuho.JPG|Bokman neighbourhood during [[Korea under Japanese rule]]'s period.
Image:MokpoHouses.jpg|Residential area in Mokpo
Image:SquidDrying.jpg|Squid out to dry
Image:Yudalsan1.jpg|View of Mokpo from Yudalsan
Image:Mokpo Street.jpg|Street in Mokpo
File:Mokpo Cultural Center(Fmr. Japanese consulate).JPG
File:Mokpo Sushi Center.jpg|[[Hoe (dish)|Hoe]] center at North Harbor
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[List of cities in South Korea]]
* [[Geography of South Korea]]

== References ==
{{Reflist|colwidth=30em}}

== Notes ==
*Two Jeolla provinces which Mokpo pertains to have been the critical base of the Democratic Party of South Korea. Before former president Kim took the presidency, he caught the strongest power in the reason as a root of his political supporting base. In this context, Mokpo and near area has been called the garden of Democrats.
*Nonghyup ferries refer to the regular ferry operated by Nonghyup which is kind of banking and cooperating organ for farmers. The ferry connects each branch in several islands in Sinan and Mokpo.

== External links ==
{{Wikivoyage|Mokpo}}
{{commons category|Mokpo}}
*[http://eng.mokpo.go.kr/ City government home page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090408153124/http://eng.mokpo.go.kr/ |date=8 April 2009 }}
*{{curlie|Regional/Asia/South_Korea/Jeonnam/Mokpo}}

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'''Yeosu''' ({{IPA-ko|jʌ.sʰu}}; ''Yeosu-si''), historically also '''Yosu''', and known to the Japanese as '''Reisui''' during the period when [[Korea under Japanese rule|Korea was under Japanese rule]], is a city located on the southern coast of the Korean Peninsula in [[South Jeolla Province, South Korea]] and comprises the Old Yeosu City, founded in 1949, Yeocheon City, founded in 1986, and Yeocheon County which were merged into the current Yeosu city in 1998.

==Characteristics==
The city of Yeosu consists of the Yeosu [[peninsula]] as well as 365 islands (48 inhabited, 317 uninhabited). Being midway along the southern coast of South Korea, it is flanked by [[Namhae County]] in [[South Gyeongsang Province]] to the east with a natural waterway, and the Bay of Suncheon to the west and northwest, the city of [[Suncheon]] sprawling along its banks. The city has three different city halls. On 1 April 1998, the cities of Yeosu and Yeocheon, along with Yeocheon County merged to form the unified city of Yeosu.

Yeosu has cool summers and mild winters. Its ocean climate also brings Yeosu relatively longer springs and autumns than other regions.
Yeosu is a city of history and loyalty where the headquarters of South Jeolla Province Navy Base was located, and the [[Yi Sun-sin|Great Admiral Yi Sun-sin]] improved upon the [[Turtle ship|''geobukseon'' (turtle ship)]] to save the country while serving as the commander of the navy.

Due to its appeal as an international ocean resort and tourist city, as well as its close proximity to the Yeocheon Industrial Complex, Yeosu has seen much development during the past several decades.

In the 142nd General Assembly of BIE, held in Paris on 26 November 2007, the global community selected Yeosu as the host city for the [[Expo 2012|2012 World Expo]]. This was Korea's second World Expo, following [[Daejeon]]'s [[Taejŏn Expo '93|1993 Fair]].

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File:The view of coast area of Yeosu.jpg|View of Yeosu
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== History ==
[[Image:여수진남관.jpg|thumb|left|[[Jinnamgwan Hall]]]]
Wonchon-hyeon/Dolsan-hyeon was the name given to Yeosu in the 16th year of [[Seong of Baekje|King Seong]] (538 AD) who was the king of [[Baekje]] Kingdom. The name changed to Haeub-hyeon/Yeosan-hyeon in 757 and to Yeosu-hyeon/Dolsan-hyeon in 940. Beginning in 1479, the Joseon Dynasty's Naval Headquarters for eastern sector of Jeolla Province was located there. As such, it was the first base where Admiral [[Yi Sun-sin]]'s fleet was based during the [[Imjin War]] which used the Turtle Ship or 'Kobukseon' which was built in Seon-so.<ref>{{Cite web|url =https://mirror.enha.kr/wiki/%EA%B1%B0%EB%B6%81%EC%84%A0|title =Kobukseon|url-status =dead|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20150325141358/https://mirror.enha.kr/wiki/%EA%B1%B0%EB%B6%81%EC%84%A0|archive-date =25 March 2015}}</ref>

In 1897, Yeosu was renamed Yeosu-myeon and included in the new county of Yeosu-gun. In 1914, Yeosu-gun merged with Dolsan-gun, further increasing its territory. Yeosu-myeon continued to grow and in 1931, Yeosu-myeon became Yeosu-eup. In 1949, Yeosu became a city. In 1998, Yeosu city merged with Yeochon city and Yeochon-gun, creating the unified city of Yeosu.

Yeosu-si, Yeocheon-si, and Yeocheon-gun were merged into Yeosu-si on April 1, 1998. The former Yeocheon City Hall was divided into two buildings and the former Yeocheon County Office into three buildings.

===Yeosu Rebellion===
{{main|Yeosu–Suncheon Rebellion}}

In October 1948, the town of Yeosu was taken by South Korean soldiers who refused to take part in the suppression of the ongoing [[Jeju Uprising]].

=== Yeosu Expo Station ===
On December 25, 1920, Yeosu Station started to operate as a railway that connects ''Yeosu'' and ''[[Gwangju]]''. On October 1, 2011, however, the station was relocated to ''Deokchung-dong'' and renamed '''[[Yeosu Expo station|Yeosu Expo Station]]''', as the venue served for Yeosu World Expo in 2012.

== Festivals ==
'''Hyangiram Sunrise Festival (여수향일암일출제)''' is an annual festival that begins on New Year’s Eve. It takes place at ''Hyangiram Hermitage'', a historical building that was built in the year 644. The word “'''''Hyangiram'''''” itself refers to '''''“a hermitage facing the sun'''''”, in which visitors could view the breathtaking panorama of sunrise over the horizon. The festival consists of other activities and cultural events such as fireworks, folk street music, and lighting of wishes.

==Attractions==

=== Hyangiram Hermitage ===

* '''Hyangiram Hermitage''', a Buddhist Temple that was first built by ''Monk Wonhyo'' in the 7th century (644), is situated at the top of ''Mount Geomosan''. Before it was renamed, the temple was initially known as Wontongam Hermitage. In the 9th year (958) of Goryeo King Gwangjong’s reign, the temple has been renamed Geumoam Hermitage by ''Monk Yunpil''. Meanwhile, ''Monk Inmuk'' changed its name for one last time during [[Sejong the Great|King Sejong]]’s Joseon era (1715), which results in its current name Hyangiram Hermitage.
* [[Hyangilam]] ({{Korean|labels=no|향일암}}) is a temple, that is composed of Daeungjeon and Kwon Yin-jeon, Yongwangjeon, Samsung-gak, Jonggak, Jaejabe and Jongmuil. It is on the hill of a steep mountain bordering the sea. and on the 31st and 1 January of each year, a festival of sunrise is held every year and it is a sunny spot where tourists from all over the country gather. The name of "Hwangilam" is derived from the fact that the thick camellia between the rocky cliffs of Geumo Mountain is blessed with the sunrise of the South Sea.
* A fire had destroyed some parts of the temple, including the main hall, Daeungjeon Hall. In order to remain the cultural heritage, there are numerous parts of the temple have been restructured, and restored. It is also being said that, anyone who passes all seven stone caves along the path to Hyangiram Hermitage would have their wish granted.

* '''Yeongchwisan Mountain''' has traditionally been regarded as the ''Yeosu'' peninsula’s spiritual protector. There are two Buddhist Temples on the mountain: '''''Geumseongdae and Dosolam Hermitage''''', where ritual ceremonies and prayers were held during ancient days. With only 510 meters above sea level, ''Yeongchwisan Mountain'' is an ideal place for family and hiking lovers. It only takes around four hours to reach the peak of the mountain. Also known for its azalea flower blossoms, an azalea festival is held annually on the mountain in April during spring. The festival provides a range of events, where visitors could enjoy local food, participate in spiritual activities, and contests.
[[File:거북선.jpg|thumb|Model of a turtle ship]]
* In the harbour there is a full-size model of one of '''[[Yi Sun-sin|Admiral Yi]]'s [[turtle ship]]s''', which are timber shelled vessels that were used with great success against the Japanese navy.
* '''Manseongri Beach''' near Yeosu has volcanic 'black' sand and is popular with Korean tourists. Recently, the famous Korean band Busker Busker made a song based on Manseongri Beach's night view. This popularised the site with Korean tourists.<ref>{{cite news|last1=손|first1=봉석 |script-title=ko:버스커버스커가 직접 그린 '여수밤바다' 그림 화제|url=http://news.khan.co.kr/kh_news/khan_art_view.html?artid=201206191627231&code=960100|access-date=29 March 2017|publisher=경향신문|date=12 June 2012}}</ref> There are public showers and restrooms as well as on-duty lifeguards. Many restaurants located along the beach have beach-side tables and serve various seafood dishes. It is possible to take ferries to many of the local islands for an authentic taste of rural Korean food.
* '''Dolsan bridge ({{Korean|labels=no|돌산대교}})''' has changing lights at night. It is a {{convert|450|m|ft|adj=mid|-long}} bridge connecting downtown Yeosu with Dolsan Island. Dolsan Park ({{Korean|labels=no|돌산공원}}) overlooks Dolsan bridge. The bridge is cable-stayed with 28 steel cables with diameters of 56–87 mm wired to a 62 m steel tower at the each end of the bridge. The bridge is 20 m above sea level. There are many seafood restaurants and romantic cafés around the area.
* The '''[[Odongdo]] Island''' of Yeosu is one of the most spectacular spots to appreciate camelias. There are 70 species of wild flowers that flourish here, a hill commemorating the plantation of the very first tree and a spacious grassy field. A small population of local [[finless porpoise]]s are present here.<ref>{{cite web|author=황주찬|year=2014 |script-title=ko:낚시꾼들에겐 찬밥이지만 '귀하신' 몸입니다|url=http://blog.ohmynews.com/yshjc/521864 |access-date=2015-01-11}}</ref>
* Opened in December 2014, the '''Yeosu Cable Car''' connects Dolsan Island with Odongdo and offers excellent views of the area and the Dolsan Bridge.<ref>http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/FU/FU_EN_15.jsp?cid=1972439 .VisitKorea.</ref>
[[File:Big-O show4.jpg|thumb|Colorful Big-O show]]
*Big-O show is a famous show in Yeosu which features an ocean fountain event and a hologram show.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bigo.expo2012.kr/ |script-title=ko:빅오쇼|website=bigo.expo2012.kr}}</ref> The show consists of three parts. The fountain spouts in accordance with classic and jazz music. Unique to this fountain is a large round steel frame at its centre.
* The Ocean Resort is home to Yeosu's only waterpark. It offers condominium-style rooms and other facilities. Located in Soho-dong, the resort overlooks the yacht marina.<ref>{{cite web |title=디오션리조트 |url=https://theoceanresort.co.kr/intro.do |access-date=13 January 2020}}</ref>
*Hanhwa aqua planet is a large aquarium that has four exhibition halls - marine life, aqua forest, ocean life, and alive museum. The main water tank performances include synchronized swimming and Pierrot's acrobatics.
*[[Hyangilam]] ({{Korean|labels=no|향일암}}) is a temple, that is composed of Daeungjeon and Kwon Yin-jeon, Yongwangjeon, Samsung-gak, Jonggak, Jaejabe and Jongmuil. It is on the hill of a steep mountain bordering the sea. and on the 31st and 1 January of each year, a festival of sunrise is held every year and it is a sunny spot where tourists from all over the country gather. The name of "Hwangilam" is derived from the fact that the thick camellia between the rocky cliffs of Geumo Mountain is blessed with the sunrise of the South Sea.

==Local specialities==
[[Gejang]], or marinated raw crab is a representative speciality of Yeosu and a traditional [[List of Jeolla dishes|Jeolla cuisine]] dish.<ref>{{cite news|last=Moon|first=Gwang-lip|title=Traditional cuisines to savor at the World Fair|url=http://koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2956133|access-date=22 May 2013|newspaper=Joongang Daily|date=14 July 2012|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130616123705/http://koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2956133|archive-date=16 June 2013}}</ref>

[[Dolsan]] '[[gat kimchi]]' is also a specialty of Yeosu.

==Population==
Yeosu has a population of 282,946 as of May 2019.

==Climate==
Yeosu has a [[humid subtropical climate]] ([[Köppen climate classification|Köppen]]: ''Cwa'') with very warm summers and cold winters. Rainfall is much heavier in the summer, with June to August recording over {{convert|200|mm|in}} of rainfall per month. The highest temperature ever recorded is {{convert|37.1|C|F}} on 20 July 1994<ref name=KMArecordhighs>
{{cite web
| url = http://www.kma.go.kr/weather/climate/extreme_daily.jsp?type=max_temp&mm=13&x=18&y=9
|script-title=ko:기후자료 극값(최대값) 전체년도 일최고기온 (℃) 최고순위, 여수(168)
| publisher = Korea Meteorological Administration
| access-date = 12 January 2017
| language = ko}}</ref> while the lowest temperature ever recorded is {{convert|-12.6|C|F}} on 16 February 1977.<ref name=KMArecordlows>
{{cite web
| url = http://www.kma.go.kr/weather/climate/extreme_daily.jsp?type=min_temp&mm=13&x=25&y=5
|script-title=ko:기후자료 극값(최대값) 전체년도 일최저기온 (℃) 최고순위, 여수(168)
| publisher = Korea Meteorological Administration
| access-date = 12 January 2017
| language = ko}}</ref>
{{Weather box
| location = Yeosu (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1942–present)
| metric first = Y
| single line = Y

| Jan record high C = 17.4
| Feb record high C = 19.5
| Mar record high C = 22.0
| Apr record high C = 27.4
| May record high C = 33.5
| Jun record high C = 32.1
| Jul record high C = 37.1
| Aug record high C = 36.4
| Sep record high C = 33.9
| Oct record high C = 28.9
| Nov record high C = 27.9
| Dec record high C = 20.2
| year record high C = 37.1

| Jan high C = 6.6
| Feb high C = 8.5
| Mar high C = 12.4
| Apr high C = 17.4
| May high C = 21.7
| Jun high C = 24.4
| Jul high C = 27.3
| Aug high C = 28.9
| Sep high C = 25.8
| Oct high C = 21.3
| Nov high C = 15.1
| Dec high C = 8.9
| year high C = 18.2

| Jan mean C = 2.8
| Feb mean C = 4.4
| Mar mean C = 8.3
| Apr mean C = 13.3
| May mean C = 17.9
| Jun mean C = 21.2
| Jul mean C = 24.5
| Aug mean C = 26.0
| Sep mean C = 22.6
| Oct mean C = 17.5
| Nov mean C = 11.3
| Dec mean C = 5.1
| year mean C = 14.6

| Jan low C = -0.3
| Feb low C = 0.9
| Mar low C = 4.8
| Apr low C = 9.9
| May low C = 14.7
| Jun low C = 18.8
| Jul low C = 22.5
| Aug low C = 23.8
| Sep low C = 20.0
| Oct low C = 14.5
| Nov low C = 8.2
| Dec low C = 2.0
| year low C = 11.7

| Jan record low C = -11.9
| Feb record low C = -12.6
| Mar record low C = -8.8
| Apr record low C = -2.3
| May record low C = 6.8
| Jun record low C = 12.6
| Jul record low C = 14.3
| Aug record low C = 15.6
| Sep record low C = 11.6
| Oct record low C = 1.9
| Nov record low C = -5.3
| Dec record low C = -10.8
| year record low C = -12.6

| precipitation colour = green
| Jan precipitation mm = 24.5
| Feb precipitation mm = 44.6
| Mar precipitation mm = 83.9
| Apr precipitation mm = 125.2
| May precipitation mm = 143.5
| Jun precipitation mm = 194.3
| Jul precipitation mm = 276.8
| Aug precipitation mm = 264.8
| Sep precipitation mm = 151.7
| Oct precipitation mm = 66.6
| Nov precipitation mm = 46.8
| Dec precipitation mm = 26.4
| year precipitation mm = 1449.1

| unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm
| Jan precipitation days = 4.9
| Feb precipitation days = 5.7
| Mar precipitation days = 8.0
| Apr precipitation days = 8.8
| May precipitation days = 9.6
| Jun precipitation days = 10.5
| Jul precipitation days = 13.8
| Aug precipitation days = 12.1
| Sep precipitation days = 9.2
| Oct precipitation days = 4.8
| Nov precipitation days = 6.1
| Dec precipitation days = 5.0
| year precipitation days =

| Jan snow days = 3.1
| Feb snow days = 2.4
| Mar snow days = 0.8
| Apr snow days = 0.0
| May snow days = 0.0
| Jun snow days = 0.0
| Jul snow days = 0.0
| Aug snow days = 0.0
| Sep snow days = 0.0
| Oct snow days = 0.0
| Nov snow days = 0.4
| Dec snow days = 2.7
| year snow days =

| Jan humidity = 53.0
| Feb humidity = 53.1
| Mar humidity = 57.4
| Apr humidity = 61.8
| May humidity = 68.1
| Jun humidity = 77.9
| Jul humidity = 84.5
| Aug humidity = 79.4
| Sep humidity = 71.7
| Oct humidity = 62.5
| Nov humidity = 59.5
| Dec humidity = 54.8
| year humidity = 65.3

| Jan sun = 193.3
| Feb sun = 191.6
| Mar sun = 209.8
| Apr sun = 215.4
| May sun = 227.7
| Jun sun = 175.1
| Jul sun = 163.0
| Aug sun = 197.4
| Sep sun = 181.1
| Oct sun = 219.2
| Nov sun = 189.8
| Dec sun = 197.8
| year sun = 2361.2

|Jan percentsun = 61.6
|Feb percentsun = 60.5
|Mar percentsun = 54.8
|Apr percentsun = 55.0
|May percentsun = 50.8
|Jun percentsun = 40.1
|Jul percentsun = 35.9
|Aug percentsun = 47.2
|Sep percentsun = 48.0
|Oct percentsun = 61.7
|Nov percentsun = 61.3
|Dec percentsun = 64.8
|year percentsun = 52.4
| source = [[Korea Meteorological Administration]] (percent sunshine 1981–2010)<ref name= KMA>
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| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220129211110/https://data.kma.go.kr/resources/normals/pdf_data/korea_pdf_0106_v2.pdf
| archive-date = 29 January 2022
| url = https://data.kma.go.kr/resources/normals/pdf_data/korea_pdf_0106_v2.pdf
| title = Climatological Normals of Korea (1991 ~ 2020)
| publisher = Korea Meteorological Administration
| access-date = 4 April 2022
| language = ko}}</ref><ref>
{{cite web
| url = https://data.kma.go.kr/climate/average30Years/selectAverage30YearsKoreaFileset.do?pgmNo=716
| publisher = Korea Meteorological Administration
| access-date = 4 April 2022
| script-title = ko:우리나라 기후평년값 - 파일셋
| language = ko}}</ref><ref name= KMAstationdata>
{{cite web
| url = https://data.kma.go.kr/climate/average30Years/selectAverage30YearsKoreaList.do?pgmNo=188
| publisher = Korea Meteorological Administration
| access-date = 4 April 2022
| script-title = ko:우리나라 기후평년값 - 그래프
| language = ko}}</ref><ref name= KMAextremes>
{{cite web
| url = https://data.kma.go.kr/climate/extremum/selectExtremumList.do?pgmNo=103
| publisher = Korea Meteorological Administration
| access-date = 4 April 2022
| script-title = ko:순위값 - 구역별조회
| language = ko}}</ref><ref name= KMAnormals>
{{cite web
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161207185450/http://www.kma.go.kr/down/Climatological_2010.pdf
| archive-date = 7 December 2016
| url = http://www.kma.go.kr/down/Climatological_2010.pdf
| publisher = Korea Meteorological Administration
| access-date = 8 December 2016
| title = Climatological Normals of Korea
| date = 2011}}</ref>
}}
{{Weather box
| location = [[Port Hamilton|Geomundo]], Yeosu (1991–2020 normals)
| metric first = Y
| single line = Y

| Jan high C = 7.5
| Feb high C = 9.2
| Mar high C = 12.6
| Apr high C = 16.7
| May high C = 20.6
| Jun high C = 23.8
| Jul high C = 27.4
| Aug high C = 29.5
| Sep high C = 26.0
| Oct high C = 21.5
| Nov high C = 15.6
| Dec high C = 9.8
| year high C = 18.4

| Jan mean C = 5.0
| Feb mean C = 6.1
| Mar mean C = 9.4
| Apr mean C = 13.5
| May mean C = 17.3
| Jun mean C = 20.7
| Jul mean C = 24.6
| Aug mean C = 26.7
| Sep mean C = 23.4
| Oct mean C = 18.7
| Nov mean C = 12.9
| Dec mean C = 7.3
| year mean C = 15.5

| Jan low C = 2.7
| Feb low C = 3.7
| Mar low C = 6.8
| Apr low C = 11.0
| May low C = 14.8
| Jun low C = 18.6
| Jul low C = 22.6
| Aug low C = 24.7
| Sep low C = 21.5
| Oct low C = 16.8
| Nov low C = 10.7
| Dec low C = 5.0
| year low C = 13.2

| precipitation colour = green
| Jan precipitation mm = 29.8
| Feb precipitation mm = 50.9
| Mar precipitation mm = 86.6
| Apr precipitation mm = 107.5
| May precipitation mm = 133.9
| Jun precipitation mm = 184.6
| Jul precipitation mm = 216.5
| Aug precipitation mm = 215.9
| Sep precipitation mm = 156.1
| Oct precipitation mm = 76.8
| Nov precipitation mm = 48.7
| Dec precipitation mm = 30.9
| year precipitation mm = 1338.2

| unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm
| Jan precipitation days = 4.2
| Feb precipitation days = 4.9
| Mar precipitation days = 6.4
| Apr precipitation days = 7.6
| May precipitation days = 8.0
| Jun precipitation days = 9.1
| Jul precipitation days = 9.9
| Aug precipitation days = 8.5
| Sep precipitation days = 7.9
| Oct precipitation days = 4.9
| Nov precipitation days = 5.6
| Dec precipitation days = 4.3
| source = [[Korea Meteorological Administration]]<ref name= KMA/>
}}

==Sister cities==
{{More citations needed section|date=October 2015}}
*{{flagdeco|PRC}} [[Hangzhou]], [[Zhejiang]], China
*{{flagdeco|JPN}} [[Karatsu, Saga|Karatsu]], [[Saga Prefecture|Saga]], Japan
*{{flagdeco|MYS}} [[Kota Kinabalu]], Malaysia<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/kk-portland-sister-city-pact-could-see-us-craft-beer-coming-to-sabah|title=KK-Portland sister city pact could see US craft beer coming to Sabah|author=Julia Chan|work=Malay Mail|date=20 March 2015|access-date=21 March 2015}}</ref>
*{{flagdeco|US}} [[Sikeston, Missouri|Sikeston]], [[Missouri]], United States
*{{flagdeco|RUS}} [[Vanino, Khabarovsk Krai|Vanino]], [[Khabarovsk Krai]], Russia
*{{flagdeco|PRC}} [[Weihai]], [[Shandong]], China
*{{flagdeco|TTO}} [[Port of Spain]], Trinidad and Tobago
*{{flagdeco|MEX}} [[Santiago de Querétaro]], [[Querétaro]], Mexico
*{{flagdeco|PRC}} [[Lishui]], Zhejiang, China
*{{flagdeco|PHL}} [[Cebu City]], Philippines
*{{flagdeco|BLZ}} [[Belize City]], Belize
*{{flagdeco|USA}} [[Seward, Alaska]], United States of America<ref>{{cite web | url=https://asiamattersforamerica.org/asia/data/sister-partnerships | title=Sister Partnerships by US State – Asia Matters for America }}</ref>

==Notable people==
* [[Maangchi]] (Real Name: ''Emily Kim'' or ''Kim Kwang-Sook'', [[Hangul]]: 김광숙), [[Korean-American]] [[YouTuber]] and [[author]]
* Chaesol (Real Name: ''Moon Chae-sol'', [[Hangul]]: 문채솔), singer, dancer and [[K-pop]] idol, member of [[K-pop]] girlgroup [[cignature]] and former member of [[K-pop]] girlgroup [[Good Day (group)|Good Day]]
* [[Min Do-hee|Dohee]] (Real Name: ''Min Do-hee'', [[Hangul]]: 민도희), singer, dancer, actress and [[K-pop]] idol, former member of [[K-pop]] girlgroup [[Tiny-G]]

==See also==
* [[List of cities in South Korea]]
* [[Expo 2012|Korea2012 Yeosu Expo]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category}}
{{Wikivoyage}}
*[http://www.yeosu.go.kr/?site=yseng City government]

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{{Metropolitan cities of South Korea}}
{{Most populous cities in South Korea}}
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[[Category:Cities in South Jeolla Province]]
[[Category:Populated places established in 1949]]
[[Category:Port cities and towns in South Korea]]

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'''Toyota Industries Shuttles Aichi''' (also called '''Toyota Jido Shokki''' as distinct from Toyota, which was renamed [[Toyota Verblitz]]) is a Japanese rugby team owned by [[Toyota Industries]]. They were promoted to Japan's top-flight league [[Top League]] for the first time in the 2010-11 season. Its home base is [[Kariya, Aichi|Kariya City]]. The team rebranded as '''Toyota Industries Shuttles Aichi''' ahead of the rebranding of the Top League to the [[Japan Rugby League One]] in 2022.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.asierugby.com/post/la-nouvelle-ligue-japonaise-s-appelle-la-japan-rugby-league-one|title=La nouvelle ligue japonaise s'appelle la Japan Rugby League One|work=Asie Rugby|date=16 July 2021|access-date=16 July 2021|language=French}}</ref>

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==Name and colours==

The team name "Shuttles" derives from a part used in the Non-Stop Shuttle Change Toyoda Automatic [[Loom]] (for weaving fabrics), invented by [[Sakichi Toyoda]], the founder of Toyota Industries.

The team and plays in a sky blue jersey with white shorts and sky blue socks.

==History==
The Toyota Industries rugby team was founded in 1984. In the late 1990s, the team played in the Kansai League and competed in the Companies National Tournament. From 2003–04, Toyota Industries competed in the West Regional League.

Toyota Industries gained promotion to the [[Top League]] for the first time in 2010-11, but only stayed up for one season.

Under Australian coach [[Tai McIsaac]], Toyota Shokki defeated [[Fukuoka Sanix Blues]] in a promotion-relegation match in 2013 to gain entry to the [[2013–14 Top League]].

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==Stadium==
[[File:Toyota Industries Corporation Kariya ground 2013-08.JPG|thumb|200px|left|Toyota Shokki Kariya ground]]

Toyota Shokki play their [[Top League]] home games at [[Mizuho Rugby Stadium]] in [[Nagoya]]. The stadium holds 15,000 people and was originally built in 1941. It has also been used to host international rugby matches, including for the [[2014 Asian Five Nations]].

The team trains at the Toyota Industries ground in [[Kariya, Aichi|Kariya]].

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==Current squad==

The Toyota Industries Shuttles Aichi squad for the 2023 season is:<ref name="Toyota Industries Shuttles: The Team">{{cite web | url=https://sports.toyota-shokki.co.jp/rugby/staffmembers/ | title=Toyota Industries Shuttles: The Team | publisher=Toyota Industries | language=Japanese | accessdate=4 June 2018}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; font-size:90%; width:70%"
|-
! colspan="100%" | Toyota Industries Shuttles Aichi squad
|- valign="top"
|
'''Props'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ryota Fukamura]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Naoya Ishibashi]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Harutomo Kodera]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Tomoki Minami]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kosuke Oike]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Gun Tajima]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Nobuhisa Takahashi]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Takuya Tsushida]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hyosuke Watanabe]]

'''Hookers'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Akito Fujinami]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hiroki Murakawa]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Tomoya Watanabe]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hiroaki Ushihara]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Tomoki Yamaguchi]]

'''Locks'''
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Lucas Boylan]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Toshiki Fujii]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ryuichiro Fukutsubo]]
* {{Flagicon|England}} [[James Gaskell]]
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Tama Kapene]]
* {{Flagicon|France}} '''[[Yoann Maestri]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Taishi Nakamura]]

||

'''Loose Forwards'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ryosei Kohara]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Michi Kanado]]
* {{Flagicon|Fiji}} [[Jone Kerevi]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shoma Makinouchi]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yamato Matsuoka]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Lui Naeata]]
* {{Flagicon|South Korea}} [[Kim Ryung Seng]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kei Sato (rugby union)|Kei Sato]]
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Talifolofola Tangipa]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Nagito Uno]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shoichi Yura]]

'''Scrum-halves'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Keita Fujiwara]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Keisuke Ishida (rugby union)|Keisuke Ishida]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Riki Morisaki]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Takumi Sue]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Atsushi Yumoto]]

'''Fly-halves'''
* {{Flagicon|Fiji}} '''[[Josh Matavesi]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Akihiro Shimizu]]
* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[Tim Swiel]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hikaru Yichihashi]]

||

'''Centres'''
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Tom Haddad]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Keita Ichikawa (rugby union)|Keita Ichikawa]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Joe Kamana]]
* {{Flagicon|Fiji}} [[Josua Kerevi]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hitoshi Matsumoto (rugby union)|Hitoshi Matsumoto]]
* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[James Mollentze]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hiroto Ogasahara]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hiroaki Saito]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yudai Yamamoto (rugby union)|Yudai Yamamoto]]

'''Wingers'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shunta Kawano]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Naoto Kubo]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Go Nakano]]

'''Fullbacks'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuki Omichi]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Takumi Suzuki]]
|-
| colspan="100%" style="height: 10px;" |
|-
| colspan="100%" style="text-align:center;" | ([[Captain (sports)|c]]) Denotes team captain, '''Bold''' denotes player is internationally capped
|}

== Former players ==

*[[Tusi Pisi]] {{Flagicon|Samoa}}
*[[Freddie Burns]]
*[[Anthony Monahan]]
*[[Dion Waller]]
*[[Ben Gollings]]
*[[Ellis Young]]
*[[Dan Turner (rugby union)|Daniel Turner]]
*[[Rowan Varty]]
*[[Ifereimi Rawaqa]]
*[[Tyson Wulf]]

==See also==
*[[Top League#Top League Challenge series|Top League Challenge Series]]
*[[Toyota Industries S.C.]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{official website}} (Japanese)

{{Japan Rugby League One}}
{{Top Challenge League}}
{{Toyota}}
{{Toyota Industries Shuttles Aichi squad}}

[[Category:Japan Rugby League One teams]]
[[Category:Sports teams in Aichi Prefecture]]
[[Category:Toyota]]
[[Category:1984 establishments in Japan]]
[[Category:Rugby clubs established in 1984]]

Kurita Water Gush Akishima

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{{short description|Japanese rugby union team}}
{{Infobox rugby team
| teamname = Kurita Water Gush Akishima 栗田工業ウォーターガ
| image = Kurita Water Gush Akishima logo.jpg
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| union = [[Japan Rugby Football Union]]
| fullname = Kurita Water Rugby Akishima
| nickname = Water Gush
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| coach = [[Wycliff Palu]]
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| league = [[Japan Rugby League One]], Division Three
| season = [[2022 Japan Rugby League One, Division Three|2022]]
| position = 6th
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'''Kurita Water Gush Akishima''' are a [[Japan]]ese [[rugby union]] team that play in Division Three of [[Japan Rugby League One]]. They are owned by [[Kurita Water Industries]], a water treatment chemical manufacturer. The team is based in [[Atsugi, Kanagawa|Atsugi]], [[Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan. The team rebranded as '''Kurita Water Gush Akishima''' ahead of the rebranding of the Top League to the [[Japan Rugby League One]] in 2022.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.asierugby.com/post/la-nouvelle-ligue-japonaise-s-appelle-la-japan-rugby-league-one|title=La nouvelle ligue japonaise s'appelle la Japan Rugby League One|work=Asie Rugby|date=16 July 2021|access-date=16 July 2021|language=French}}</ref>

==Squad==

The Kurita Water Gush Akishima squad for the 2023 season is:<ref name="Kurita Water Gush squad">{{cite web | url=https://www.kurita-watergush.jp/member_list/ | title=Kurita Water Gush Member List | work=Kurita Water Gush | accessdate=16 December 2019}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; font-size:90%; width:70%"
|-
! colspan="100%" | Kurita Water Gush Akishima squad
|- valign="top"
|
'''Props'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Masashi Debuchi]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuta Ejima]]
* {{Flagicon|South Korea}} [[Kim Hyong Ji]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Aki Kajiwara]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kuriyama Rui]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kei Shibuya]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kei Tagusagawa]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shohei Tsujimura]]

'''Hookers'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kota Hojo]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Jun Kaneko (rugby union)|Jun Kaneko]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ryota Kuribara]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Atsushi Maeda]]

'''Locks'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hiroki Kawase]]
* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[Gideon Koegelenberg]]
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Daymon Leasuasu]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Mitsuo Nakao]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kengo Nakamura (rugby union)|Kengo Nakamura]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kota Nakamura]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hiroki Suwa]]
* {{Flagicon|Tonga}} [[Oto Tebita]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kai Yamasaki]]

||

'''Loose Forwards'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Feinga Fakai]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Nobuyuki Hirai]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yosuke Ishii]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Taisei Nakao]]

'''Scrum-halves'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yoshitaka Motomura]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Sho Nakamura]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ryo Omasa]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kakeru Sugihara]]

'''Fly-halves'''
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Andrew Deegan]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Takuro Hayashida]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shinpei Suganuma]]

||

'''Centres'''
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Tom English (rugby union)|Tom English]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Sanshiro Ide]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Takuto Mizuno]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Takuya Nakajima]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Koichi Ota]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Daiki Yokota]]

'''Wingers'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Koshi Emoto]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Keigo Hamazoe]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ayato Sakamoto]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kentaro Sugimori]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuta Sugiyama]]

'''Fullbacks'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuki Kono]]
|-
| colspan="100%" style="height: 10px;" |
|-
| colspan="100%" style="text-align:center;" | [[Captain (sports)|(c)]] denotes team captain.
|}

==References==

{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.kurita-water-rugby.net Kurita Water Official Site]

{{Japan Rugby League One}}
{{Top Challenge League}}
{{Kurita Water Gush Akishima squad}}

[[Category:Sports teams in Kanagawa Prefecture]]
[[Category:Rugby in Kantō]]
[[Category:Japan Rugby League One teams]]
[[Category:1962 establishments in Japan]]
[[Category:Rugby clubs established in 1962]]

Chugoku Red Regulions

2023-01-29T15:16:01Z

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{{Infobox rugby team
| teamname = Chugoku Red Regulions 中国電力レッドレグリオンズ
| image = Red_Regulions_logo.jpg
| imagesize =
| fullname = Chugoku Electric Power Rugby Football Club
| nickname = Red Regulions
| founded = 1987
| disbanded =
| union = [[Japan Rugby Football Union]]
| ground =
| capacity =
| countryflag = Japan
| location = [[Hiroshima]], [[Chūgoku region|Chūgoku]]
| coach = [[Yusushi Segawa]]
| chairman =
| league = [[Japan Rugby League One]], Division Three
| season = [[2022 Japan Rugby League One, Division Three|2022]]
| position = 5th
}}
'''Chugoku Electric Power Rugby Football Club''' – nicknamed the '''Red Regulions''' – are a [[Japan]]ese [[rugby union]] team, currently playing in the [[Japan Rugby League One]].<ref>{{cite press release | url=http://www.top-league.jp/2017/01/28/challenge-2017-2018 | publisher=Top League | date=28 January 2017 | accessdate=28 January 2017 | script-title=ja:ジャパンラグビートップチャレンジリーグ 2017-2018シーズン、参加8チーム決定 | language=ja | trans-title=Japan Rugby Top Challenge League 2017-2018 season, participating 8 teams determined}}</ref> The team is the rugby team of electric utilities provider [[Chugoku Electric Power]], based in [[Hiroshima]] in the [[Chūgoku region]].

The team was created in 1987 as the rugby union team for Chugoku Electric Power. When rugby union in Japan was restructured in 2003 with the introduction of the [[Top League]], Chugoku Electric Power was allocated to the second tier [[:ja:トップキュウシュウ|Top Kyūshū League]]. They remained in that league until a further restructuring prior to the 2017–18 saw the team promoted to a newly established [[Top Challenge League]].<ref name="Japan to add second-tier rugby league in 2017">{{cite news | url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2016/08/19/more-sports/rugby/japan-to-add-second-tier-rugby-league-in-2017/ | title=Japan to add second-tier rugby league in 2017 | work=Japan Times | date=19 August 2016 | accessdate=6 January 2017 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170106023322/http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2016/08/19/more-sports/rugby/japan-to-add-second-tier-rugby-league-in-2017 | archivedate=6 January 2017 | url-status=live}}</ref> In July 2017, they also adopted the name Red Regulions for the team.<ref name="チーム名の決定について">{{cite press release | url=http://www.energia-ssc.org/rugby/2017/07 | title=チーム名の決定について | publisher=Chugoku Electric Power Rugby Football Club | date=17 July 2017 | accessdate=24 August 2017 | language=ja | trans-title=About team name determination | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824041800/http://www.energia-ssc.org/rugby/2017/07/ | archivedate=24 August 2017 | url-status=live | df=dmy-all}}</ref>

==Current squad==

The Chugoku Red Regulions squad for the 2023 season is:<ref name="Chugoku Red Regulions squad">{{cite web | url=https://rrrfc.red/member/ | title=Chugoku Red Regulions: Members | publisher=Chugoku Red Regulions | language=Japanese | accessdate=30 December 2020}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; font-size:90%; width:70%"
|-
! colspan="100%" | Chugoku Red Regulions squad
|- valign="top"
|
'''Props'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kojiro Arito]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Daiki Ishida]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Seiya Kitajima]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Keisuke Maeda]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kento Miyata]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Toshiyuki Oki]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Hidetatsu Tsuboi]]'''

'''Hookers'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuki Asai]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kentaro Iwanaga]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Daisuke Okamoto]]

'''Locks'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kenta Fujisaki]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Noriyuki Kureyama]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Tetsuro Moritani]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kota Moriyama]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Taro Nishikawa]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hironori Shojima]]

||

'''Loose Forwards'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kengo Ishiwata]]
* {{Flagicon|South Korea}} [[Hyon Ji Son]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shun Kawaguchi]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shintaro Matsuda]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kohei Matsunaga]]
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Ed Quirk (rugby union)|Ed Quirk]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Riki Yamaguchi]]

'''Scrum-halves'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Rintaro Kawashima]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Atsushi Mizofuchi]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Syohei Tsukamoto]]

'''Fly-halves'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ippei Yamada]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hashizo Yoshida]]

||

'''Centres'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Motoki Arai]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shinya Hirayama (rugby union)|Shinya Hirayama]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Masaaki Morita]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Makoto Torikai]]

'''Wingers'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kentaro Fugi]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hirofumi Higashikawa]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shohei Kurokawa]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuto Matsuoka]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Masahiro Nakano]]

'''Fullbacks'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Keigo Hatanaka]]
|-
| colspan="100%" style="height: 10px;" |
|-
| colspan="100%" style="text-align:center;" | ([[Captain (sports)|c]]) Denotes team captain, '''Bold''' denotes player is internationally capped
|}

==Season history==

Chugoku Electric Power's record in the top two tiers since the formation of the Top Kyūshū League in 2003 was:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%; width:100%;"
|-
! colspan="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" | '''Chugoku Electric Power season history'''
|-
! style="width:5%;" | Season
! style="width:20%;" | Competition
! style="width:13%;" | Phase
! style="width:4%;" | P
! style="width:4%;" | W
! style="width:4%;" | D
! style="width:4%;" | L
! style="width:4%;" | PF
! style="width:4%;" | PA
! style="width:4%;" | PD
! style="width:4%;" | TB
! style="width:4%;" | LB
! style="width:4%;" | Pts
! style="width:4%;" | Pos
! style="width:18%;" | Notes

|- style="background:#D9EBF4;"
| rowspan=2 | 2003–04 || rowspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | [[2003 Top Kyūshū League]]
| style="text-align:left;" | First Phase || 6 || 4 || 0 || 2 || 333 || 236 || +97 || 4 || 0 || '''20''' || 3rd || ''Qualified to the Second Phase''
|- style="background:#D9EBF4;"
| style="text-align:left;" | Second Phase || 2 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 17 || 147 || −130 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || 3rd ||
|-
| 2004–05 || style="text-align:left;" | [[2004 Top Kyūshū League]]
| style="text-align:left;" | First Phase || 7 || 3 || 0 || 4 || 206 || 378 || −172 || 4 || 0 || '''16''' || 5th ||
|- style="background:#D9EBF4;"
| 2005–06 || style="text-align:left;" | [[2005 Top Kyūshū League]]
| style="text-align:left;" | First Phase || 6 || 3 || 0 || 3 || 183 || 253 || −70 || 3 || 0 || '''15''' || 4th ||
|-
| rowspan=2 | 2006–07 || rowspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | [[2006 Top Kyūshū League]]
| style="text-align:left;" | First Phase || 5 || 2 || 1 || 2 || 149 || 171 || −22 || 4 || 1 || '''15''' || 3rd || ''Qualified to the Second Phase''
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Second Phase || 2 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 14 || 141 || −127 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || 3rd ||
|- style="background:#D9EBF4;"
| rowspan=3 | 2007–08 || rowspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | [[2007 Top Kyūshū League]]
| style="text-align:left;" | First Phase || 5 || 3 || 0 || 2 || 145 || 118 || +27 || 3 || 1 || '''16''' || 2nd || ''Qualified to the Second Phase''
|- style="background:#D9EBF4;"
| style="text-align:left;" | Second Phase || 2 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 49 || 46 || +3 || 1 || 0 || '''5''' || 2nd || ''Qualified to Challenge Series 2''
|- style="background:#D9EBF4;"
| style="text-align:left;" | [[2008 Top League Challenge Series]]
| style="text-align:left;" | Challenge 2 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 5 || 192 || −187 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || 3rd ||
|-
| rowspan=2 | 2008–09 || rowspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | [[2008 Top Kyūshū League]]
| style="text-align:left;" | First Phase || 5 || 3 || 0 || 2 || 122 || 138 || −16 || 2 || 0 || '''14''' || 3rd || ''Qualified to the Second Phase''
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Second Phase || 2 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 36 || 73 || −37 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || 3rd ||
|- style="background:#D9EBF4;"
| rowspan=3 | 2009–10 || rowspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | [[2009 Top Kyūshū League]]
| style="text-align:left;" | First Phase || 5 || 4 || 0 || 1 || 319 || 91 || +228 || 4 || 0 || '''20''' || 2nd || ''Qualified to the Second Phase''
|- style="background:#D9EBF4;"
| style="text-align:left;" | Second Phase || 2 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 69 || 54 || +15 || 1 || 0 || '''5''' || 2nd || ''Qualified to Challenge Series 2''
|- style="background:#D9EBF4;"
| style="text-align:left;" | [[2010 Top League Challenge Series]]
| style="text-align:left;" | Challenge 2 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 17 || 218 || −201 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || 3rd ||
|-
| 2010–11 || style="text-align:left;" | [[2010 Top Kyūshū League]]
| style="text-align:left;" | First Phase || 6 || 2 || 0 || 4 || 148 || 192 || −44 || 2 || 1 || '''11''' || 5th ||
|- style="background:#D9EBF4;"
| 2011–12 || style="text-align:left;" | [[2011 Top Kyūshū League]]
| style="text-align:left;" | First Phase || 6 || 3 || 0 || 3 || 200 || 147 || +53 || 3 || 0 || '''15''' || 4th ||
|-
| rowspan=2 | 2012–13 || rowspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | [[2012 Top Kyūshū League]]
| style="text-align:left;" | First Phase || 6 || 4 || 0 || 2 || 180 || 201 || −21 || 4 || 0 || '''20''' || 3rd || ''Qualified to the Second Phase''
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Second Phase || 2 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 10 || 122 || −112 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || 3rd ||
|- style="background:#D9EBF4;"
| rowspan=2 | 2013–14 || rowspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | [[2013 Top Kyūshū League]]
| style="text-align:left;" | First Phase || 6 || 4 || 0 || 2 || 197 || 120 || +77 || 3 || 1 || '''20''' || 3rd || ''Qualified to the Second Phase''
|- style="background:#D9EBF4;"
| style="text-align:left;" | Second Phase || 2 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 13 || 123 || −110 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || 3rd ||
|-
| rowspan=3 | 2014–15 || rowspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | [[2014 Top Kyūshū League]]
| style="text-align:left;" | First Phase || 6 || 4 || 0 || 2 || 264 || 86 || +178 || 4 || 2 || '''22''' || 2nd || ''Qualified to the Second Phase''
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Second Phase || 2 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 27 || 65 || −38 || 1 || 0 || '''5''' || 2nd || ''Qualified to Challenge Series 2''
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[2014–15 Top League Challenge Series]]
| style="text-align:left;" | Challenge 2 || 2 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 48 || 51 || −3 || 0 || 0 || '''4''' || 2nd ||
|- style="background:#D9EBF4;"
| rowspan=2 | 2015–16 || rowspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | [[2015 Top Kyūshū League]]
| style="text-align:left;" | First Phase || 7 || 4 || 0 || 3 || 302 || 178 || +124 || 4 || 1 || '''21''' || 4th || ''Qualified to the Second Phase''
|- style="background:#D9EBF4;"
| style="text-align:left;" | Second Phase || 3 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 37 || 120 || −83 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || 4th ||
|-
| rowspan=3 | 2016–17 || rowspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | [[2016 Top Kyūshū League]]
| style="text-align:left;" | First Phase || 6 || 6 || 0 || 0 || 297 || 84 || +213 || 5 || 0 || '''29''' || 1st || ''Qualified to the Second Phase''
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | Second Phase || 2 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 45 || 31 || +14 || 1 || 0 || '''5''' || 2nd || ''Qualified to Challenge Series 2''
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[2016–17 Top League Challenge Series]]
| style="text-align:left;" | Challenge 2 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 27 || 81 || −54 || 0 || 0 || '''0''' || 3rd || ''Promoted to Top Challenge League''
|- style="background:#D9EBF4;"
| rowspan=2 | 2017–18 || rowspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | [[2017 Top Challenge League]]
| style="text-align:left;" | First Stage || 7 || 1 || 0 || 6 || 88 || 369 || −281 || 1 || 0 || '''5''' || 7th || ''Qualified to Second Stage Group B''
|- style="background:#D9EBF4;"
| style="text-align:left;" | Second Phase Group B || 3 || 2 || 0 || 1 || 95 || 67 || +28 || 0 || 0 || '''10''' || 6th ||
|-
| 2018–19 || style="text-align:left;" | [[2018 Top Challenge League]]
| style="text-align:left;" | First Phase || colspan=11 | ''Not yet played'' ||
|}

==External links==
* {{official website}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Japan Rugby League One}}
{{Top Challenge League}}
{{Chugoku Red Regulions squad}}

[[Category:Rugby in Kansai]]
[[Category:Rugby clubs established in 1987]]
[[Category:Sports teams in Aichi Prefecture]]
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[[Category:Japan Rugby League One teams]]

Mitsubishi Sagamihara DynaBoars

2023-01-29T15:14:48Z

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{{Short description|Japanese rugby union club, based in Sagamihara}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}
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| fullname = Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. Sagamihara Rugby Club
| nickname = Dynaboars
| founded = 1981
| union = [[Japan Rugby Football Union]]
| countryflag = Japan
| location = [[Sagamihara, Kanagawa]], [[Japan]]
| ground = [[Mitsubishi Juko Sagamihara Ground]]
| capacity =
| coach = [[Glenn Delaney]]
| chairman = Shigeki Iwamatsu
| league = [[Japan Rugby League One]]
| season = [[2022 Japan Rugby League One, Division Two|2022]]
| position = 3rd Promoted to Division One
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{{nihongo|'''Mitsubishi Dynaboars'''| 三菱重工相模原ダイナボアーズ|}} also known as '''Mitsubishi Juko Sagamihara Rugby Club''', are a Japanese [[rugby union]] team based in [[Sagamihara, Kanagawa|Sagamihara]], [[Kanagawa Prefecture]], [[Japan]]. The owner of this club is [[Mitsubishi Heavy Industries]].

The club was founded in 1981. It came second in the Top East 10 league in 2004-5 and entered the [[Top League (Japan Rugby)#Top League Challenge series|Top League challenge series]] play-off.

The club won the Top East 11 league in 2006–07 and entered the [[Top League]] in 2007–08. The team was named Dynaboars (a conflation of "dynamic" and "boars") as part of their promotion to the Top League; however, they were demoted at the end of the season.
The Dynaboars signed ex-Wales international and IRB World Player of the Year 2008 [[Shane Williams]] in 2012, retiring in 2014.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/29932019|title=Shane Williams: Former Wales wing announces retirement|date=2014-11-06|work=BBC Sport|access-date=2018-03-14|language=en-GB}}</ref>

==Players==
===Current squad===
The Mitsubishi Sagamihara DynaBoars squad for the 2023 season is:<ref name="2018 players & staff">{{cite web | url=http://www.mhi.co.jp/gsh/dynaboars/players-staff/ | title=2018 players & staff | publisher=Mitsubishi Dynaboars |language=ja | access-date=20 July 2018}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; font-size:90%; width:70%"
|-
! colspan="100" | Mitsubishi Sagamihara DynaBoars squad
|- valign="top"
|
'''Props'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Yu Chinen]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Mototsugu Hachiya]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hayato Hosoda]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Naoki Kawamata]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Jun Morimoto]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Akihiro Ogiso]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shunsuke Sakamoto]]

'''Hookers'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Taiji Machino]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuki Miyazato]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Atsuro Nakamura]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuya Otsuka]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ryuta Sagara]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Yoshimitsu Yasue]]'''

'''Locks'''
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} '''[[Jackson Hemopo]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Tatsuya Kazumi]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Maoya Nakagawa]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuta Onodera]]
* {{Flagicon|South Korea}} [[Cho Song-Yu]]
* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[Walt Steenkamp]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Takahiro Terui]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ryoma Tokuda]]
* {{Flagicon|Fiji}} [[Epineri Uluiviti]]

||

'''Loose Forwards'''
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Heiden Bedwell-Curtis]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Koki Hattori]]
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Daniel Linde]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yusuke Sakamoto (rugby union)|Yusuke Sakamoto]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shinya Tanaka]]
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Timote Tavalea]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Makoto Tosa]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Masataka Tsuruya]]

'''Scrum-halves'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ippei Oshima]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ryoto Shibata]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Taichi Takahashi (rugby union, born 1998)|Taichi Takahashi]]

'''Fly-halves'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ryuto Fukuyama]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kazuki Ishida]]
* {{Flagicon|England}} [[Jamie Shillcock]]
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} '''[[Matt To'omua]]'''

||

'''Centres'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Joichiro Iwashita]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Brackin Karauria-Henry]]
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} '''[[Curtis Rona]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Takumi Sugiura]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Fisipuna Tuiaki]]
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Matt Vaega]]

'''Wingers'''
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Roland Alaia'sa]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Gosuke Kawakami]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Tomoyuki Ochiai]]
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Ben Paltridge]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Keita Sekimoto]]
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[To'o Junior Vaega]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ippei Yamamoto]]

'''Fullbacks'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kensaku Akuta]]
* {{Flagicon|South Korea}} [[Han Jon-Mun]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kento Nakai]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Nozomi Nara]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yu Okudaira]]
|-
| style="height: 10px;" colspan="100" |
|-
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="100" | ([[Captain (sports)|c]]) Denotes team captain, '''Bold''' denotes player is internationally capped
|}

===Former players===
* {{flagicon|Australia}} [[Simon Kasprowicz]] - lock
* {{flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Blair Urlich]] - No. 8
* {{flagicon|Japan}} [[Kohei Matsui]] - center three-quarter back
* {{flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Troy Flavell]] - lock
* {{flagicon|South Africa}} [[Isma-eel Dollie]] - Flyhalf
* {{flagicon|Wales}} [[Shane Williams]] – Wing
* {{flagicon|England}} [[Dave Walder]] - Flyhalf
* {{flagicon|Samoa}} [[David Milo]] - No. 8
* {{flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Hamish Gard]] inside centre

==Coach==
* [[Scott Pierce (rugby player)|Scott Pierce]]
* John Mulvihill
* George Konia

== References ==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.mhi.co.jp/gsh/dynaboars/index.html Mitsubishi Dynaboars] - official page (Japanese)

{{Japan Rugby League One}}
{{Top Challenge League}}
{{Rugby union in Japan}}
{{Mitsubishi Heavy Industries}}
{{Mitsubishi Sagamihara DynaBoars squad}}

[[Category:Mitsubishi Heavy Industries]]
[[Category:Sports teams in Kanagawa Prefecture]]
[[Category:Rugby in Kantō]]
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Hino Red Dolphins

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{{Infobox rugby team
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| fullname = Hino Motors Red Dolphins
| nickname = Red Dolphins
| founded = 1950
| disbanded =
| union = [[Japan Rugby Football Union]]
| ground =
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| countryflag = Japan
| location = [[Hino, Tokyo|Hino]], [[Tokyo|Tokyo Metropolis]]
| rugby director = [[Nao Hosoya]]
| coach = [[Takuro Miuchi]]
| chairman =
| league = [[Japan Rugby League One]], Division Two
| season = [[2022 Japan Rugby League One, Division Two|2022]]
| position = 4th
}}
'''Hino Motors Red Dolphins''' are a [[Japan]]ese [[rugby union]] team, currently playing in the county's top tier [[Japan Rugby League One]] competition. The team is the rugby team of commercial vehicle manufacturer [[Hino Motors]], based in [[Hino, Tokyo|Hino]] in the [[Tokyo|Tokyo Metropolis]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.hino.co.jp/rugby/team/introduction/index.html | work=Hino Red Dolphins | access-date=30 January 2017 | script-title=ja:チームの紹介 | language=ja | trans-title=Team introduction | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150525062141/http://www.hino.co.jp/rugby/team/introduction/index.html | archive-date=25 May 2015 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

The team was founded in 1950, and spent their formative seasons playing in the [[:ja:関東社会人リーグ (ラグビー)|Kanto League]]. They were promoted to the top division of the [[:ja:トップイーストリーグ|Top East League]] for the [[2009 Top League Challenge Series#Top East League|2009 season]], but were relegated in their first season. They bounced back at the first attempt, again winning promotion to the Top East League for the [[2010–11 Top League Challenge Series#Top East League|2010 season]]. This time, they remained in that league until the [[2017 Top Challenge League|2017–18 season]], when they won promotion to the newly formed [[Top Challenge League]].<ref name="Red Dolphins Hino">{{cite web | url=http://www.rugbyarchive.net/Pagine/Squadre.aspx?ID=1153 | title=Red Dolphins Hino | work=The Rugby Archive | access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref>

==Season history==

Hino Red Dolphins' record in the top two tiers since their promotion to the Top East League in 2008 was:<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.hino.co.jp/rugby/team/history/index.html | work=Hino Red Dolphins | access-date=30 January 2017 | script-title=ja:チームの歴史 | language=ja | trans-title=Team history}}</ref>

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|-
! colspan="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" | '''Hino Red Dolphins season history'''
|-
! style="width:20%;" | Competition
! style="width:5%;" | P
! style="width:5%;" | W
! style="width:5%;" | D
! style="width:5%;" | L
! style="width:5%;" | PF
! style="width:5%;" | PA
! style="width:5%;" | PD
! style="width:5%;" | TB
! style="width:5%;" | LB
! style="width:5%;" | Pts
! style="width:5%;" | Pos
! style="width:25%;" | Notes

|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 2008 Top East League || 10 || 1 || 0 || 9 || 129 || 525 || −396 || 1 || 1 || '''6''' || 10th || style="text-align:left;" | Relegated to the Kanto League.
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 2010 Top East League || 10 || 3 || 0 || 8 || 242 || 390 || −148 || 3 || 2 || '''17''' || 8th ||
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 2011 Top East League || 10 || 1 || 1 || 7 || 117 || 353 || −236 || 2 || 1 || '''9''' || 8th ||
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 2012 Top East League || 9 || 2 || 0 || 7 || 138 || 350 || −212 || 3 || 0 || '''11''' || 9th || style="text-align:left;" | Survived relegation play-offs
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 2013 Top East League || 9 || 3 || 0 || 6 || 166 || 293 || −127 || 3 || 1 || '''16''' || 7th ||
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 2014 Top East League || 9 || 6 || 0 || 3 || 301 || 154 || +147 || 5 || 1 || '''30''' || 4th ||
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 2015 Top East League || 9 || 6 || 0 || 3 || 318 || 185 || +133 || 7 || 1 || '''32''' || 4th ||
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | 2016 Top East League || 9 || 8 || 0 || 1 || 420 || 107 || +313 || 5 || 0 || '''37''' || 2nd ||
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[2017 Top Challenge League]] || 7 || 6 || 0 || 1 || 285 || 157 || +128 || 4 || 0 || '''28''' || 2nd || style="text-align:left;" | Promoted to the [[Top League]].
|-
| colspan="100%" style="height:10px; |
|-
| colspan="100%" | '''Legend:''' P = Games played, W = Games won, D = Games drawn, L = Games lost, PF = Points for, PA = Points against, PD = Points difference, TB = Try bonus points, LB = Losing bonus points, Pts = Log points, Pos = Position.
|}

==Current squad==

The Hino Red Dolphins squad for the 2023 season is:<ref name="2018 Players & Staff">{{cite web | url=https://hino-reddolphins.com/players/ | title=2021 Players & Staff | work=Hino Red Dolphins | access-date=30 June 2021}}</ref>

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! colspan="100%" | Hino Red Dolphins squad
|- valign="top"
|
'''Props'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Takuma Asahara]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kaito Doichi]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shosuke Funaki]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Yuichi Hisadomi]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ryoyu Kato]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kodai Ono]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ken Osanai]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuto Tokuda]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Makoto Tsuchiya]]
* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[Dayan van der Westhuizen]]

'''Hookers'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuki Go]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shunya Hamano]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Takeshi Kizu]]'''

'''Locks'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Akinori Hirota]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuta Kasahara]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Takehiro Kimura]]
* {{Flagicon|Tonga}} [[Sione Vuna]]
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Rory Arnold]]

||

'''Loose Forwards'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ryosuke Chifu]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Kyosuke Horie]]'''
* {{Flagicon|South Korea}} [[Lee Jun Ya]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shun Nakashika]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Takehiro Nishimura]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yūki Ono (rugby union)|Yūki Ono]]
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Ash Parker]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Syun Tomonaga]]
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Noah Tovio]]
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[AJ Wolf]]

'''Scrum-halves'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kotaro Furukawa]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Norifumi Hashimoto]]
* {{Flagicon|Tonga}} '''[[Augustine Pulu]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Motoki Tanaka]]

'''Fly-halves'''
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Simon Hickey]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Riku Kitahara]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shigenori Someyama]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Taroma Togo]]

||

'''Centres'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuta Matsui]]
* {{Flagicon|Tonga}} [[Tonga Mosese]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kuniya Sonoki]]

'''Wingers'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Moeki Fukushi]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Taiki Kawai]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ryo Kikkawa]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ko Kojima (rugby union)|Ko Kojima]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Josefa Lilidamu]]
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Chance Peni]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Sho Takenaka]]

'''Fullbacks'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shogo Tokota]]
|-
| colspan="100%" style="height: 10px;" |
|-
| colspan="100%" style="text-align:center;" | ([[Captain (sports)|c]]) Denotes team captain, '''Bold''' denotes player is internationally capped
|}

==External links==
* {{official website}}

==References==

{{reflist}}

{{Japan Rugby League One}}
{{Top Challenge League}}
{{Hino Red Dolphins squad}}

[[Category:Rugby in Kantō]]
[[Category:Rugby clubs established in 1950]]
[[Category:Sports teams in Tokyo]]
[[Category:1950 establishments in Japan]]
[[Category:Japan Rugby League One teams]]

Toshiba Brave Lupus Tokyo

2023-01-29T15:12:26Z

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{{Short description|Japanese rugby union club, based in Tokyo}}
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| union = [[Japan Rugby Football Union]]
| ground = [[Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium]], 27,188 capacity [[Ajinomoto Stadium]] (most games), 49,970 capacity
| countryflag = Japan
| location = [[Fuchu, Tokyo]], [[Japan]]
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| rugby director = [[Tomohiro Segawa]]
| coach = [[Todd Blackadder]]
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| season = [[2022 Japan Rugby League One|2022]]
| position = 4th Playoffs: Semifinalists
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'''Toshiba Brave Lupus Tokyo''' is a Japanese [[rugby union]] team in the [[Top League]]. They are based in [[Fuchu, Tokyo]], as is their local rival [[Suntory Sungoliath]]. They won the second ever Top League championship in the 2004-5 season and the [[Microsoft Cup]] in 2005 under their innovative and inventive coach [[Masahiro Kunda]], himself a former hooker for Toshiba and [[Japan national rugby union team|Japan]]. They are particularly known for the strength of their mauls. Before the Top League was created, the team was called '''Toshiba Fuchu''' after their location. Their slogan for 2006 season was "Once again to the Pinnacle (Restart)". The team rebranded as '''Toshiba Brave Lupus Tokyo''' ahead of the rebranding of the Top League to [[Japan Rugby League One]] in 2022.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.asierugby.com/post/la-nouvelle-ligue-japonaise-s-appelle-la-japan-rugby-league-one|title=La nouvelle ligue japonaise s'appelle la Japan Rugby League One|work=Asie Rugby|date=16 July 2021|access-date=16 July 2021|language=French}}</ref>

==Honours==

*'''[[All-Japan Rugby Football Championship|All-Japan Championship]]'''
** Champions: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2006 (joint champions with [[NEC Green Rockets]]), 2007
* '''[[Top League]]:'''
** Champions: 2004-05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2009-10

==Current squad==

The Toshiba Brave Lupus Tokyo squad for the 2023 season is:<ref name="Toshiba Brave Lupus: The Team">{{cite web | url=http://www.toshiba.co.jp/sports/rugby/member/index.htm | title=Toshiba Brave Lupus: The Team | publisher=Toshiba Sports | language= ja | access-date=29 November 2018}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; font-size:90%; width:70%"
|-
! colspan="100%" | Toshiba Brave Lupus Tokyo squad
|- valign="top"
|
'''Props'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuma Fujino]]
* {{Flagicon|South Korea}} [[Kim Gwante]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuta Kokaji]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Sena Kimura]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Teruo Makabe]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Masataka Mikami]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Tonga}} [[Latu Taufa]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Rikyu Yamakawa]]

'''Hookers'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Mamoru Harada]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Daigo Hashimoto]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Futoshi Mori]]'''

'''Locks'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Warner Dearns]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shohei Ito]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Kyosuke Kajikawa]]'''
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Jacob Pierce]]
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Hugh Pyle]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shoichi Takagi]]

||

'''Loose Forwards'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Takahiro Fujita]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Michael Leitch]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Takeshi Sasaki (rugby union)|Takeshi Sasaki]]
* {{Flagicon|South Korea}} [[Lee Song-Chang]]
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} '''[[Matt Todd]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Yoshitaka Tokunaga]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Hiroki Yamamoto (rugby union)|Hiroki Yamamoto]]'''

'''Scrum-halves'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Takahiro Ogawa]]'''
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Jack Stratton (rugby union)|Jack Stratton]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuhei Sugiyama]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kohei Takahashi (rugby union)|Kohei Takahashi]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shinnosuke Tatsuno]]

'''Fly-halves'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Taichi Mano]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Takuro Matsunaga]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Hayato Nakao]]'''
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} '''[[Tom Taylor (rugby union)|Tom Taylor]]'''

||

'''Centres'''
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Nicholas McCurran]]*
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuto Mori (rugby union)|Yuto Mori]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Taiki Matsunobu]]
* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[Burger Odendaal]]
* {{Flagicon|Fiji}} '''[[Seta Tamanivalu]]'''

'''Wingers'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Masaki Hamada]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Atsuki Kuwayama]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hisayoshi Matsuoka]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Jone Naikabula]]

'''Fullbacks'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Toshiki Kuwayama]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ren Miyagami]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shohei Toyoshima]]
|-
| colspan="100%" style="height: 10px;" |
|-
| colspan="100%" style="text-align:center;" | ([[Captain (sports)|c]]) Denotes team captain, '''Bold''' denotes player is internationally capped
|}

* * denotes players qualified to play for the [[Japan national rugby union team|Japan]] on dual nationality or residency grounds.

All Blacks [[Richie Mo'unga|Richie Mo’unga]] has signed with the Toshiba Brave Lupus Tokyo and is due to join the side after the [[2023 Rugby World Cup]].<ref>https://www.rugbypass.com/news/richie-mounga-officially-signs-in-japan/</ref>

==Past players==
*[[François Steyn]] - fly-half and full back for Toshiba
*[[Shogo Mukai]] - full back for Toshiba and Japan, now head coach of [[Coca-Cola Red Sparks]]
*[[Masahiro Kunda]] - hooker for Toshiba and Japan
*[[Andrew McCormick (rugby union)|Andrew McCormick]] - centre, former captain of the [[Japan national rugby union team]], now coaching at Coca-Cola Red Sparks
*[[Wataru Murata]] - scrum-half (before he went to France and then played for [[Yamaha Jubilo]])
*[[Shinji Ono (rugby player)|Shinji Ono]] - number 8
*[[Yohei Suzuki (rugby player)|Yohei Suzuki]] - full back
*[[Ruatangi Vatuvei]] - lock/centre (moved to [[Kintetsu Liners]] before 2007-8 season)
*[[Kei Yasuda (rugby player)|Kei Yasuda]] - lock
*[[Mamoru Ito]] - scrum-half
*[[Scott McLeod (rugby union)|Scott McLeod]] - centre

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.toshiba.co.jp/sports/rugby/index.htm Toshiba Brave Lupus] official site
*[http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/sports/20060227TDY20002.htm NEC, Toshiba share title], Daily Yomiuri, February 27, 2006
*[http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/sports/20060220TDY20005.htm Toshiba teaches Waseda a lesson], Daily Yomiuri, February 20, 2006
*[http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/sports/20060206TDY24003.htm Toshiba downs Suntory, wins Microsoft], Daily Yomiuri, February 6, 2006
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050301103653/http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?sr20050207a1.htm Brave Lupus add name to rugby Cup]- Japan Times, February 7, 2005
*[http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?sr20050131a1.htm Toshiba, Yamaha set to do battle in Microsoft Cup final] - Japan Times, January 31, 2005
*[http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?sr20041230a1.htm Inventive approach from Toshiba's coach is rewarded with Top League crown] Japan Times, December 30, 2004

{{Japan Rugby League One}}
{{Rugby union in Japan}}
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Kobelco Kobe Steelers

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{{short description|Japanese rugby union team}}
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| teamname = Kobelco Kobe Steelers
| image = Kobelco Kobe Steelers logo.jpg
| image_size = 200px
| fullname = Kobelco Kobe Steelers
| founded = 1928
| ground = [[Noevir Stadium Kobe]]
| capacity = 30,132
| rugby director = [[Wayne Smith (rugby union)|Wayne Smith]]
| coach = [[Nick Holton]]
| captains =
| chairman =
| league = [[Japan Rugby League One]]
| season = [[2022 Japan Rugby League One|2022]]
| position = 7th
| union = [[Japan Rugby Football Union]]
| location = [[Kobe]], [[Hyogo Prefecture|Hyogo]]
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'''The Kobelco Kobe Steelers''' are a [[Japan]]ese [[rugby union]] team owned by [[Kobe Steel]], and based in [[Kobe]]. They were the first ever [[Top League]] champions when the League started in the 2003-2004 season. The team rebranded as '''Kobelco Kobe Steelers''' ahead of the rebranding of the Top League to the [[Japan Rugby League One]] in 2022.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.asierugby.com/post/la-nouvelle-ligue-japonaise-s-appelle-la-japan-rugby-league-one|title=La nouvelle ligue japonaise s'appelle la Japan Rugby League One|work=Asie Rugby|date=16 July 2021|access-date=16 July 2021|language=French}}</ref>

==Honours==
* '''[[Top League]]:'''
** Champions: 2003–04, 2018-19

==Personnel==

===Current management team===

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Position
! Name
! Nationality
|-
| Director of rugby
| [[Wayne Smith (rugby union)|Wayne Smith]]
| {{flag|NZ|name=New Zealand}}
|-
| Head coach
| [[Nick Holten]]
| {{flag|NZ|name=New Zealand}}
|-
| Assistant coach
|
|
|}

===Current squad===

The current Kobelco Kobe Steelers squad for the 2023 season is:<ref name="Kobe Steelers: The Team">{{cite web | url=http://www.kobelcosteelers.com/member/ | title=Kobe Steelers: The Team | publisher=Kobe Steelers | access-date=20 February 2019 | language=ja}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; font-size:90%; width:70%"
|-
! colspan="100%" | Kobelco Kobe Steelers squad
|- valign="top"
|
'''Props'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Suguru Igarashi]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Koo Ji-won]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Sho Maeda]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Isileli Nakajima]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shigure Takao]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Takayuki Watanabe]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Koki Yamamoto]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Hiroshi Yamashita]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Motoki Yamazaki]]

'''Hookers'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Ryuhei Arita]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Takuya Kitade]]'''
* {{Flagicon|South Korea}} [[Wang Kyung-Mun]]*
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kenta Matsuoka]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Rinpei Sasaki]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ikuma Yamada]]

'''Locks'''
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Gerard Cowley-Tuioti]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Takara Imamura]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Naohiro Kotaki]]'''
* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[JD Schickerling]]
* {{Flagicon|South Korea}} '''[[Jang Seok-Hwan]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Keita Terada]]

||

'''Loose Forwards'''
* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} '''[[Marcell Coetzee]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hikaru Hashimoto]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ryo Inoue]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ryo Kayutsuka]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Go Maeda]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shohei Maekawa]]
* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[Willie Potgieter]]
* {{Flagicon|Tonga}} [[Amanaki Saumaki]]*
* {{Flagicon|Fiji}} [[Sosiceni Tokoqio]]*

'''Scrum-halves'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Atsushi Hiwasa]]''' ([[Captain (sports)|c]])
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Daiki Nakajima]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kentaro Obata]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kenta Tokuda]]

'''Fly-halves'''
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Quinton Mahina]]*
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Akihiro Shimizu]]
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Beaudein Waaka]]

||

'''Centres'''
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Richard Buckman]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Junta Hamano]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shintaro Hayashi]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Gentaro Ikenaga]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Taihei Kusaka]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Timothy Lafaele]]'''
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} '''[[Ngani Laumape]]'''
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Michael Little]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}}{{Flagicon|South Korea}} '''[[Lee Seung-Sin]]'''

'''Wingers'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shinsuke Iseki]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Ataata Moeakiola]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kosuke Naka]]
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Sione Tapu'osi]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Rakuhei Yamashita]]

'''Fullbacks'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kanta Matsunaga]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Ryohei Yamanaka]]'''
|-
| colspan="100%" style="height: 10px;" |
|-
| colspan="100%" style="text-align:center;" | ([[Captain (sports)|c]]) Denotes team captain, '''Bold''' denotes player is internationally capped
|}

* * denotes players qualified to play for the [[Japan national rugby union team|Japan]] on dual nationality or residency grounds.

== Past players ==
===Japanese players===
* [[Toshiyuki Hayashi]]
* [[Ian Williams (rugby union)|Ian Williams]]
* [[Seiji Hirao]]
* [[Yuya Saito]]
* [[Kensuke Iwabuchi]]
* [[Daisuke Ohata]]
* [[Andrew Miller (rugby player)|Andrew Miller]]

===Foreign players===
* [[Brodie Retallick]]
* [[Andy Ellis (rugby union)|Andy Ellis]]
* [[Dan Carter]]
* [[Adam Ashley-Cooper]]
* [[Aaron Cruden]]
* [[Andries Bekker]]
* [[Jacque Fourie]]
* [[Ron Cribb]]
* [[Dave Bickle]]
* [[Mark Egan (rugby player)|Mark Egan]]
* [[Simon Wensley]]
* [[Pierre Hola]]
* [[Peter Grant (rugby player)|Peter Grant]]
* [[Thinus Delport]]
* [[Ben Smith (rugby union)|Ben Smith]]
* [[Lukhanyo Am]]
* [[Hayden Parker]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
* [http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?sr20050124a1.htm Steelers upset Green Rockets in Microsoft Cup] - Japan Times, January 24, 2005
* [http://www.kobelcosteelers.com/ Kobelco Steelers] official site
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071031053455/http://www.top-league.jp/index.html Top League] official site

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Urayasu D-Rocks

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{{Short description|Japanese rugby union club, based in Tokyo Bay}}
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| teamname = Urayasu D-Rocks 浦安D-Rocks
| image = Logo for the Urayasu D-Rocks rugby union team.png
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| fullname = Urayasu D-Rocks
| nickname = D-Rocks
| location = [[Urayasu|Urayasu City]], [[Chiba Prefecture|Chiba]], Japan
| founded = {{start date and age|1976}}
| ground = {{nowrap|[[Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium|Chichibunomiya Stadium]]}} 
| capacity = 27,188
| coach = [[Johan Ackermann]]
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'''Urayasu D-Rocks''', commonly known as the '''D-Rocks''', or the '''Shining Arcs''', is a rugby union team owned by [[NTT Communications]] and is part of Japan's [[Japan Rugby League One|Rugby League One]] competition, currently in [[Japan Rugby League One#Division 2|Division 2]]. Given the name, the team is based in [[Urayasu|Urayasu City]], [[Chiba Prefecture]] in the [[Kantō]] region. The team has undergone sevenral ''re-brands'' throughout is history, most recently in 2022, rebranding from '''Shining Arcs Tokyo-Bay Urayasu''' in line with the newsly formed [[Japan Rugby League One]] competition in 2021/22,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.asierugby.com/post/la-nouvelle-ligue-japonaise-s-appelle-la-japan-rugby-league-one|title=La nouvelle ligue japonaise s'appelle la Japan Rugby League One|work=Asie Rugby|date=16 July 2021|access-date=16 July 2021|language=French}}</ref> to the '''Urayasu D-Rocks''' in 2022 onwards.<ref name=JSports/>

==History and name==
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:96%"
|+
! Name
! Date(s)
|-
|align=left|NTT Communications RFC {{small|NTTコミュニケーションズRFC}}
|align=center|1976–{{circa}} 2000s
|-
|align=left|NTT Communications Shining Arcs/NTT Shining Arcs {{small|NTTシャイニングアークス}}
|align=center|{{circa}} 2000s–2021{{citation needed|date=September 2022}}
|-
|align=left|Urayasu D-Rocks {{small|浦安D-Rocks}}
|align=center|since 2022<ref>{{cite news |last=McCullagh |first=Kevin |date=27 July 2022 |title=Japan’s NTT forms new rugby business unit, reorganises teams |url=https://www.sportbusiness.com/news/japans-ntt-forms-new-rugby-business-unit-reorganises-teams/ |work=SportBusiness |location= |access-date= }}</ref><ref name=JSports>{{cite news |last=Saito |first=ラグビーレポート by 斉藤健仁 |date=27 July 2022 |title=「浦安D-Rocks」、NTTグループ再編で誕生した新チームの概要。ジャパンラグビーリーグワン|url=https://news.jsports.co.jp/rugby/article/20190310223411/ |work=[[J Sports]] |language=Japanese |trans-title='Urayasu D-Rocks', an overview of the new team created as a result of the NTT Group restructuring. Japan Rugby League One }}</ref>
|}

NTT Communications RFC was founded in 1976. They won promotion to the expanded [[Top League]] of 14 teams at the end of the 2009–10 season. They made their [[Top League]] debut for the [[2010–11 Top League|2010–11 season]]. After their first season, they finished 12th place with 4 wins and 9 losses. They had to play a play-off to keep themselves in the Top League, in which they beat [[Canon Eagles]] 31–19. In the [[2011–12 Top League|2011–12 season]], they finished in ninth place.

In July 2022, following the establishment of a new rugby business and sports company by parent company [[Nippon Telegraph and Telephone|NTT]], the Shining Arcs formally rebranded to the '''Urayasu D-Rocks'''.<ref name=JSports/> The new company, NTT Sports X, was established at the end of the [[2022 Japan Rugby League One|2022 season]] and is alleged to have begun with [[Japanese yen|JP¥]]2.5 billion ([[United States dollar|US$]]17.8 million) in [[Capital (economics)|capital]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://group.ntt/jp/newsrelease/2022/07/01/220701a.html |title=ラグビー事業会社の設立について |last= |first= |date=1 July 2022 |website=group.ntt |publisher=[[Nippon Telegraph and Telephone|NTT Group]] |language=Japanese |trans-title=Establishment of a rugby business company }}</ref>

==Current squad==
The Urayasu D-Rocks is for the 2023 season:<ref name="Members">{{cite web | url=http://www.ntt.com/rugby/members/index.html | title=Members | work=NTT Shining Arcs | access-date=8 October 2019}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; font-size:90%; width:70%"
|-
! colspan="100%" | Urayasu D-Rocks squad
|- valign="top"
|
'''Props'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kabuto Anoku]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shotaro Hirai]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kazuma Nishikawa]]
* {{Flagicon|South Korea}} [[Kim Ryom]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ken Saito (rugby union)|Ken Saito]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Rui Sannomiya]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Syuhei Takeuchi]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ryutaro Ueda]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Masahide Yanagawa]]

'''Hookers'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ryuji Fijimura]]
* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[Franco Marais]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ryo Miura]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Sota Moriya]]
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Sekonaia Pole]]
* {{Flagicon|Fiji}} [[Asaeri Samisoni]]

'''Locks'''
* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[Lourens Erasmus]]
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Sam Jeffries]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuta Kojima]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[James Moore (rugby union)|James Moore]]'''
* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[Tyler Paul]]
* {{Flagicon|South Korea}} [[Kim Ryong-Ji]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Daiki Sato (rugby union)|Daiki Sato]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Luke Thompson (rugby union)|Luke Thompson]]'''

||

'''Loose Forwards'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kazuki Ban]]
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} '''[[Liam Gill (rugby union)|Liam Gill]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Shokei Kin]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Sione Lavemai]]'''
* {{Flagicon|United States}} [[Alexander Mackenzie (rugby union, born 1997)|Alexander Mackenzie]]*
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kento Matsumoto]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shingo Nakashima]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shinya Osugi]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Tetsuta Shigematsu]]
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Jimmy Tupou]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Wimpie van der Walt]]'''

'''Scrum-halves'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ren Iinuma]]
* {{Flagicon|Scotland}} '''[[Greig Laidlaw]]'''
* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[Tian Meyer]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hayato Nishibashi]]

'''Fly-halves'''
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Otere Black]]
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Hayden Cripps]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shotaro Matsuo]]

||

'''Centres'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Shane Gates]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Taiji Hongo]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Takuya Ishibashi]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Siosifa Lisala]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Samisoni Tua]]
* {{Flagicon|Tonga}} [[Tone Tukufuka]]

'''Wingers'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kai Ishii]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuki Ishii (rugby union)|Yuki Ishii]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Takahiro Ishikawa]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Junya Matsumoto]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Larry Sulunga]]

'''Fullbacks'''
* {{Flagicon|Tonga}} '''[[Israel Folau]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kazushi Hano]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Taiga Ishida]]
* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[Sylvian Mahuza]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shota Takano]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Takuhei Yasuda]]
|-
| colspan="100%" style="height: 10px;" |
|-
| colspan="100%" style="text-align:center;" | ([[Captain (sports)|c]]) Denotes team captain, '''Bold''' denotes player is internationally capped
|}

* * denotes players qualified to play for the [[Japan national rugby union team|Japan]] on dual nationality or residency grounds.

==Notable former players==
{{List missing criteria | date=May 2016}}

* {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Mark Gerrard]] - [[Melbourne Rebels]] and former [[Australia national rugby union team|Wallaby]]
* {{flagicon|NZL}} [[Brad Mika]] - Former [[Blues (Super Rugby)|Auckland Blues]] player and played for [[New Zealand national rugby union team|New Zealand]]
* {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Adam Wallace-Harrison]] - Former [[Queensland Reds]] player
* {{flagicon|NZL}} [[Sosene Anesi]] - Player for [[Waikato Chiefs|Chiefs]] and [[NSW Waratahs]] and [[New Zealand national rugby union team|New Zealand]]
* {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Craig Wing]] - former professional [[rugby league]] footballer for [[Australia national rugby league team|Australia]]
* {{flagicon|RSA}} [[JP Nel]] - Former [[Blue Bulls]] player
* {{flagicon|SAM}} [[Fotunuupule Auelua]] - Plays for [[Brumbies (rugby)|Brumbies]]
* {{flagicon|SAM}} [[Alesana Tuilagi]] - Plays for [[Newcastle Falcons]]

==Home ground==
* The Shining Arcs' home stadium is the NTT Grand Chiba Stadium in [[Ichikawa, Chiba|Ichikawa]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ntt.com/rugby/team/home/index.html | title=NTT千葉総合運動場グランドのご紹介 | work=NTT Communications | trans-title=Introduction of NTT Grand Chiba Stadium}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Top League]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{official website}}

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{{Top Challenge League}}
{{Rugby union in Japan}}
{{NTT}}
{{Shining Arcs Tokyo-Bay Urayasu squad}}

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NTT DoCoMo Red Hurricanes Osaka

2023-01-29T15:05:22Z

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{{Short description|Japanese rugby union club, based in Osaka}}
{{more citations needed|date=September 2014}}
{{Infobox rugby team
| teamname = NTT DoCoMo Red Hurricanes Osaka NTTドコモレッドハリケーンズ大阪
| image = NTT DoCoMo Red Hurricanes Osaka logo.jpg
| imagesize = 200px
| union = [[Japan Rugby Football Union]]
| fullname = NTT DoCoMo Red Hurricanes Osaka
| nickname = Red Hurricanes
| shortname =
| countryflag =
| countryflagvar =
| founded = 1993
| region =
| location = [[Osaka]], [[Japan]]
| ground = [[Yanmar Stadium Nagai|Nagai Stadium]] [[Yodoko Sakura Stadium]]
| capacity = 47,816 and 25,000
| chairman =
| ceo =
| president =
| captain =
| top scorer =
| caps =
| coach = [[Matt Cockbain]]
| url = docomo-rugby.jp/index.php
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| season = [[2022 Japan Rugby League One|2022]]
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'''NTT DoCoMo Red Hurricanes Osaka''' is a Japanese rugby union team owned by [[NTT DoCoMo]]. They qualified for the [[2011–12 Top League|2011–12]] season and finished 12th place overall. The team rebranded in 2022, ahead of the rebranding of the Top League to the [[Japan Rugby League One]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.asierugby.com/post/la-nouvelle-ligue-japonaise-s-appelle-la-japan-rugby-league-one|title=La nouvelle ligue japonaise s'appelle la Japan Rugby League One|work=Asie Rugby|date=16 July 2021|access-date=16 July 2021|language=French}}</ref>

==Squad==

The NTT DoCoMo Red Hurricanes Osaka squad for the 2023 season is:<ref name="NTT Docomo Red Hurricanes: The Team">{{cite web | url=http://docomo-rugby.jp/player/index.html#pr | title=NTT Docomo Red Hurricanes: The Team | work=Docomo Rugby | language=ja | access-date=11 February 2018}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; font-size:90%; width:70%"
|-
! colspan="100%" | NTT Docomo Red Hurricanes Osaka squad
|- valign="top"
|
'''Props'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shosuke Fukasawa]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Wataru Furuya]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuichiro Hosono]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hiroshi Kitajima]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ryosei Kojima]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yosuke Nishiura]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kaito Yamauchi]]

'''Hookers'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Mitsumasa Harayama]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hiromichi Sakamoto]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Munetaka Sashida]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hiamitsu Shimada]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Tatsuya Yamaguchi (rugby union)|Tatsuya Yamaguchi]]

'''Locks'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Tatsunari Fujita]]
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Tom Jeffries]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hibiki Noda]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Toru Sugishita]]

||

'''Loose Forwards'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Colin Bourke]]
* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[Willie Britz]]
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Josh Fenner]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hiroki Hanada]]
* {{Flagicon|Tonga}} [[Sione Hemaloto Afemui]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Daisuke Kurihara]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Taro Sato]]
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} '''[[Liam Squire]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Tsukasa Yasuda]]

'''Scrum-halves'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Tatsuya Hamano]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Akira Inoue (rugby union)|Akira Inoue]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Koki Makiyama]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hayato Mitsui]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Toshihiro Yamanouchi]]

'''Fly-halves'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kim Jeon Hong]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ei Kawamuko]]
* {{Flagicon|South Korea}} [[Oh Ryong Tee]]

||

'''Centres'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Daisuke Iba]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Masaki Kobayashi (rugby union)|Masaki Kobayashi]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Mifiposeti Paea]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Philippines}} '''[[Benjamin Saunders (rugby union)|Benjamin Saunders]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kaoru Tsuruta]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Tonisio Vaihu]]
* {{Flagicon|South Korea}} '''[[Kim Yon-Hwi]]'''

'''Wingers'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Tasuku Koizumi]]
* {{Flagicon|Tonga}} [[Amanaki Lisala]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Koki Shigeno]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ryo Tsuruda]]
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Michael Zakhia]]

'''Fullbacks'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kenta Komura]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kanta Yamamoto]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Taichi Yoshizawa]]
|-
| colspan="100%" style="height: 10px;" |
|-
| colspan="100%" style="text-align:center;" | ([[Captain (sports)|c]]) Denotes team captain, '''Bold''' denotes player is internationally capped
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{cite web|url=https://docomo-rugby.jp/|website=docomo-rugby.jp|title=NTT Docomo rugby Osaka}}

{{Japan Rugby League One}}
{{Top Challenge League}}
{{NTT}}
{{NTT DoCoMo Red Hurricanes Osaka squad}}

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Koo Ji-won

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{{expand French|date=July 2022}}
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'''Koo Ji-won''' [RR: Gu Ji-won] (born 20 July 1994) is a [[South Korea]]n-born, Japanese [[Rugby Union|rugby union]] player who plays as a [[Prop (rugby union)|prop]].<ref name="Koo Ji-won ESPN Scrum Player Profile">{{cite web | url=http://en.espn.co.uk/scrum/rugby/player/290353.html | title=Ji-won Koo ESPN Scrum Player Profile | publisher=ESPN | accessdate=5 December 2017}}</ref> He currently plays for the {{Rut|Sunwolves}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ultimaterugby.com/player/view/11416 |title=Koo Jiwon|website=www.ultimaterugby.com|language=en|access-date=2017-12-05}}</ref> in [[Super Rugby]] and [[Honda Heat]] in Japan's domestic [[Top League]], and the [[Japan national rugby union team|Japanese national team]].<ref name="Koo Ji-won itsrugby Profile">{{cite web | url=http://www.itsrugby.co.uk/player-international-31735.html | title=Koo Ji-won itsrugby Profile | publisher=itsrugby | language = English | accessdate=5 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.japanrugbyclub.com/koo-ji-won.html|title=Koo Ji-Won|website=Japan Rugby Club|access-date=2017-12-05}}</ref> Koo Ji-Won has lived in Japan since he was 2 years old.

==International==
After only two Super Rugby appearances for the Sunwolves, which included one start, Koo received his first call-up to his adopted country, Japan's senior squad ahead of the [[2017 end-of-year rugby union internationals]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2017/11/17/more-sports/rugby/tighthead-prop-koo-ji-won-set-earn-first-cap-japan-tonga/|title=Tighthead prop Koo Ji-won set to earn first cap for Japan against Tonga|date=2017-11-17|work=The Japan Times Online|access-date=2017-12-05|language=en-US|issn=0447-5763}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{sport links}}

{{Kobelco Kobe Steelers squad}}
{{Japan Squad 2019 Rugby World Cup}}

{{Authority control}}

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Kubota Spears Funabashi Tokyo Bay

2023-01-29T15:03:44Z

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{{Infobox rugby team
| teamname = Kubota Spears Funabashi Tokyo Bay クボタスピアーズ船橋・東京ベイ
| image = Kubota Spears Funabashi Tokyo Bay logo.jpg
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| fullname = Kubota Spears Funabashi Tokyo Bay
| nickname = Kubota Spears
| founded = 1978
| ground = [[Edogawa Stadium]]
| capacity = 6,950
| union = [[Japan Rugby Football Union]]
| location = [[Funabashi, Chiba]], [[Japan]]
| countryflag = Japan
| coach = [[Frans Ludeke]]
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| league = [[Japan Rugby League One]]
| season = [[2022 Japan Rugby League One|2022]]
| position = 3rd Playoffs: Semifinalists
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'''Kubota Spears Funabashi Tokyo Bay''' (commonly known as the '''Kubota Spears''') is a Japanese [[rugby union]] team based in [[Funabashi, Chiba|Funabashi]], [[Chiba Prefecture|Chiba]] participating in the [[Japan Rugby League One]]. The team rebranded as '''Kubota Spears Funabashi Tokyo Bay''' ahead of the rebranding of the Top League as the [[Japan Rugby League One]] in 2022.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.asierugby.com/post/la-nouvelle-ligue-japonaise-s-appelle-la-japan-rugby-league-one|title=La nouvelle ligue japonaise s'appelle la Japan Rugby League One|work=Asie Rugby|date=16 July 2021|access-date=16 July 2021|language=French}}</ref>

==Current squad==

The Kubota Spears Funabashi Tokyo Bay squad for the 2023 season is:<ref name="Players Directory">{{cite web | url=http://www.kubota-spears.com/player/ | script-title=ja:選手名鑑 | trans-title=Players Directory | work=Kubota Spears | access-date=29 November 2018 | language=ja}}</ref>

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|-
! colspan="100%" | Kubota Spears Funabashi Tokyo Bay squad
|- valign="top"
|
'''Props'''
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Opeti Helu]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Kota Kaishi]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yota Kamimori]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kazuki Kato (rugby union)|Kazuki Kato]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Kengo Kitagawa]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shoya Matsunami]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Satoshi Saita]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kenshi Yamamoto]]

'''Hookers'''
* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[Schalk Erasmus]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Rikuto Fukuda]]
* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} '''[[Malcolm Marx]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Katsuya Okuma]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kentaro Otsuka]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kensuke Seki]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hiroaki Sugimoto]]

'''Locks'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuki Aoki]]
* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[Ruan Botha]]
* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[David Bulbring]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Uwe Helu]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Naoaki Horibe]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Takenori Matsui]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Teruyoshi Joshua Oto]]

||

'''Loose Forwards'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuta Chiba]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Lappies Labuschagné]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Faulua Makisi]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Asipeli Moala]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hisanobu Okayama]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Takeo Suenaga]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shinko Tsuchiya]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Masaya Tamaki]]
* {{Flagicon|Tonga}} [[Finau Tupa]]*

'''Scrum-halves'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shinobu Fujiwara]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Daisuke Inoue (rugby union)|Daisuke Inoue]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shunta Koga]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ippei Okada]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kazuhiro Taniguchi]]

'''Fly-halves'''
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} '''[[Bernard Foley]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Tomoki Kishioka]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hiroto Mamada]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Atsushi Oshikawa]]

||

'''Centres'''
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} '''[[Ryan Crotty]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Tony Hunt (rugby union)|Tony Hunt]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shintaro Nagatomi]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shota Nakata]]
* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[Rikus Pretorius]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Harumichi Tatekawa]]''' ([[Captain (sports)|c]])
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Sione Teaupa]]'''

'''Wingers'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kento Iwasa]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Haruto Kida]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hideto Kondo]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Koga Nezuka]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuhei Shimada]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hiroyuki Yamasaki]]

'''Fullbacks'''
* {{Flagicon|South Korea}} [[Kim Su-Ryung]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Halatoa Vailea]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Gerhard van den Heever]]'''
|-
| colspan="100%" style="height: 10px;" |
|-
| colspan="100%" style="text-align:center;" | ([[Captain (sports)|c]]) Denotes team captain, '''Bold''' denotes player is internationally capped
|}

* * denotes players qualified to play for the [[Japan national rugby union team|Japan]] on dual nationality or residency grounds.

==Former players==
*{{flagicon|AUS}} [[Willie Ofahengaue]]
*{{Flagicon|AUS}} [[Joe Roff]] - Fullback/Wing
*{{Flagicon|ENG}} [[Barrie-Jon Mather]] - Centre/Wing
*{{flagicon|NZL}} [[Marty Veale]] - Lock
*[[Kōtarō Nakamura (Rugby Football Player)|Kōtarō Nakamura]] - Wing/Fullback
*{{Flagicon|NZL}} [[Jason O'Halloran]]
*[[Cameron Pither]]
*[[Shunji Ishikura]] - Lock
*[[Joshua Fuimaono]]
*{{Flagicon|AUS}} [[Justin Sampson]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.kubota-spears.com/ Kubota Spears] - Official Website

{{Japan Rugby League One}}
{{Top Challenge League}}
{{Rugby union in Japan}}
{{Kubota Spears Funabashi Tokyo Bay squad}}

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Sunwolves

2023-01-29T15:01:57Z

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{{Short description|Japanese Super Rugby team}}
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| location = [[Tokyo]], Japan
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| founded = 2015
| disbanded = 1 June 2020
| ground = {{nowrap|[[Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium|Chichibunomiya Stadium]], [[Tokyo]] (most games) [[Mong Kok Stadium]], [[Hong Kong]] [[Singapore Sports Hub]], [[Singapore]]}}
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| season = [[2020 Super Rugby season|2020]]
| position = 5th (Australian Conference) 15th (overall) (season abandoned)
| top scorer = [[Hayden Parker]] (248)
| most tries = [[Semisi Masirewa]] (13)
| caps = [[Takuma Asahara]] (43)
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The '''Sunwolves''' ([[Japanese language|Japanese]]: {{lang|ja|サンウルブズ}}) – previously known as the '''HITO-Communications Sunwolves''' for sponsorship reasons – were a professional [[rugby union]] team and [[Japan]]'s representative team in [[SANZAAR]]'s international [[Super Rugby]] competition. The team was based in [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]], but also played some home matches in [[Singapore]]. They made their debut in Super Rugby in [[2016 Super Rugby season|2016]]. In March 2019, it was announced that [[2020 Super Rugby season|2020]] would be the final season for the Sunwolves, after failing to negotiate a contract due to financial considerations.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rugbyworld.com/news/sunwolves-axed-super-rugby-2020-season-99030|title=Sunwolves axed from Super Rugby after 2020 season|date=22 March 2019|publisher=Rugby World}}</ref>

With the suspension of the 2020 season due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], and the Sunwolves being declined entry into the replacement [[Super Rugby AU]] competition in Australia due to various factors, the team officially dissolved on 1 June 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sunwolves won't compete in Super Rugby AU|url=https://www.rugby.com.au/news/2020/06/01/super-rugby-au-sunwolves|access-date=2020-06-10|website=Rugby.com.au|language=en}}</ref>

==History==

===Inclusion in Super Rugby===
Since its launch in [[1996 Super 12 season|1996]], the [[SANZAAR|SANZAR]]-organised [[Super Rugby]] competition (previously known as Super 12 and Super 14) was limited to teams from [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]] and [[South Africa]]. In 2011, it was announced that SANZAR would expand its international Tri Nations competition to include [[Argentina]], which resulted in that competition being rebranded as [[The Rugby Championship]].<ref name="“The Rugby Championship” to replace Tri Nations">{{cite web | url=http://www.rugby.com.au/wallabies/News/NewsArticle/tabid/1516/ArticleID/4906/Default.aspx | title="The Rugby Championship" to replace Tri Nations | work=rugby.com.au | access-date=8 November 2011}}</ref> This led to rumours that Argentina would also seek to have teams included in the [[Super Rugby]] competition<ref name="Super Rugby may accept Argentinian teams in 2016">{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/aug/08/super-rugby-considers-argentinian-teams | title=Super Rugby may accept Argentinian teams in 2016 | publisher=Guardian | date=8 August 2013 | access-date=17 April 2015}}</ref><ref name="Pichot: Argentina in Super Rugby is a no brainer">{{cite web | url=http://www.superxv.com/news/super15_rugby_news.asp?id=40113 | title=Pichot: Argentina in Super Rugby is a no brainer | publisher=SuperXV | date=23 August 2013 | access-date=17 April 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150417174018/http://www.superxv.com/news/super15_rugby_news.asp?id=40113 | archive-date=17 April 2015 | url-status=dead }}</ref> and SANZAR confirmed that they would explore expansion to other regions in future. However, since SANZAR sold the existing Super Rugby package to its broadcasters for the period 2011–15, it meant that no changes to the format would be permitted until the 2016 season.<ref name="Super Rugby going global">{{cite news | url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/rugby-gold/super-rugby-going-global/story-fn8ti7yn-1226268126917 | title=Super Rugby going global | work=Sydney Daily Telegraph | date=11 February 2012 | access-date=17 April 2015}}</ref>

In 2013, [[SANZAAR|SANZAR]] CEO Greg Peters announced that Super Rugby would be expanded from the 2016 season onwards, adding that South African franchise the {{Rut|Southern Kings}} would be one of the expansion teams.<ref name="SANZAR boss Greg Peters confirms South Africa will get a sixth Super Rugby franchise from 2016">{{cite web | url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/sanzar-boss-greg-peters-confirms-south-africa-will-be-granted-a-sixth-super-rugby-franchise-from-2016/story-fni2u98u-1226710357974 | title=SANZAR boss Greg Peters confirms South Africa will get a sixth Super Rugby franchise from 2016 | work=Herald Sun | date=4 September 2013 | access-date=26 August 2013}}</ref> In early 2014, SANZAR confirmed that Super Rugby would be increased from 15 to 18 teams starting from the 2016 season, with Argentine side {{Rut|Jaguares}} getting one of the additional spots. It was confirmed that both Argentina and the 18th team would participate in the South African Conference.<ref name="Search begins for 18th Super Rugby team">{{cite press release | url=http://www.sanzarrugby.com/superrugby/news/search-begins-for-18th-super-rugby-team/ | title=Search begins for 18th Super Rugby team | publisher=SANZAR | date=2 May 2014 | access-date=17 April 2015}}</ref>

Asia emerged as the preferred destination for the final licence and [[Japan]] and [[Singapore]] emerged as the main contenders to get the franchise.<ref name="Singapore and Japan still in a race for 18th team">{{cite web | url=http://www.superxv.com/43747/1/singapore-and-japan-still-in-a-race-for-18th-team | title=Singapore and Japan still in a race for 18th team | publisher=SuperXV | date=21 October 2014 | access-date=17 April 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924111920/http://www.superxv.com/43747/1/singapore-and-japan-still-in-a-race-for-18th-team | archive-date=24 September 2015 }}</ref> With a number of factors counting in Japan's favour – such as their domestic professional league (the [[Top League]]) increasingly being able to attract big-name foreign players, the country being awarded the hosting of the [[2019 Rugby World Cup]] and the [[Japan national rugby union team|Japanese national team]] breaking into the top ten of the [[World Rugby]] rankings for the first time in their history in 2014<ref name="Brave Blossoms break into the top ten">{{cite web | url=http://www.arfu.com/news/2014/06/brave-blossoms-break-into-top-ten | title=Brave Blossoms break into the top ten | publisher=Asian Rugby Football Union | date=24 June 2014 | access-date=17 April 2015}}</ref> – they were subsequently granted the licence for the 18th franchise in October 2014<ref name="Super Rugby: Japan chosen to host new franchise from 2016">{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/29756459 | title=Super Rugby: Japan chosen to host new franchise from 2016 | publisher=BBC | date=24 October 2014 | access-date=17 April 2015}}</ref> – with an agreement reached that [[Singapore]] would host three of their home matches each season at the [[Singapore Sports Hub]].<ref name="Japan's entry into Super Rugby is 'dream come true'">{{cite web | url=http://jrfu.org/jrfu/index.php/latest/item/270-japan-s-entry-into-super-rugby-is-dream-come-true | title=Japan's entry into Super Rugby is 'dream come true' | publisher=JRFU | date=20 November 2014 | access-date=17 April 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150319224330/http://jrfu.org/jrfu/index.php/latest/item/270-japan-s-entry-into-super-rugby-is-dream-come-true | archive-date=19 March 2015 | url-status=dead }}</ref> The new expanded format and three new teams were formally approved by the SANZAR Executive Committee in November 2014.<ref name="Japan and Argentina officially join Super Rugby">{{cite press release | url=http://www.sanzarrugby.com/superrugby/news/japan-and-argentina-officially-join-super-rugby/ | title=Japan and Argentina officially join Super Rugby | publisher=SANZAR | date=20 November 2014 | access-date=17 April 2015}}</ref>

In April 2015, the [[Japan Rugby Football Union|JRFU]] established a corporation called Japan Super Rugby Association that would manage the operations of the team. A number of key appointments were also made; [[Yoshitaka Tashiro]] was appointed as chairman, [[Yuichi Ueno]] as the [[chief executive officer|CEO]] and on the playing side, the Japan national team's head coach [[Eddie Jones (rugby union)|Eddie Jones]] was appointed as the director of rugby for the team.<ref name="Eddie Jones lands Super Rugby role">{{cite web | url=http://www.sanzarrugby.com/superrugby/news/eddie-jones-lands-super-rugby-role | title=Eddie Jones lands Super Rugby role | publisher=SANZAR | date=24 April 2015 | access-date=24 April 2015}}</ref> In May 2015, a website was launched to ask fans for team name suggestions.

However, several doubts were raised against Japan's ability to set up the team on time. In August 2015, Eddie Jones announced that he would leave his role as director of rugby amid speculation linking him to the vacant {{Rut|Stormers}} head coach position.<ref name="Japan rugby coach Jones confirms departure after World Cup">{{cite web | url=http://www.japantoday.com/category/sports/view/japan-rugby-coach-jones-confirms-departure-after-world-cup | title=Japan rugby coach Jones confirms departure after World Cup | work=Japan Today | date=25 August 2015 | access-date=25 August 2015}}</ref> Subsequent media reports stated that governing body [[SANZAAR|SANZAR]] were exploring alternative plans for the 2016 Super Rugby competition which excluded the Japanese team,<ref name="Super Rugby set to cut Japanese club from 2016 competition after concerns it won’t field side">{{cite web | url=http://www.foxsports.com.au/rugby/super-rugby/super-rugby-set-to-cut-japanese-club-from-2016-competition-after-concerns-it-wont-field-side/story-e6frf4qu-1227498654030 | title=Super Rugby set to cut Japanese club from 2016 competition after concerns it won’t field side | publisher=Fox Sports | work=The Daily telegraph | date=25 August 2015 | access-date=25 August 2015}}</ref> but the JRFU commented shortly after, confirming that they have met SANZAR's requirements by contracting players and other personnel by their end-of-August deadline.<ref name="Japan working to get Super Rugby tasks completed, JRFU executive says">{{cite web | url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2015/08/29/more-sports/rugby/japan-working-to-get-super-rugby-tasks-completed-jrfu-executive-says | title=Japan working to get Super Rugby tasks completed, JRFU executive says | work=Japan Times | date=29 August 2015 | access-date=30 August 2015}}</ref><ref name="Formation of Super Rugby team complete">{{cite web | url=http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0002393110 | title=Formation of Super Rugby team complete | publisher=The Japan News | work=The Yomiuri Shimbun | date=2 September 2015 | access-date=2 September 2015}}</ref> The validity of the player list submitted was questioned, with many players included not "generally associated with the national team". There were also suggestions that [[Top League]] teams requested that their players' appearances be limited in Super Rugby and that Top League matches would be prioritised.<ref name="Japan’s Super Rugby participation remains uncertain">{{cite web | url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2015/09/02/more-sports/rugby/japans-super-rubgy-participation-remains-uncertain | title=Japan’s Super Rugby participation remains uncertain | publisher=The Japan Times | work=Kyodo | date=2 September 2015 | access-date=2 September 2015}}</ref>

However, they were included in the [[Super Rugby]] fixture list that came out on 28 September 2015<ref name="Draw released for new era of Super Rugby">{{cite press release | url=http://www.sanzarrugby.com/superrugby/news/draw-released-for-new-era-of-super-rugby/ | title=Draw released for new era of Super Rugby | publisher=SANZAR | date=28 September 2015 | access-date=28 September 2015}}</ref><ref name="2016 Draw">{{cite web | url=https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vm9ate6bkrhzvdv/AADu52y42rQ919vFqMsPZJ6Da?dl=0 | title=2016 Draw | publisher=SANZAR | date=28 September 2015 | access-date=28 September 2015}}</ref> and on 5 October 2015, it was announced that the team would be known as the Sunwolves.<ref name="Super Rugby welcomes the Sunwolves">{{cite web | url=http://www.sanzarrugby.com/superrugby/news/super-rugby-welcomes-the-sunwolves/ | title=Super Rugby welcomes the Sunwolves | work=SANZAR | date=5 October 2015 | access-date=5 October 2015}}</ref>

===Name===
[[File:Sunwolves logo HITO-com.jpg|thumb|200px|The black version of the Sunwolves logo following their sponsorship deal with HITO-Communications.]]

In May 2015, a website was launched to ask fans for team name suggestions. This was initially scheduled to be revealed at the end of July 2015, before being postponed to August.<ref name="Name-the-team Contest (Super Rugby from the 2016 Season)">{{cite web | url=http://jrfu.org/jrfu/index.php/component/k2/item/324-name-the-team-contest | title=Name-the-team Contest (Super Rugby from the 2016 Season) | work=JRFU | date=29 May 2015 | access-date=29 May 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150708074910/http://jrfu.org/jrfu/index.php/component/k2/item/324-name-the-team-contest | archive-date=8 July 2015 | url-status=dead }}</ref> On 5 October 2015, it was announced that the team would be known as the Sunwolves.<ref name="Super Rugby welcomes the Sunwolves"/> This name was chosen from 3,320 entries<ref name="Japan eyes World Cup heroes for Super Rugby’s Sunwolves">{{cite web | url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2015/10/05/more-sports/rugby/japan-eyes-world-cup-heroes-super-rugbys-sunwolves | title=Japan eyes World Cup heroes for Super Rugby’s Sunwolves | work=The Japan Times | date=5 October 2015 | access-date=5 October 2015}}</ref> and is a combination of the [[Names of Japan#History|"Land of the Rising Sun"]] and the wolf, which was chosen to represent bravery, strength and an ethos of teamwork. The team's logo was also launched on the same date.

On 15 January 2016, the Sunwolves announced that they would be known as the HITO-Communications Sunwolves following a sponsorship agreement.<ref name="Super Rugby Japanese Team SUNWOLVES Team Name & Logo Announcement “HITO-Communications SUNWOLVES”">{{cite press release | url=https://super-japanrugby.com/en/news/team-name-announcement/ | title=Super Rugby Japanese Team SUNWOLVES Team Name & Logo Announcement "HITO-Communications SUNWOLVES" | publisher=Sunwolves | date=15 January 2016 | access-date=15 January 2016 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105085204/https://super-japanrugby.com/en/news/team-name-announcement/ | archive-date=5 November 2016 }}</ref>

===Future===
In March 2019, the Japanese Rugby Football Union announced the 2020 season would be the Sunwolves' last in Super Rugby after failing to negotiate a contract to play after that year for financial reasons.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rugbyworld.com/news/sunwolves-axed-super-rugby-2020-season-99030|title=Sunwolves axed from Super Rugby after 2020 season|date=22 March 2019|publisher=Rugby World}}</ref>

===Season summaries===
The following table summarises the Sunwolves' results in Super Rugby:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%"
|-
! colspan="100%" | Sunwolves Super Rugby seasons
|-
! style="width:3em;" | Season
! style="width:3em;" | Played
! style="width:3em;" | Won
! style="width:3em;" | Drawn
! style="width:3em;" | Lost
! style="width:3em;" | PF
! style="width:3em;" | PA
! style="width:5em;" | Pos
! style="width:9em;" | Coach
! style="width:9em;" | Captain
|-

|- style="line-height:3em;"
| [[2016 Sunwolves season|2016]]
| 15 || 1 || 1 || 13 || 293 || 627 || 18 of 18
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Mark Hammett]]
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Shota Horie]]
|- style="line-height:3em;"
| [[2017 Sunwolves season|2017]]
| 15 || 2 || 0 || 13 || 315 || 671 || 17 of 18
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Filo Tiatia]]
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Ed Quirk (rugby union)|Ed Quirk]]
|-
| [[2018 Sunwolves season|2018]]
| 15 || 3 || 0 || 13 || 404 || 664 || 15 of 15
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Jamie Joseph]] [[Tony Brown (rugby union)|Tony Brown]]
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Willie Britz]] [[Yutaka Nagare]]
|-
| [[2019 Super Rugby season|2019]]
| 16 || 2 || 0 || 14 || 294 || 584 || 15 of 15
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Tony Brown (rugby union)|Tony Brown]]
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Michael Little]] [[Craig Millar (rugby union)|Craig Millar]]
|-
| [[2020 Super Rugby season|2020]]
| 6 || 1 || 0 || 5 || 101 || 292 || 15 of 15
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Naoya Okubo]]
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Keisuke Moriya (rugby union)|Keisuke Moriya]] [[Jake Schatz]]
|}
'''Legend:''' PF = Points for, PA = Points against, Pos = Log position.

===Kit history===
The Sunwolves have played in the following kits since their inception:

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%; width:40%"
|-
! colspan=100% | Sunwolves kits
|-
! style="width:20%;" | Season
! style="width:40%;" | Home
! style="width:40%;" | Away
|-
| [[2016 Super Rugby season|2016]]
| {{Football kit | pattern_b=_Sunwolveskit | pattern_ra=_Sunwolvesright | pattern_so=_Sunwolvessocks | leftarm=EE0044 | shorts=000000 | title=2016 home kit}}
| {{Football kit | pattern_b=_Sunwolveskitb | pattern_ra=_Sunwolvesrightb | pattern_so=_Sunwolvessocksb | leftarm=C3C3C3 | rightarm=C3C3C3 | shorts=000000 | title=2016 away kit}}
|-
| [[2017 Super Rugby season|2017]]
| {{Football kit | pattern_la=_Sunwolvesleft17 | pattern_b=_Sunwolveskit17 | pattern_ra=_Sunwolvesright17 | pattern_so=_Sunwolvessocks17 | leftarm=EE0044 | shorts=ffffff | title=2017 home kit}}
| {{Football kit | pattern_la=_Sunwolvesleftb17 | pattern_b=_Sunwolveskitb17 | pattern_ra=_Sunwolvesrightb17 | pattern_so=_Sunwolvessocksb17 | leftarm=EE0044 | shorts=000000 | title=2017 away kit}}
|}

==Stadium==
Sunwolves home games are split between [[Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium]] in Tokyo, Japan and [[National Stadium, Singapore|Singapore National Stadium]], Singapore.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; margin: 1em auto;"
|-
! width="33%" | [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]]
! width="34%" | [[Kallang]], [[Singapore]]
|-
| [[Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium]]
| [[National Stadium, Singapore|Singapore National Stadium]]
|-
| Capacity: 27,188
| Capacity: 55,000
|-
| [[File:Chichibunomiya3.JPG|200px]]
| [[File:Seating at Singapore National Stadium.jpg|200px]]
|}

==Staff==

===Final squad===
The squad for the [[2020 Super Rugby season]]:<ref name="2020Squad">{{cite web | url=https://sunwolves.or.jp/en/team/player/2020/ | title=2020Squad | publisher=Sunwolves | access-date=26 November 2019}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; font-size:90%; width:60%"
|-
! colspan="100%" | Sunwolves Super Rugby squad
|- valign="top"
|
'''Props'''
* {{Flagicon|Samoa}} [[Jarred Adams]]
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Sione Asi]]
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Chris Eves]]
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Nic Mayhew]]
* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[Conraad van Vuuren]]
* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[Hencus van Wyk]]
* {{Flagicon|South Korea}} Chang Ho Ahn TS
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} Kaku Bunkei TS
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} Yuichiro Taniguchi TS

'''Hookers'''
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Leni Apisai]]
* {{Flagicon|Georgia}} '''[[Jaba Bregvadze]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Efi Ma'afu]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} Mamoru Harada TS

'''Locks'''
* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[Justin Downey]]
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Ben Hyne]]
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Tom Rowe (rugby union)|Tom Rowe]]
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Michael Stolberg]]
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Corey Thomas (rugby union)|Corey Thomas]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Kotaro Yatabe]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} Ryuga Hashimoto TS

||

'''Loose forwards'''
* {{Flagicon|Tonga}} '''[[Onehunga Havili]]'''
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Mitch Jacobson (rugby union)|Mitch Jacobson]]
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Mateaki Kafatolu]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Shunsuke Nunomaki]]'''
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Brendon O'Connor]]
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} '''[[Jake Schatz]]''' ([[Captain (sports)|cc]])
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Tevita Tupou]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kyo Yoshida]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} Asiperli Moala TS

'''Scrum-halves'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} Kenta Fukuda
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Takahiro Kimura (rugby union)|Takahiro Kimura]]
* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} '''[[Rudy Paige]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Naoto Saito]]

'''Fly-halves'''
* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[Garth April]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Jumpei Ogura]]'''

||

'''Centres'''
* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} '''[[JJ Engelbrecht]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Alex Horan]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Siosaia Fifita]]
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Jordan Jackson-Hope]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shogo Nakano]]
* {{Flagicon|England}} '''[[Ben Te'o]]'''

'''Wingers'''
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[James Dargaville]]
* {{Flagicon|Fiji}} Burua Inoke
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Tautalatasi Tasi]]

'''Fullbacks'''
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Ben Lucas (rugby union)|Ben Lucas]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Keisuke Moriya (rugby union)|Keisuke Moriya]] ([[Captain (sports)|cc]])
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yoshizumi Takeda]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} Hiroki Kumoyama TS
|-
| colspan="100%" style="height: 10px;" |
|-
| colspan="100%" style="text-align:center;" | ([[Captain (sports)|cc]]) Denotes team co-captains, '''Bold''' denotes internationally capped, TS denotes a training squad player, ST denotes a short-term signing. {{notelist|group="Squad"}}
|}
</onlyinclude>

===Coaching staff===
[[File:James_Whitinui_Joseph-1.jpg|right|thumb|Jamie Joseph giving a speech at a Sunwolves match on 12 May 2018]]
The following coaching team was appointed for the [[2020 Super Rugby season]]:<ref name="2020Coach">{{cite web | url=https://sunwolves.or.jp/en/team/coach/2020/ | title=2020Coach | publisher=Sunwolves | access-date=26 November 2019}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; width:50%; border:gray solid 1px;"
|-
! style="width:30%;" | Name
! style="width:70%;" | Title
|-
| [[Naoya Okubo]] || Head coach
|-
| [[Keisuke Sawaki (rugby union)|Keisuke Sawaki]]|| Coaching coordinator
|-
| [[Nathan Grey (rugby union)|Nathan Grey]] || Technical Director
|-
| [[Yoshikazu Tamura]]|| Assistant coach (scrum)
|-
| [[Chihiro Ota]]|| Head Strength & Conditioning Coach
|}

===List of head coaches===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="font-size:95%;"
|-
!scope=col|Coach
!scope=col data-sort-type=date|Period
!scope=col|{{Abbr|G|Games as coach}}
!scope=col|{{Abbr|W|Games won}}
!scope=col|{{Abbr|D|Games drawn}}
!scope=col|{{Abbr|L|Games lost}}
!scope=col|{{Abbr|%|Win percentage}}
!scope=col|Honours
!scope=col|{{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}
|-
|align=left|{{flagdeco|NZL}} {{sortname|Mark|Hammett}}
|align=center|2016
{{WLD|decimals=2|15
|1
|1
|13}}
|
|<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/dec/21/mark-hammett-named-coach-of-japans-super-rugby-sunwolves | title=Mark Hammett named coach of Japan's Super Rugby Sunwolves | date=December 21, 2015 | newspaper=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2015/12/21/more-sports/japan-reveals-sunwolves-roster-hammett-named-coach/#.WwPKUy9L3q0 | title=Japan reveals Sunwolves roster; Hammett named as coach | date=December 21, 2015 | newspaper=[[The Japan Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.skysports.com/rugby-union/news/12334/10106746/mark-hammett-named-coach-of-japans-super-15-team | title=Mark Hammett named coach of Japan's Super 15 team | date=December 21, 2015 | newspaper=[[Sky Sports]]}}</ref>
|-
|align=left|{{flagdeco|NZL}} {{sortname|Filo|Tiatia}}
|align=center|2017
{{WLD|decimals=2|15
|2
|0
|13}}
|
|<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11709046 | title=Rugby: Former All Black named as Sunwolves head coach | date=September 13, 2016 | newspaper=[[The New Zealand Herald]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.skysports.com/rugby-union/news/12334/10575138/filo-tiatia-replaces-mark-hammett-as-sunwolves-head-coach | title=Filo Tiatia replaces Mark Hammett as Sunwolves head coach | date=September 14, 2016 | newspaper=[[Sky Sports]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/tiatia-named-new-sunwolves-coach | title=Tiatia named new Sunwolves coach | date=September 14, 2016 | newspaper=[[Special Broadcasting Service|SBS]]}}</ref>
|-
|align=left|{{flagdeco|NZL}}{{flagdeco|JPN}} {{sortname|Jamie|Joseph}}
|align=center|2018
{{WLD|decimals=2|16
|3
|0
|13}}
|
|<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2017/09/29/more-sports/joseph-replaces-tiatia-head-coach-sunwolves/#.WwPM-y9L3q0 | title=Joseph replaces Tiatia as head coach of Sunwolves | date=September 29, 2017 | newspaper=[[The Japan Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2017/09/ea33b401a726-rugby-joseph-takes-over-from-tiatia-as-head-coach-of-sunwolves.html | title=Rugby: Joseph takes over from Tiatia as head coach of Sunwolves | date=September 29, 2017 | newspaper=[[Kyodo News]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.foxsports.com.au/rugby/japan-coach-jamie-joseph-will-also-lead-the-sunwolves-in-super-rugby/news-story/10abc4b24da6e67eb9a57155392f05f1?nk=da47d1bd9fa7bb9ce310d7d9a08727df-1526975982 | title=Japan coach Jamie Joseph will also lead the Sunwolves in Super Rugby | date=September 29, 2017 | newspaper=[[Fox Sports (Australia)|Fox Sports Australia]]}}</ref>
|-
|align=left|{{flagdeco|NZL}} {{sortname|Tony|Brown|dab=rugby union}}
|align=center|2019
{{WLD|decimals=2|16
|2
|0
|14}}
|
|<ref name="Tony Brown Appointed as Head Coach of HITO-Communications SUNWOLVES">{{cite press release | url=https://sunwolves.or.jp/en/information/article/6773/ | title=Tony Brown Appointed as Head Coach of HITO-Communications SUNWOLVES | publisher=Sunwolves | date=27 September 2018 | access-date=5 October 2018}}</ref>
|-
|align=left|{{flagdeco|JPN}} {{sortname|Naoya|Okubo}}
|align=center|2020
{{WLD|decimals=2|6
|1
|0
|5}}
|
|<ref name="スーパーラグビー2020シーズン　ヘッドコーチ決定のお知らせ">{{cite press release | url=https://sunwolves.or.jp/information/article/6904/ | title=スーパーラグビー2020シーズン　ヘッドコーチ決定のお知らせ | publisher=Sunwolves | date=30 August 2019 | access-date=30 August 2019 | language=ja}}</ref>
|}

==See also==
{{Portal|Japan|Sports}}
* [[Rugby union in Japan]]
* [[Ganbatte Trophy]]

==References==
{{Reflist|colwidth=30em}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Sunwolves}}

* {{official website}}
* [http://jrfu.org JRFU website]

{{Super Rugby}}
{{Rugby union in Japan}}

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[[Category:Sports teams in Tokyo]]
[[Category:Rugby union in Singapore]]
[[Category:Super Rugby teams]]
[[Category:2015 establishments in Japan]]
[[Category:Rugby clubs established in 2015]]
[[Category:Rugby union clubs disestablished in 2020]]
[[Category:2020 disestablishments in Japan]]

Mie Honda Heat

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{{Infobox rugby team
| teamname = Mie Honda Heat 三重ホンダヒート
| image = Mie Honda Heat logo.jpg
| imagesize = 200px
| fullname = Mie Honda Heat
| nickname = Heat
| founded = 1960
| union = [[Japan Rugby Football Union]]
| ground = [[Honda Active Land]] and [[Suzuka Sports Garden]]
| location = [[Suzuka, Mie]], [[Japan]]
| countryflag = Japan
| coach = [[Taihei Ueda]]
| chairman = Takanobu Ito
| league = [[Japan Rugby League One]], Division Two
| season = [[2022 Japan Rugby League One, Division Two|2022]]
| position = 2nd Lost promotion/relegation match
| pattern_la1 = _Hondaleft
| pattern_b1 = _Hondakit
| pattern_ra1 = _Hondaright
| leftarm1 = 000000
| body1 = 000000
| rightarm1 = 000000
| shorts1 = 000000
| socks1 = 000000
| pattern_la2 = _Hondaleftb
| pattern_b2 = _Hondakitb
| pattern_ra2 = _Hondarightb
| leftarm2 = FFFFFF
| body2 = 000000
| rightarm2 = FFFFFF
| shorts2 = FFFFFF
| socks2 = FFFFFF
}}
'''Mie Honda Heat''' is a Japanese rugby union team based in [[Suzuka, Mie|Suzuka City]], [[Mie Prefecture]], [[Japan]]. The owner of the club is [[Honda|Honda Motor]]. (Suzuka is known for the [[Suzuka Circuit]] and the presence of car companies.)

They play in the [[Japan Rugby League One]], the top tier of the Japan's rugby union hierarchy.

In 2011–12, Honda Heat were relegated to regional events for 2012–13. Winning 2 and drawing 1 of their 13 games in the regular season.

The team rebranded as '''Mie Honda Heat''' ahead of the rebranding of the Top League as the [[Japan Rugby League One]] in 2022.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.asierugby.com/post/la-nouvelle-ligue-japonaise-s-appelle-la-japan-rugby-league-one|title=La nouvelle ligue japonaise s'appelle la Japan Rugby League One|work=Asie Rugby|date=16 July 2021|access-date=16 July 2021|language=French}}</ref>

==History==
[[Honda|Honda Motor Co.]] established its rugby club in 1960 at the Suzuka Factory. The team gained promotion to the Kansai A-League for the 1978 season, and then finished sixth in the seven-team competition in for that year. Honda remained a fixture in the Kansai A-League, being demoted only once (for the 1985 season) before it was renamed the Top West A-League in 2003-04 with the introduction of Japan's [[Top League]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2020}}

Honda did not qualify for inclusion in the Top League for inaugural season—that had to wait for another six years—but the team continued to play in the Top West A-League. After winning the league in 2008-09 under New Zealander [[John Sherratt (rugby)|John Sherratt]], Honda Heat was promoted. The team played one Top League season in [[2009–10 Top League|2009–10]] before being demoted and another in [[2011–12 Top League|2011–12]] before being demoted again to Top West A, where they remained for three seasons.{{Citation needed|date=February 2020}}

Honda won the Top West A-League in 2014–15, and was promoted once again for the [[2015–16 Top League|2015–16]] season of Top League, finishing at 11th place.<ref name="result15–16">[http://www.rugbyarchive.net/Pagine/StagioneCompetizioni.aspx?ID=96&Stagione=2015/16 Rugbyarchive.net], Top League season 2015–16</ref> So the team stayed for [[2016–17 Top League|another term]], this time ending the tournament at place 16th of 16 and being relegated to the newly introduced second-tier [[Top Challenge League]].<ref name="result16–17">[http://www.rugbyarchive.net/Pagine/StagioneCompetizioni.aspx?ID=96&Stagione=2016/17 Rugbyarchive.net], Top League season 2016–17</ref>

The season 2017–18 was played as a round-robin tournament, the Heats managing to win and become promoted automatically for the [[2018–19 Top League]] season, back to first tier status.<ref name="result17–18">[http://www.rugbyarchive.net/Pagine/StagioneCompetizioni.aspx?ID=348&Stagione=2017/18 Rugbyarchive.net], Top Challenge League season 2017–18</ref>

==Current squad==

The current Mie Honda Heat squad for the 2023 season is:<ref name="Player Profiles">{{cite web | url=http://www.honda-heat.jp/players.html | title=Player Profiles | work=Honda Heat | access-date=20 February 2019 | script-title=ja:選手紹介}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; font-size:90%; width:70%"
|-
! colspan="100%" | Mie Honda Heat squad
|- valign="top"
|
'''Props'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hayato Akahira]]
* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[Matthys Basson]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Takumi Fuji]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Masahiro Hibino]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kanato Hirano]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Katsuyuki Hoshino]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Tateo Kanai]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Tatsuhiko Tsurukawa]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Taiki Yoshioka]]

'''Hookers'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shun Hizume]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shota Nishizawa]]
* {{Flagicon|Republic of Korea}} [[Lee Seung Hyok]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hiroaki Shirahama]]

'''Locks'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yoji Akiyama]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Akihito Doi]]
* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} '''[[Franco Mostert]]'''
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Tetuhi Roberts]]
* {{Flagicon|Fiji}} [[Viliami Vuli]]

||

'''Loose Forwards'''
* {{Flagicon|Ireland|rugby union}} [[Paddy Butler (rugby union)|Paddy Butler]]
* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[Justin Downey]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ryo Furuta]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kosuke Hattori]]
* {{Flagicon|Tonga}} [[Viliami Kaipouli]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hiroto Kawasaki]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ryota Kobayashi (rugby union)|Ryota Kobayashi]] ([[Captain (sports)|c]])
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Masaki Kondo]]
* {{Flagicon|Argentina}} '''[[Pablo Matera]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Atsurou Tsuji]]

'''Scrum-halves'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hisayoshi Ito]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shogo Nezuka]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Takuya Obata]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kenta Yamaji]]

'''Fly-halves'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kengo Gunji]]
* {{Flagicon|South Korea}} [[Park Song Gi]]
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Kaleb Trask]]

||

'''Centres'''
* {{Flagicon|South Korea}} [[Oh Gwang Tee]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kaito Kawai]]
* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[Dawid Kellerman]]
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Clynton Knox]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Kaito Morikawa]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Fraser Quirk]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Issei Shige]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Soki Watanabe]]

'''Wingers'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Yoshikazu Fujita]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Naoki Motomura]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuzo Yamamoto (rugby union)|Yuzo Yamamoto]]

'''Fullbacks'''
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} '''[[Tom Banks (rugby union, born 1994)|Tom Banks]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kotaro Kono]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuta Matsura]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuta Nakarai]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Taichi Takenaka]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kanta Watanabe]]
|-
| colspan="100%" style="height: 10px;" |
|-
| colspan="100%" style="text-align:center;" | ([[Captain (sports)|c]]) Denotes team captain, '''Bold''' denotes player is internationally capped
|}

==Coaches==
* {{flagicon|NZL}} [[John Sherratt (rugby)|John Sherratt]]: April 2008 – March 2010<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-sherratt-a6491949/?originalSubdomain=nz|title=John Sherratt|website=Linkedin.com|access-date=3 February 2022}}</ref>
* {{flagicon|NZL}} [[Danny Lee (rugby union)|Danny Lee]]: May 2017 - May 2021<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/freemanrugbyjpn/status/1398084811072303105|title=Japan prop Koo Ji Won and head coach Danny Lee among those leaving Honda Heat.|website=Twitter.com|access-date=3 February 2022}}</ref>
* {{flagicon|JPN}} [[Taihei Ueda]]: June 2021 – present<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.honda-heat.jp/en/staff_detail.html?staff=114|title=Players & Staff ｜ Honda HEAT Rugby Football Club|website=Honda-heat.jp|access-date=3 February 2022}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Top League#Top League Challenge series|Top League Challenge Series]]

== References ==
{{reflist|refs=


}}

==External links==
*[http://www.honda-heat.jp/index.html Honda Heat Rugby] - official site
*[http://www.rugbyarchive.net/Pagine/Squadre.aspx?ID=1104 Honda Heat Stats] - Rugbyarchive.net

{{Japan Rugby League One}}
{{Top Challenge League}}
{{Rugby union in Japan}}
{{Honda}}
{{Mie Honda Heat squad}}

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[[Category:Sports teams in Mie Prefecture]]
[[Category:Honda|Heat]]
[[Category:1960 establishments in Japan]]
[[Category:Japan Rugby League One teams]]

Hanazono Kintetsu Liners

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{{Short description|Japanese rugby union team, based in Osaka}}
{{Infobox rugby team
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| union = [[Japan Rugby Football Union]]
| ground = [[Higashi Osaka Hanazono Rugby Stadium]]
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| location = [[Higashiosaka, Osaka]], [[Japan]]
| coach = [[Yoshitake Mizuma]]
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| league = [[Japan Rugby League One]]
| season = [[2022 Japan Rugby League One, Division Two|2022]]
| position = 1st Promoted to Division One
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'''Hanazono Kintetsu Liners''' rugby team are a [[Japan]]ese [[rugby union]] team owned by [[Kintetsu Corporation]] which was founded in 1929. They have won the [[All-Japan Rugby Football Championship|All-Japan Championship]] three times as an amateur team. Their home is at [[Higashi Osaka Hanazono Rugby Stadium|Hanazono Rugby Stadium]] in [[Higashiosaka, Osaka|Higashiosaka]], Japan, which was also opened in 1929.

Early in 2008 Kintetsu won promotion back to the [[Top League]] for the 2008-9 season, and it was announced that former All Blacks coach [[Peter Sloane]] would be head coach.<ref>''Daily Yomiuri'', April 26, 2008.</ref> After 3 years with Peter Sloane, Ryusuke Maeda become head coach in 2011.

The team rebranded as '''Hanazono Kintetsu Liners''' ahead of the rebranding of the Top League to the [[Japan Rugby League One]] in 2022.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.asierugby.com/post/la-nouvelle-ligue-japonaise-s-appelle-la-japan-rugby-league-one|title=La nouvelle ligue japonaise s'appelle la Japan Rugby League One|work=Asie Rugby|date=16 July 2021|access-date=16 July 2021|language=French}}</ref>

==Honours==
* [[All-Japan Rugby Football Championship|All-Japan Championship]]
** Champions: 1966, 1967, 1974
** Runner-up: 1961(NHK Cup), 1963
* [[Japan Company Rugby Football Championship|Company Championship]]
** Champions: 1953, 1956, 1957, 1961, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1974
** Runner-up: 1948, 1951, 1955, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1965, 1973

==History==

===Early Periods===
In 1927, this team was founded by some employees of Osaka Denki Kido (called “Daiki”). And the team was confirmed as a company’s official sport club by the company in 1929. In the same year, Hanazono Rugby Stadium was founded by the company.

Before and during the World War II, there was no national tournament, which is well-organized to cover all company rugby teams in Japan. But they won the Osaka Company Rugby Tournament in 1936, and runner-up for three times.

After the World War II, the company name was changed to Kinki Nippon Railway (called “Kintetsu”). And the team was reformed in April 1946. Some members could come back to the team, but some of them could not come back from the war.

At that time, Heinai Tsuge joined the team. He was a player of Sentetsu([[Chosen Government Railway]]) Rugby Club, who had been a leading team in the company rugby scene in the 1930s. Tsuge became a head coach and also a player in Kintetsu, and the team had grown up.

In 1947, they won the qualifying round of western Japan for the [[National Sports Festival of Japan]] (only 4 teams were qualified from over Japan, i.e. northern, eastern and western Japan plus Kyushu), and participated in the final rounds.

In 1948–1949 season, they also participated in the first national [[Japan Company Rugby Football Championship|Company Rugby Football Championship]], which consists of 4 teams from all over Japan. And won the runner-up.

===Glorious 50s - 70s===
In 1953–1954 season, they won the Company Championship for the first time. Including this first win, they won this title for 8 times and the runner-up for 9 times from 1948 to 1975.

Especially, they won the title in 1956–1957 season without allowing any score to all opponents in all four matches. This was called “shut-out champion”, and this record is not broken in any major rugby championships in Japan yet.

In March 1959, Kintetsu defeated British Columbia from Canada at a score of 16-9. This British Columbia team was called “Canadian national team” at that time in Japan. They had 8 games in Japan, and they lost only one game which was against Kintetsu.

In 1960–1961 season, the first NHK Cup was held, which decides the No. 1 rugby club in Japan. Before that, university teams had been stronger than company teams in Japan. But after the World War II, many company teams were restarted or founded newly, and the company rugby were growing up. So Japan Rugby Football Union organized the NHK cup for three times from this season, and changed it to All-Japan Rugby Football Championship from 1963–1964 season.

Kintetsu became runner-up in the NHK cup 1961-62. And they won the All-Japan Championship for 3 times (1966–67, 67-68, 74-75) and runner-up for 1 time (1963–64).

Yoshihiro Sakata had been playing for Kintetsu and Japan national team in those periods, and later, he enters the [[World Rugby Hall of Fame]] in 2012.

In 1969–1970 season, Kintetsu won the Company Championship and got the right to participate in the seventh All-Japan Championship. But they declined to participate in the All-Japan Championship, because its schedule was overlapped with the second Asian Championship in Bangkok and almost half of Japanese national players were Kintetsu players.

The Company Championship had been knock-out system competition, and was developed to Japan Rugby Top League(JRTL) in 2003. But a nationwide round-robbin competition for the company rugby did not exist in Japan till the establishment of the Top League. Before the establishment of the Top League, regional leagues were held in several regions of Japan by round robbin system.

Kiuntetsu was belonging to Kansai (western Japan) Company Rugby Football League (called Kansai Shakaijin League), which was started in 1958. They were honoured the continuous 11 championships from the first to the eleventh Kansai Shalaijin League (from 1958 to 1969). Totally they won 17 times in this league. This Kansai Shalaijin League was finished in 2002, and “Top West League” was started in 2003 as a subsidiary league of the Top League.

In 1974–1975 season, Kintetsu won the All-Japan Championship, and then notable national players such as [[Yoshihiro Sakata]] and Hiroshi Ogsasawara retired. Further, Ryozo Imazato and Susumu Hara also retired after the 1976–1977 season. Due to the retirement of these national players, it was getting hard for Kintetsu to win the title.

In 1977–1978 and 1988–1989 seasons, they won the Kansai Shakaijin League. But they won no title in the Company Championship in these periods.

===Top League and Top West===
In 2003–2004 season, the Top League was established by absorbing the Company Championship, and Kintetsu was selected as original member of the league. The nickname became “Liners”, because the company is railway corporation and their rapid express train, “Kintetsu Urban Liner” was famous.

In the first season of the Top League, Kintetsu finished at 10th place in 12 teams, and remained in the league by defeating Kyuden Voltex at the relegation match. But, in the next season (2004–05), they finished at 11th place, and fell down to the lower category, the Top West League, automatically.

Kintetsu Corporation had been defining their rugby team as just amateur sports club without any “shamateurism”, and so the players must work full-time at the company without any advantage by playing rugby. Further, when they play rugby and travel for rugby, Kintetsu Corporation did not pay for their absence of work. This policy was also applied to Japan national players of Kintetsu, who traveled abroad for matches such as World Cup. So, such Kintetsu players had to go abroad for rugby tour without getting any salary for some months, though other company players received salary for those periods as “business trip”.

But after the falling down to the Top West League in 2005, Kintetsu decided to re-organize the Liners as semi-professional, like other teams. And also, they started to hire famous full-time professional players, like other teams.

After three years in the Top West League, Kintetsu returned to the Top League in 2008. And [[Peter Sloane]] became a head coach in 2008 with three-year contract. Now they are keeping the middle place of the Top League.

Recently Kintetsu also signed international players such as [[Leon MacDonald]] in 2009, [[Rico Gear]] in 2010, [[Andre Taylor]] in 2014, [[Pierre Spies]] and [[Damian de Allende]] in 2015.

Then-Rebels & former Reds & Australian test halves pairing Quade Cooper & Will Genia signed for 2019-2020, with Cooper joining following the conclusion of the 2019 Super Rugby season having been omitted by coach Michael Cheika from the Wallabies World Cup squad, while Genia joined following Australia's exit in the quarter final against eventual finalists, England.
Coincidentally, Kintetsu signed an agreement with their former club in 2020, becoming a major partner, appearing as their major sponsor for the Rebels on their away kit. With both clubs allowing access to each other's players for training & coaching experience.

==Current squad==

The Hanazono Kintetsu Liners squad for the 2023 season is:<ref name="Kintetsu Liners: The Team">{{cite web | url=https://hanazono-liners.jp/member/ | title=Kintetsu Liners: The Team | publisher=Kintetsu Rugby | language=ja | access-date=29 November 2018}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; font-size:90%; width:70%"
|-
! colspan="100%" | Hanazono Kintetsu Liners squad
|- valign="top"
|
'''Props'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuki Asaoka]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shota Hirono]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kota Mitake]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shun Sasaki]]
* {{Flagicon|Republic of Korea}} [[Lee Song Yong]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kotaro Takahashi (rugby union)|Kotaro Takahashi]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kenta Tanaka (rugby union)|Kenta Tanaka]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Lata Tangimana]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Fumihiro Toru]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shinki Ushikubo]]

'''Hookers'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Keiichi Kaneko]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Atsushi Kashimoto]]
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Nesta Mahina]]
* {{Flagicon|Samoa}} [[Ieremia Mataena]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kazuma Matsuda]]

'''Locks'''
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Sam Caird]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Isamu Matsuoka]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Jose Seru]]
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Pat Tafa]]
* {{Flagicon|Scotland}} '''[[Ben Toolis]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Sanaila Waqa]]'''

||

'''Loose Forwards'''
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Jed Brown]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Naoki Maruyama]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Daiki Miyashita]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Tsuyoshi Murata]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shohei Nonaka]]
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Waimana Riedlinger-Kapa]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Takahito Sugahara]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Tevita Tupou]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Reiya Ueyama]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hayato Yokoi]]

'''Scrum-halves'''
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} '''[[Will Genia]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Keitaro Hitora]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kensyo Kawamura]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Tomoya Nakamura (rugby union)|Tomoya Nakamura]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Keita Sahara]]

'''Fly-halves'''
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} '''[[Quade Cooper]]'''
* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Jackson Garden-Bachop]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Daisuke Noguchi]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Takumi Yoshimoto]]

||

'''Centres'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Siosaia Fifita]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ryosuke Kataoka]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Koji Okamura]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Akihide Onogi]]
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Vincent Sefo]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Patrick Stehlin]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yusuke Takeda (rugby union)|Yusuke Takeda]]

'''Outside Backs'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Takahiro Hayashi]]
* {{Flagicon|Tonga}} [[Liekina Kaufusi]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Tomoya Kimura]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Semisi Masirewa]]'''
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Tatsuma Nanto]]
* {{Flagicon|Australia}} [[Joshua Nohra]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ren Takano]]
* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yoshizumi Takeda]]
|-
| colspan="100%" style="height: 10px;" |
|-
| colspan="100%" style="text-align:center;" | ([[Captain (sports)|c]]) Denotes team captain, '''Bold''' denotes player is internationally capped
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.kintetsu-g-hd.co.jp/liners Kintetsu Liners] - official home page

{{Japan Rugby League One}}
{{Top Challenge League}}
{{Hanazono Kintetsu Liners squad}}

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[[Category:Rugby in Kansai]]
[[Category:Rugby clubs established in 1929]]
[[Category:Sports teams in Osaka Prefecture]]
[[Category:1929 establishments in Japan]]
[[Category:Kintetsu Group Holdings]]

Sungkyunkwan

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{{other uses|Seonggyungwan (disambiguation)}}
{{more citations needed|date=February 2017}}

{{Infobox Korean name
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|hanja={{linktext|成|均|館|}}
|rr=Seonggyungwan
|mr=Sŏnggyun’gwan
|img=Myeongnyundang.jpg
}}
'''Sungkyunkwan''' (RR: Seonggyungwan) was the foremost educational institution in [[Korea]] during the late [[Goryeo]] and [[Joseon Dynasty|Joseon]] Dynasties. It is located in its original location at the south end of the Humanities and Social Sciences Campus of [[Sungkyunkwan University]] in Seoul, South Korea. Today, it is managed by the local government. Twice a year in May and September, the ceremonial rite ''[[Seokjeon Daeje]]'' is performed in the [[Munmyo|Munmyo Shrine]] portion of the old campus to honor [[Confucius]] and the Confucian sages of China and Korea.

== Meaning of Sungkyunkwan ==
* Sung (RR: Seong) (성, 成) – Accomplish, Achieve, To become capable, successful or to win. “To perfect or develop human nature”
* Kyun (RR: Gyun) (균, 均) – Balance, To be, Strengthen culture according to social standards or norms. “To build a good society”
* Kwan (RR: Gwan) (관, 館) – Institute, Academy, University

== Predecessors of Sungkyunkwan ==
* Taehak (태학, 太學, Great School) founded in 372 by [[Goguryeo|Goguryeo Kingdom]] during the reign of [[Sosurim of Goguryeo|King Sosurim]]
* [[Gukhak]] (국학, 國學, National School) founded in 682 by [[Sinmun of Silla|King Sinmun]] of the [[Later Silla|Unified Silla Dynasty]]

== History of Sungkyunkwan ==
[[Gukjagam]] (국자감, 國子監), the highest educational institution during the [[Goryeo Dynasty]], was established in November 992 by [[Seongjong of Goryeo|King Seongjong]] in Goryeo's capital city, Gaegyeong (개경) (Modern day [[Kaesong]]. It was originally a palace outbuilding called Taemyon (태묜).

In 1089, under the reign of [[King Munjong of Goryeo|King Munjong]] new official buildings were constructed.

Its name was changed to Seonggyungam (성균감) in 1298.

In 1304 it was reestablished by [[Neo-Confucianism|Neo-Confucian]] scholar [[An Hyang]] who is considered the founder of [[Korean Confucianism|Neo-Confucianism in Korea]].

The name was changed to Seonggyungwan in 1308 under reign of [[Chungnyeol of Goryeo|King Chungnyeol]].

The name was changed back to Gukjagam in 1358 during the reign of [[Gongmin of Goryeo|King Gongmin]].

In 1362 the name was changed back to Seonggyungwan.

After the founding of the [[Joseon Dynasty]] in 1392, [[Taejo of Joseon|King Taejo]] decided to relocate Sungkyunkwan to [[History of Seoul|Hanyang]], modern day [[Seoul]], and also founded 360 [[Hyanggyo]] nationwide in July 1398, establishing a national education system.

Sungkyunkwan was established in Hanyang on September 25, 1398.

A fire destroyed some buildings in 1400 which were rebuilt in 1407.

In 1418 [[Taejong of Joseon|King Taejong]] initiated a tradition for royal princes to enter Sungkyunkwan.

During the reign of the tyrannical [[Yeonsangun of Joseon|King Yeongsangun]], Sungkyunkwan was turned into a personal pleasure ground. When he was deposed, it was restored to its former status.

Sungkyunkwan was rebuilt again in 1601 after many buildings were burnt down including the Munmyo area during the [[Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)|Japanese invasions (1592 - 1598)]].

In 1784, Byeokipjae (벽입재, 闢入齋) was destroyed by a fire. It is no longer present on the current campus grounds.

In 1869 there was a major renovation/restoration of the old campus.

In 1894 the [[Gabo Reform]] occurred which abolished the national state examinations during the reign of [[Gojong of Korea|King Gojong]].

In 1895, Sungkyunkwan was reformed into a modern three-year university.

During the [[Korea under Japanese rule|Colonial Era]] between 1910–1945, royal Sungkyunkwan was demoted to a private institution and renamed Gyeonghagwon (경학원, 經學院), while Korean education was prohibited and Japanese education was forced nationwide.

After Korea gained independence in 1945, Gyeonghagwon was renamed to Sungkyunkwan and with funding from Yurim ([[Confucian]]s) nationwide, [[Sungkyunkwan University]] was established.

During the [[Korean War|Korean War (June 25, 1950 – July 27, 1953)]], much of the campus was destroyed. Daeseongjeon, however, remained.

In 1954 Gyeseongsa (계성사, 啓聖祠) was removed. Gyeseongsa was the shrine for the parents of the Confucian sages. It used to house the [[spirit tablet]]s of the important family members of Confucian scholars.

The latest renovation/restoration occurred in 1988.

There was Japanese-style landscaping throughout the old campus left over from the Colonial Era that was eventually removed over the most recent decades to restore Sungkyunkwan to its original Joseon-era form.

== Buildings, Structures, and Features ==
*Myeongnyundang (명륜당, 明倫堂): The name means "Hall of Enlightenment". It was originally built in 1398. The center room was used for ceremonies, lectures, rituals, tests, and other important events. The two smaller rooms were used for faculty research and private meetings. It is depicted on the [[South Korean won#New series|1,000 KRW bill]].
*Daeseongjeon (대성전, 大成殿): The name means "Great Achievement Hall". The current version of the building was reconstructed in 1602 and restored many times. The calligraphy on the sign board on the building is the work of [[Han Seok-bong]], one of the greatest calligraphers of the Joseon Dynasty. building that holds a memorial for Confucius. It is the main building of Munmyo Shrine and houses the spirit tablets of the notable Confucian scholars from China and Korea. Thirty-nine of the tablets held in Munmyo are inside Daeseongjeon which include Confucius, the four Chinese nobles, and the eighteen Korean sages. Originally, Chinese Confucians were revered more but since 1945, a greater emphasis has been placed on the important Korean scholars. The purpose of the building and the courtyard area is to facilitate Confucian rituals and ceremonies designed to honor Confucius and the notable scholars since filial piety is an essential aspect of Confucian philosophy.
*Dongmu (동무, 東廡): This building makes up the eastern side of Munmyo. It was used to store the spirit tablets of Confucian scholars and other important relics. There used to be 133 tablets that were housed in Daeseongjeon, Dongmu, and Seomu but the amount was decreased to focus more on the Korean sages. Since it is located to the east, more important tablets and relics were kept inside. It is connected to the main entrance of the campus Dongsammun (Eosammun) on its north side.
*Seomu (서무, 西廡): This building makes up the western side of Munmyo.
*Dongsammun (동삼문) or Eosammun (어삼문): This was the main entrance of Sungkyunkwan which is located on the east side. It was designed with three square doorways which was the trend at the time. The entrance is not dressed up with the ornate decorations or a special roof which further emphasizes the Confucian concept of humility.
*Sinsammun (신삼문): The name means "Spirit Three Door/Gate". The purpose of the gate is not to be used for the entrance of living people but for the spirits of the Confucian sages and scholars to pass through. The doors are only opened during important ceremonies.
*East Malmun (동말문, 東末門): This is the door people enter in during ceremonies.
*West Malmun (서말문, 西末門): This is the door people exit from during ceremonies.
*Dongjae (동재, 東齋): This was the eastern dormitory. It makes up the eastern side of the courtyard in front of Myeongnyundang. Those students that were royalty stayed in the eastern dormitory due to east being the favored direction. Also those from the more dominant political factions or those from Hanyang would stay in Dongjae.
*Seojae (서재, 西齋): This was the western dormitory. It makes up the western side of the courtyard in front of Myeongnyundang. The students from the areas outside of Hanyang or the less dominant political faction stayed there.
*Jongyeonggak (존경각, 尊經閣): The name means, "To revere the classics highly." It was originally constructed in 1475 during the reign of [[Seongjong of Joseon|King Seongjong]]. It was the only university library in Korea until the year 1900. Volumes housed in the library were exclusively Confucian books. During the Japanese occupation, most of the books were taken to the library of [[Keijō Imperial University]], the predecessor of [[Seoul National University]], and the remaining books were moved to the Central Library of Sungkyunkwan University after the completion of the new campus in 1953.
*Jeongnokcheong (정록청, 正錄廳): This was the administration office building: It served as the office for the head of the school and its administrators. It is not painted royal red but it has a doorway from the main entrance that was purposefully made lower so that those who passed through were forced to bow out of respect. It is designated [[Historic Sites of South Korea|National Korean Historic Site No. 143]].
*Jikbang (직방, 直房): This is a rectangular structure that acted as a waiting area.
*Seolicheong (서리청, 書吏廳): This structure was for the office clerks working for Sungkyunkwan's Administrative Office.
*Chang-go (창고) or Seobyeokgo (서벽고): This building was for the people who managed the carriages and horses for transportation and the storage of the necessary tools and materials involved.
*Bibokcheong (비복청, 婢僕廳, Servant Hall): This building was used by the servants at Sungkyunkwan.
*Hyanggwancheong (향관청, 享官廳): This building was originally used to store incense and written ritual prayers, but eventually it was used for as an office for those who presided over the ancestral rites.
*Seowollang (서월랑, 西月廊): This building was used by the inspectors in charge of inspection of Sungkyunkwan.
*Dongwollang (동월랑, 東月廊): This building was also used by the inspectors.
*Jinsasikdang (진사식당, 食堂): The cafeteria where students had their meals and where attendance was taken. Students needed 300 points to take the national civil service examinations to graduate and one of the ways they got them was by attending meals.
*Jaegigo (제기고, 祭器庫): This structure was for storing the materials for the rituals performed in Munmyo such as the plates used to hold the food that was sacrificed to the sages.
*Yugilgak (육일각, 六一閣): This building was used to store sporting equipment, mainly archery tools such as bows and arrows.
*Subokcheong (수복청, 守僕廳): This building was the office for the people in charge of preparing rituals as well as restoration and grounds-keeping of Sungkyunkwan.
*Jeonsacheong (전사청, 典祀廳): This building was used to prepare the food that was sacrificed and hold the vessels for the rituals performed in Munmyo.
*Poju (포주, 庖廚): This is the kitchen where the sacrificial food was prepared for the rituals at the shrine.
*Bicheondang (비천당): This was the State Exam Hall. It was originally built in 1664 and was reconstructed in 1988. The name means, “Enlightening the great way,” which is cited from the famous Confucian, [[Zhu Xi]]. It has a unique intricately-painted ceiling. The questions of the exam would be written on a large scroll out front and the students would answer them in essay form while sitting on the ground as an act of humility.
*Myojeongbigak (묘정비각, 廟庭碑): This small structure is a shelter for a monument of Confucius. There is a large stone turtle contained within with a large stone tablet on its back with a sizeable amount of hanja calligraphy engraved on it. The stone turtle symbolizes the longevity of Sungkyunkwan and Confucianism.
*Tangpyeongbigak (탕평비각): This monument was erected in 1742 with a stone stele inside bearing a message from [[Yeongjo of Joseon|King Yeongjo]] that states, “The mind of a nobleman embraces all segments without dividing them into factions, while the mind of an unworthy is incapable of embracing all segments and divides them into factions.” The message is a reference to how the king would appoint officials without regard for political affiliation according to the “policy of impartiality” known as "Tangpyeong (탕평)".
*Ginkgo trees: The two oldest [[Ginkgo biloba|ginkgo]] trees in Sungkyunkwan ([[Natural monuments of South Korea|Natural Monument No. 59]]) were planted in 1519 by Yun Tak, the head instructor at the time. The ginkgo leaf is the modern symbol of Sungkyunkwan University. It is said that Confucius liked to instruct his students under the shade of ginkgo trees. All trees in Sungkyunkwan are male, not bearing fruit, as the institution originally forbade any females from entering. Also, the fruit of the ginkgo produces an unpleasant smell.
*Hayeondae (하연대): This was a parking place for sedan chairs. This is where the king parked his palanquin before entering the campus.
*Hamabi (하마비): This was a dismounting point. Anyone who was on horseback or in a palanquin would have to dismount or disembark before passing this stone tablet. The inscription loosely means, “Passing into a holy place”.

There are also some buildings, structures, and features that were removed:
* Gyeseongsa (계성사, 啓聖祠): This structure was the shrine for the parents of the Confucian sages. It used to house the tablets of the important family members of Confucian scholars.
* Ilyangjae (일양재, 一兩齋): This building along with Byeongipjae was along the western wall of Sungkyunkwan on the side of the courtyard in front of Bicheondang where students would take exams. It was used for ritualistic purposes.
* Byeokipjae (벽입재, 闢入齋): This building was just south of Ilyangjae and was also used for Confucian rituals most-likely associated with the taking of examinations.
* Bansu (반수, Stream in front of Sungkyunkwan) – There was once a small stream running around the front exterior of Sungkyunkwan. The location of water to the south is in line with Chinese Feng Shui (풍수, 風水, Pungsu) aesthetics that were popular at the time that emphasize certain nature elements as a way of ensuring the proper flow of [[qi]] throughout a structure.
* Bansugyo (반수교, 泮橋) or Bangyo (반교): This was the entrance bridge that went over Bansu Stream. The area to the east of Sungkyunkwan was named after the bridge. This area was associated with providing services for the school.
The institution's administrator had a [[Joseon Dynasty politics|government rank]] of {{transl|ko|italic=no|sampum}} (삼품), with lower-ranking officials of Jwaeju (좨주), Akjeong (악정), Jikgang (직강), Baksa (박사), Hakjeong (학정), Haknok (학록), and Hagyu (학유) as supporting staff.

== Design Features ==
The old campus was designed based on [[geomancy]]. Sungkyunkwan was built with the mountains behind it to the north and the front facing south towards water (한강, Hangang, The [[Han River (Korea)|Han River]], and Bansu (반수), the creek that used to run around the front of the campus). This was based on superstition as well as function. The sunlight and wind patterns were considered most ideal when the buildings were arranged this way.

The buildings are constructed of [[Pinus densiflora|red pine]] which was considered very special in the Joseon Dynasty and laypeople were forbidden from logging them. Korean aristocrats believed red pine represented the Confucian virtues of “fidelity” and “fortitude”. Today red pine is even mentioned in the South Korean national anthem “Aegukga” (애국가, 愛國歌).

The windows were made using window paper (한지, 韓紙, Hanji). The paper used was handmade from the inner bark of [[Paper mulberry]] which grows on rocky Korean mountainsides (닥). This was combined with the mucilage that oozes from the roots of [[Abelmoschus manihot]] which helps suspend the individual fibers in water. The hanji is made in laminated sheets using the we bal (외 발) sheet formation method allowing for a multi-directional grain. The finished sheets are then pounded using a method called dochim (도침) to compact the fibers and lessen ink bleed.

The stone platforms (기단, Gidan) used for several of Sungkyunkwan's buildings are made of rectangular granite slabs fit together into a rectangular structure. The height of the platforms symbolizes the importance of the buildings. Much of the stonework from the original construction of the buildings remains exposed. There is also a sizeable percentage that is still present but has been buried beneath the structures due to time and renovations/reconstructions.

Platform stones (주춧돌, Juchutdol) are stones in which pillars rest on. They block humidity from the ground as well as bear the load of the pillars in order to efficiently redistribute the weight of the building to the ground.

The timber framed structures contain such components as:
* Crossbeam (보, Bo) – Horizontal crossbeam placed perpendicularly to the pillars to support the load of the roof. Large bo are called daebeulbo (대블보) or daeryang.
* Purlin (도리, Dori) – Wood pieces that support a rafter at a right angle from the bo.
* Rafter (서까래, Seokkarae) (aka 연목, Yeonmok) – The horizontal sides of a roof made of thin and long wood pieces whose edges form the eaves.
* King Post (대공, Daegong) – A short post that supports the ridgepole.
* Bracts (공포, Gongpo) (aka 포, Po) – Similar to what its name refers to a {{transl|ko|italic=no|gongpo}} is a complex wooden structure resembling the base of a flower that supports the roof. The purpose of the {{transl|ko|italic=no|gongpo}} is to optimally distribute the roof load to the pillars.
* Eaves (처마, Cheoma) – The portion of the rafters that extends beyond the pillar supporting it from underneath. The {{transl|ko|italic=no|cheoma}} are long to provide more shade from the high sun in summer months while in the winter, the low sun can still penetrate deep into the interior of the house. The deep eaves also prevent warm indoor air from escaping from the heated floor. To make the eaves look less heavy, they are lifted at the corners forming the distinctive curved lines.
The different types of pillars (기둥, Gidung) used are:
* Wide Based Pillar (민흘림기둥, Minheullim Gidung)
* Straight Pillar (징닙주기둥, Jingnipju Gidung) (aka 원통기둥, Wontong Gidung)
* Entasis Pillar (배흘림기둥, Baehaeullim Gidung)
* Straight Pillar (각기둥, Gak Gidung)
The types of wooden flooring are:
* Veranda (툇마루, Toenmaru)
* Balcony (누마루, Numaru)
* Checkered Floor (우물마루, Umulmaru) – Wooden floors were designed in this pattern to compensate for the expansion and contraction of the wood due to changes in temperature and moisture in order to avoid warping of the wood.
* Main Hall (대청마루, Daecheongmaru) – The name means “Big Floor”.
* Long-plank Floor (장마루, Jangmaru)
The floors of many of the buildings were equipped with [[ondol]] traditional radiant floor heating.

The buildings are painted based on the Korean art of painting buildings which is called Dancheong (단청) which means “red and green”. The incorporation of the five elements epitomizes ancient Korean's desire for stability and peace in the present life and a rewarding afterlife. The brightly colored paint on buildings is not only for decoration, it is also for protecting the buildings from weather, rot, vermin, and evil spirits as well as emphasize the authority of their residents. The red-colored paint on Sungkyunkwan's buildings symbolizes nobility. Only the most important buildings are painted red. There are five basic colors: blue, red, black, white, and yellow which symbolize the five traditional elements. Blue means east, dragon, spring, and wood. Red means south, birds, summer, and fire. White means west, tiger, fall, and gold. Black means north, [[Black Tortoise|hyeonmu]], winter, and water. Yellow means center, the periods between seasons, and Earth.

The roofs (Jibung, 지붕) are made of clay tiles (기와, Giwa) and are decorated with figurines called japsang (잡상). There is always an odd number of the smaller japsang. The most a building can have is 11. The purpose of the roof decorations goes back to the [[Korean shamanism|Korean shamanic religion]] and they are intended to chase away evil spirits and misfortune as well as show the dignity and grandeur of a building. The first few japsang on a roof are usually characters from the Chinese classic [[Journey to the West]]. The types of japsang are:
* Dragon's Head (용두, Yong-du)
* Eagle's Head (취두, Chwui-du)
* Owl's Tail (치미, Chi-mi)
* Buddhist Monk (대당사부, 玄奘, Daedangsabu, Xuanzang)
* Monkey King (손행자, 孫悟空, Sonhaengja, Sun Wukong)
* Friar Sand “Sandy” (사화상, 沙悟凈, Sahwasang, Shā Wùjìng)
* Igwibak (이귀박)
* Iguryong (이구룡)
* Mahwasang (마화상)
* Bodhisattva (삼살보살, Samsalbosal)
* Cheonsangap (천산갑)
* Natodu (나토두)
There are four types of roofs in Joseon Era architecture used at Sungkyunkwan which are {{transl|ko|italic=no|matbae}} (맞배, gable), {{transl|ko|italic=no|ujingak}} (우진각, hipped), {{transl|ko|italic=no|paljak}} (팔작, hip-and-gable), and {{transl|ko|italic=no|samo}} (사모, pyramid).

Courtyards (안마당, Anmadang) were an important aspect of Joseon Dynasty architecture. They served a practical purpose of allowing large groups to congregate for meetings and activities. Beyond this, they fulfilled the Joseon aesthetic principle of the pure beauty of empty space. Korean buildings were designed to be in close harmony with nature which is reflected in many ways, none more so than in the use of courtyards, complete with trees and vegetation, within the walled-in areas.

The name signboards on structures (간판, Ganpan) are large wooden signs written in [[Hanja]] and served to identify them as well as display their importance. More important buildings had special names and their signs were larger and more decorative.

The windows (창문, Changmun) were made of wooden frames lined with hanji paper allowing for natural air to penetrate through the windows as well natural light to enter the room. The height and size of windows was based on the standard height and shoulder width of an adult person. The height of window frames was designed to be low enough to rest an elbow on but high enough to conceal a person lying down.

== Education ==
The primary written language of Sungkyunkwan was hanja. Although [[hangul]] was invented in 1443, it did not become the primary language of study because the literary elite believed that the difficult hanja was more sophisticated. Hangul was invented to solve the widespread illiteracy of the common people at the time, but it was considered a threat by many in the upper class to their status as literary scholars, leading them to resist its implementation. As a result, hanja remained the written language used at Sungkyunkwan requiring anyone who wished to rise to the top levels of the government to be capable of reading and writing the characters.

Sungkyunkwan's teachings were mainly Confucian-related, and were primarily aimed at preparing students for government service. Students also studied law, medicine, interpretation, accounting, archery, mathematics, music, and etiquette.

The main goal was for the students to pass the higher [[gwageo|national civil-service examinations]] (''gwageo''). Like [[imperial examination|their Chinese counterpart]], these examinations were on writing ability, knowledge of the [[Confucian classics]], and proposals of management of the state (governance). Technical subjects were also included to appoint experts in medicine, interpretation, accounting, and law.

Poetry was a big part of both the students’ studies and communication. It was viewed as noble and proof of the students’ high-born lineage. They were heavily encouraged to read and compose poetry.

The students were required to write lengthy essays on a regular basis that were subject to strict criticism from their instructors. The middle ten days of every month were dedicated to literary exercises. There were regular tests every 10 days and there were also daily quizzes.

The original set number of students was 150 when Sungkyunkwan was founded, which was raised to 200 in 1429. All of the students were male and women were forbidden from entering the campus.

Books on Buddhism and Taoism were banned.

Joseon Era students attended [[Seodang]] from ages 5 or 6 where they learned rudimentary penmanship, basic essential skills, and the Chinese classics. The students’ education began with reading the "[[Thousand Character Classic]]". The teaching methodology emphasized rote learning by reading and memorizing an assigned passed each day. Once a student read something more than one hundred times, they would recite it to their teacher (훈장, Hunjang). At age 15 or 16 students entered hyanggyo or seowon (서원, 書院, Private primary school) for advanced studies targeted on passing examinations. They would study there for five or six years.

Entrance examinations for Sungkyunkwan were extremely harsh and were only allowed for the sons of [[yangban]], the Joseon Era upper class or royalty. There were two ways to be accepted into Sungkyunkwan. Either the students had to pass the two admission exams, Saeng-wonsi (생원시) and Jinsasi (진사시), or take the other two examinations, Seungbo (승보) and [[Protected appointments system for hereditary privileges in asia|Eumseo]] (음서). If they passed these examinations, they were given the opportunity to be accepted.

Students lived very comfortably on full scholarship and were waited on by servants.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sung Kyun Kwan|url=http://www.exploringkorea.com/sung-kyun-kwan/|publisher=Exploring Korea|accessdate=16 April 2014}}</ref>

Students were informed of the time throughout the day by drum beats. One beat indicated the time to get up (6:00 AM every day), two beats meant it was time to dress neatly and read, and three beats meant it is meal time.

In the early morning, when the drum was sounded signaling the start of the day, students would prostrate themselves once before entering Myeongnyundang to receive a lecture on Confucianism.

Classes were held at the Lecture Hall from 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM.

The students were divided into 2 classes based on academic abilities

If students received low marks they were punished and publicly humiliated.

Students would sneak out after 10:00 PM to study more.

Students would sometimes appeal to the king about unjust decisions and if they were rejected they would stage political demonstrations, fast, or boycott classes.

The 8th and 23rd days of each month were washing days for the student's clothing.

The students' uniforms were originally red then changed to sky blue to symbolize the endless spring of knowledge.

Throughout the Joseon Era the students were divided into multiple political factions (붕당, 朋黨, [[Political factions in Joseon Dynasty|Bungdang]]) that influenced the national politics and the study of Neo-Confucianism. Originally the [[Hungu (Korean political faction)|Hungu]] faction was the most dominant and the more radical [[Sarim faction]] was often subject to [[Korean literati purges|violent purges]] to eliminate political opponents. Eventurally the Sarim became the dominant faction. The Sarim, however, split many times into smaller factions over the following centuries due to political in-fighting. The students at Sungkyunkwan would often play important roles in these political conflicts.

During the Joseon Dynasty the highest aspiration those in the upper class could have was to be a [[seonbi]] (선비, Virtuous Scholar). They believed that the more important way to improve oneself was through continuous study while adhering to the principles of Confucianism. Much of this can still be seen in modern Korean culture's emphasis on the importance of education and respect for one's elders or superiors.

The requirements for graduation included:
* 300 Points (원점, Wonjeom) from Dogi (도기, Student Attendance Book) needed to be qualified to take the advanced state exams to graduate (1 Point per sign in)
* Passing the state civil-service examinations
* No fixed date for graduation
* Only 30 students were allowed to graduate each year out of the 50 selected to take the exams.

== Noteworthy Facts ==
The king, as a disciple before Confucius, would take off his royal robes and wear plain clothes before stepping into the courtyard of the Confucian Shrine. The kings would usually never set foot on the ground outside of the palaces anywhere but Sungkyunkwan.

The path between Sinsammun and Daeseongjeon was originally considered sacred and only for the spirits. People were not allowed to step on it or face punishment. Even today the Confucian keepers of the shrine bow before stepping on it.

Students were not allowed to have pets.

Alcohol consumption was allowed within reason and students were sometimes given liquor or wine as a present.

The worst offense a student could commit, resulting in them not being allowed to take the state exams was not showing instructors proper respect or making disparaging remarks about them.

The students had the right to protest which they often did for various academic and political reasons.

[[Yi I]], a famous Joseon scholar and politician is an alumnus and is featured on the 5,000 won bill.

[[Sejong the Great|King Sejong]] is an alumnus and is featured on the 10,000 won bill.

[[Shin Saimdang]], Yi I's mother, is on the 50,000 won bill.

Chojip (초집) were how-to guide booklets used by cheaters.

The sodu (소두) was the chairman of a committee who would put forth appeals to the king.

The students' class list was called the cheonggeum nok (청금곡, 靑矜錄, Blue Robe Book).

== Sungkyunkwan in Fiction ==
Sungkyunkwan was featured prominently in the popular [[Korean drama]] "[[Sungkyunkwan Scandal|Sunkyunkwan Scandal]]". Sungkyunkwan scholars stage a wailing protest in episode 11 of [[Rookie Historian Goo Hae-ryung]].

==Images==
<gallery>
Image:1000_won_serieIII_obverse.jpeg|The 1000KRW banknote shows Confucian scholar [[Yi Hwang]] and Myeongnyundang.
Image:Old Sungkyunkwan map from 1785.jpg|This map from 1785 shows the original campus of Sungkyunkwan. Most of the buildings to the west are gone.
Image:Sungkyunkwan Bicheondang.jpg|Bicheondang
Image:Sungkyunkwan Daeseongjeon.jpg|Daeseongjeon, with the doors open
Image:Sungkyunkwan Jongyeonggak.jpg|Jongyeonggak, Korea's oldest library
Image:Sungkyunkwan Myeongnyundang.jpg|The lecture hall of Sungkyunkwan
Image:Sungkyunkwan Seomu.jpg|This building enshrines tablets to the great Confucian scholars.
Image:Sungkyunkwan Sinsammun.jpg|Sinsammun opened its doors for APAIE delegates on 17 March 2014.
Image:Sungkyunkwan Tangpyeongbigak.jpg|Tangpyeongbigak
Sungkyunkwan Old Campus Layout.jpg
</gallery>

==Notable alumni==
*[[Jeong Inji]]
*[[Shin Suk-ju]]
*[[Jo Gwang-jo]]
*[[Yi Hwang]]
*[[Yi I]]
*[[Yu Seong-ryong]]
*[[Hwang Hui]]

==See also==
*[[Education in the Joseon Dynasty]]
*[[History of Education]]
*[[Gukhak]]
*[[Gukjagam]]
*[[Songgyungwan]] at Kaesong
*[[Sungkyunkwan University]]
*[[Guozijian (Beijing)|Beijing Guozijian]]

==References==
{{Commons category|Sungkyunkwan}}
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.skkok.com/ Official website] {{in lang|ko}}
*[http://www.skku.edu/eng_home/index.jsp Sungkyunkwan University]
*[http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/ATR/SI_EN_3_1_1_1.jsp?cid=1407539 Munmyo] Korean Tourism Site

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Kim Yu-sin

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'''Gim Yu-sin''' (sometimes romanized Kim Yu-sin, Kim Yu-shin, or Gim Yu-shin) (595 – 18 August 673) was a [[general]] in 7th-century [[Silla]]. He led the unification of the [[Korean Peninsula]] by Silla under the reign of King [[Muyeol of Silla|Muyeol]] and King [[Munmu of Silla|Munmu]]. He is said to have been the great-grandchild of King [[Guhae of Geumgwan Gaya]], the last ruler of the [[Geumgwan Gaya]] state. This would have given him a very high position in the Silla [[bone rank system]], which governed the political and military status that a person could attain.

Much of what is known about Kim's life comes from the detailed account in the ''[[Samguk Sagi]]'', Yeoljeon 1-3, and the much briefer record in the ''[[Samguk Yusa]]'', vol. 1.

== Early years ==
Gim Yu-shin was the son of General Gim Seohyeon (the second son of General [[Gim Mu-ryeok]]) and [[Lady Manmyeong]], who was a daughter of Gim Sukheuljong ({{korean|hangul=김숙흘종|hanja=金肅訖宗}}, [[King Jinheung of Silla]]'s younger brother). He was born in [[Gyeyang District|Gyeyang]], [[Jincheon County]] in 595, became a [[Hwarang]] warrior at just 15 and was an accomplished swordsman and a Gukseon ({{Korean|hangul=국선|hanja=國仙}}; Hwarang leader) by the time he was 18 years old. By the age of 34 (in 629) he had been given total command of the Silla armed forces. Three years later, Gim Yu-sin's cousin, Princess Deokman, became [[Queen Seondeok of Silla]] and kept Gim Yu-sin as commander in chief of the royal army. During the reign of [[Queen Seondeok of Silla]] (632-647), Gim Yu-sin owned ten thousand private soldiers, won many battles against [[Baekje]] and became one of the most powerful men in Silla.

== Military accomplishments ==
[[File:Statue of Kim Yushin.jpg|thumb|right|His statue in [[Namsan (Seoul)|Namsan]] Park, Seoul, South Korea]]

Gim Yu-sin's first military engagement in command is believed to have occurred around 629 AD, and through it he quickly proved his capabilities as a warrior. Silla was in a constant struggle with its neighbor to the west, [[Baekje]], over territory. There had been gains and losses on both sides, and the struggle lasted for many years. It was during this period that Yu-sin rose through the ranks of the military, rising to the position of general and becoming a skilled field commander.

Baekje and Silla had formed an alliance to counter [[Goguryeo]]'s power and its intentions to push southwards, and together they launched a successful attack on it, Silla taking the northern territory and Baekje the one south of the Han river. But Silla broke the alliance and attacked Baekje in order to claim both territories for itself. After this betrayal, Baekje allied with Goguryeo. When Goguryeo and Baekje attacked Silla in 655, Silla joined forces with [[Tang Dynasty]] China to battle the invaders. Although it is not clear when Kim Yu-shin first became a general, he was certainly commanding the Silla forces by this time. Eventually, with the help of 50,000 Silla army and some 130,000 Tang forces, Yushin attacked the Baekje capital, [[Sabi (Korea)|Sabi]], in 660, in one of the most famous battles of that century, the [[Battle of Hwangsanbeol]].

The Baekje defenders were commanded by none other than General [[Gyebaek]], although the Baekje forces consisted of about 5,000 men and were no match for Yu-Shin's warriors, which numbered about ten times as many. Baekje, which had already been experiencing internal political problems, crumbled. Kim Yu-shin's Silla forces and their Tang allies now moved on Goguryeo from two directions, and in 661 they attacked the seemingly impregnable Goguryeo kingdom, but were repelled. The attack had weakened Goguryeo, though. In 667 another offensive was launched which, in 668, finally destroyed Goguryeo.

Silla still had to subdue various pockets of resistance, but their efforts were then focused on ensuring that their Tang allies did not overstay their welcome on the peninsula. After some [[Silla-Tang War|difficult conflicts]], Silla eventually forced out the Tang troops and united the peninsula under their rule.

== Legends ==
Many stories exist about Kim Yu-Shin. It is told that he once was ordered to subdue a rebel army, but his troops refused to fight as they had seen a large star fall from the sky and took this to be a bad omen. To regain the confidence of his troops, the General used a large [[kite]] to carry a fire ball into the sky. The soldiers, seeing the star return to heaven, rallied and defeated the rebels. It is also related how General Kim ingeniously used kites as a means of communication between his troops when they had become divided between islands and the mainland.

Kim Yu-Shin spend the night at a courtesan's tavern, when his mother learned of this, she cried and asked Kim Yu-Shin to never set his foot in that kind of place again. One night, Kim Yushin was very drunk, and his horse took him to the courtesan's house. When Kim Yu-Shin woke up, he was so angry thinking that he broke his promise to his mother and slit the horse's throat.

== His final years ==
Throughout his life, Kim Yu-Shin felt that Baekje, Goguryeo, and Silla should not be separate countries but rather united as one. He is regarded as the driving force in the unification of the [[Korean Peninsula]], and is the most famous of all the generals in the unification wars of the [[Three Kingdoms of Korea|Three Kingdoms]].
[[File:Korea-Gyeongju-Tomb of General Kim Yusin-02A.jpg|thumb|Tomb of General Kim Yu-sin in Gyeongju]]

Kim Yu-Shin was rewarded handsomely for his efforts in the campaigns. In 668, King Munmu bestowed upon him the honorary title of ''Taedaegakgan'' ([[Hangul]]:태대각간 [[Hanja]]:太大角干), something like "Supreme Herald of Defense" (literally "greatest-great-trumpet-shield"). He reportedly received a village of over 500 households, and in 669 was given some 142 separate horse farms, spread throughout the kingdom. He died four years later, leaving behind ten children.

Kim Yu-Shin lived to the age of 79 and is considered to be one of the most famous generals and masters of [[Korean sword]]s in Korean history. He is the focus of numerous stories and legends, and is familiar to most Koreans from a very early age. Following his death on 18 August (the 1st day of the 7th lunar month) 673, General Kim was awarded the honorary title of King Heungmu, and was buried at the foot of [[Songhwa Mountain]], {{Coord|35.8456477|129.1911292|display=inline}} near [[Gyeongju]] in southeastern Korea, in a tomb as splendid as that of kings.

== Family ==
Kim Yu-Shin had two sisters, Kim Bohee and Kim Moonhee ({{Korean|hangul=김문희|hanja=金文姬}}). Kim Moonhee, later known as [[Queen Munmyeong]] ([[Hangul]]:문명왕후 [[Hanja]]:文明王后), married Yushin's friend Kim Chunchu, [[Muyeol of Silla|King Taejong Muyeol of Silla]], who is credited for having led the unification of the Korean peninsula under [[Silla]]. Muyeol and Munmyeong were the parents of [[Munmu of Silla|King Munmu of Silla]] and [[Gim Inmun]].

Kim Yu-Shin's third wife, Lady Jiso ([[Hanja]]:智炤夫人), was the third daughter of [[Muyeol of Silla|King Muyeol of Silla]]. Yushin had ten children. His second son, [[Gim Won-sul|Kim Won-sul]], would later play a central role in completing the independence of [[Silla]] from the [[Tang Dynasty]].

*Wife:Lady Jiso,daughter of [[King Muyeol of Silla]]and [[Queen Munmyeong]]
**Son: Kim Sam-kwang (김삼광)
**Son: Kim Won-sul (김원술)
**Son: Kim Won-jrong (김원정)
**Son: Kim Jang (김장이)
**Son: Kim Won-mang (김원망)
**Daughter: Lady Kim of the Gimhae Kim clan (김해 김씨)
**Daughter: Lady Kim of the Gimhae Kim clan (김해 김씨)
**Daughter: Lady Kim of the Gimhae Kim clan (김해 김씨)
**Daughter: Lady Kim of the Gimhae Kim clan (김해 김씨)
*Wife: Cheon Gwan-nyeo -courtesan
**Son: Kim Gun-seung (김군승) or Kim Si-deuk (김시득)

== Legacy ==
According to ''[[Samguk Sagi]]'', Kim Yu-Shin was the descendant of [[Shaohao]].<ref group="note">{{Wikisourcelang-inline|zh|三國史記/卷41}}『三國史記』列傳第一：金庾信上
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Today, Kim Yu-Shin is remembered by Koreans as one of the greatest generals in Korean history. His ultimate legacy is the first unification of the Korean nation. One of his ten children, his second son [[Gim Won-sul|Kim Won-sul]], became a general during the time of King Munmu of Silla, and he was essential in unifying Silla.

[[Jincheon Gilsangsa]] is a shrine dedicated to his portrait in Jincheon-eup, [[Jincheon-gun]], [[Chungcheongbuk-do]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Gilsangsa Shirne in Jincheon|url=https://www.jincheon.go.kr/site/eng/sub.do?menukey=2680|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=10 January 2021|website=Jincheon-Gun}}</ref>

== Popular culture ==
* Portrayed by Yoon Seung-won, [[Lee Jae-soo|Lee Jong Soo]] and [[Lee David]] in 2006-2007 [[Seoul Broadcasting System|SBS]] TV series ''[[Yeon Gaesomun (TV series)|Yeon Gaesomun]]''.
* Portrayed by [[Uhm Tae-woong]] and [[Lee Hyun-woo (born 1993)|Lee Hyun-woo]] in the 2009 [[Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation|MBC]] TV series ''[[Queen Seondeok (TV series)|Queen Seondeok]]''.
* Portrayed by [[Park Sung-woong]] in the 2011 MBC TV series ''[[Gyebaek (TV series)|Gyebaek]]''.
* Portrayed by [[Kim Yu-seok]] and [[Noh Young-hak]] in the 2012-2013 [[KBS1]] TV series ''[[The King's Dream]]''.
*Appeared in a Korean [[Massively multiplayer online role-playing game|MMORPG]] [[Atlantica Online]] as a playable mercenary character [[Hwarang]].
*Portrayed by Jang Tae Wong in the 2017 [[Korean Broadcasting System|KBS]] TV series ''[[Chronicles of Korea]]''

== Sources ==
*McBride, Richard D., II. “Hidden Agendas in the Life Writings of Kim Yusin.” ''Acta Koreana'' 1 (August 1998): 101-142.
*McBride, Richard D., II. “The Structure and Sources of the Biography of Kim Yusin.” ''Acta Koreana'' 16, no. 2 (December 2013): 497–535.

== See also ==
{{Portal|History|Biography}}
*[[List of Korea-related topics]]
*[[Korean history]]
*[[Three Kingdoms of Korea]]
*[[Queen Seondeok (TV series)]]

== Notes ==
{{Reflist|group=note}}

== External links ==
*[http://hwarangdo.com/hrd-history/ancient-hwarang/26-chinpyong-wang-579-632/#yusin Gim Yusin]

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Lee Sang-yi (actor)

2021-10-05T09:13:27Z

UserArtificial820029: Romanization

{{Short description|South Korean actor}}
{{family name hatnote|Lee||lang=Korean}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Lee Sang-yi
| image = 214909 32425f7c0ecd4ec3aa230dab0f1d9ef1 mv2.webp
| native_name = 이상이
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1991|11|27}}
| birth_place = [[Ansan]], South Korea
| education = [[Korea National University of Arts]]
| occupation = {{hlist|Actor|Musical actor|singer}}
| years_active = 2014–present
| agent = PLK Good Friends
| module = {{Infobox Korean name|child=yes|headercolor=transparent
| hangul = {{linktext|이|상|이}}
| hanja = 李相二
| rr = I Sang-i
| mr = I Sang-i
}}
}}
'''Lee Sang-yi''' ({{Korean|hangul=이상이}}; born November 27, 1991) is a South Korean actor, musical actor and singer. He is best known for his roles in ''[[Once Again (South Korean TV series)|Once Again]]'' (2020) , ''[[Youth of May]]'' (2021) and as a member of'' [[MSG Wannabe]] '' (2021)

== Early life and education ==
Lee Sang-yi first came across acting when he did an English play in 6th grade in elementary school. In 2008, when he was student at Anyang Arts High School, he covered [[Rain (entertainer)|Rain]]'s Rainism dance and won 1st place in the UCC contest. He went on to study acting at [[Korea National University of Arts]].

== Career ==
Lee Sang-yi made his debut in 2014 with the musical "Grease". Later in 2017, he made his first Television appearance when he joined the cast of the drama [[Manhole (TV series)|''Manhole'']] and portrayed Oh Dal-soo. In November of the same year he featured in the ''[[Prison Playbook]]'' series.

On March 28, 2020, he starred in the weekend drama [[Once Again (South Korean TV series)|''Once Again'']], in which he played dentist Yoon Jae-suk. With the drama's success, he gained tremendous popularity among viewers and received a lot of love for his role that became known as the national in-law.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Lee Sang-yi to star in 'Once Again' as Lee Sang-yeob's Brother @ HanCinema|url=https://www.hancinema.net/lee-sang-yi-to-star-in-once-again-as-lee-sang-yeob-s-brother-138418.html|access-date=2021-07-25|website=www.hancinema.net|language=en}}</ref>

In May 2021, he joined the cast of the ''[[Youth of May]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-05-03|title=≪브레이크뉴스≫ ［종합］이도현·고민시·이상이·금새록 ‘오월의 청춘’, 본 적 없는 레트로 멜로|url=http://www.breaknews.com/803692|access-date=2021-07-25|website=브레이크뉴스}}</ref>
And also on May, 2021, Lee was revealed as one of the [[MSG Wannabe]] members who passed on variety show program [[Hangout with Yoo]] and debuted as a member of MSG Wannabe and was part of the sub-unit JSDK.

In June 2021, it was confirmed that he will star in the upcoming [[tvN]] drama ''[[Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha]]'' in which he will portray Ji Sung-hyun, a workaholic variety show director who has a bright personality.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-06-03|title=이상이 출연확정 '갯마을 차차차' 합류|url=http://www.gukjenews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=2237207|access-date=2021-07-25|website=국제뉴스|language=ko}}</ref>

== Filmography ==

=== Film ===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|-
! scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Role
! scope="col" | Notes
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}}
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" |2014
|''Taxi Driver''
|Ji Hoon
|Short film
|
|-
|''Slow Video''
|Police radio
|
|
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="3" |2016
|''Call Me When You Eat.''
|Repayment
|rowspan="2" |[[Korea National University of Arts]] (graduation work)
|
|-
|''Aend''
|Man
|
|-
|''Coward''
|Pumice stone
|rowspan="2" |Short film
|
|-
! scope="row"|2019
|''Battle of Noryang''
|Huijung
|
|-
! scope="row"|2020
|''[[Hitman: Agent Jun]]''
|NIS agent
|
|
|-
| {{TBA}}
|''[[Single in Seoul]]''
|Byeongsu
|
|<ref>{{Cite web|last=Bae|first=Aurora|date=2020-11-16|title=Lee Dong-wook, Im Soo-jung starrer film 'Single in Seoul' drops stills from first script reading|url=https://www.kdramapal.com/lee-dong-wook-im-soo-jung-starrer-film-single-in-seoul-drops-stills-first-script-reading/|access-date=2021-06-29|website=Kdramapal|language=en-US}}</ref>
|}

=== Television series ===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|-
! scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Network
! scope="col" | Role
! scope="col" | Notes
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}}
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="4" |2017
|''[[Manhole (TV series)|Manhole]]''
|[[KBS2]]
|Oh Dal-soo
|
|
|-
|''[[Andante (TV series)|Andante]]''
|[[KBS1]]
|Moon Sung-Jun
|
|
|-
|''[[Prison Playbook]]''
|[[TVN (South Korean TV channel)|tvN]]
|Oh Dong-hwan
|
|
|-
|''[[Oh, the Mysterious]]''
|[[Seoul Broadcasting System|SBS]]
|Economics Lee
|
|
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="5" |2018
|''[[Suits (South Korean TV series)|Suits]]''
| rowspan="2"| [[KBS2]]
|Park Chul-soon
| Cameo (Episode 1–3)
|
|-
|''[[To. Jenny]]''
|Yeom Dae-seong
|
|<ref name="wowtv_A201807100030">{{Cite web|last=한국경제티브이|date=2018-07-10|title=투제니toJenny 이상이 천연덕스러운 캐릭터 변신 기대감 UP|trans-title= Expectations for character transformation with more natural virtue than 2 Jennie toJenny UP |url=https://www.wowtv.co.kr/NewsCenter/News/Read?articleId=A201807100030|access-date=2021-06-29|website=www.wowtv.co.kr|language=ko}}</ref>
|-
|''[[Voice 2]]''
|[[OCN (TV channel)|OCN]]
|Wang Ko
|Cameo (Episode 1–2)
|
|-
|''[[The Third Charm]]''
|[[JTBC]]
|Hyeon sang-hyeon
|
|<ref name="wowtv_A201807100030"/>
|-
|''Quiz from God: Reboot''
|[[OCN (TV channel)|OCN]]
|Park Jae-seung
| Cameo (Episode 1–2)
|
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="3" |2019
|''[[Special Labor Inspector]]''
|[[MBC TV (South Korea)|MBC]]
| Yang Tae-soo
|
|<ref>{{Cite web|last=재배포금지>|first=<ⓒ “텐아시아” 무단전재|date=2019-05-28|title=특별근로감독관 조장풍 이상이 평생 받을 미움, 한꺼번에 받았지|trans-title=Special Labor Inspector Jo Jang-poong received the hatred he would receive for the rest of his life, all at once. 만…|url=https://www.hankyung.com/entertainment/article/2019052835894|access-date=2021-06-29|website=hankyung.com|language=ko}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[The Nokdu Flower]]''
| SBS
| Merchant
| Cameo
|
|-
| ''[[When the Camellia Blooms]]''
|rowspan="3" |[[KBS2]]
|Yang Seung-yeop
|
|<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-08-01|title=Lee Sang-yi joins the cast of When Camellia Blooms » Dramabeans Korean drama recaps|url=https://www.dramabeans.com/2019/08/lee-sang-yi-joins-the-cast-of-when-camellia-blooms/|access-date=2021-06-29|website=Dramabeans|language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row"|2020
| ''[[Once Again (South Korean TV series)|Once Again]]''
|Yoon Jae-seok
|
|<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-03-24|title='한 번 다녀왔습니다' 천호진X이민정, 시청률 50% 도전…"평범한 사람들 이야기" [종합]|trans-title=I've been there once' Cheon Ho-jin X Lee Min-jung, 50% viewership challenge... "Tales of ordinary people" [General] |url=https://www.hankyung.com/entertainment/article/2020032469994|access-date=2021-06-30|website=hankyung.com|language=ko}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="3"|2021
|''[[Youth of May]]''
|Lee Soo-chan
|
|<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-05-03|title=≪브레이크뉴스≫ ［종합］이도현·고민시·이상이·금새록 '오월의 청춘', 본 적 없는 레트로 멜로|trans-title= ≪Break News≫ [General] Lee Do-hyeon, Ko Min-si, Lee Sang-i, and Geum Sae-rok 'Youth in May', a retro melodrama I've never seen before |url=http://www.breaknews.com/803692|access-date=2021-06-30|website=브레이크뉴스}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha]]''
|rowspan="2"|[[TVN (South Korean TV channel)|tvN]]
|Ji Seong-hyun
|
|<ref>{{Cite news|author=Lee Min-ji|title=갯마을 차차차' 이상이 출연확정, 스타PD 된다…신민아X김선호와 호흡(공식)|trans-title=Gaet Village Cha-Cha-Cha' is confirmed to appear, becoming a star PD... Breathing with Shin Min-ah X Kim Seon-ho (official) |url=https://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=609&aid=0000449785|website=Naver|publisher=Newsen|date=June 3, 2021|access-date=June 3, 2021|language=ko}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-06-03|title=이상이 출연확정 '갯마을 차차차' 합류|url=http://www.gukjenews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=2237207|access-date=2021-06-30|website=국제뉴스|language=ko}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Yumi's Cells]]''
|
| Cameo
|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://entertain.naver.com/now/read?oid=477&aid=0000316695|author=Kang Hyo-jin|title=[단독]이상이, '유미의 세포들' 특별출연…김고은과 인연|trans-title=[Exclusive] Lee Sang-yi to make a special appearance in 'Yumi's Cells'... Relationship with Kim Go-eun|work= Spotify News|via = Naver |date= August 31, 2021 |access-date= August 31, 2021 |language=ko}}</ref>
|}

===Television show ===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|-
! scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Network
! scope="col" | Role
! scope="col" | Notes
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}}
|-
! scope="row" |2020
| ''[[List of Law of the Jungle episodes#South Korea|Law of the Jungle in Ulleungdo & Dokdo]]''
|[[Seoul Broadcasting System|SBS]]
| Cast Member
|Episode 430–431
|<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-12-09|title=EXO's Chanyeol, Oh My Girl's Arin to appear in 'Law of the Jungle' Dokdo Island edition|url=https://mb.com.ph/2020/12/09/exos-chanyeol-oh-my-girls-arin-to-appear-in-law-of-the-jungle-dokdo-island-edition/|access-date=2021-06-29|website=Manila Bulletin|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="ulleung">{{Cite news|author=Lee Da-gyeom|title='정글의 법칙', 울릉도·독도 간다...엑소 찬열→박미선 출격|url=https://www.mk.co.kr/star/broadcasting-service/view/2020/12/1259639/|website=[[Maeil Business Newspaper|Star Today]]|date=December 8, 2020|access-date=December 8, 2020|language=ko}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" |2021
|''[[Hangout with Yoo]]''
|[[MBC TV (South Korea)|MBC]]
|Cast Member Part: (MSG Wannabe)
|Episodes 90–101
|<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-06-27|title=MSG Wannabe finds chart success with retro-flavored songs|url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/art/2021/06/732_311190.html|access-date=2021-06-29|website=koreatimes|language=en}}</ref>
|-
|}

== Musical ==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|-
! scope="col" |Year
! scope="col" | title
!scope="col" | Role
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}}
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" |2013
|''How to Make a Star''
|Minseop
|
|-
|''X-Wedding''
|Boyfriend
|
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="2" |2014
|''Sarah's house''
|Nasa
|
|-
|''Grease''
|Doody
|
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="4" |2015
|''Runway Beat''
|Dandy
|
|-
|''Legendary Little Basketball Team''
|Seungwoo
|
|-
|''The Musical Bear (Bear: The Musical)''
|Peter
|
|-
|''Infinite power''
|Jang Seon-jae
|
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="4" |2016
|''[[Thrill Me]]''
|Me
|<ref>{{Cite web|title=[ARCHIVE] Thrill me, History|url=https://blog.naver.com/splaybill/220929114213|access-date=2021-06-29|website=네이버 블로그 {{!}} 공연문화월간지 scenePLAYBILL|language=ko}}</ref>
|-
|''In the Heights''
|Benny
|
|-
|''Experimental Boy''
|Kevin
|
|-
|''Me and Natasha and the White Donkey''
|Baek Seok
|
|-
! rowspan="2" scope="row" |2018
|''Red Book''
|Brown
|
|-
|''il tenore''
|Lee Su-han
|
|-
! scope="row"|2020
| rowspan="2" |''[[A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder]]''
| rowspan="2" | Monty Navarro
|<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-11-24|title=이상이, 뮤지컬 '젠틀맨스 가이드' 무사히 첫 공연을 마칠 수 있어 감사|url=http://www.newsfreezone.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=276881|access-date=2021-06-30|website=뉴스프리존|language=ko}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row"| 2021–2022
|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://entertain.naver.com/now/read?oid=438&aid=0000039131|author=Jeong Ji-eun|title=유연석부터 이상이까지, '젠틀맨스 가이드' 캐스팅 공개|trans-title=From Yoo Yeon-seok to Lee Sang, casting for 'Gentleman's Guide' revealed|work=KBS Media |via = Naver |date=September 27, 2021|access-date= September 27, 2021|language=ko}}</ref>
|}

== Theater ==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|-
! scope="col" |Year
! scope="col" | title
! scope="col" | Role
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}}
|-
! scope="row" |2016
|''Real solution''
|Yoo Min-jun
|
|-
! rowspan="2" scope="row" |2017
|''Crazy Kiss''
|Jang Jung
|
|-
|''Guards of the Taj Mahal''
|Babur
|
|-
! scope="row" |2019
|''[[The Legend of Georgia McBride]]''
|Casey
|
|}

== Discography ==
=== Singles ===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
!Title
!Year
!Album
|-
! scope=row| "Why Am I Like This" (내가 왜 이렇게)
|2020
| ''[[Once Again (South Korean TV series)|Once Again]] Ost Part 5''
|-
! scope="row" | "Journey To Atlantis" ({{lang|ko|상상더하기}}) {{small|(with [[MSG Wannabe]])}}
| rowspan="5"| 2021
| rowspan="2"| ''[[Hangout with Yoo#MSG Wannabe|MSG Wannabe Top 8 Performance Songs]]''
|-
! scope="row" | "Resignation" ({{lang|ko|체념}}) {{small|(with [[Kim Jung-min (entertainer)|Kim Jung-min]], [[Simon Dominic]], Lee Sang-yi)}}
|-
! scope="row" | "Only You" ({{lang|ko|나를 아는 사람}}) {{small|(with Kim Jung-min, Simon Dominic, Lee Sang-yi)}}
| rowspan="2"|''[[Hangout with Yoo#MSG Wannabe|MSG Wannabe 1st Album]]''
|-
! scope="row" | "I Love You" ({{lang|ko|난 너를 사랑해}}) {{small|(with MSG Wannabe)}}
|-
|}

=== Music video appearances ===
{|class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|-
! scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Song Title
! scope="col" | Artist
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}}
|-
|2021
| "Only You + Foolish Love" (나를 아는 사람'을 '바라만 본다)
| [[MSG Wannabe]]
| <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNtB39hcC5Q|author=|title=[놀면뭐하니? 후공개] '나를 아는 사람'을 '바라만 본다' MSG워너비 쁘띠뮤비!|trans-title=|work=Youtube|publisher=|date=July 3, 2021|access-date=July 3, 2021|language=ko}}</ref>
|-
|}

== Awards and nominations ==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|+ Name of the award ceremony, year presented, category, nominee of the award, and the result of the nomination
! scope="col" | Award ceremony
! scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Category
! scope="col" | Nominee / Work
! scope="col" | Result
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}}
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="1" | [[APAN Star Awards]]
| style="text-align:center" rowspan="1" | [[7th APAN Star Awards|2021]]
| Excellence Award, Actor in a Serial Drama
| rowspan="1" | ''[[Once Again (South Korean TV series)|Once Again]]''
| {{won}}
| style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-01-25|title=이상이, 'APAN 스타 어워즈' 우수연기상 "책임감 더 크게 다가와|trans-title=Lee Sang, 'APAN Star Awards' Excellence Award, "The sense of responsibility comes closer |url=https://m.hankookilbo.com/News/Read/A2021012512510001020|access-date=2021-06-30|website=hankookilbo|language=ko}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="1" | Brand of the Year Awards
| style="text-align:center"| 2021
| Rising Star Actor
| Lee Sang-yi
| {{nom}}
| style="text-align:center"|
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="3" | [[KBS Drama Awards]]
| style="text-align:center" rowspan="3" | [[2020 KBS Drama Awards|2020]]
| Best New Actor
| rowspan="2" | ''[[Once Again (South Korean TV series)|Once Again]]''
| {{won}}
| style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-12-31|title=서지훈·이상이 신인상 공동수상‥이상이 뜨거운 눈물[2020 KBS 연기대상]|trans-title=Seo Ji-hoon and Lee Sang-i jointly won the Rookie of the Year award… Lee Sang-i's hot tears [2020 KBS Drama Awards] |url=https://newsen.com/news_view.php?uid=202012312028346710|access-date=2021-06-30|website=newsen|language=ko}}</ref>
|-
| Netizen Award, Actor
| {{nom}}
|style="text-align:center" |
|-
| Best Couple Award
| Lee Sang-yi with [[Lee Cho-hee]] ''[[Once Again (South Korean TV series)|Once Again]]''
| {{won}}
|style="text-align:center" | <ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-01-01|title=2020 KBS 연기대상] '한다다' 이상이·이초희 천호진·이정은 이민정·이상엽 베스트커플상|trans-title=2020 KBS Drama Awards] Lee Sang, Lee Cho-hee, Cheon Ho-jin, Lee Jung-eun, Lee Min-jung, Lee Sang-yeop Best Couple Award for 'Handada' |url=https://www.edaily.co.kr/news/read?newsId=01105366628913456&mediaCodeNo=258|access-date=2021-06-30|website=이데일리|language=ko}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="1" | [[Korea Musical Awards]]
| style="text-align:center" rowspan="1" | 2017
| Best New Actor
| ''Me and Natasha and the White Donkey''
| {{nom}}
| style="text-align:center" |
|-
! scope="row" | The Yegreen Musical Awards
| style="text-align:center"| 2016
| Best New Actor
| ''Infinite power''
| {{Nom}}
| style="text-align:center"|
|-
|}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb name}}
* {{Instagram}}
* {{HanCinema person}}
{{APAN Star Awards for Excellence in Acting, Actor}}

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[[Category:1991 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:21st-century South Korean male actors]]
[[Category:South Korean male musical theatre actors]]
[[Category:South Korean male actors]]
[[Category:South Korean male film actors]]
[[Category:South Korean male television actors]]
[[Category:Korea National University of Arts alumni]]
[[Category:Anyang Arts High School alumni]]

Lee Choon-jae

2021-09-30T14:15:27Z

UserArtificial820029: Romanization

{{short description|South Korean serial killer}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2019}}
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{{Infobox criminal
| name = Lee Choon-Jae
| native_name = 이춘재
| native_name_lang = ko
| image =
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| alias = Korean Zodiac Killer
| birth_place = [[Hwaseong, Gyeonggi|Hwaseong]], [[Gyeonggi Province|Gyeonggi]], [[South Korea]]
| birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|January 31, 1963}}<ref>[https://img.sbs.co.kr/newimg/news/20190929/201359052_1280.jpg SBS]</ref>
| victims = >45 (1 convicted murder, 14 confessed murders, and more than 30 confessed rapes and attempted rapes)
| fatalities = 15 (1 convicted, 14 confessed)
| country = South Korea
| beginyear = January 1986
| endyear = January 13, 1994
| apprehended = January 18, 1994
| conviction_status = Incarcerated
| conviction_penalty = Life sentence for murder and rape (eligible for parole after 20 years)
| imprisoned = The Busan Prison
| module = {{Infobox Korean name|child=yes
| hangul = {{linktext|이|춘|재}}
| hanja = {{linktext|李|春|在}}
| rr = I Chun-jae
| mr = I Chun-jae
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'''Lee Choon-Jae''' ({{Korean|이춘재|李春在}}; [[Revised Romanization of Korean|RR]]: I Chun-jae; born January 31, 1963) is a [[South Korea]]n [[serial killer]] who was convicted of killing his sister-in-law in 1994 and later confessed to killing 14 other women and young girls, including 10 people in the '''Hwaseong serial murders''' between 1986 and 1991. Lee was sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole after 20 years in the killing of his sister-in-law, but despite DNA evidence and his confession in 2019, he could not be prosecuted for the other murders because the [[statute of limitations]] had expired. He is currently still in prison serving his life sentence.

==Hwaseong serial murders==
The Hwaseong serial murders ({{Korean|hangul=화성 연쇄 살인 사건|hanja=華城連鎖殺人事件|rr=hwaseong yeonswae sarin sageon}}) were a series of rapes and murders that occurred in the rural city of [[Hwaseong, Gyeonggi|Hwaseong]] in [[Gyeonggi Province]] between September 15, 1986, and April 3, 1991, a period of four years and seven months.<ref name="engl_dong2">{{Cite web|author=Kyung-Hyun Nam|date=April 1, 2006|title=Hwaseong Killings Still Baffle Police|url=http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2006040104698|access-date=September 9, 2015|work=english.donga.com}}</ref> The victims, all women, were found bound, gagged, raped, and in most cases strangled to death with their own clothes, such as pantyhose or socks.<ref name=":12">{{Cite news|last=Nam|first=Kyung-Hyun|date=April 1, 2006|title=Hwaseong Killings Still Baffle Police|work=The Dong-A Ilbo|url=https://www.donga.com/en/article/all/20060401/246760/1/Hwaseong-Killings-Still-Baffle-Police|url-status=live|access-date=October 10, 2020}}</ref> The murders sparked the largest criminal case in South Korea with over 2{{nbsp}}million [[man-days]] spent on investigation and over 21,000 suspects investigated.<ref name="engl_dong2" /><ref>{{cite web|date=September 8, 2003|title="화성사건은 아직 끝나지 않았다" 당시 담당형사 책펴내|url=http://www.donga.com/news/View?gid=7981048&date=20030908|access-date=October 21, 2019|publisher=Donga Ilbo}}</ref> The cases remained unsolved for 30 years, until Yun Sang-yeo was identified as a suspect in 2019 and Lee confessed to 4 undisclosed murders not attributed to the serial murders and all 10 serial murders, including the case previously determined to be a copycat crime for which Yun Sang-yeo was sentenced to life in prison.

The serial murders are considered to be the most infamous in South Korea's modern history. They are often compared to those committed by the [[Zodiac Killer]] in the [[United States]],<ref name="roge_ASou2">{{Cite web|last=Cho|first=Seongyong|date=2012-05-23|title=A South Korean "Zodiac"|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/far-flung-correspondents/a-south-korean-zodiac|access-date=2015-09-09|work=RogerEbert.com}}</ref> and served as the inspiration for the 2003 film ''[[Memories of Murder]]''.<ref name="roge_ASou2" />

=== Background ===
The case began with the disappearance of Lee Wan-im (71) on September 15, 1986, while returning home after visiting her daughter.<ref name=":02">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=화성연쇄살인사건|url=https://terms.naver.com/entry.nhn?docId=74246&cid=43667&categoryId=43667|access-date=October 9, 2019|website=Naver Knowledge Encyclopedia|publisher=pmg Knowledge Engine Institute|language=ko}}</ref> Her body was found in a pasture on September 19, 1986, at 14:00, four days following the murder.<ref name=":02" /> A month later on October 20, 1986, Bak Hyeon-suk (25) disappeared after getting off the bus while returning home from [[Songtan]].<ref name=":02" /> Her body was found on October 23, 1986, at 14:50 in a canal.<ref name=":02" /> Two months later on December 12, 1986, Gwon Jung-bon (25) disappeared in front of her house.<ref name=":02" /> Her body was found three months later on April 23, 1987, at 14:00 in an embankment.<ref name=":02" /> Seven more murders followed over the next years.

The last murder was estimated to have taken place around 21:00 on April 3, 1991. Gwon Sun-sang (69) was discovered dead, raped, and strangled with pantyhose on a hill.<ref name=":12"/>

=== Investigation ===
The case is infamous within Korea for being the first truly identifiable string of murders with a similar [[modus operandi]].{{citation needed|date=May 2018}} More than 2{{nbsp}}million police officers, a record number for a single case, were mobilized to investigate the murders.<ref>{{cite web|date=September 18, 2019|title=Police identify suspect in serial murder case from 1980s|url=https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20190918010451315|access-date=September 19, 2019|publisher=[[Yonhap News]]}}</ref> Moreover, police officers involved spent 2{{nbsp}}million man-days on the case.<ref>{{cite web|date=September 8, 2003|title="화성사건은 아직 끝나지 않았다" 당시 담당형사 책펴내|url=http://news.donga.com/View?gid=7981048&date=20030908|access-date=March 24, 2016|publisher=DongA Ilbo|language=Korean|quote=연인원 200만명의 경찰이 투입됐고...}}</ref> The total number of suspects also grew to enormous numbers, eventually reaching a total count of 21,280 individuals.<ref name="hani">{{cite web|date=2006-04-01|title=화성연쇄살인사건 '살인의 추억' 으로 묻히나|url=http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/society/society_general/112522.html|access-date=March 24, 2016|publisher=[[The Hankyoreh]]|language=Korean}}</ref> In addition, 40,116 individuals had their fingerprints taken, and 570 DNA samples and 180 hair samples were analyzed.<ref name=":12"/>

The first five murders happened within a 6 km (3.7 mile) radius of Hwaseong, prompting police to spread out in teams of two, positioned every 100 meters (328 feet), but the next killing happened where there was no police presence.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|author=Julia Hollingsworth, Yoonjung Seo and Jake Kwon|title=For years, this South Korean serial killing case went unsolved. A police breakthrough only exposed more injustices|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/23/asia/south-korea-hwaseong-murder-injustices-intl-hnk/index.html|access-date=2020-10-10|website=CNN}}</ref> During the investigation, rumors that the killer targeted women wearing red clothes on rainy days spread,<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-09-19|title=Suspect identified in South Korea's infamous cold case 'Hwaseong murders'|url=https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3028007/police-identify-suspect-south-koreas-infamous-cold-case|access-date=2020-10-10|website=South China Morning Post|language=en}}</ref> leading some female police officers to wear red clothes in an attempt to lure the killer into a trap.<ref name=":2" />

A suspect sketch was drawn based on the memory of the bus driver, Kang, and bus conductor, Uhm, who saw a man get on the bus shortly after the seventh murder on September 7, 1988.<ref name="sketch3">{{cite news|last1=Hong|first1=Hyun-chul|date=May 8, 2011|title=화성 연쇄 살인사건…숨은 이야기 "살인자 모습 기억에 남아"|language=ko|work=Today Korea|url=http://www.todaykorea.co.kr/news/view.php?no=142887&old=tt|access-date=September 19, 2019}}</ref> The characteristics of the suspect, which were described by the bus driver, were similar to the descriptions given by survivors who were sexually assaulted.<ref name="sketch3" /> According to the victims, the culprit at the time of the incident was a thin-framed man in his mid-20s, with a height of 165 to 170 centimeters, short cut sporty-type hair, no [[double eyelid]]s, and a sharp nose.<ref>{{cite news|date=May 8, 2011|title=화성연쇄살인사건 범인 몽타주 공개…목격자 등장|language=ko|work=MBN|url=http://mbn.mk.co.kr/pages/news/newsPrintView.php?news_seq_no=1058262|access-date=September 19, 2019}}</ref> In addition, he was described as having soft hands.<ref name="sketch3" /> Police also stated that the suspect had a "B" blood type,<ref>{{cite news|date=September 19, 2019|title=화성사건 용의자, 처제 살인 전까지 화성에 살았다|language=ko|work=Yonhap News|url=https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20190919172800061?input=1195m|access-date=September 19, 2019}}</ref> but in 2019, police acknowledged that this was likely inaccurate, because Lee has blood type "O".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Moon|first1=Dong-sung|last2=Jo|first2=Min-ah|date=September 19, 2019|title=화성 사건 용의자의 혈액형 논란, "B형은 과거의 추정에 불과"|language=ko|work=kmib|url=http://news.kmib.co.kr/article/view.asp?arcid=0013730971&code=61121211&cp=nv|access-date=September 19, 2019}}</ref>

On July 27, 1989, hair evidence from the crime scene led to the arrest of a 22-year-old male with the surname of Yoon as the culprit in the eighth murder, which was later deemed unrelated to the other murders. In addition, in the tenth case, the genes obtained from a semen sample were different from the ninth case, and the location and method of crime were different from the other cases, suggesting a different culprit.{{citation needed|date=May 2018}} Except for the first crime, which occurred around 06:00, the second to tenth murders occurred mainly between 19:00 and 23:00.{{citation needed|date=May 2018}}

Reports state that at least four individuals, deemed as possible suspects, took their own lives in the 1990s after being investigated and allegedly abused by police.<ref name=":32">{{Cite web|last=Post|first=The Jakarta|title=South Korea police apologize over botched serial killer case|url=https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2020/07/02/south-korea-police-apologize-over-botched-serial-killer-case.html|access-date=2020-10-10|website=The Jakarta Post|language=en}}</ref>

=== Copycat crime ===
On July 27, 1989, Yun Sung-yeo, a 22-year-old man, was arrested for the murder of the eighth victim, 14-year-old Bak Sang-hui.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Lee|first1=Chang-kyu|date=October 4, 2019|title=[리부트] 화성연쇄살인사건 용의자 이춘재, '모방범죄' 8차 사건도 본인 소행 주장…수사 혼선 목적?|language=ko|work=Top Star News|url=http://www.topstarnews.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=677946|access-date=October 9, 2019}}</ref> Yun admitted guilt during questioning,<ref name="Yoon Sung-yeo22">{{cite news|last1=Kim|first1=Arin|date=October 10, 2019|title=Police say innocent man may have been jailed for 1980s Hwaseong murder|work=Korea Herald|url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20191010000705|access-date=October 10, 2019}}</ref> and according to a 1989 report written by an expert at National Forensic Service, the forensic tests of pubic hair samples found at the scene suggested similarities with his, returning a 40% match with Yun's.<ref name=":2" /> This case was determined to be a [[copycat crime]],<ref>{{cite news|last1=Kim|first1=Hyun-bin|date=October 8, 2019|title=Hwaseong murder case may have accused wrong person|work=Korea Times|url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2019/10/251_276811.html|access-date=October 9, 2019}}</ref> and Yun was sentenced to life in prison, but appealed the ruling at the time, alleging that police coerced him into giving false confessions through torture.<ref name="Yoon Sung-yeo22" /> His appeal was denied and he served 19.5 years in jail before being released on parole in 2009.<ref name="Yoon Sung-yeo22" />

Yun filed for a re-trial of his case on November 13, 2019, following news reports that Lee had confessed to all 10 serial murders.<ref name="Copycat22">{{cite web|date=15 November 2019|title=Police: Lee Chun-jae is behind all Hwaseong murders|url=https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20191115004100315|access-date=15 November 2019|publisher=[[Yonhap News Agency]]}}</ref> Two days later, police announced that they had reached a provisional conclusion that Lee was responsible for the murder for which Yoon was convicted. Police said Lee's confession in the eighth murder 'elaborately and coherently' described both the scene and the victim. This raised concerns that police had charged an innocent man,<ref name="Copycat3">{{cite web|date=15 November 2019|title=Police: Lee Chun-jae is behind all Hwaseong murders|url=https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20191115004100315|access-date=November 15, 2019|publisher=[[Yonhap News Agency]]}}</ref><ref>https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/03/asia/south-korea-hwaseong-apology-intl-hnk/index.html</ref> with the district prosecutors' office confirming that Yoon underwent cruel treatment by investigators at the time of his arrest and that a forensic report by the National Forensic Service had been fraudulently written.<ref name=":42">{{Cite web|last=Herald|first=The Korea|date=2019-12-23|title=Forensic report falsified in Hwasong murder case: prosecution|url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20191223000747|access-date=2020-10-10|website=www.koreaherald.com|language=en}}</ref> On December 2019, the Gyeonggi South Provincial Police Agency booked and charged eight of the original investigators with abuse of power and illegal detention for allegedly physically abusing Yoon when he was a suspect, forcing him to make a false confession, and falsifying investigative documents.<ref name=":32"/><ref name=":42" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/17/asia/hwaseong-south-korea-not-guilty-intl-hnk/index.html|title=South Korean man cleared of killing teenager after spending 20 years in jail for her murder|publisher=CNN}}</ref>

The court accepted Yun's plea for a re-trial in January 2020. The final court hearing was held on November 2, 2020, where Lee stood as a witness confessing to the murder and describing the crime scene.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-09-08|title='연쇄살인 8차 사건' 증인 채택…30년만에 법정 서는 이춘재|url=http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/area/capital/961204.html|access-date=2020-10-10|website=www.hani.co.kr|language=ko}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web|last=권준우|date=2020-11-02|title=22살적 '살인의 추억' 증언한 56살 이춘재 "왜 그랬나 모르겠다"|url=https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20201102107400061|access-date=2020-11-02|website=연합뉴스|language=ko}}</ref>

=== Public reaction ===
The release of the film ''[[Memories of Murder]]'' in 2003, which was partially inspired by the serial murders, sparked renewed interest in the case.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Nam|first=Kyung-Hyun|date=2006-04-01|title=Hwaseong Killings Still Baffle Police|url=http://www.donga.com/en/article/all/20060401/246760/1/Hwaseong-Killings-Still-Baffle-Police|access-date=2019-11-08|website=The Dong-a Ilbo}}</ref> The murder of a female college student in Hwaseong in 2004 also sparked renewed interest and fears that a serial killer had returned.<ref name="engl_TheC2">{{Cite news|date=September 1, 2007|title=Hwaseong Fears Return of Serial Killer|newspaper=The Chosun Ilbo|url=http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2007/01/09/2007010961018.html|access-date=September 9, 2015}}</ref> The serial murders made headlines again as the [[statute of limitations]] for the most recent victims was due to expire on April 2, 2006.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Time Running out to Find Hwaseong Ripper|url=http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2005/11/14/2005111461026.html|access-date=2019-11-08|website=The Chosun Ilbo}}</ref> At the time of the killings, there was a 15-year statute of limitations for first-degree murder. This was increased to 25 years in 2007, and finally lifted in 2015, but it was not [[Ex post facto law|retroactive]].<ref name="ID12">{{cite web|date=September 18, 2019|title=South Korean serial killer who inspired 'Memories of Murder' identified after 30 years|url=https://bnonews.com/index.php/2019/09/serial-killer-who-terrorized-south-korea-identified-after-30-years/|access-date=September 19, 2019|publisher=[[BNO News]]}}</ref> However, evidence and police records were kept due to the significance of the case.<ref>{{Cite web|title=After 3 decades, police believe they found infamous serial killer in South Korea|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/serial-killer-found-south-korea-police-believe-they-identified-suspect-today-2019-09-19/|access-date=2019-11-08|website=CBS News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-10-15|title=Suspect in decades-old Hwaseong serial murders in South Korea booked, case to be sent to prosecutors|url=https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/suspect-in-decades-old-serial-murders-in-south-korea-booked-case-to-be-sent-to|access-date=2019-11-08|website=The Straits Times}}</ref>

==Robbery charges==
On September 26, 1989, around 00:55, Lee broke into a house in [[Gwangju]], [[Suwon]], Gyeonggi Province, with weapons and gloves, and was discovered by the landlord.<ref name="Robbery">{{cite news |last1=Choi |first1=Sang-jin |title=화성연쇄살인사건 이춘재, 처제 사건 당시 "강압수사로 허위진술" 주장 |url=https://www.sedaily.com/NewsVIew/1VOEA5BF8C |access-date=October 11, 2019 |work=Se Daily |date=September 26, 2019 |language=ko}}</ref> He was sentenced by the Suwon District Court to one year and six months in prison in the first trial in February 1990 for the charges of robbery and violence.<ref name="Robbery" /> After the first trial, Lee filed an appeal, claiming that he was beaten by an unknown young man and entered the victim's house while being chased.<ref name="Robbery" /> In the second trial, following Lee's appeal, the court suspended his sentence to two years of probation, where he was released in mid-April, 1990.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lee |first1=Ki-joo |title=[단독] 이춘재 본적지 '화성군 태안읍' 확인…2·6번째 벌어진 곳 |url=http://imnews.imbc.com/replay/2019/nwdesk/article/5504135_24634.html |access-date=October 11, 2019 |work=MBC News |date=September 19, 2019 |language=ko}}</ref>

==Sister-in-law's murder and arrest==
After Lee's wife left him in December 1993, he invited over his 18-year-old [[sibling-in-law|sister-in-law]], then proceeded to drug, rape, and kill her on January 13, 1994.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kwon |first1=Sok-chun |title=처제 성폭행뒤 殺害 30代死刑원심 파기 |url=https://newslibrary.naver.com/viewer/index.nhn?articleId=1995011700329123008&editNo=20&printCount=1&publishDate=1995-01-17&officeId=00032&pageNo=23&printNo=15314&publishType=00010 |access-date=October 4, 2019 |work=Kyunghyang News |publisher=Naver News Library |date=January 17, 1995 |language=ko}}</ref> According to the detective who investigated him, Lee went to his father-in-law offering help in the search for his missing sister-in-law, and both reported that she might have been abducted.<ref name="Robbery" /> Lee was arrested a few days later, on January 18,<ref>{{cite news |first=Dong-bin|last=Shin|work=JB News|url=http://www.jbnews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=1261238|title=[단독] 이춘재, 조카 보러 온 처제 습관 노려 범행|date=September 19, 2019|access-date=October 4, 2019|language=ko}}</ref> after repeated questioning where he later asked, "How many years do you serve in prison for rape and murder?"<ref name="Robbery" /> Lee denied any responsibility and the court overturned his confession, stating that he made a false statement because of police coercion.<ref name="Robbery" /> However, Lee was convicted and sentenced to death in May 1994, and his conviction was upheld in September of the same year. The [[Supreme Court of South Korea]] reviewed the case in 1995 and Lee's death sentence was reduced to life imprisonment,<ref>{{cite news |last=Kim|first=Jin-joo|work=Hankook Ilbo|url=https://www.hankookilbo.com/News/Read/201909191742738301|title=이춘재 사건 담당판사 "사형 내릴 수 밖에 없다 생각, 판결문 자세히 썼다"|date=September 19, 2019|access-date=October 4, 2019|language=ko}}</ref> with the possibility of parole after 20 years.<ref name="confession"/>

==Identification and confession==
On September 18, 2019, police announced that Lee had been identified as a suspect in the serial murders.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Park |first1=Seon-young |title=[단독]"경찰, 공소시효 끝나는 15년간 DNA 분석 시도 안 했다" |url=http://www.ichannela.com/news/main/news_detailPage.do?publishId=000000167053 |access-date=September 19, 2019 |work=Channel A |date=September 19, 2019 |language=ko}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20190918000889|title=Police find suspect in 30-year-old Hwaseong serial murder case|date=2019-09-18|website=The Korea Herald|access-date=2019-11-08}}</ref><ref name="ID12"/> He was identified after [[DNA]] from the underwear of one of the victims was matched with his, and subsequent DNA testing linked him to four of the other unsolved serial murders.<ref name="confession">{{cite web|url=https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20191002004700315|title=Hwaseong serial murderer may have confessed as chances of parole dimmed|date=October 2, 2019|publisher=[[Yonhap News Agency]]|access-date=October 2, 2019}}</ref> At the time he was identified, he was already serving a life sentence at a prison in [[Busan]] for the rape and murder of his sister-in-law.<ref>{{cite news |title=Police find suspect in 30-year-old Hwaseong serial murder case |url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20190918000889 |access-date=September 19, 2019 |work=The Korea Herald |date=September 18, 2019}}</ref> Lee initially denied any involvement in the serial murders,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20190919008400315?section=national/national|title=Suspect denies involvement in S. Korea's worst serial murder case|publisher=[[Yonhap News Agency]]|date=September 19, 2019|access-date=September 19, 2019}}</ref> but on October 2, 2019, police announced that Lee had confessed to killing 14 people, including all 10 victims in the serial murders, which includes a case previously considered to be a copycat crime, and 4 others. Three of those other murders happened in Hwaseong but had not previously been attributed to the serial killer, and the other two happened in [[Cheongju]]. As of October 2019, details about those four victims have not been released.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20191002050253061?section=society/accident&site=major_news01|title=이춘재 "이런 날 올 줄 알았다"…살인 14건 포함 총 40여건 자백(종합2보)|access-date=October 8, 2019 |work=Yonhap News |date=October 2, 2019 |language=ko}}</ref> In addition to the murders, he also confessed to more than 30 rapes and attempted rapes.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20191001009800320?section=national/national|title=Suspect in Hwaseong serial murder case confesses to killings: police|access-date=October 8, 2019 |work=Yonhap News|date=October 1, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Kwon|last2=Hollingsworth|first1=Jake|first2=Julia|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/04/asia/south-korean-serial-murder-confessed-intl-hnk-scli/index.html|title=South Korean man confesses to a series of murders that stumped police for decades|work=CNN|date=October 4, 2019|access-date=October 8, 2019}}</ref><ref name="8th murder">{{cite news |title=화성 연쇄살인 "8차 사건 내가 했다" |url=https://www.yna.co.kr/view/GYH20191004001000044 |access-date=October 8, 2019 |work=Yonhap News |date=October 4, 2019 |language=ko}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Shim |first1=Kyu-seok |title=Killer's confession is key to Cheongju murders |url=http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=3068781 |access-date=October 9, 2019 |work=Korea JoongAng Daily |date=October 8, 2019}}</ref><ref>https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20191217003400315</ref>

On November 15, 2019, police announced that they had reached a provisional conclusion that Lee was responsible for all 10 serial murders.<ref name="Copycat">{{cite web|date=November 15, 2019|title=Police: Lee Chun-jae is behind all Hwaseong murders|url=https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20191115004100315|access-date=November 15, 2019|publisher=[[Yonhap News Agency]]}}</ref> Police expressed that Lee had a weak self-esteem due to his introverted personality but experienced a sense of accomplishment and self-reliance for the first time in his mandatory military service, which led him to commit sex crimes to express his frustration caused by his monotonous life following his discharge from the military.<ref name=":52">{{Cite web|title=30년만에 끝난 '살인의 추억'...이춘재 연쇄살인 14건 확인|url=https://www.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2020/07/02/2020070201209.html|access-date=2020-10-10|website=www.chosun.com|language=ko}}</ref> The provincial police chief stated that Lee displayed psychopathic tendencies by being unable to empathize with the victims' pain and suffering and continuously showing off his crimes.<ref name=":32"/>

On July 2, 2020, the police confirmed that Lee committed 14 murders and nine rapes in relation to the Hwaseong serial murders with the motive of relieving his sexual desire,<ref name=":52"/> closing the case 33 years after the first victim's death. On November 2, 2020, Lee appeared in court as a witness for the 8th murder re-trial, where he publicly confessed to committing 14 murders in relation to the Hwaseong serial murders and 30 sex crimes. Lee is currently still in prison serving his life sentence.<ref name=":4" /><ref>https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/02/asia/hwaseong-serial-killer-guilt-intl-hnk/index.html</ref>

==List of known victims==
''The first 10 murders were part of the Hwaseong serial murders.''
{|class='wikitable'
!Crime
!Date and time of crime (estimated)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://terms.naver.com/entry.nhn?docId=74246&cid=43667&categoryId=43667|title=화성연쇄살인사건|last=|first=|date=|website=Naver Knowledge Encyclopedia|publisher=pmg Knowledge Engine Institute|access-date=October 9, 2019|language=ko}}</ref>
!Date and time of discovery<ref name=":0" />
!Victim and age
!Location<ref name=":0" />
!Remarks
|-
!1
|September 15, 1986 06:20
|September 19, 1986 14:00
| Lee Wan-im, 71
| Taean-eup (Now called [[Hwaseong, Gyeonggi|Hwaseong]]), Annyeong-ri (now called Annyeong-dong), pasture
| Elder murdered while returning home after visiting her daughter.<ref name=":0" /> '''Evidence found:''' Strangled by hand, negative semen reaction <ref name=":0" />
|-
!2
|October 20, 1986 22:00
|October 23, 1986 14:50
|Park Hyun-sook, 25
| Taean-eup (now called Hwaseong), Jinan-ri (now called Jinan-dong), canal
| Murdered after getting off the bus while returning home from [[Songtan]] after meeting with a prospective marriage partner.<ref name=":0" /> '''Evidence found:''' Strangled by hand, semen (blood type cannot be determined)<ref name=":0" />
|-
!3
|December 12, 1986 23:00
|April 23, 1987 14:00
|Kwon Jung-bon, 25
| Taean-eup (now called Hwaseong), Annyeong-ri (now called Annyeong-dong), embankment
| Housewife murdered in front of her house.<ref name=":0" /> '''Evidence found:''' Strangled by stockings, gagged with her stockings, panties on the face, semen (blood type cannot be determined)<ref name=":0" />
|-
!4
|December 14, 1986 23:00
|December 21, 1986 12:30
|Lee Kye-sook, 23
| Jeongnam-myeon, Gwanhang-ri, ridge between rice fields
| Murdered after getting off the bus while returning home after meeting with a prospective marriage partner.<ref name=":0" /> '''Evidence found:''' Hands tied, strangled and violated by an umbrella, girdle covering her face, semen (blood type cannot be determined)<ref name=":0" />
|-
!5
|January 10, 1987 20:50
|January 11, 1987 13:00
| Hong Jin-young, 19
| Taean-eup (now called Hwaseong), Hwanggye-ri (now called Hwanggye-dong), rice paddy
| High school girl murdered after getting off the bus while returning home.<ref name=":0" /> '''Evidence found:''' Hands tied, gagged with her socks, strangled, semen (blood type cannot be determined)<ref name=":0" />
|-
!6
|May 2, 1987 23:00
|May 9, 1987 15:00
|Park Eun-joo, 29
| Taean-eup (now called Hwaseong), Jinan-ri (now called Jinan-dong), hill
| Housewife murdered while going to give her husband an umbrella.<ref name=":0" /> '''Evidence found:''' strangled, semen (blood type cannot be determined)<ref name=":0" />
|-
!7
|September 7, 1987 21:30
|September 8, 1987 09:30
| Ahn Gi-soon, 54
| Paltan-myeon, Gajae-ri, canal
| Housewife murdered after getting off the bus while returning home.<ref name=":0" /> '''Evidence found:''' Hands tied, gagged with her socks and handkerchief, strangled, peach slices, semen (blood type cannot be determined)<ref name=":0" />
|-
!8
|September 16, 1988 02:00
|September 16, 1988 06:50
| Park Sang-hee, 14
| Taean-eup (now called Hwaseong), Jinan-ri (now called Jinan-dong), house
| Middle school girl murdered while sleeping in her room.<ref name=":0" /> Initially determined to be a copycat crime perpetrated by 22-year-old Yoon Sung-yeo,<ref>{{cite news |last=Jeon |first=Woo-yong |title=이춘재, 화성 8차사건 범행 인정 '범인 윤성여는 무기징역 복역중' |url=http://www.anewsa.com/detail.php?number=1993216&thread=09r02 |access-date=October 9, 2019 |work=Asia News Agency |date=October 4, 2019 |language=ko}}</ref> who served 19.5 years in jail before being released on parole in 2009.<ref name=":0" /> However, after Lee's confession in 2019, police reached a provisional conclusion that Lee was indeed the killer.<ref name="8th murder" /><ref name="Yoon Sung-yeo22"/> Yoon filed for a re-trial on 13 November 2019.<ref name="Copycat"/>
|-
!9
|November 15, 1990 18:30 {{small|(weather: foggy)}}
|November 16, 1990 09:50
| Kim Mi-jung, 14
| Taean-eup (now called Hwaseong), Byeongjeom-dong (now called Byeongjeom-dong), hill
| Middle school girl murdered while returning home.<ref name=":0" /> '''Evidence found:''' Hands and feet tied, strangled, gagged with her bra, ballpoint pen, fork, spoon and razor blade, semen (blood-type determined to be "B")<ref name=":0" />
|-
!10
|April 3, 1991 21:00 {{small|(weather: clear)}}
|April 4, 1991 09:30
|Kwon Soon-sang, 69
| Dongtan-myeon, Bansong-ri (now called Bansong-dong), hill
| Elder murdered after getting off the bus while returning home.<ref name=":0" /> '''Evidence found:''' Strangled, two footprint marks (couldn't be analyzed), semen (blood-type determined to be "B")<ref name=":0" />
|-
!11
|''Not released''
|''Not released''
|''Not released''
|Hwaseong
|
|-
!12
|''Not released''
|''Not released''
|''Not released''
|Hwaseong
|
|-
!13
|''Not released''
|''Not released''
|''Not released''
|Hwaseong
|
|-
!14
|''Not released''
|''Not released''
|''Not released''
|[[Cheongju]], [[North Chungcheong Province]]
|
|-
!15
|January 13, 1994
|''Not released''
|''Lee's sister-in-law'', 18
| Bokdae-dong, Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province
|Lee was sentenced to death for rape and murder. Reduced to life imprisonment by the Supreme Court.
|}

==In media==
Several films and television shows were based on the Hwaseong serial murders.<ref name="roge_ASou">{{Cite web|last=Cho|first=Seongyong|date=May 23, 2012|title=A South Korean "Zodiac"|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/far-flung-correspondents/a-south-korean-zodiac|access-date=September 9, 2015|work=RogerEbert.com}}</ref>
* ''[[Memories of Murder]]'' (2003)
* ''[[Confession of Murder]]'' (2012)
* ''[[Gap-dong]]'' (2014)
* ''[[Signal (South Korean TV series)|Signal]]'' (2016)
* ''[[Tunnel (South Korean TV series)|Tunnel]]'' (2017)
* ''[[Criminal Minds (South Korean TV series)|Criminal Minds]] (2017)''
* ''[[Partners for Justice]]'' (2018)
* ''[[Signal (Japanese TV series)|Signal]]'' (2018)
* ''[[Unknown Number]]'' (2019)
* ''[[Flower of Evil (TV series)|Flower of Evil]]'' (2020)

==See also==
* [[List of serial killers by country]]
* [[List of serial killers by number of victims]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Male serial killers]]
[[Category:Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by South Korea]]
[[Category:South Korean murderers of children]]
[[Category:South Korean serial killers]]
[[Category:South Korean rapists]]
[[Category:Hwaseong, Gyeonggi]]
[[Category:1986 in South Korea]]
[[Category:1987 in South Korea]]
[[Category:1988 in South Korea]]
[[Category:1990 in South Korea]]
[[Category:1986 murders in Asia]]
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Joseon

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| conventional_long_name = Great Joseon / Chosŏn
| native_name = {{lang|ko|朝鮮}} ({{lang|ko|조선}})<ref>{{cite news |url = http://www.newstown.co.kr/newsbuilder/service/article/messmail.asp?P_Index=72824 |script-title = ko:(세상사는 이야기) 왜색에 물든 우리말-(10) |publisher = Newstown |author = Li, Jun-gyu (이준규) |date = 2009-07-22 |language = ko |quote = 1392년부터 1910년까지 한반도전역을 통치하였던 조선(朝鮮)은 일반적으로 조선왕조(朝鮮王朝)라 칭하였으며, 어보(御寶), 국서(國書)등에도 대조선국(大朝鮮國)이라는 명칭을 사용하였었다. (translation) Joseon which had ruled from 1392 to 1910 was commonly referred to as the "Joseon dynasty" while "Great Joseon State" was used in the royal seal, national documents, and others. }}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
| status_text =
| government_type = [[Absolute monarchy]]<ref>{{cite book |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=vWNNWVwaUpMC&q=joseon+dynasty+absolute+monarchy&pg=PA16 |title=Interior Space and Furniture of Joseon Upper-class Houses|first=Sang-hun|last=Choi|date=27 October 2017|publisher=Ewha Womans University Press|via=Google Books|page=16|isbn=9788973007202|quote=Joseon was an absolute monarchy}}</ref>
| year_start = 1392
| year_end = 1897
| event_start = Coronation of [[Taejo of Joseon|Taejo]]
| date_start = 5 August
| event1 = [[Hunminjeongeum|Promulgation of the Korean alphabet]]
| date_event1 = 9 October 1446
| event2 = [[Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)|Japanese invasions]]
| date_event2 = 1592–1598
| event3 = [[Later Jin invasion of Joseon|First]] and [[Qing invasion of Joseon|second Manchu invasions]]
| date_event3 = 1627, 1636–1637
| event4 = [[Japan–Korea Treaty of 1876]]
| date_event4 = 26 February 1876
| event5 = [[Treaty of Shimonoseki]]
| date_event5 = 17 April 1895
| event_end = [[Korean Empire|Elevation to empire]]
| date_end = 13 October
| p1 = Goryeo
| flag_p1 = Royal flag of Goryeo (Bong-gi).svg
| border_p1 = no
| s1 = Korean Empire
| flag_s1 = Flag of Korea (1893).svg
| image_flag = Flag of the king of Joseon.svg
| image_flag2 = Flag of Korea (1893).svg
| flag_border = no
| flag2_border = no
| flag_size =
| flag_type_article = List of Korean flags
| flag_type = Top: Royal standard from 1882 to 1897 Bottom: Flag from 1893 to 1897
| image_coat = Coat of Arms of Joseon Korea.svg
| coa_size = 80px
| symbol_type = Royal coat of arms<div style="padding:3px 0;">[[File:Emblem of the Kingdom of Great Joseon.svg|80px|Emblem of the Kingdom of Great Joseon]]</div>Emblem of the kingdom (late 19th century)
| other_symbol = '''[[Seal (East Asia)#Government authorities|Royal seal]]''' 朝鮮王寶 (조선왕보) [[File:Joseon wang bo (Royal Seal Treasure of the Joseon King).svg|85px]]
| image_map_caption = Territory of Joseon after King Sejong conquest of Jurchen
| capital = [[Kaesong|Gaegyeong]] (1392-1394/1399-1405) [[Seoul|Hanseong]] (1394-1399/1405-1897)
| official_languages = [[Korean language|Korean]]{{br}}[[Classical Chinese|Literary Chinese]]<ref name="Met"/><ref name="Lee"/><ref name="Orchiston-Green-Strom"/>
| religion = {{nowrap|[[Korean Confucianism|Confucianism]] ([[state religion|state ideology]])}} [[Korean Buddhism|Buddhism]] [[Korean shamanism|Shamanism]] [[Taoism in Korea|Taoism]] [[Christianity in Korea|Christianity]] (recognized in 1886)
| currency = [[Korean mun|Mun]] (1423–1425, 1625–1892) [[Korean yang|Yang]] (1892–1897)
| title_leader = [[List of Joseon monarchs|King]]
| leader1 = [[Taejo of Joseon|Taejo]]
| year_leader1 = 1392–1398 (first)
| leader2 = [[Gojong of Korea|Gojong]]
| year_leader2 = 1863–1897 (last)
| title_deputy = [[Yeonguijeong|Chief State Councillor]]{{efn|Style: ''Yeonguijeong'' (1401-1894); ''Naegak chongri daesin'' (1894-96); ''Ui jeong'' (1896-1905)|name="Yeonguijeong"}}
| deputy1 = Bae Geuk-ryeom (배극렴)
| year_deputy1 = 1392 (first)
| deputy2 = Gim Byeong-si (김병시)
| year_deputy2 = 1894–1898 (last)
| stat_year1 = 1400<ref name="조선왕조시대 인구추정에 관한 일시론">{{cite book |author = 권태환 신용하 |title = 조선왕조시대 인구추정에 관한 일시론 |year = 1977 }}</ref>
| stat_pop1 = 5,730,000
| stat_year2 = 1500<ref name="한국경제통사">{{cite book |author = 이헌창 |title = 한국경제통사 52쪽 |year = 1999}}</ref>
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| stat_pop4 = 13,500,000
| stat_year5 = 1900<ref name="조선왕조시대 인구추정에 관한 일시론"/>
| stat_pop5 = 17,082,000
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| demonym = [[Koreans|Korean]]
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| hanja = {{linktext|朝鮮}}
| rr = Joseon
| mr = Chosŏn
| koreanipa = {{IPA-ko|tɕo.sʌn|}}
| othername1 = [[North Korean standard language|North Korea name]]
| hangul1 = {{linktext|조선봉건왕조}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.naenara.com.kp/ko/history/period.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190701053405/http://www.naenara.com.kp/ko/history/period.php|archive-date=2019-07-01|title=조선력사 시대구분표|website=[[Naenara]]|access-date=1 July 2019|language=ko}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.naenara.com.kp/en/history/period.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190701053644/http://www.naenara.com.kp/en/history/period.php|archive-date=2019-07-01|title=Korean History in Chronological Order|website=[[Naenara]]|access-date=1 July 2019}}</ref>
| hanja1 = {{linktext|朝鮮封建王朝}}
| rr1 = Joseon Bonggeon Wangjo
| mr1 = Chosŏn Ponggŏn Wangjo
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| hanja2 = {{linktext|大|朝鮮|國}}
| rr2 = Daejoseonguk
| mr2 = Taechosŏnguk
| koreanipa2 = {{IPA-ko|tɛ.tɕo.sʌn.ɡuk̚|}}
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'''Joseon''' (also transcribed as '''Chosŏn''', {{lang-ko|대조선국; 大朝鮮國}}, {{Literal translation|Great Joseon State}}) was a Korean dynastic kingdom that lasted for approximately five centuries.<ref>{{cite web |title=Chosŏn dynasty {{!}} Korean history |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Choson-dynasty |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. |access-date=10 February 2019 |language=en}}</ref> It was the last dynastic kingdom of Korea.<ref name="Confucianism">{{cite book|title=Women Our History|year=2019|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lxGnDwAAQBAJ&q=joseon+longest+confucian+dynasty+korea&pg=PA82|page=82|isbn=9780241395332|author1=D. K}}</ref> It was founded by [[Taejo of Joseon|Yi Seong-gye]] in July 1392 and replaced by the [[Korean Empire]] in October 1897.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title= 조선 |encyclopedia= 한국민족문화대백과 }}</ref> The kingdom was founded following the aftermath of the overthrow of [[Goryeo]] in what is today the city of [[Kaesong]]. Early on, Korea was retitled and the capital was relocated to modern-day [[Seoul]]. The kingdom's northernmost borders were expanded to the natural boundaries at the rivers of [[Amnok River|Amnok]] and [[Tumen River|Tuman]] through the subjugation of the [[Jurchens]].

During its 500-year duration, Joseon encouraged the entrenchment of Confucian ideals and doctrines in Korean society. [[Neo-Confucianism]] was installed as the new state's ideology. [[Korean Buddhism|Buddhism]] was accordingly discouraged and occasionally faced persecutions. Joseon consolidated its effective rule over the territory of current Korea and saw the height of classical Korean culture, trade, literature, and science and technology. In the 1590s, the kingdom was severely weakened due to [[Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)|Japanese invasions]]. Several decades later, Joseon was invaded by the [[Later Jin (1616–1636)|Later Jin dynasty]] and the [[Qing dynasty]] in [[Later Jin invasion of Joseon|1627]] and [[Qing invasion of Joseon|1636–1637]] respectively, leading to an increasingly harsh isolationist policy, for which the country became known as the "[[hermit kingdom]]" in [[Western literature]]. After the end of these invasions from [[Manchuria]], Joseon experienced a nearly 200-year period of peace and prosperity, along with cultural and technological development. However, whatever power that the kingdom recovered during its isolation waned as the 18th century came to a close. Faced with internal strife, power struggles, international pressure, and rebellions at home, the Joseon kingdom declined rapidly in the late 19th century.

The Joseon period has left a substantial legacy to modern Korea; much of modern [[Korean culture]], etiquette, norms, and societal attitudes towards current issues, along with [[Korean language|the modern Korean language]] and [[Korean dialects|its dialects]], derive from the culture and traditions of Joseon. Modern Korean bureaucracy and administrative divisions were also established during the Joseon period.

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== History ==
{{History of Korea}}
{{Main|History of the Joseon dynasty}}

=== Early Joseon period ===
[[File:King Taejo Yi 02.jpg|thumb|left|[[Taejo of Joseon|King Taejo]]'s portrait]]

==== Founding ====
By the late 14th century, the nearly 500-year-old [[Goryeo]] established in 918 was tottering, its foundations collapsing from years of war and ''de facto'' occupation from the disintegrating [[Mongol Empire]]. Following the emergence of the [[Ming dynasty]], the royal court in Goryeo split into two conflicting factions: the group led by General Yi (supporting the Ming) and the camp led by [[Choe Yeong|General Choe]] (standing by the Yuan).

Goryeo claimed to be the successor of the ancient kingdom of [[Goguryeo]] (which was later renamed Goryeo); as such, restoring [[Manchuria]] as part of Korean territory was part of its foreign policy throughout its history. When a Ming messenger came to Goryeo in 1388, the 14th year of [[U of Goryeo]], to demand that Goguryeo's former northern territory be handed over to Ming China, General Choe seized the chance to argue for an attack on the [[Liaodong Peninsula]].

Yi was chosen to lead the attack; however, he revolted and swept back to Gaegyeong and initiated a [[coup d'état]], overthrowing King U in favor of his son, [[Chang of Goryeo]] (1388). He later killed King U and his son after a failed restoration and forcibly placed a royal named Yi on the throne (he became [[Gongyang of Goryeo]]). In 1392, Yi eliminated [[Jeong Mong-ju]], highly respected leader of a group loyal to Goryeo dynasty, and dethroned King Gongyang, exiling him to [[Wonju]], and before he ascended the throne. The Goryeo kingdom had come to an end after almost 500 years of rule.

In the beginning of his reign, Yi Seonggye, now ruler of Korea, intended to continue use of the name Goryeo for the country he ruled and simply change the royal line of descent to his own, thus maintaining the façade of continuing the 500-year-old Goryeo tradition. However, after numerous threats of mutiny from the drastically weakened but still influential Gwonmun nobles, who continued to swear allegiance to the remnants of the Goryeo and now the demoted Wang clan, the consensus in the reformed court was that a new dynastic title was needed to signify the change. In naming the new kingdom, Taejo contemplated two possibilities - "Hwaryeong" and "Joseon". After much internal deliberation, as well as endorsement by the neighboring Ming dynasty's emperor, Taejo declared the name of the kingdom to be Joseon, a tribute to the ancient Korean state of [[Gojoseon]].<ref>{{cite book |last= Kang|first= Jae-eun|date= 2006|title= The Land of Scholars: Two Thousand Years of Korean Confucianism|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=XB4UYXNQK1wC&q=ming+taizu+joseon|publisher= Homa & Sekey Books|page= 177|access-date= August 7, 2015|isbn= 9781931907309}} "Yi Seong-gye issued a royal edict to proclaim the name of the new kingdom to "Joseon" and issued amnesty to all criminals who opposed the transition. The statement by Taizu about "only the name of Joseon is beautiful and old" naturally refers to Gija Joseon."</ref> He also moved the capital to [[Seoul|Hanyang]] from Kaesong.

==== Strife of princes ====
[[File:Gyeongbok-gung palace-01 (xndr).jpg|alt=|left|thumb|The Throne at [[Gyeongbokgung]]]]

When the new dynasty was brought into existence, Taejo brought up the issue of which son would be his successor. Although Yi Bangwon, Taejo's fifth son by Queen Sineui, had contributed most to assisting his father's rise to power, the prime minister [[Jeong Dojeon]] and [[Nam Eun]] used their influence on King Taejo to name his eighth son (second son of Queen Sindeok) Grand Prince Uian (Yi Bangseok) as crown prince in 1392. This conflict arose largely because Jeong Dojeon, who shaped and laid down ideological, institutional, and legal foundations of the new kingdom more than anyone else, saw Joseon as a kingdom led by ministers appointed by the king while Yi Bangwon wanted to establish the absolute monarchy ruled directly by the king. With Taejo's support, Jeong Dojeon kept limiting the royal family's power by prohibiting political involvement of princes and attempting to abolish their private armies. Both sides were well aware of each other's great animosity and were getting ready to strike first.

After the sudden death of Queen Sindeok, while King Taejo was still in mourning for his second wife, Yi Bangwon struck first by raiding the palace and killed Jeong Dojeon and his supporters as well as Queen Sindeok's two sons (his half-brothers) including the crown prince in 1398. This incident became known as the First Strife of Princes.

Aghast at the fact that his sons were willing to kill each other for the crown, and psychologically exhausted from the death of his second wife, King Taejo abdicated and immediately crowned his second son Yi Banggwa as [[Jeongjong of Joseon|King Jeongjong]]. One of King Jeongjong's first acts as monarch was to revert the capital to [[Kaesong]], where he is believed to have been considerably more comfortable, away from the toxic power strife. Yet Yi Bangwon retained real power and was soon in conflict with his disgruntled older brother, Yi Banggan, who also yearned for power. In 1400, the tensions between Yi Bangwon's faction and Yi Banggan's camp escalated into an all-out conflict that came to be known as the Second Strife of Princes. In the aftermath of the struggle, the defeated Yi Banggan was exiled to [[Tosan County|Dosan]] while his supporters were executed. Thoroughly intimidated, King Jeongjong immediately invested Yi Bangwon as heir presumptive and voluntarily abdicated. That same year, Yi Bangwon assumed the throne of Joseon at long last as [[Taejong of Joseon|King Taejong]], third king of Joseon.

====Consolidation of royal power====
In the beginning of Taejong's reign, the Grand King Former, Taejo, refused to relinquish the royal seal that signified the legitimacy of any king's rule. Taejong began to initiate policies he believed would prove his qualification to rule. One of his first acts as king was to abolish the privilege enjoyed by the upper echelons of government and the aristocracy to maintain private armies. His revoking of such rights to field independent forces effectively severed their ability to muster large-scale revolts, and drastically increased the number of men employed in the national military. Taejong's next act as king was to revise the existing legislation concerning the taxation of land ownership and the recording of state of subjects. With the discovery of previously hidden land, national income increased twofold.

In 1399, Taejong had played an influential role in scrapping the [[Dopyeong Assembly]], a council of the old government administration that held a monopoly in court power during the waning years of the Goryeo kingdom, in favor of the [[State Council of Joseon]] ({{Hangul|의정부}} {{Hanja|議政府}}), a new branch of central administration that revolved around the king and his edicts. After passing the subject documentation and taxation legislation, King Taejong issued a new decree in which all decisions passed by the State Council could only come into effect with the approval of the king. This ended the custom of court ministers and advisors making decisions through debate and negotiations amongst themselves, and thus brought the royal power to new heights.

Shortly thereafter, Taejong installed an office, known as the [[Sinmun Office]], to hear cases in which aggrieved subjects felt that they had been exploited or treated unjustly by government officials or [[aristocracy (class)|aristocrat]]s. However, Taejong kept Jeong Dojeon's reforms intact for most part. In addition, Taejong executed or exiled many of his supporters who helped him ascend on the throne in order to strengthen the royal authority. To limit influence of in-laws, he also killed all four of his Queen's brothers and his son [[Sejong the Great|Sejong]]'s father-in-law. Taejong remains a controversial figure who killed many of his rivals and relatives to gain power and yet ruled effectively to improve the populace's lives, strengthen national defense, and lay down a solid foundation for his successor Sejong's rule.

====Sejong the Great====
[[File:영의정하연부부영정3.jpg|thumb|left|Portrait of [[Ha Yeon]] who served as [[Yeonguijeong]] during the [[Sejong of Joseon|King Sejong]]'s reign.]]
[[File:Hunmin jeong-eum.jpg|thumb|right|A page from the ''Hunmin Jeong-eum Eonhae'', a partial translation of ''[[Hunminjeongeum]]'', the original promulgation of the Korean alphabet]]

In August 1418, following Taejong's abdication two months earlier, [[Sejong the Great]] ascended the throne. In May 1419, King Sejong, under the advice and guidance of his father Taejong, embarked upon the [[Ōei Invasion|Gihae Eastern Expedition]] to remove the nuisance of [[Wokou|waegu]] (coastal pirates) who had been operating out of [[Tsushima Island]].

In September 1419, the ''[[daimyō]]'' of Tsushima, Sadamori, capitulated to the Joseon court. In 1443, The [[Treaty of Gyehae]] was signed in which the ''daimyō'' of Tsushima was granted rights to conduct trade with Korea in fifty ships per year in exchange for sending tribute to Korea and aiding to stop any Waegu coastal pirate raids on Korean ports.<ref>{{Cite book |title= Korea | last= Richard Rutt.| publisher= Routledge/Curzon| date= September 1999|isbn=978-0-7007-0464-4|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=vj8ShHzUxrYC&q=kyehae%20treaty&pg=PA255|display-authors=etal}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title= The Cambridge history of Japan |volume=3 |trans-title= Medieval Japan |last= John W. Hall.| publisher= Cambridge University Press | date= April 27, 1990|isbn=978-0-521-22354-6|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=lCd4reJRaG8C&q=kyehae%20treaty&pg=PA442|display-authors=etal}}</ref><ref>{{in lang|ko}} [http://100.nate.com/dicsearch/pentry.html?s=B&i=112816&v=42 계해약조 癸亥約條] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610053214/http://100.nate.com/dicsearch/pentry.html?s=B&i=112816&v=42 |date=2011-06-10 }} [[Nate (web portal)|Nate]] / [[Britannica]]</ref><ref>{{in lang|ko}}[http://100.nate.com/dicsearch/pentry.html?s=K&i=236670&v=42 계해조약 癸亥約條] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610053227/http://100.nate.com/dicsearch/pentry.html?s=K&i=236670&v=42 |date=2011-06-10 }} [[Nate (web portal)|Nate]] / [[Encyclopedia of Korean Culture]]</ref>

On the northern border, Sejong established four forts and six posts ({{Hanja|四郡六鎭}}; {{Hangul|사군육진}}) to safeguard his people from the [[Jurchen people|Jurchens]], who later became the [[Manchu people|Manchus]], living in Manchuria. In 1433, Sejong sent [[Kim Jong-seo (general)|Kim Jong-seo]], a government official, north to fend off the Jurchens. Kim's military campaign captured several castles, pushed north, and restored Korean territory, roughly the present-day border between North Korea and China.<ref>{{cite book | author=박영규 | title=한권으로 읽는 세종대왕실록 | publisher=웅진, 지식하우스 | year=2008 | isbn=978-89-01-07754-3}}</ref>

During the rule of Sejong, Korea saw advances in [[natural science]], [[agriculture]], [[literature]], [[traditional Chinese medicine]], and engineering. Because of such success, Sejong was given the title "Sejong the Great".<ref name="asiasociety">{{cite web|url=http://www.asiasociety.org/countries-history/traditions/king-sejong-great|title=King Sejong the Great And The Golden Age Of Korea|date=19 August 2008|publisher=asiasociety.org|access-date=27 November 2009}}</ref> The most remembered contribution of King Sejong is the creation of [[Hangul]], the Korean alphabet, in 1443; everyday use of [[Hanja]] in writing eventually was surpassed by Hangul in the later half of the 20th century.

====Six martyred ministers====
After King Sejong's death, his son [[Munjong of Joseon|Munjong]] continued his father's legacy but soon died of illness in 1452, just two years after coronation. He was succeeded by his twelve-year-old son, [[Danjong of Joseon|Danjong]]. In addition to two regents, [[Princess Gyeonghye]] also served as Danjong's guardian and, along with the general Kim Jongso, attempted to strengthen royal authority.<ref name="an">{{cite web |url = http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2016/05/628_153138.html |title=Forgotten story of Princess Gyeonghye |last1=An|first1=Seung-jun|website=Korea Times|date=4 April 2014|access-date=22 February 2018 }}</ref> However, Danjong's uncle, [[Sejo of Joseon|Sejo]], gained control of the government and eventually deposed his nephew to become the seventh king of Joseon himself in 1455. After [[Six martyred ministers|six ministers loyal to Danjong]] attempted to assassinate Sejo to return Danjong to the throne, Sejo executed the six ministers and also killed Danjong in his place of exile.

King Sejo enabled the government to determine exact population numbers and to mobilize troops effectively. He also revised the land ordinance to improve the national economy and encouraged the publication of books. Most importantly, he compiled the Grand Code for State Administration, which became the cornerstone of dynastic administration and provided the first form of constitutional law in a written form in Korea.

However, he undermined much of the foundation of many existing systems, including the Jiphyeonjeon which his predecessors King Sejong and Munjong had carefully laid down. He cut down on everything he deemed unworthy and caused countless complications in the long run. Many of these adjustments were done for his own power, not regarding the consequences and problems that would occur. The favoritism he showed towards the ministers who aided him in taking the throne led to increased corruption in the higher echelon of the political field.

====Institutional arrangements and Prosper culture====
Sejo's weak son [[Yejong of Joseon|Yejong]] succeeded him as the eighth king, but died two years later in 1469. Yejong's nephew [[Seongjong of Joseon|Seongjong]] ascended the throne. His reign was marked by the prosperity and growth of the national economy and the rise of neo-Confucian scholars called [[sarim]] who were encouraged by Seongjong to enter court politics. He established Hongmungwan ({{hanja|弘文館}}), the royal library and advisory council composed of Confucian scholars, with whom he discussed philosophy and government policies. He ushered in a cultural golden age that rivaled Sejong's reign by publishing numerous books on geography, ethics, and various other fields.

He also sent several military campaigns against the Jurchens on the northern border in 1491, like many of his predecessors. The campaign, led by General [[Heo Jong]], was successful, and the defeated Jurchens, led by the Udige clan ({{hanja|兀狄哈}}), retreated to the north of the [[Yalu River]]. King Seongjong was succeeded by his son, [[Yeonsangun of Joseon|Yeonsangun]], in 1494.

====Literati purges====
{{Main|Korean literati purges}}
[[File:Cho Kwang-jo in 1750.jpg|170px|thumb|Portrait of the neo-Confucian scholar, [[Jo Gwang-jo]] 조광조 (1482–1519)]]

[[Yeonsangun of Joseon|Yeonsangun]] is often considered the worst tyrant of the Joseon, whose reign was marked by [[Korean literati purges]] between 1498 and 1506. His behavior became erratic after he learned that his biological mother was not Queen Junghyeon but the [[deposed Queen Lady Yun]], who was forced to drink poison after poisoning one of Seongjong's concubines out of jealousy and leaving a scratch mark on Seongjong's face. When he was shown a piece of clothing that was allegedly stained with his mother's blood vomited after drinking poison, he beat to death two of Seongjong's concubines who had accused Consort Yun and he pushed Grand Queen Insu, who died afterward. He executed government officials who supported Consort Yun's death along with their families. He also executed [[sarim]] scholars for writing phrases critical of Sejo's usurpation of the throne.

Yeonsangun also seized a thousand women from the provinces to serve as palace entertainers and appropriated the [[Sungkyunkwan]] as a personal pleasure ground. He abolished the Office of Censors, whose function was to criticize inappropriate actions and policies of the king, and Hongmungwan. He banned the use of hangul when the common people wrote with it on posters criticizing the king. After twelve years of misrule, he was finally deposed in a coup that placed his half-brother [[Jungjong of Joseon|Jungjong]] on the throne in 1506.

Jungjong was a fundamentally weak king because of the circumstances that placed him on the throne, but his reign also saw a period of significant reforms led by his minister [[Jo Gwang-jo]], the charismatic leader of sarim. He established a local self-government system called [[hyangyak]] to strengthen local autonomy and communal spirit among the people, sought to reduce the gap between the rich and poor with a land reform that would distribute land to farmers more equally and limit the amount of land and number of slaves that one could own, promulgated widely among the populace Confucian writings with vernacular translations, and sought to trim the size of government by reducing the number of bureaucrats. According to the ''[[Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty]]'', it was said that no official dared to receive a bribe or exploit the populace during this time because as Inspector General, he applied law strictly.

These radical reforms were very popular with the populace but were fiercely opposed by the conservative officials who helped to put Jungjong on the throne. They plotted to cause Jungjong to doubt Jo's loyalty. Jo Gwangjo was executed, and most of his reform measures died with him in the resulting [[Korean literati purges#Third Literati Purge of 1519|Third Literati Purge of 1519]]. For nearly 50 years afterward, the court politics was marred by bloody and chaotic struggles between factions backing rival consorts and princes. In-laws of the royal family wielded great power and contributed to much corruption in that era.

===Middle Joseon period===
[[File:정철.jpg|thumb|[[Jeong Cheol]] 정철 (1536-1593), head of the Western faction]]

The middle Joseon period was marked by a series of intense and bloody power struggles between political factions that weakened the country and large-scale invasions by Japan and Manchu that nearly toppled the kingdom.

====Factional struggle====
{{Main|Political factions in Joseon dynasty}}

The [[Sarim]] faction had suffered a series of political defeats during the reigns of Yeonsangun, Jungjong, and [[Myeongjong of Joseon|Myeongjong]], but it gained control of the government during the reign of [[Seonjo of Joseon|King Seonjo]]. It soon split into opposing factions known as the [[Easterners]] and the [[Westerners (Korean political faction)|Westerners]]. Within decades the Easterners themselves divided into the [[Southerners (Korean political faction)|Southerners]] and the [[Northerners (Korean political faction)|Northerners]]; in the seventeenth century the Westerners as well permanently split into the [[Noron (Korean political faction)|Noron]] and the [[Soron (Korean political faction)|Soron]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ebrey |first1=Patricia |last2=Walthall |first2=Ann |date= 2013 |title= East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History, Volume II: From 1600 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=5pLGIcp4PMgC&q=patriarchs+joseon+faction&pg=PA255 |publisher= Cengage Learning|page= 255 |isbn= 978-1133606499|access-date= July 15, 2015}}</ref> The alternations in power among these factions were often accompanied by charges of treason and bloody purges, initiating a cycle of revenge with each change of regime.

One example is the [[1589 rebellion of Jeong Yeo-rip]], one of the bloodiest political purges of Joseon. Jeong Yeo-rip, an Easterner, had formed a society with group of supporters that also received military training to fight against [[Wokou|Waegu]]. There is still a dispute about the nature and purpose of his group, which reflected desire for classless society and spread throughout [[Honam]]. He was subsequently accused of conspiracy to start a rebellion. [[Jeong Cheol]], head of the Western faction, was in charge of investigating the case and used this event to effect widespread purge of Easterners who had slightest connection with Jeong Yeo-rip. Eventually 1000 Easterners were killed or exiled in the aftermath.

====Early Japanese invasions====
{{Main|Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)}}
[[File:Korea-Tongyeong Port-Turtle ship replica-02.jpg|alt=|thumb|[[turtle ship|The Turtle ship]] (replica)]]
Throughout Korean history, there was frequent [[piracy]] on sea and brigandage on land. The only purpose for the Joseon navy was to secure the maritime trade against the [[wokou]]. The navy repelled pirates using an advanced form of gunpowder technologies including cannons and [[fire arrows]] in form of [[singijeon]] deployed by [[hwacha]].

During the [[Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98)|Japanese invasions in the 1590s]], [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]], plotting the conquest of [[Ming dynasty|Ming China]] with [[Portuguese Empire|Portuguese]] guns, invaded Korea with his ''[[daimyō]]s'' and their troops, intending to use Korea as a stepping stone. Factional division in the Joseon court, inability to assess Japanese military capability, and failed attempts at diplomacy led to poor preparation on Joseon's part. The use of European firearms by the Japanese left most of the southern part of the Korean Peninsula occupied within months, with both [[Hanseong]] (present-day [[Seoul]]) and [[Pyongyang]] captured.
[[File:Korea-Tongyeong Port-Turtle ship replica-Inside-02.jpg|thumb|The Turtle Ship interior.]]
However, the invasion was slowed when Admiral [[Yi Sun-sin]] destroyed the Japanese invasion fleet. The guerrilla resistance that eventually formed also helped. Local resistance slowed down the Japanese advance and decisive naval victories by Admiral Yi left control over sea routes in Korean hands, severely hampering Japanese supply lines. Furthermore, Ming China intervened on the side of the Koreans, sending a large force in 1593 which pushed back the Japanese together with the Koreans.

During the war, Koreans developed powerful firearms and the [[turtle ship]]s. The Joseon and Ming forces defeated the Japanese at a deep price. Following the war, relations between Korea and Japan were completely suspended until 1609.

====Manchu invasions====
{{see also|First Manchu invasion of Korea|Second Manchu invasion of Korea}}
[[File:Jurchen warriors.jpg|thumb|left|A Korean painting depicting two Jurchen warriors and their horses]]

After the Japanese invasions, the Korean Peninsula was devastated. Meanwhile, [[Nurhaci]] (r. 1583–1626), the chieftain of the [[Jianzhou Jurchens]], was unifying the [[Jurchen people|Jurchen]] tribes of [[Manchuria]] into a strong coalition that his son [[Hong Taiji]] (r. 1626-–1643) would eventually rename the "Manchus." After he declared [[Seven Grievances]] against Ming China in 1618, Nurhaci and the Ming engaged in several military conflicts. On such occasions, Nurhaci required help from [[Gwanghaegun of Joseon]] (r.1608–1623), putting the Korean state in a difficult position because the Ming court was also requesting assistance.<ref name="Ebrey 349">{{harvnb|Ebrey|Walthall|Palais|2006|p=349}}.</ref> Gwanghaegun tried to maintain neutrality, but most of his officials opposed him for not supporting Ming China, which had saved Joseon during Hideyoshi's invasions.<ref name="Ebrey 349"/>

In 1623, Gwanghaegun was deposed and replaced by [[Injo of Joseon]] (r. 1623–1649), who banished Gwanghaejun's supporters. Reverting his predecessor's foreign policy, the new king decided to openly support the Ming, but a rebellion led by military commander [[Yi Gwal]] erupted in 1624 and wrecked Joseon's military defenses in the north.<ref name="Ebrey 349"/> Even after the rebellion had been suppressed, King Injo had to devote military forces to ensure the stability of the capital, leaving fewer soldiers to defend the northern borders.<ref name="Ebrey 349"/>

In 1627, a Jurchen army of 30,000 led by Nurhaci's nephew [[Amin (Qing dynasty)|Amin]] overran Joseon's defenses.<ref>{{harvnb|Kennedy|1943|}} (leader of the expedition); {{harvnb|Ebrey|Walthall|Palais|2006|p=350}} (number of troops).</ref> After a quick campaign that was assisted by northern yangban who had supported Gwanghaegun, the Jurchens imposed a treaty that forced Joseon to accept "brotherly relations" with the Jurchen kingdom.<ref name="Larsen 2008 36">{{harvnb|Larsen|2008|p=36}}.</ref> Because Injo persisted in his anti-Manchu policies, [[Qing dynasty|Qing]] emperor Hong Taiji sent a punitive expedition of 120,000 men to Joseon in 1636.<ref>{{harvnb|Ebrey|Walthall|Palais|2006|p=350}}.</ref> Defeated, King Injo was forced to end his relations with the Ming and recognize the Qing as suzerain instead.<ref>{{harvnb|Lee|de Bary|1997|p=269}}.</ref> Injo's successor [[Hyojong of Joseon]] (r. 1649–1659) tried to form an army to keep his enemies away and conquer the Qing for revenge, but could never act on his designs.<ref>{{harvnb|Larsen|2008|p=36}}; {{harvnb|Ebrey|Walthall|Palais|2006|p=350}}.</ref>

Despite reestablishing economic relations by officially entering the [[imperial Chinese tributary system]], Joseon leaders and intellectuals remained resentful of the Manchus, whom they regarded as barbarians.<ref name="Larsen 2008 36"/> Long after submitting to the Qing, the Joseon court and many Korean intellectuals kept using Ming [[Chinese era name|reign periods]], as when a scholar marked 1861 as "the 234th year of [[Chongzhen Emperor|Chongzhen]]."<ref>{{harvnb|Kim Haboush|2005|p=132}}.</ref>

===Late Joseon period===
====Emergence of Silhak and renaissance of the Joseon====
[[File:Kim Yuk 02.jpg|left|thumb|Portrait of Kim Yuk 김육 (1570–1658) an early Silhak philosopher of the Joseon period]]
[[File:Hwaseong2.jpg|thumb|[[Hwaseong Fortress]] in [[Suwon]]]]

After invasions from Japan and Manchuria, Joseon experienced a nearly 200-year period of peace. Joseon witnessed the emergence of [[Silhak]] (Practical Learning). The early group of Silhak scholars advocated comprehensive reform of civil service examination, taxation, natural sciences and the improvement in agromanagerial and agricultural techniques. It aimed to rebuild Joseon society after it had been devastated by the two invasions. Under the leadership of [[Kim Yuk]], the chief minister of [[Hyeonjong of Joseon|King Hyeonjong]], the implementation of reforms proved highly advantageous both to state revenues and to the lot of the peasants.

Factional conflict grew particularly intense under the reigns of the kings [[Sukjong of Joseon|Sukjong]] and [[Gyeongjong of Joseon|Gyeongjong]], with major rapid reversals of the ruling faction, known as *hwanguk* (換局; literally ''change in the state of affairs''), being commonplace. As a response, the next kings, [[Yeongjo of Joseon|Yeongjo]] and [[Jeongjo of Joseon|Jeongjo]], generally pursued the ''Tangpyeongchaek'' - a policy of maintaining balance and equality between the factions.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title= 탕평책 |encyclopedia= 한국민족문화대백과}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| last = 이성무| date = November 12, 2007| title = 조선당쟁사 2 탕평과 세도정치: 숙종조~고종조| publisher = 아름다운날 | isbn = 9788989354833}}</ref>

The two kings led a second renaissance of the Joseon kingdom.<ref>{{cite book|title=A Brief History of Korea|date=January 2005|publisher=Ewha Womans University Press|isbn=9788973006199|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o-WlUd3cjh0C&pg=PT98|access-date=23 December 2016|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Beirne|first1=Paul|title=Su-un and His World of Symbols: The Founder of Korea's First Indigenous Religion|date=April 2016|publisher=[[Routledge]]|isbn=9781317047490|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8OPeCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT38|access-date=23 December 2016|language=en}}</ref> Yeongjo's grandson, the enlightened King Jeongjo enacted various reforms throughout his reign, notably establishing Gyujanggak, a royal library in order to improve the cultural and political position of Joseon and to recruit gifted officers to run the nation. King Jeongjo also spearheaded bold social initiatives, opening government positions to those who would previously have been barred because of their social status. King Jeongjo had the support of the many Silhak scholars, who supported his regal power. King Jeongjo's reign also saw the further growth and development of Joseon's popular culture. At that time, the group of Silhak scholars encouraged the individual to reflect on state traditions and lifestyle, initiating the studies of Korea that addressed its history, geography, [[epigraphy]] and language.

[[File:Empress sin-jung-ik2.PNG|thumb|[[Queen Shinjeong|Sinjeong]], Queen Regent of Joseon. She served as nominal regent of Joseon, who selected [[Gojong of the Korean Empire|Gojong]] to place upon the throne.]]

====Government by in-law families====
After the death of King Jeongjo, the Joseon faced difficult external and internal problems. Internally, the foundation of national law and order weakened as a result of "Sedo" politics (in-law government) by royal in-law family.

Young [[Sunjo of Joseon|King Sunjo]] succeeded King Jeongjo in 1800. With Jeongjo's death the [[Intransigents (Joseon faction)|Intransigent Patriarch faction]] seized power with the regency of [[Queen Jeongsun|Queen Dowager Jeongsun]], whose family had strong ties to the Intransigents, and initiated a [[Catholic Persecution of 1801|persecution of Catholics]]. But after the retirement and death of the Queen Dowager, the Intransigents were gradually ousted and the Expedient faction, including the Andong Kim family of Kim Jo-sun, the father of the queen, gained power. Gradually the Andong Kims came to dominate the court.<ref>{{cite book| last = 오영교| date = July 25, 2007| title = 세도정권기 조선사회와 대전회통| publisher = 혜안 | isbn = 9788984943131}}</ref>

With the domination of the Andong Kims, the era of *sedo politics* or in-law rule began. The formidable in-law lineage monopolized the vital positions in government, holding sway over the political scene, and intervening in the succession of the throne. These kings had no monarchic authority and could not rule over the government. The yangban of other families, overwhelmed by the power exercised by the royal in-laws, could not speak out. As the power was concentrated in the hands of the royal in-law lineage, there was disorder in the governing process and corruption became rampant. Large sums were offered in bribes to the powerful lineages to obtain positions with nominally high rank. Even the low-ranking posts were bought and sold. This period, which spanned 60 years, saw the manifestation of both severe poverty among the Korean population and ceaseless rebellions in various parts of the country.

Externally, Joseon became increasingly [[isolationist]]. Its rulers sought to limit contact with foreign countries.

==== End of the dynasty ====
[[File:Korean headgear-Waryonggwan-01.jpg|left|thumb|[[Heungseon Daewongun]] 흥선 대원군(이하응)]]


In 1863 [[Gojong of the Korean Empire|King Gojong]] took the throne. His father, Regent [[Heungseon Daewongun]], ruled for him until Gojong reached adulthood. During the mid-1860s the Regent was the main proponent of isolationism and the instrument of the persecution of native and foreign Catholics, a policy that led directly to the [[French campaign against Korea|French Campaign against Korea]] in 1866. The early years of his rule also witnessed a large effort to restore the dilapidated [[Gyeongbok Palace]], the seat of royal authority. During his reign, the power and authority of the in-law families such as the Andong Kims sharply declined. In order to get rid of the Andong Kim and Pungyang Cho families, he promoted persons without making references to political party or family affiliations, and in order to reduce the burdens of the people and solidify the basis of the nation's economy, he reformed the tax system. [[United States expedition to Korea|In 1871, U.S. and Korean forces clashed]] in a U.S. attempt at "gunboat diplomacy" following on the [[General Sherman incident]] of 1866.

In 1873, King Gojong announced his assumption of royal rule. With the subsequent retirement of Heungseon Daewongun, the future Queen Min (later called [[Empress Myeongseong]]) became a power in the court, placing her family in high court positions.

Japan, after the [[Meiji Restoration]], acquired Western military technology, and forced Joseon to sign the [[Treaty of Ganghwa]] in 1876, opening three ports to trade and granting the Japanese extraterritoriality. [[Port Hamilton incident|Port Hamilton was briefly occupied]] by the [[Royal Navy]] in 1885.{{citation needed|date=February 2021}}

[[File:Portrait_of_Gojong_01.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Gojong of the Korean Empire|Emperor Gojong]]]]
Many Koreans despised Japanese and foreign influences over their land and the corrupt oppressive rule of the Joseon Dynasty. In 1881, the ''[[Byeolgigun]]'', a modern elite military unit, was formed with Japanese trainers. The salaries of the other soldiers were held back and in 1882 [[Imo incident|rioting soldiers]] attacked the Japanese officers and even forced the queen to take refuge in the countryside. In 1894, the [[Donghak Peasant Revolution]] saw farmers rise up in a mass rebellion, with peasant leader [[Jeon Bong-jun]] defeating the forces of local ruler Jo Byong-gap at the battle of [[Jeongeup|Go-bu]] on January 11, 1894; after the battle, Jo's properties were handed out to the peasants. By May, the peasant army had reached [[Jeonju]], and the Joseon government asked the [[Qing dynasty]] government for assistance in ending the revolt. The Qing sent 3,000 troops and the rebels negotiated a truce, but the Japanese considered the Qing presence a threat and sent in 8,000 troops of their own, seizing the Royal Palace in Seoul and installing a pro-Japanese government on 8 June 1894. This soon escalated into the [[First Sino-Japanese War]] (1894–1895) between Japan and Qing China, fought largely in Korea. [*The king made a deal with Japan partially out of isolationist views and conservative-misogynistic distrust of the queen's support for open trade policies towards the Western civilizations and China. He ended up preempting a specific disadvantageous, exclusive negotiation with Japan previous to the Queen's decision, which was later used as a political premise for Japan to wage military action. Scholars particularly during the Joseon era were touted for expressing allegiance to the king]

[[Empress Myeongseong]] (referred to as "Queen Min"<ref name="queen min">[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1895/11/10/106073098.pdf Characteristics of Queen of Corea] ''[[The New York Times]]'' November 10, 1895</ref>) had attempted to counter Japanese interference in Korea and was considering turning to the [[Russian Empire]] and to China for support. In 1895, Empress Myeongseong was assassinated by Japanese agents.<ref name="Dong-a 2002">{{cite news|url=http://www.donga.com/docs/magazine/shin/2004/11/09/200411090500053/200411090500053_1.html |script-title=ko:일본인 폭도가 가슴을 세 번 짓밟고 일본도로 난자했다 |newspaper=[[Dong-a Ilbo]] |author=Park Jong-hyo (박종효), former professor at [[Lomonosov Moscow State University]] |date= 2002-01-01 |issue= 508 |pages=472 ~ 485|language=ko}}</ref> The Japanese minister to Korea, [[Lieutenant-General]] [[Viscount]] [[Miura Gorō|Miura]], almost certainly orchestrated the plot against her. A group of Japanese agents<ref name="Dong-a 2002"/> entered the [[Gyeongbokgung]] Royal Palace in Seoul, which was under Japanese control,<ref name="Dong-a 2002"/> and Queen Min was killed and her body desecrated in the North wing of the palace.

The Qing acknowledged defeat in the [[Treaty of Shimonoseki]] (17 April 1895), which officially guaranteed Korea's independence from China.<ref name="britannica">{{Britannica|540685}}</ref> It was a step toward Japan gaining regional [[hegemony]] in Korea. The Joseon court, pressured by encroachment from larger powers, felt the need to reinforce national integrity and declared the [[Korean Empire]], along with the [[Gwangmu Reform]] in 1897. [[Gojong of Korea|King Gojong]] assumed the title of [[Emperor of Korea|Emperor]] in order to assert Korea's independence. In addition, other foreign powers were sought for military technology, especially Russia, to fend off the Japanese. Technically, 1897 marks the end of the Joseon period, as the official name of the empire was changed; however the Joseon Dynasty would still reign, albeit perturbed by Japan and Russia.

In a complicated series of maneuvers and counter-maneuvers, Japan pushed back the Russian fleet at the [[Battle of Port Arthur]] in 1905. With the conclusion of the 1904–1905 [[Russo-Japanese War]] with the [[Treaty of Portsmouth]], the way was open for Japan to take control of Korea. After the signing of the [[Eulsa Treaty|Protectorate Treaty]] in 1905, Korea became a [[protectorate]] of Japan. [[Prince]] [[Itō Hirobumi|Itō]] was the first [[Resident-General of Korea]], although he was assassinated by [[Korean independence activist]] [[An Jung-geun]] in 1909 at the train station at [[Harbin]]. In 1910 the [[Japanese Empire]] finally [[Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty|annexed]] Korea.

==Government==
{{See also|Joseon Dynasty politics}}

Joseon kingdom was a highly centralized monarchy and neo-Confucian bureaucracy as codified by [[Gyeongguk daejeon]], a sort of Joseon constitution.

=== King ===
{{see also|List of Joseon monarchs|House of Yi#House of Yi family tree|#Titles_and_styles_during_Joseon_Kingdom|label 2=Joseon kings family tree|label 3= Royal titles and styles during the Joseon Period}}
[[File:Seoul Gyeongbokgung Throne.jpg|thumb|upright|The [[Phoenix Throne]] of the king of Joseon in [[Gyeongbokgung]]]]
[[File:Flag of the king of Joseon.svg|thumb|upright|[[List of Korean flags|Royal standard of the King of Joseon]]]]
The king had absolute authority, but his actual power varied with political circumstances. He was bound by tradition, precedents set by earlier kings, [[Gyeongguk daejeon]], and Confucian teachings. The king commanded absolute loyalty from his officials and subjects, but the officials were also expected to persuade the king to the right path if the latter was thought to be mistaken. Natural disasters were thought to be due to the king's failings, and therefore, Joseon kings were very sensitive to their occurrences. When there was severe drought or a series of disasters, the king often formally sought criticism from officials and citizenry. On those occasions,
critics were immune from prosecution, regardless of what they said or wrote (although there were a few exceptions).

Direct communication between the king and the common people was possible through the ''sangeon'' ({{Korean|hangul=상언|hanja=上言|labels=no}}) written petition system and the ''gyeokjaeng'' ({{Korean|hangul=격쟁|hanja=擊錚|labels=no}}) oral petition system. Through the ''gyeokjaeng'' oral petition system, commoners could strike a gong or drum in front of the palace or during the king's public processions in order to appeal their grievances or petition to the king directly. This allowed even the illiterate members of Joseon society to make a petition to the king. More than 1,300 ''gyeokjaeng''-related accounts are recorded in the [[Ilseongnok]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Ilseongnok: Records of Daily Reflections|url=http://www.unesco.org/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/mow/nomination_forms/Korea%20Ilseongnok.pdf|website=Memory of the World Register|publisher=UNESCO|access-date=6 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Injae|first1=Lee|last2=Miller|first2=Owen|last3=Jinhoon|first3=Park|last4=Hyun-Hae|first4=Yi|title=Korean History in Maps|date=2014|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781107098466|page=93|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=46OTBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA93|access-date=6 December 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=상언격쟁|url=http://www.culturecontent.com/content/contentView.do?content_id=cp021002840001|website=문화콘텐츠닷컴|publisher=Korea Creative Content Agency|access-date=6 December 2017}}</ref>

==== Royal seals ====

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Image:Joseon wang bo (Royal Seal Treasure of the Joseon King).svg|Seal used from 1392 to 1401.
Image:Joseongukwangjiin (The Seal of the King of Joseon).svg| Seals used concurrent to the [[Ming dynasty]], from 1401 to 1637.<ref>[http://sillok.history.go.kr/id/kca_10106012_002 Veritable Records of Taejong, vol. 1, year of 1401, 6th month, 12nd day]</ref>
Image:Joseongukwangjiin (The Seal of the King of Joseon, 1637-1653).svg| Seals used concurrent to the [[Qing dynasty]] - used between 1637<ref>[http://sillok.history.go.kr/id/kpa_11511020_001 Veritable Records of Injoo, vol. 35, year of 1637, 11th month, 20nd day].</ref> and 1653.<ref>{{cite book |author= 김지남 |date= 1888 |title= Record of Joseon Diplomacy |volume= 3 |chapter=9|url= https://kyudb.snu.ac.kr/book/view.do?book_cd=GK00882_00 |page=126~127 }}</ref>
Image:Joseongukwangjiin (The Seal of the King of Joseon, 1653-1776).svg|Seal used concurrent to the [[Qing dynasty]] - between 1653 and 1776.<ref>[http://sillok.history.go.kr/id/kva_10008018_001 Veritable Records of Jeongjo, vol. 2, year of 1776, 8th month, 18nd day]</ref>
Image:Joseongukwangjiin (The Seal of the King of Joseon, 1776-1876).svg|Seal used concurrent to the [[Qing dynasty]] - between 1776 and 1876.
Image:Daejoseongukjusangjibo.svg|The seal was produced on December 15, 1876, for use in Japanese-related state documents.
Image:Daegunjubo.svg|"Daegunjubo" designed to replace the former sergeant "Joseongukwangjiin". used as the seal of the king for documents such as appointment documents for high-ranking government officials and ordinances proclaimed in Korea.- between 1882 and 1897<ref name="great">[http://kyudb.snu.ac.kr/pf01/rendererImg.do?item_cd=SJW&book_cd=GK12788_00&vol_no=2902&page_no=003a Journal of the Royal Secretariat, vol. 2902, year of 1882, 7th month, 1nd day]</ref>
Image:DaejoseonDaegunjubo.svg|"DaejoseonDaegunjubo" were used as ‘the seal of state’ for credentials in diplomatic relations with other countries. : between 1882<ref name="great"/>
</gallery>

===Officials===
Government officials were ranked in 18 levels, ranging from first senior rank (정1품, 正一品) down to ninth junior rank (종9품, 從九品). Seniority and promotion was achieved through royal decree, based on examination or recommendation. The officials from 1st senior rank to 3rd senior rank wore red robes. Those from 3rd junior rank to 6th junior rank wore blue. Those below wore green robes.<ref>[[Gyeongguk daejeon]]</ref>

Here, "government official" means one who occupied an office which gave its holder [[yangban]] status - hereditary nobility for three generations. In order to become such an official, one had to pass a series of [[gwageo]] examinations. There were three kinds of gwageo exams - literary, military, and miscellaneous. The literary route was the most prestigious. Many key posts, including all [[#Three Offices|Censorate]] posts, were open only to officials who advanced through literary exam. The literary route involved a series of four tests. To qualify, one had to pass them all. 33 candidates who were chosen in this manner would take the final exam, before the king. The candidate with the highest score was appointed to a position of 6th junior rank (a jump of six ranks). The two candidates with the next highest scores were appointed to a position of 7th junior rank. The seven candidates with next highest scores were assigned to 8th junior rank. The remaining 23 candidates were given 9th junior rank, the lowest of 18 ranks.

The officials of 1st senior rank, 1st junior rank, and 2nd senior rank were addressed with honorific "dae-gam" (대감, 大監) while those of 2nd junior rank and 3rd senior rank were addressed with honorific "[[yeong-gam]]" (영감, 令監).<ref>Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, "About Rank of Joseon Officials"</ref> These red-robed officials, collectively called "dangsanggwan" (당상관, 堂上官), took part in deciding government policies by attending cabinet meetings. The rest of the ranked officials were called "danghagwan" (당하관, 堂下官).

===Central government===
[[File:Joseon-Portrait_of_Cha_Jegong-Geumgwanjobok.jpg|thumb|Portrait of The Chief State Councillor [[Yeongeuijeong|Chae Jegong]] (1720~1799)]]
====State Council====

[[State Council of Joseon|State Council]] (Uijeongbu, 의정부, 議政府) was the highest deliberative body, whose power however declined over the course of the period. The Chief State Councillor ([[Yeonguijeong]], 영의정, 領議政), Left State Councillor ([[Jwauijeong]], 좌의정, 左議政), and Right State Councillor (Uuijeong, 우의정, 右議政) were the highest-ranking officials in the government (All three were of 1st senior rank). They were assisted by Left Minister (Jwachanseong, 좌찬성, 左贊成) and Right Minister (Uichangseong, 우찬성, 右贊成), both of 1st junior rank, and seven lower ranking officials. The power of State Council was inversely proportional to the king's power. There were periods when it directly controlled [[Six Ministries of Joseon|Six Ministries]], the chief executive body of Joseon government, but it primarily served in advisory role under stronger kings. State councillors served in several other positions concurrently.

====Six Ministries====
[[Six Ministries of Joseon|Six Ministries]] (Yukjo, 육조, 六曹) make up the chief executive body. Each minister (Panseo, 판서, 判書) was of 2nd senior rank and was assisted by deputy minister (Champan, 참판, 參判), who was of 2nd junior rank. Ministry of Personnel was the most senior office of six ministries. As the influence of State Council waned over time, Minister of Personnel was often de facto head of ministers. Six ministries include in the order of seniority.

:*Ministry of Personnel (Ijo, 이조, 吏曹) - was primarily concerned with appointment of officials
:*Ministry of Taxation (Hojo, 호조, 戶曹) - taxation, finances, census, agriculture, and land policies
:*Ministry of Rites (Yejo, 예조, 禮曺) - rituals, culture, diplomacy, gwageo exam
:*Ministry of Defence (Byeongjo, 병조, 兵曺) - military affairs
:**Office of Police Bureau ([[Podocheong]], 포도청, 捕盜廳) - office for public order
:*Ministry of Justice (Hyeongjo, 형조, 刑曺) - administration of law, slavery, punishments
:*Ministry of Commerce (Gongjo, 공조, 工曹) - industry, public works, manufacturing, mining

====Three Offices====
[[File:윤봉구 초상.jpg|thumb|Portrait of The Inspector General Yun Bonggu (1681-1767)]]
[[Three Offices]], or ''Samsa'' (삼사), is a collective name for three offices that functioned as major organ of press and provided checks and balance on the king and the officials. While modeled after the Chinese system, they played much more prominent roles in Joseon government than their Chinese counterparts. In their role as organ of press, they did not have actual authority to decide or implement policies, but had influential voice in the ensuing debate.
The officials who served in these offices tended to be younger and of lower rank compared to other offices but had strong academic reputation and enjoyed special privileges and great prestige (For instance, censors were permitted to drink during working hours because of their function of criticizing the king). To be appointed, they went through more thorough review of character and family background. Three Offices provided the fastest route of promotion to high posts and was almost a requirement to becoming a State Councillor.
:*Office of Inspector General (Saheonbu·사헌부) - It monitored government administration and officials at each level in both central and local governments for corruption, malfeasance, or inefficiency. It was also in charge of advancing public morals and Confucian customs and redressing grievances of the populace. It was headed by Inspector General (Daesaheon·대사헌), a position of 2nd junior rank, who oversaw 30 largely independent officials.
:*Office of Censors (Saganwon·사간원) - Its chief function was to remonstrate with the king if there was wrong or improper action or policy. Important decrees of the king were first reviewed by censors, who could ask to withdraw them if judged improper. It also issued opinions about the general state of affairs. It was composed of five officials, led by Chief Censor (Daesagan·대사간), of 3rd senior rank.
While the primary focus for Office of Inspector General is the government officials and Office of Censors is focused on the king, two offices often performed each other's functions, and there was much overlap. Together they were called "Yangsa," (양사) which literally means "Both Offices," and often worked jointly especially when they sought to reverse the king's decision.
:*Office of Special Advisors (Hongmungwan·홍문관 弘文館) - It oversaw the royal library and served as research institute to study Confucian philosophy and answer the king's questions. Its officials took part in the daily lessons called ''gyeongyeon'' (경연), in which they discussed history and Confucian philosophy with the king. Since these discussions often led to commentary on current political issues, its officials had significant influence as advisors. It was headed by Chief Scholar (Daejehak·대제학), a part-time post of 2nd senior rank that served concurrently in another high post (such as in State Council), and Deputy Chief Scholar (Bujehak·부제학), a full-time post of 3rd senior rank that actually ran the office. There was great prestige attached to being Chief Scholar in this deeply Confucian society. (The office was established to replace [[Hall of Worthies]] (Jiphyeonjeon·집현전) after the latter was abolished by [[Sejo of Joseon|King Sejo]] in the aftermath of [[Six martyred ministers]].)

====Other offices====
The major offices include the following:
*Royal Secretariat (Seungjeongwon, 승정원) served as a liaison between the king and Six Ministries. There were six royal secretaries (승지), one for each ministry, and all were of 3rd senior rank. Their primary role was to pass down royal decree to the ministries and submit petitions from the officials and the populace to the king, but they also advised the king and served in other key positions close to the king. In particular Chief Royal Secretary (도승지), a liaison to Ministry of Personnel, served the king in the closest proximity of all government official and often enjoyed great power that was derived from the king's favor. Hong Guk-yeong (during [[Jeongjo of Joseon|Jeongjo]]'s reign) and Han Myeong-hwe (during [[Sejo of Joseon|Sejo]]) are some examples of chief royal secretaries who were the most powerful official of their time.
*Capital Bureau (Hanseongbu, 한성부) was in charge of running the capital, ''Hanyang'' or present-day Seoul. It was led by ''Panyoon'' (판윤), of 2nd senior second rank equivalent to today's mayor of Seoul.
*Royal Investigation Bureau (Uigeumbu, 의금부) was an investigative and enforcement organ under direct control of the king. It chiefly dealt with treason and other serious cases that concerned the king and royal family and served to arrest, investigate, imprison, and carry out sentences against the suspected offenders, who were often government officials.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.doopedia.co.kr/doopedia/master/master.do?_method=view&MAS_IDX=130510001403866|script-title=ko:한성부|publisher=Doosan Encyclopedia|access-date=2014-03-01|language=ko}}</ref>
*Office of Records (Chunchugwan, 춘추관) officials wrote, compiled, and maintained the government and historical records. It was headed by State Councillors, and many posts were held by officials serving in other offices concurrently. There were eight historiographers whose sole function was to record the meetings for history.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.doopedia.co.kr/doopedia/master/master.do?_method=view&MAS_IDX=101013000868787|script-title=ko:춘추관|publisher=Doosan Encyclopedia|access-date=2014-03-01|language=ko}}</ref>
*[[Seonggyungwan]] or Royal Academy (성균관) prepared future government officials. Those who passed first two stages of [[gwageo]] examinations (literary exam) were admitted to Seonggyungwan. The class size was usually 200 students, who lived in the residential hall and followed strict routine and school rules. (Tuition, room and board were provided by the government.) It also served as the state shrine for [[Korean Confucianism|Confucian]] and Korean Confucian sages. The students' opinions on government policies, especially collective statements and demonstrations, could be influential as they represented fresh and uncorrupted consensus of young scholars. The official in charge was Daesaseong (대사성), of 3rd senior rank, and 36 other officials including those from other offices were involved in running the academy.

===Local government===
The officials of high rank were sent from the central government. Sometimes a [[secret royal inspector]] (Amhaeng-eosa·암행어사) was appointed by the king to travel incognito and monitor the provincial officials. These undercover inspectors were generally young officials of lower rank but were invested with the royal authority to dismiss corrupt officials.
* Provinces (Do·도 道) - There were eight provinces, each of which was governed by Governor (Gwanchalsa·관찰사 觀察使), a position of 2nd junior rank.
* Bu(부) - administrative offices in charge of major cities in provinces. Each bu was led by Buyoon (부윤), which was equivalent to Governor in rank.
* Mok (목 牧) - There were twenty moks, which governed large counties named 'ju'(주 州). They were run by Moksa (목사 牧使), of 3rd senior rank.
* County (Gun·군 郡) - There were eighty counties in Joseon, each governed by Gunsu (군수 郡守), a 4th junior rank.
* Hyeon (현 縣) - Large hyeons were governed by Hyeongryeong (현령 縣令) of 5th junior rank while smaller hyeons were governed by Hyeonggam (현감 縣監) of 6th junior rank.

=== Administrative divisions ===
{{Main|Eight Provinces of Korea}}

During most of the Joseon period, Korea was divided into [[Eight Provinces of Korea|eight provinces]] (do; 도; 道). The eight provinces' boundaries remained unchanged for almost five centuries from 1413 to 1895, and formed a geographic paradigm that is still reflected today in the Korean Peninsula's administrative divisions, dialects, and regional distinctions. The names of all eight provinces are still preserved today, in one form or another.
[[File:김후영정.jpg|thumb|Portrait of Kim Hu (1751-1805), a military officer of the Joseon Dynasty]]
===Military===
{{See also|Korean armour|Korean cannon|Chongtong|Korean sword}}

====[[Naegeumwi]]====
These royal guards were elite troops of 200 men guarding the king, queen, and ministers. These were soldiers hand-selected by the king. They usually wore red robes.

====King's private guard====
The King's private guard consisted of personal bodyguards of the king. They wore black robes.

====[[Joseon Army]]====
The main army consisted of 50,000 troops, and the king appoints their generals. They usually wore black and white robes and various types of armor. However, those drafted or volunteered must buy their armor or use a set of armor they owned. They consist of infantry, elite soldiers or ''pengbaesu'', cavalry or ''gabsa'', archers, and artillery.

====[[Joseon Navy]]====
The Joseon Navy comprises of two types of main warships, the [[panokseon]] and the [[turtle ship]]. They also utilized small vessels and fishing boats for reconnaissance and landings. The king also appoints their admirals.

== Foreign affairs ==
{{main|Joseon diplomacy}}

===China===
{{Main|Joseon missions to Imperial China}}
Although the Joseon dynasty considered 1392 as the foundation of the Joseon kingdom, Imperial China did not immediately acknowledge the new government on the Korean peninsula. In 1401, the Ming court recognized Joseon as a [[tributary state]] in its [[Tributary system of China|tributary system]]. In 1403, the [[Yongle Emperor]] conveyed a patent and a gold seal to [[Taejong of Joseon]], thus confirming his status and that of his dynasty.<ref name="kang49">Kang, Etsuko H. (1997). [https://books.google.com/books?id=4f0jnNzdRb4C&pg=PA49&dq= ''Diplomacy and Ideology in Japanese-Korean Relations: from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century,'' p. 49.]</ref>

In the 19th century, China had faced major disputes due to the rise of the West and Japan. These countries, which have already established a sovereign state system, have asked about the "unknown status" of the relationship between Qing and Joseon. Its motives were the [[French expedition to Korea|Byeong-in yangyo]] (1866) and the [[Shinmiyangyo]] (1871). France and the U.S. asked if the war with Joseon would be invasion of the Qing Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty would intervene. Then China replied, "Joseon is a tributary state, but it is an independent state and it is an independent state, but it is a tributary state." The world then confirmed that Joseon is a sovereign state like any other tributary state of China.<ref>{{cite news |url = https://www.donga.com/news/Opinion/article/all/20210528/107151591/1 |script-title = ko:‘반일’ 이전에 ‘항청’… 속국을 거부한 조선의 싸움[박훈 한일 역사의 갈림길]－ |publisher = [[The Dong-a Ilbo]] |author = Park Hoon (박훈) |date = 2021-05-28 |language = ko |quote = 19세기 후반 서양과 일본의 대두로 중대한 도전에 직면하게 된다. 이미 주권국가 체제를 확립한 이 국가들이 조청(朝淸)관계의 ‘정체’를 묻기 시작한 것이다. 그 계기는 병인양요(1866년), 신미양요(1871년)였다. 프랑스와 미국은 조선과 전쟁을 하면 청나를 침범하는 게 되는지, 청나라는 개입할 것인지, 그 이전에 도대체 조청관계는 어떤 것인지를 물었다. 청 정부의 답변은 ‘속국이지만 자주적인 나라이고, 자주적이지만 동시에 속국’이었다. 즉, 속국자주(屬國自主)였다. |trans-quote= In the 19th century, China had faced major disputes due to the rise of the West and Japan. These countries, which have already established a sovereign state system, have asked about the "unknown status" of the relationship between Qing and Joseon. Its motives were the [[French expedition to Korea|Byeong-in yangyo]] (1866) and the [[Shinmiyangyo]] (1871). France and the United States asked if the war with Joseon would be invasion of the Qing dynasty and the Qing dynasty would intervene. Then the Qing dynasty replied, "Joseon is a tributary state, but it is an independent state and it is an independent state, but it is a tributary state." The world then confirmed that Joseon is a sovereign state like any other tributary state of China.}}</ref>{{better source|date=August 2021}}

Traditionally, China had a ''laissez-faire'' policy toward Joseon; despite being a tributary of China, Joseon was autonomous in its internal and external affairs, and China did not manipulate or interfere in them. However, after 1879, China abandoned its ''laissez-faire'' policy and became directly involved in the affairs of Joseon. This "radical change in China's policy" was in reaction to the growing influence of Western powers and Japan in Joseon, and to ensure China's national security. China's new policy toward Joseon was set by [[Li Hongzhang]] and implemented by [[Yuan Shikai]]. According to Ming-te Lin: "Li's control of Korea from 1885 to 1894 through [Yuan Shikai] as resident official represented an anachronistic policy of intervention toward Korea."{{sfn|Lin|2014|pp=69–71}}

===Gyorin===
{{Main|Gyorin}}
This long-term, strategic policy contrasts with the ''[[gyorin]]'' (''kyorin'') (neighborly relations) diplomacy in dealings with [[Jurchen people|Jurchen]], Japan, [[Ryukyu Kingdom]], [[Siam]] and [[Java]].<ref>Chun-gil Kim [https://books.google.com/books?id=WBZjBPt1H8AC&pg=PA76&dq= ''The History of Korea,'' pp. 76-77.] 7</ref> Gyorin was applied to a multi-national foreign policy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://enc.daum.net/dic100/contents.do?query1=b10s4187a|title=사대교린 (조선 외교), Britannica online Korea}}</ref> The unique nature of these bilateral diplomatic exchanges evolved from a conceptual framework developed by the Chinese. Gradually, the theoretical models would be modified, mirroring the evolution of a unique relationship.<ref>Toby, Ronald P. (1991). [https://books.google.com/books?id=2hK7tczn2QoC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=korean+diplomacy+1711&source=bl&ots=k4W8TZxzjN&sig=Zi2nOmpTuZUK9bQL9ulL_Jnt47k&hl=en&ei=YJmtSeGQIeH8tgfknIWLBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA87,M1 ''State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu,'' p. 87.]</ref>

===Japan===
{{Main|Joseon missions to Japan}}
As an initial step, a diplomatic mission was dispatched to Japan in 1402. The Joseon envoy sought to bring about the re-establishment of amicable relations between the two countries and he was charged to commemorate the good relations which existed in ancient times. This mission was successful, and ''[[shōgun]]'' [[Ashikaga Yoshimitsu]] was reported to have been favorably impressed by this initial embassy.<ref name="Titsingh, p. 320">Titsingh, p. 320.</ref> Not less than 70 diplomatic missions were dispatched from the Joseon capital to Japan before the beginning of Japan's [[Edo period]].<ref>Lewis, James Bryant. ''Frontier contact between chosŏn Korea and Tokugawa Japan'', p. 269 n. 89, citing ''Hanguk Chungse tae-il kysōpsa yŏngu'' (1996) by Na Chongpu.</ref>

Reciprocal missions were construed as a means of communication between Korean kings and Japanese ''shōguns'' of almost equal ranking. The emperors of Japan at the time were figureheads with no actual political or military power<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FwztKKtQ_rAC&pg=PA1 | title=The Emperors of Modern Japan| isbn=978-9004168220| last1=Shillony| first1=Ben-Ami| year=2008}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OvzPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA40 |title = Jews & the Japanese: The Successful Outsiders|isbn = 9781462903962|last1 = Shillony|first1 = Ben-Ami|date = January 24, 2012}}</ref> and the actual political and military rulers of Japan that Joseon communicated with were the shoguns who were represented as "tycoon of Japan" in many foreign communications in order to avoid the conflict with the [[Sinocentrism|Sinocentric system]] in which the [[emperor of China]] was the highest authority, and all rulers of tributary states were known as "kings".<ref>Kang, [https://books.google.com/books?id=4f0jnNzdRb4C&pg=PA206&dq= ''Diplomacy and Ideology'', p. 206.]</ref>

== Society ==
[[File:朝鲜传统丧服方笠.jpg|thumb|Woman's mourning clothes in Joseon]]
{{main|Society in the Joseon Dynasty}}
[[File:허전초상.jpg|left|thumb|A portrait of a civil [[bureaucrat]] in the Joseon period]]

The exact population figures of Joseon-era Korea are disputed as government records of households are considered unreliable in this period.<ref>Ch'oe YH, PH Lee & WT de Bary (eds.) (2000), Sources of Korean Tradition: Volume II: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries. [[Columbia University Press]], p. 6</ref> Between 1810 and 1850, the population declined approximately 10% and remained stable.<ref>Jun SH, JB Lewis & H-R Kang (2008), ''Korean Expansion and Decline from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century: A View Suggested by Adam Smith''. J. Econ. Hist. 68: 244–82.</ref> Before the [[Gwangmu Reform#Health care system|introduction of modern medicine]] by the [[Korean Empire]] government in the early 20th century, the average life expectancy for peasant and commoner Korean males was 24 years and for females 26 years, accounting for infant mortality.<ref>"...before the introduction of modern medicine in the early 1900s the average life expectancy for Koreans was just 24 for males and 26 for females." {{Cite book
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Joseon Korea installed a centralised administrative system controlled by civil [[bureaucrat]]s and military officers who were collectively called [[Yangban]]. By the end of the 18th century, the yangban had acquired most of the traits of a hereditary nobility except that the status was based on a unique mixture of family position, [[gwageo]] examinations for Confucian learning, and a civil service system. The family of a yangban who did not succeed to become a government official for the third generation lost their yangban status and became commoners. For most part, the only way to become a government official was to pass a series of gwageo exams (One had to pass "lesser gwageo" exam (소과) in both of two stages to qualify for greater gwageo exam, which again one had to pass in both of two stages to become a government official.) The yangban and the king, in an uneasy balance, controlled the central government and military institutions. The proportion of yangban may have reached as high as 30% by 1800, due to the later practices of transaction of yangban status to peasants, although there was considerable local variation.<ref>Oh SC (2006), ''Economic growth in P'yongan Province and the development of Pyongyang in the Late Choson Period''. Korean Stud. 30: 3–22</ref> As the government was small, a great many yangban were local gentry of high social status, but not always of high income.<ref>Haboush JHK (1988), A Heritage of Kings: One Man's Monarchy in the Confucian World. Columbia University Press, pp. 88–9.</ref>

Another portion of the population were slaves or [[serfs]] (''[[nobi]]''), "low borns" (''[[cheonmin]]'') or [[untouchability|untouchable]] outcastes (''[[baekjeong]]''). [[Slavery in Korea]] was hereditary, as well as a form of legal punishment. The nobi were socially indistinct from freemen other than the ruling [[yangban]] class, and some possessed property rights, legal entities and civil rights. Hence, some scholars argue that it's inappropriate to call them "slaves",<ref>{{cite web|first1=Young-hoon|last1= Rhee|first2=Donghyu|last2= Yang|title=Korean Nobi in American Mirror: Yi Dynasty Coerced Labor in Comparison to the Slavery in the Antebellum Southern United States|url=https://ideas.repec.org/p/snu/ioerwp/no26.html |work=Working Paper Series |publisher=Institute of Economic Research, Seoul National University}}</ref> while some scholars describe them as [[serfs]].<ref>{{cite book|editor=Gwyn Campbell|title=Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia|author=Bok Rae Kim|chapter=Nobi: A Korean System of Slavery|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J0iRAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA153|date=23 November 2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-75917-9|pages=153–157}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Palais|first1=James B.|title=Views on Korean social history|publisher=Institute for Modern Korean Studies, Yonsei University|isbn=9788971414415|page=50|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xxi5AAAAIAAJ|access-date=15 February 2017|language=en|quote=Another target of his critique is the insistence that slaves (nobi) in Korea, especially in Choson dynasty, were closer to serfs (nongno) than true slaves (noye) in Europe and America, enjoying more freedom and independence than what a slave would normally be allowed.|year=1998}}</ref> There were both government- and privately owned nobi, and the government occasionally gave them to yangban. Privately owned nobi could be inherited as personal property. During poor harvests, many [[sangmin]] people would voluntarily become nobi in order to survive.{{Citation needed|date=May 2009}} The nobi population could fluctuate up to about one-third of the population, but on average the nobi made up about 10% of the total population.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rodriguez|first1=Junius P.|title=The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9780874368857|page=[https://archive.org/details/historicalencycl01rodr/page/392 392]|url=https://archive.org/details/historicalencycl01rodr|url-access=registration|quote=10 percent of the total population on average, but it could rise up to one-third of the total.|access-date=14 February 2017|language=en|year=1997}}</ref> Joseon slaves could, and often did, own property.<ref>Haboush (1988: 88); Ch'oe et al. (2000: 158)</ref> Private slaves could buy their freedom.

[[File:Middle Class in Joseon.jpg|left|thumb|A Joseon painting which represents the Chungin (literally "middle people"), equivalent to the [[petite bourgeoisie]]]]
Many of the remaining 40-50% of the population were surely farmers,<ref>Haboush, 1988: 89</ref> but recent work has raised important issues about the size of other groups: merchants and traders, local government or quasi-governmental clerks (''[[Chungin]]''), craftsmen and laborers, textile workers, etc.<ref>Jun SH & JB Lewis (2004), On double-entry bookkeeping in Eighteenth-century Korea: A consideration of the account books from two clan associations and a private academy. [http://www.iisg.nl/hpw/korea2.pdf International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, Netherlands (080626)]</ref> Given the size of the population, it may be that a typical person had more than one role. Most farming was, at any rate, commercial, not subsistence.<ref>Jun et al. (2008).</ref> In addition to generating additional income, a certain amount of occupational dexterity may have been required to avoid the worst effects of an often heavy and corrupt tax system.<ref>Ch'oe et al. (2000: 73).</ref>

During the Late Joseon, the Confucian ideals of propriety and "filial piety" gradually came to be equated with a strict observance to a complex social hierarchy, with many fine gradations. By the early 18th century the social critic [[Yi Junghwan]] (1690–1756) sarcastically complained that "[W]ith so many different ranks and grades separating people from one another, people tend not to have a very large circle of friends."<ref>이중환, "총론" in 택리지, p. 355, quoted in translation in Choe et al. (2000: 162).</ref> But, even as Yi wrote, the informal social distinctions of the Early Joseon were being reinforced by legal discrimination, such as [[Sumptuary law]]<ref>Haboush (1988: 78)</ref> regulating the dress of different social groups, and laws restricting inheritance and property ownership by women.<ref>Haboush JHK (2003), ''Versions and subversions: Patriarchy and polygamy in Korean narratives'', in D Ko, JHK Haboush & JR Piggott (eds.), Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea and Japan. [[University of California Press]], pp. 279-304.</ref> Precisely because of the tenets of the Confucian ''[[Classic of Filial Piety]]'', the adult male practice of Joseon Korea prescribed to keep both hair and beard, in contrast to the Japanese [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa]] period.

Yet, these laws may have been announced precisely because social mobility was increasing, particularly during the prosperous century beginning about 1710.<ref>Haboush (1988: 88-89); Oh (2006)</ref> The original social hierarchy of the Joseon era was developed based on the social hierarchy of the [[Goryeo]] era. In the 14th–16th centuries, this hierarchy was strict and stable. Since economic opportunities to change status were limited, no law was needed.

In the late 17–19th centuries, however, new commercial groups emerged, and the old class system was extremely weakened. Especially, the population of [[Daegu]] region's Yangban class was expected to reach nearly 70 percent in 1858.<ref>{{cite book | author=아틀라스 한국사 편찬위원회 | title=아틀라스한국사 | publisher=사계절 | year=2004 | isbn=978-89-5828-032-3 | pages=132–133}}</ref>

In 1801, Government-owned slaves were all emancipated, and the institution gradually died out over the next century.<ref>Ch'oe et al., 2000:7.</ref> By 1858 the nobi population stood at about 1.5 percent of the total population of Korea.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Campbell|first1=Gwyn|title=Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135759179|page=163|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J0iRAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA163|access-date=14 February 2017|language=en|date=2004-11-23}}</ref> The institution was completely abolished as part of a social plan in the [[Gabo Reform]] of 1894.


== Culture ==
The Joseon Dynasty presided over two periods of great cultural growth, during which Joseon culture created the first [[Korean tea ceremony]], [[Korean garden]]s, and extensive historic works. The royal dynasty also built several fortresses and palaces.

=== Clothing ===
[[File:Hyewon-Wolha-jeongin-2.jpg|left|thumb|Men's (right) and Women's (left) clothes ([[Hanbok]]) of Joseon period. A portrait painted by [[Shin Yun-bok]] (1758-?)]]
[[File:Korea-Yi Chegwan-Portrait of a Confucian scholar.jpg|160px|thumb|Male dress of a [[Seonbi]]. A portrait painted by [[Yi Jaegwan]] (1783-1837)]]
During the Joseon period, jeogori of women's [[hanbok]] became gradually tightened and shortened. In the 16th century, jeogori was baggy and reached below the waist, but by the 19th century, jeogori was shortened to the point that it did not cover the breasts, so another piece of cloth (''heoritti'') was used to cover them. At the end of the 19th century, [[Daewon-gun]] introduced [[Magoja]], a [[Manchu]]-style jacket, to Korea, which is often worn with hanbok to this day.

Chima was full-skirted and jeogori was short and tight in the late Joseon period. Fullness in the skirt was emphasized round the hips. Many undergarments were worn underneath chima such as darisokgot, soksokgot, dansokgot, and gojengi to achieve a desired silhouette. Because jeogori was so short it became natural to expose heoritti or ''heorimari'' which functioned like a corset. The white linen cloth exposed under jeogori in the picture is heoritti.
[[File:Korea-Seoul-Royal wedding ceremony 1366-06a.jpg|thumb|Royal Ceremony with Joseon era clothing]]
The upper classes wore hanbok of closely woven [[ramie]] cloth or other high-grade lightweight materials in warm weather and of plain and patterned silks the rest of the year. Commoners were restricted by law as well as resources to cotton at best. The upper classes wore a variety of colors, though bright colors were generally worn by children and girls and subdued colors by middle-aged men and women. Commoners were restricted by law to everyday clothes of white, but for special occasions they wore dull shades of pale pink, light green, gray, and charcoal. Formally, when Korean men went outdoors, they were required to wear overcoats known as ''durumagi'' which reach the knees.

=== Art ===
{{See also|Joseon white porcelain}}
[[File:서문보 산수도(山水圖) 15세기.jpg|thumb|Early Joseon landscape painting by Seo Munbo in the late 15th century.]]
[[File:백자 청화매죽문 항아리.jpg|thumb|left|15th century. Joseon period, Korea. Blue and white porcelain jar with plum and bamboo design.]]
[[File:김홍도금강사군첩.jpg|thumb|Landscape of Mt. Geumgang by [[Gim Hongdo|Kim Hong-do]] (1745–1806?) in 1788.]]

The Mid-Joseon period painting styles moved towards increased [[Realism (visual arts)|realism]]. A national painting style of landscapes called "true view" began - moving from the traditional Chinese style of idealized general landscapes to particular locations exactly rendered. While not photographic, the style was academic enough to become established and supported as a standardized style in Korean painting. At this time China ceased to have pre-eminent influence, Korean art took its own course, and became increasingly distinctive to the traditional Chinese painting.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.minbaek.kr/Contents/Item/E0052156|title=조선예술(朝鮮藝術) - 한국민족문화대백과사전|website=www.minbaek.kr|access-date=2020-02-03}}</ref>

[[Ceramic art|Ceramics]] are a form of popular art during the Joseon period. Examples of ceramics include white porcelain or white porcelain decorated with cobalt, copper red [[underglaze]], blue underglaze and iron underglaze. Ceramics from the Joseon period differ from other periods because artists felt that each piece of art deserved its own uniquely cultivated personality.<ref name="BMA">{{cite book|last=[[Birmingham Museum of Art]]|title=Birmingham Museum of Art : guide to the collection|year=2010|publisher=Birmingham Museum of Art|location=[Birmingham, Ala]|isbn=978-1-904832-77-5|pages=35–39|url=http://artsbma.org}}</ref>

Beginning in the 10th century, white porcelain has been crafted in [[Korea]]. Historically overshadowed by the popularity of [[celadon]], it was not until the 15th and 16th centuries that white porcelain was recognized for its own artistic value. Among the most prized of Korean ceramics are large white jars. Their shape is symbolic of the moon and their color is associated with the ideals of purity and modesty of [[Confucianism]]. During this period, the bureau that oversaw the meals and court banquets of the royal family strictly controlled the production of white porcelain.<ref name="BMA"/>

[[Blue and white porcelain]] artifacts decorating white porcelain with paintings and designs in [[underglaze]] by using natural [[cobalt]] pigment are another example of popular wares of the Joseon period. Many of these items were created by court painters employed by the royal family. During this period, the popular style of landscape paintings is mirrored in the decoration of ceramics.<ref name="BMA"/> Initially developed by the Chinese at the [[Jingdezhen ware|Jingdezhen kilns]] in the mid-14th century, Joseon began to produce this type of porcelain from the 15th century under Chinese influence. The first cobalt imported from China was used by Korean artists. In 1463 when sources of cobalt were discovered in [[Korea]], artists and their buyers found the material was inferior in quality and preferred the more expensive imported cobalt. Korean porcelain with imported cobalt decoration contradict the emphasis of an orderly, frugal and moderate life in [[Neo-Confucianism]].<ref name="BMA"/>

Strikingly different from cobalt, porcelain items with a copper-red [[underglaze]] are the most difficult to successfully craft. During production, these items require great skill and attention or will turn gray during the process of firing. While the birthplace of ceramics with copper red underglaze is widely disputed, these items originated during 12th century in [[Korea]] and became increasingly popular during the second half of the Joseon period. Some experts have pointed to the kilns of Bunwon-ri in [[Gwangju, Gyeonggi]], a city that played a significant role in the production of ceramics during the Joseon period, as a possible birthplace.<ref name="BMA"/>

Porcelain was also decorated with iron. These items commonly consisted of jars or other utilitarian pieces.<ref name="BMA"/>

===Literature===
During the Joseon period, the ''[[Yangban]]'' scholars and educated literati studied [[Thirteen Classics|Confucian classics]] and [[Neo-Confucianism|Neo-Confucian]] literature.<ref name="Met">{{cite web |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/yang/hd_yang.htm |publisher=[[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] |title=Yangban: The Cultural Life of the Joseon Literati |first=Soyoung |last=Lee |date=October 2004 |access-date=15 June 2020}}</ref><ref name="Lee">{{cite book |title=A New History of Korea |first=Ki-baik |last=Lee |author-link=Lee Ki-baik |translator-last1=Wagner |translator-first1=Edward Willett |translator-link1=Edward Willett Wagner |translator-last2=Schultz |translator-first2=Edward J. |year=1984 |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]}}</ref>{{rp|204}}

The middle and upper classes of Joseon society were proficient in [[Classical Chinese]].<ref name="Lee" />{{rp|329}} The Joseon official records (such as the ''[[Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty]]'' and ''[[Seungjeongwon ilgi]]'') and the written works of the Yangban literati were written in Classical Chinese.<ref name="Met"/><ref name="Lee"/>{{rp|243,329}}<ref name="Orchiston-Green-Strom">{{cite book |title=New Insights From Recent Studies in Historical Astronomy: Following in the Footsteps of F. Richard Stephenson |first1=Wayne |last1=Orchiston |first2=David A. |last2=Green |first3=Richard |last3=Strom |publisher=[[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]] |year=2014}}</ref>{{rp|74}}

Newspapers like the ''[[Hwangseong Sinmun]]'' towards the end of the period were written in the [[Korean language]] using the [[Korean mixed script]].<ref name="Lee"/>{{rp|329}}

====Annals of the Joseon Dynasty====
{{main|Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty}}
The ''Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty'' (also known as the ''Annals of the Joseon Dynasty'') are the annual records of the Joseon Dynasty, which were kept from 1413 to 1865. The annals, or ''sillok'', comprise 1,893 volumes and are thought to cover the longest continual period of a single dynasty in the world. With the exception of two ''sillok'' compiled during the [[Korea under Japanese rule|colonial era]], the ''Annals'' are the 151st [[National treasures of Korea|national treasure of Korea]] and listed in [[UNESCO]]'s [[Memory of the World]] registry.

====Uigwe====
{{main|Uigwe}}
''[[Uigwe]]'' is a collection of royal [[Protocol (diplomacy)|protocol]]s of the Joseon period, which records and prescribes through text and stylized illustration the important ceremonies and rites of the royal family.

===Education===
{{main|Education in the Joseon dynasty}}


=== Buddhism and Confucianism ===
The Joseon kingdom was noted for having Confucianism as its main philosophy. However Buddhism actually was a part of the Joseon period.{{disputed|date=April 2021}} The study of literary exchanges between Confucian scholar officials and Buddhists shows that Buddhism was not cast out. There literary exchanges show a middle ground of both philosophies. "scholar-officials - Some who in public castigated Buddhism as a heresy and deluded tradition, in private visited temples and associated closely with monks."{{citation needed|date=April 2021}} This shows that while in public some scholars shamed Buddhism their exchanges with Buddhists show that in the very least it was not cast outside of the kingdom.

One example of this is a famous Joseon scholar official {{interlanguage link|Pak Sedang|ko|박세당}} (박세당, 朴世堂, 1629–1703). He argues against Buddhism with the following "People say that [[Han Yu]] and [[Ouyang Xiu]] have harshly criticized Buddhism and therefore have only discussed what is aberrant and have not fully investigated what is profound. People say, their understanding is lacking and they have not fully examined it [its profoundness]. I, myself, don’t think that is the case… The heresies under heaven, they are also rather foul. Among them, Buddhism is the worst. If a person is inclined to Buddhism then he is of the kind that pursues what is foul. Is it not clear that there is nothing further to discuss? It is like Mencius who [also felt no need to argue in detail when he] criticized Yang Zhu and Mozi.<ref name="Kim 59–82">{{cite journal|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/589236|title=A Shared Cultural Realm: Literary Exchanges between Scholar-Officials and Poet-Monks in the Mid Joseon Period|first=Sung-Eun Thomas|last=Kim|date=20 August 2015|journal=Seoul Journal of Korean Studies|volume=28|issue=1|pages=59–82|via=Project MUSE|doi=10.1353/seo.2015.0015|hdl=10371/164813|s2cid=145807329}}</ref> Surely, he did not argue further than to say [[Yang Zhu]] and [[Mozi]] did not respect their fathers and their emperors."<ref name="Kim 59–82"/> However he writes a poem that seemingly supports Buddhism.{{how|date=April 2021}}

{| class="wikitable"
|久離塵俗萬緣虛
|For long, I have left the mundane world whose innumerable conditions are empty;
|-
|只愛游方不戀居
|I have but travelled here and there, finding no enjoyment in settled life.
|-
|明日又浮滄海去
|Tomorrow once again I leave for Changhae;
|-
|沃州寥落舊精廬
|The old, pure and simple hut of Okju province looks lonely.
|}

Buddhism was a part of the Joseon kingdom. While not supported publicly, privately it was very prevalent in Confucian-scholar officials.{{unbalanced opinion|date=April 2021}}<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kyuhee|first=Cho|date=2015|title=Pathways to Korean Culture: Paintings of the Joseon Period (1392–1910) by Burglind Jungmann (review)|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/589236|journal=Seoul Journal of Korean Studies|doi=10.1353/seo.2015.0011|s2cid=142352051|access-date=April 30, 2016}}</ref>

=== Music ===
{{main|Music of Korea}}

The ''Joseon'' period developed several musical forms. The form with the most extant pieces is ''[[sijo]]''<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kim|first=Hyŭnggyu|title=Understanding Korean Literature|pages=66}}</ref> (Hangul: 시조/Hanja: 時調). ''Sijo'' is a poetic form consisting of three lines, each with four feet, traditionally sung very slowly. In Korean verse, a foot is generally a short syntactic unit, such as a noun with an adjective or a verb with an adverb. For example:
{| class="wikitable"
|+
|어인

WhyCOP.ATTR
|벌리완대  

insect-ceaselessly
|낙락장송(落落長松)

tall and full pine tree
|다 먹는고

all eatQ
|-
|부리 긴

beak longATTR
|져고리는

woodpeckerTOP
|어느 곳에

which placeLOC
|가 있는고

go existQ
|-
|空山에

deserted mountainLOC
|落木聲 들릴제

sound of a tree falling audible FUT.ATTR
|내 안 들데

cause NEG actively AUX experienced
|업세라

not existEMP
|}

==== Translation ====
''Can tiny insects devour a whole great spreading pine?''

''Where is the long-billed woodpecker? Why is he not here?''

''When I hear the sound of falling trees, I cannot contain myself for sorrow.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rutt|first=Richard|title=The Bamboo Grove: An Introduction to Sijo|pages=No.15}}</ref>''

Here, like other Korean musical forms, each foot can stand on its own. As ''sijo'' were sung in Korean, the pioneering of Hangul created the possibility for ''sijo'' to be written down without the use of substitutions such as [[Idu script]]. The first copy of ''sijo'' is of the 'Twelve Songs of ''Dosan''<nowiki/>' by ''Yi Hwang'' written in 1565, which were written 100 years after the proclamation of [[Hangul]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rutt|first=Richard|title=The Bamboo Grove: An Introduction to Sijo|pages=157}}</ref> Additionally, the first anthology of ''sijo'' was compiled by ''Kim Cheontaek'' in 1728;<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rutt|first=Richard|title=The Bamboo Grove: An Introduction to Sijo|pages=158}}</ref> before the anthology few ''sijo'' were written.

''Kim Cheontaek''<nowiki/>'s anthology represents a change in the authorship of ''sijo''. At first, ''sijo'' were primarily composed by the ''[[yangban]]'' aristocracy and entertainers of the ''[[Kisaeng]]'' class. However, by the mid-seventeenth century, the [[Chungin|''jungin'']] or “professional class” were composing ''sijo'' as well. This also coincided with a new form of ''sijo'' called “narrative ''sijo''” (Hangul: 사설시조/Hanja: 辭說時調), in which the first two lines were greatly lengthened.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kim|first=Hyŭnggyu|title=Understanding Korean Literature|pages=71}}</ref> This expansion is likely a development from the so-called “irregular ''sijo''” (Hangul: 엇시조/Hanja: 旕時調), in which there was a minor lengthening of one of the first two lines.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.naver.com/|title=네이버|website=www.naver.com}}</ref> While there are very few remaining irregular ''sijo'', and the form has not been revived, there is a sizable body of narrative ''sijo'' and the form continues to evolve.

''[[Pansori|P'ansori]]'' (Hangul: 판소리) is another musical form that combines singing and prose to portray a story. Its development likely originates from shaman rituals and the songs within the [[Jeolla Province|''Jeolla'' Province]]. It became a full-fledged musical form by the middle of the eighteenth century, and not long thereafter the yangban aristocracy also became interested in it. Originally there was a set of twelve stories that were sung, but only five were written down, and hence those five are the only ones sung today. Having been developed by commoners, ''p'ansori'' usually reflected their attitudes and aspirations, but by becoming popular with the ''yangban'', ''p'ansori'' shifted somewhat toward ''yangban'' sensibilities and restrictions. ''P'ansori'' had a strong influence of the writing of the time, both because of the ''p'ansori'' novel (each based on one of the twelve stories) and by increasing the realism of the classical novel.

== Science and technology ==
{{See also|History of science and technology in Korea}}
[[File:Korean celestial globe.jpg|thumb|Korean [[celestial globe]] first made by the scientist [[Jang Yeong-sil]] during the reign of [[King Sejong]]]]

=== 15th century ===
The Joseon period under the reign of [[Sejong the Great]] was Korea's greatest period of scientific advancement. Under Sejong's new policy, [[Cheonmin]] (low-status) people such as [[Jang Yeong-sil]] were allowed to work for the government. At a young age, Jang displayed talent as an inventor and engineer, creating machines to facilitate agricultural work. These included supervising the building of aqueducts and canals.
[[File:BoRuGak Jagyeongnu.JPG|thumb|Surviving portion of the Water Clock (Jagyeongnu)]]
Some of his inventions were an automated (self-striking) [[water clock]] (the Jagyeokru) which worked by activating motions of wooden figures to indicate time visually (invented in 1434 by Jang), a subsequent more complicated water-clock with additional astronomical devices, and an improved model of the previous metal movable printing type created in the [[Goryeo Dynasty]]. The new model was of even higher quality and was twice as fast. Other inventions were the [[sight glass]], and the [[udometer]].

The highpoint of Korean astronomy was during the Joseon period, where men such as Jang created devices such as celestial globes which indicated the positions of the sun, moon, and the stars.<ref>{{cite book | author=백석기 | title=웅진위인전기 #11 장영실 | publisher=웅진출판사 | year=1987 | page=56}}</ref> Later celestial globes (Gyupyo, 규표) were attuned to the seasonal variations.

The apex of astronomical and calendarial advances under [[King Sejong]] was the [[Chiljeongsan]], which compiled computations of the courses of the seven heavenly objects (five visible planets, the sun, and moon),
developed in 1442. This work made it possible for scientists to calculate and accurately predict all the major heavenly phenomena, such as solar eclipses and other stellar movements.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indiana.edu/~easc/resources/korea_slides/science/9-1.htm|title=Korea And The Korean People}}</ref>
[[Honcheonsigye]] is an astronomical clock created by [[Song I-yeong]] in 1669. The clock has an armillary sphere with a diameter of 40 cm. The sphere is activated by a working clock mechanism, showing the position of celestial objects at any given time.

[[Kangnido]], a Korean-made map of the world was created in 1402 by [[Kim Sa-hyeong]] (김사형, 金士衡), [[Yi Mu (early Joseon)|Yi Mu]] (이무, 李茂) and [[Yi Hoe]] (이회, 李撓). The map was created in the second year of the reign of [[Taejong of Joseon]]. The map was made by combining Chinese, Korean and Japanese maps.

=== 16th–19th century ===
The scientific and technological advance in the late Joseon period was less progressed than the early Joseon period.

16th-century court physician, [[Heo Jun]] wrote a number of medical texts, his most significant achievement being [[Dongeui Bogam]], which is often noted as the defining text of [[Traditional Korean medicine]]. The work spread to China and Japan, where it is still regarded as one of the classics of [[Oriental medicine]] today.

The first soft [[ballistic vest]], [[Myunjebaegab]], was invented in Joseon [[Korea]] in the 1860s shortly after the [[French campaign against Korea (1866)]]. [[Heungseon Daewongun]] ordered development of bullet-proof armor because of increasing threats from Western armies. [[Kim Gi-du]] and [[Gang Yun]] found that [[cotton]] could protect against bullets if thick enough, and devised bullet-proof vests made of 30 layers of cotton. The vests were used in battle during the [[United States expedition to Korea]] (1871), when the US Navy attacked [[Ganghwa Island]] in 1871. The US Army captured one of the vests and took it to the US, where it was stored at the [[Smithsonian Museum]] until 2007. The vest has since been sent back to Korea and is currently on display to the public.

== Economy ==

=== Commerce ===
During the Goryeo period, Korea had a healthy trade relationship with the Japanese, Chinese, and Manchurians. An example of prosperous, international trade port is [[Pyongnam]]. Koreans offered [[brocades]], jewelries, [[ginseng]], [[silk]], and [[porcelain]], renowned famous worldwide. But, during the Joseon period, Confucianism was adopted as the national philosophy, and, in process of eliminating certain [[Buddhist]] beliefs, [[Korean pottery and porcelain#Goryeo|Goryeo Cheongja]] porcelains were replaced by white [[Baekja]], which lost favour of the Chinese. Also, commerce became more restricted during this time in order to promote agriculture. Because silver was used as currency in China, it played an important role in Korea-China trade.

== House of Yi ==
{{Main|House of Yi}}
{{see also|House of Yi#House of Yi family tree|label 1=The family tree of Joseon kings}}
[[File:Fuuzokugahou-Myeongseong.gif|thumb|Japanese illustration of [[Gojong of Korea|King Gojong]] and Queen Min receiving [[Inoue Kaoru]]]]
[[File:Choseon Imperial family.jpg|thumb|This compilation photo, taken about 1915, shows the following royal family members, from left: [[Prince Imperial Ui|Prince Ui (''Ui chinwang'' 의친왕)]], the 6th son of Gojong; [[Emperor Sunjong of the Korean Empire|Sunjong]], the 2nd son and the last monarch of Joseon; [[Crown Prince Euimin|Prince Yeong (''Yeong chinwang'' 영친왕)]], the 7th son; [[Gojong of Korea|Gojong]], the former King; [[Empress Sunjeong of the Korean Empire|Queen Yoon (''Yoon daebi'')]], Queen Consort of Sunjong; Deogindang Gimbi, wife of Prince Ui; and [[Kenichi Momoyama|Yi Geon]], the eldest son of Prince Ui. The seated child in the front row is [[Deokhye, Princess of Korea|Princess Deokhye (''Deokhye ongju'' 덕혜옹주)]], Gojong's last child. (This is a compilation of individual photographs since the Imperial Japanese did not allow them to be in the same room at the same time, and some were forced to leave Korea.)]]

The following is a simplified relation of Joseon royalty (Korean Imperial Family) during the late period of the dynasty:
* [[Gojong of Korea|Emperor Gojong]] (1852–1919) – 26th head of the Korean Imperial Household, adoptive heir to [[Crown Prince Hyomyeong]]
** [[Sunjong of Korea|Emperor Sunjong]] (1874–1926) – 27th head of the Korean Imperial Household
** [[Yi Kang]], Prince Imperial Ui (1877–1955) – 5th son of Gojong
*** Prince [[Yi Geon]] (1909–1991) – eldest son of Yi Kang; renounced the Imperial title and heritage by becoming a Japanese citizen in 1947
*** Prince [[Yi U]] (1912–1945) – 2nd son of Yi Kang; adopted as the heir to [[Yi Jun-yong]], grandson of [[Heungseon Daewongun]]
**** [[Yi Cheong]] (1936–)
**** Yi Jong (1940–1966)
*** [[Yi Hae-won]] (1919–2020) – 2nd daughter of Yi Kang; married in 1936 to Yi Seung-gyu from the Yongin Yi Clan
*** Yi Gap (1938–2014) – 9th son of Yi Kang
**** [[Yi Won]] (1962–) – eldest son of Yi Gap; adopted by Yi Ku as the 30th head of the Korean Imperial Household
***** 1st son (1998–)
***** 2nd son (1999–)
*** [[Yi Seok]] (1941–) – 10th son of Yi Kang; self-claimed head of the Korean Imperial Household
**** [[Yi Hong]] (1976–), first daughter of Yi Seok
***** 1st daughter (2001–)
**** Yi Jin (1979–), 2nd daughter of Yi Seok
**** Yi Jeonghun (1980–), son of Yi Seok
** [[Yi Un]], Imperial Crown Prince (1897–1970) – 28th head of the Korean Imperial Household; married in 1920 to Princess Masako of Nashimoto (Yi Bangja), an imperial member of the [[Empire of Japan]].
*** Prince Yi Jin (1921–1922)
*** Prince [[Yi Ku]] (1931–2005) — 29th head of the Korean Imperial Household; son of Yi Un
** [[Princess Deokhye]] (1912–1989) — married in 1931 to Count Sō Takeyuki
*** Jong Jeonghye (1932–?), disappeared since 1956

==See also==

* [[History of Korea]]
* [[Annals of the Joseon Dynasty]]
* [[List of monarchs of Korea]]
* [[House of Yi#House of Yi family tree|Kings family tree]]
*[[Politics of the Joseon dynasty|Joseon Dynasty politics]]
* [[Korean Empire]]

== Notes ==
{{Notelist}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==Bibliography==
{{refbegin}}
*{{citation|last1=Ebrey|first1=Patricia Buckley|last2=Walthall|first2=Ann|last3=Palais|first3=James B.|title=East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History|year=2006|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Press|location=Boston and New York|isbn=978-0-618-13384-0|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/eastasiacultural00ebre_0}}.
*{{citation|last1=Hatada|first1=Takashi|last2=Smith Jr|first2=Warren W.|last3=Hazard|first3=Benjamin H.|title=A History of Korea|year=1969|publisher=ABC-Clio|location=Santa Barbara, CA|isbn=978-0-87436-064-6}}.
*{{cite ECCP|last=Kennedy|first=George A.|title=Amin|pages=8–9}}
*{{citation|last=Kim Haboush|first=JaHyun|chapter=Contesting Chinese Time, Nationalizing Temporal Space: Temporal Inscription in Late Chosǒn Korea|pages=115–141|title=Time, Temporality, and Imperial Transition|year=2005|publisher=University of Hawai'i Press|location=Honolulu|editor-last=Lynn A. Struve|isbn=978-0-8248-2827-1}}.
*{{citation|last=Larsen|first=Kirk W.|title=Tradition, Treaties, and Trade: Qing Imperialism and Chosǒn Korea, 1850–1910|year=2008|publisher=Harvard University Asia Center|location=Cambridge, MA|isbn=978-0-674-02807-4}}.
*{{citation|last1=Lee|first1=Peter H.|last2=de Bary|first2=William Theodore|title=Sources of Korean Tradition, ''Volume I:'' From Early Times Through the Sixteenth Century|year=1997|publisher=Columbia University Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0-231-10567-5}}.
* {{citation |last1=Lin |first1=Ming-te |title=Li Hung-chang's Suzerain Policy toward Korea, 1882-1894 |journal=Chinese Studies in History |date=8 December 2014 |volume=24 |issue=4 |pages=69–96 |doi=10.2753/CSH0009-4633240469}}
*{{citation|last=Nahm|first=Andrew C.|title=Korea: Tradition & Transformation: A History of the Korean People|year=1988|publisher=Hollym|location=Elizabeth, NJ|isbn=978-0-930878-56-6}}.
*{{citation|last=Zhao|first=Quansheng|chapter=China and the Korean peace process|pages=98–118|title=The Korean Peace Process and the Four Powers|year=2003|publisher=Ashgate|location=Hampshire|editor=Tae-Hwan Kwak |editor2=Seung-Ho Joo|isbn=978-0-7546-3653-3}}.
{{refend}}

== Further reading ==
* ''A Cultural History of Modern Korea'', Wannae Joe, ed. with intro. by Hongkyu A. Choe, Elizabeth NY, and Seoul Korea: Hollym, 2000.
* ''An Introduction to Korean Culture'', ed. Koo & Nahm, Elizabeth NJ, and Seoul Korea: Hollym, 1998. 2nd edition.
* ''Noon Eu Ro Bo Neun Han Gook Yuk Sa #7'' by Jang Pyung Soon. Copyright 1998 Joong Ang Gyo Yook Yun Goo Won, Ltd, pp. 46–7.
* [https://www.jstor.org/stable/23718933 Alston, Dane. 2008. "Emperor and Emissary: The Hongwu Emperor, Kwŏn Kŭn, and the Poetry of Late Fourteenth Century Diplomacy". Korean Studies 32. University of Hawai'i Press: 104–47.]
* [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41490257 Kye, Seung B.. 2010. "Huddling Under the Imperial Umbrella: A Korean Approach to Ming China in the Early 1500s". The Journal of Korean Studies 15 (1). University of Washington Center for Korea Studies: 41–66.]
* [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41485331 Robinson, David M.. 2004. "Disturbing Images: Rebellion, Usurpation, and Rulership in Early Sixteenth-century East Asia—Korean Writings on Emperor Wuzong". The Journal of Korean Studies 9 (1). University of Washington Center for Korea Studies: 97–127.]
* [https://www.jstor.org/stable/23720024 Robinson, Kenneth R.. 1992. "From Raiders to Traders: Border Security and Border Control in Early Chosŏn, 1392—1450". Korean Studies 16. University of Hawai'i Press: 94–115.]
* Ji-Young Lee. 2020. "The Founding of the Korean Chosŏn Dynasty, 1392." in ''[[doi:10.1017/9781108807401|East Asia in the World Twelve Events That Shaped the Modern International Order]]''. Cambridge University Press.

== External links ==
{{Commons category|Joseon Dynasty}}
* {{Cite book|author=[[:ja:三谷博|三谷博]]|date=January 2016|title=グローバル化への対応－中・日・韓三国の分岐－|publisher=[[:ja:統計研究会|統計研究会]]『学際』第1号|url=http://www.isr.or.jp/TokeiKen/pdf/gakusai/1_05.pdf|ref=三谷}}
* {{Cite book|author=[[:ja:原田環|原田環]]|date=June 2005|title=東アジアの国際関係とその近代化－朝鮮と－|publisher=[[Japan–South Korea Joint History Research Project]]報告書（第1期）|url=http://www.jkcf.or.jp/history_arch/first/3/02-0j_harada_j.pdf|
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928110202/http://www.instrok.org/instrok/lesson1/page01.html?thisChar=4 Cultural Values of the Choson Dynasty] – from Instrok.org, created by the [[East Rock Institute]].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150510203519/http://www.sungjinyang.com/history/hermit.html "Click into the Hermit Kingdom" (Written by Yang Sung-jin and published by Dongbang Media in Seoul, South Korea) – 100 articles in English on the Joseon Dynasty]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050207052645/http://royalcity.or.kr/ Korean royal family website] – currently available only in Korean.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050313144134/http://myhome.shinbiro.com/~mss1/choson.html Choson dynasty]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050113191703/http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200501/200501120024.html "Japanese Document Sheds New Light on Korean Queen's Murder"] – Ohmynews.com's uncovered document about murder of Queen Minbi
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060202204421/http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200601/200601270013.html "E-Annals Bring Chosun History to Everyman"], The Chosun Ilbo, January 27, 2006.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080604062746/http://www.bennettsfineart.com/lee%20dynasty.htm "Korean Lee (Yi) Dynasty Granite Sculptures.]

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| conventional_long_name = Great Joseon / Chosŏn
| native_name = {{lang|ko|朝鮮}} ({{lang|ko|조선}})<ref>{{cite news |url = http://www.newstown.co.kr/newsbuilder/service/article/messmail.asp?P_Index=72824 |script-title = ko:(세상사는 이야기) 왜색에 물든 우리말-(10) |publisher = Newstown |author = Li, Jun-gyu (이준규) |date = 2009-07-22 |language = ko |quote = 1392년부터 1910년까지 한반도전역을 통치하였던 조선(朝鮮)은 일반적으로 조선왕조(朝鮮王朝)라 칭하였으며, 어보(御寶), 국서(國書)등에도 대조선국(大朝鮮國)이라는 명칭을 사용하였었다. (translation) Joseon which had ruled from 1392 to 1910 was commonly referred to as the "Joseon dynasty" while "Great Joseon State" was used in the royal seal, national documents, and others. }}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
| status_text =
| government_type = [[Absolute monarchy]]<ref>{{cite book |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=vWNNWVwaUpMC&q=joseon+dynasty+absolute+monarchy&pg=PA16 |title=Interior Space and Furniture of Joseon Upper-class Houses|first=Sang-hun|last=Choi|date=27 October 2017|publisher=Ewha Womans University Press|via=Google Books|page=16|isbn=9788973007202|quote=Joseon was an absolute monarchy}}</ref>
| year_start = 1392
| year_end = 1897
| event_start = Coronation of [[Taejo of Joseon|Taejo]]
| date_start = 5 August
| event1 = [[Hunminjeongeum|Promulgation of the Korean alphabet]]
| date_event1 = 9 October 1446
| event2 = [[Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)|Japanese invasions]]
| date_event2 = 1592–1598
| event3 = [[Later Jin invasion of Joseon|First]] and [[Qing invasion of Joseon|second Manchu invasions]]
| date_event3 = 1627, 1636–1637
| event4 = [[Japan–Korea Treaty of 1876]]
| date_event4 = 26 February 1876
| event5 = [[Treaty of Shimonoseki]]
| date_event5 = 17 April 1895
| event_end = [[Korean Empire|Elevation to empire]]
| date_end = 13 October
| p1 = Goryeo
| flag_p1 = Royal flag of Goryeo (Bong-gi).svg
| border_p1 = no
| s1 = Korean Empire
| flag_s1 = Flag of Korea (1893).svg
| image_flag = Flag of the king of Joseon.svg
| image_flag2 = Flag of Korea (1893).svg
| flag_border = no
| flag2_border = no
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| flag_type_article = List of Korean flags
| flag_type = Top: Royal standard from 1882 to 1897 Bottom: Flag from 1893 to 1897
| image_coat = Coat of Arms of Joseon Korea.svg
| coa_size = 80px
| symbol_type = Royal coat of arms<div style="padding:3px 0;">[[File:Emblem of the Kingdom of Great Joseon.svg|80px|Emblem of the Kingdom of Great Joseon]]</div>Emblem of the kingdom (late 19th century)
| other_symbol = '''[[Seal (East Asia)#Government authorities|Royal seal]]''' 朝鮮王寶 (조선왕보) [[File:Joseon wang bo (Royal Seal Treasure of the Joseon King).svg|85px]]
| image_map_caption = Territory of Joseon after King Sejong conquest of Jurchen
| capital = [[Kaesong|Gaegyeong]] (1392-1394/1399-1405) [[Seoul|Hanseong]] (1394-1399/1405-1897)
| official_languages = [[Korean language|Korean]]{{br}}[[Classical Chinese|Literary Chinese]]<ref name="Met"/><ref name="Lee"/><ref name="Orchiston-Green-Strom"/>
| religion = {{nowrap|[[Korean Confucianism|Confucianism]] ([[state religion|state ideology]])}} [[Korean Buddhism|Buddhism]] [[Korean shamanism|Shamanism]] [[Taoism in Korea|Taoism]] [[Christianity in Korea|Christianity]] (recognized in 1886)
| currency = [[Korean mun|Mun]] (1423–1425, 1625–1892) [[Korean yang|Yang]] (1892–1897)
| title_leader = [[List of Joseon monarchs|King]]
| leader1 = [[Taejo of Joseon|Taejo]]
| year_leader1 = 1392–1398 (first)
| leader2 = [[Gojong of Korea|Gojong]]
| year_leader2 = 1863–1897 (last)
| title_deputy = [[Yeonguijeong|Chief State Councillor]]{{efn|Style: ''Yeonguijeong'' (1401-1894); ''Naegak chongri daesin'' (1894-96); ''Ui jeong'' (1896-1905)|name="Yeonguijeong"}}
| deputy1 = Bae Geuk-ryeom (배극렴)
| year_deputy1 = 1392 (first)
| deputy2 = Gim Byeong-si (김병시)
| year_deputy2 = 1894–1898 (last)
| stat_year1 = 1400<ref name="조선왕조시대 인구추정에 관한 일시론">{{cite book |author = 권태환 신용하 |title = 조선왕조시대 인구추정에 관한 일시론 |year = 1977 }}</ref>
| stat_pop1 = 5,730,000
| stat_year2 = 1500<ref name="한국경제통사">{{cite book |author = 이헌창 |title = 한국경제통사 52쪽 |year = 1999}}</ref>
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| stat_year5 = 1900<ref name="조선왕조시대 인구추정에 관한 일시론"/>
| stat_pop5 = 17,082,000
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| demonym = [[Koreans|Korean]]
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'''Joseon''' (also transcribed as '''Chosŏn''', {{lang-ko|대조선국; 大朝鮮國}}, {{Literal translation|Great Joseon State}}) was a Korean dynastic kingdom that lasted for approximately five centuries.<ref>{{cite web |title=Chosŏn dynasty {{!}} Korean history |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Choson-dynasty |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. |access-date=10 February 2019 |language=en}}</ref> It was the last dynastic kingdom of Korea.<ref name="Confucianism">{{cite book|title=Women Our History|year=2019|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lxGnDwAAQBAJ&q=joseon+longest+confucian+dynasty+korea&pg=PA82|page=82|isbn=9780241395332|author1=D. K}}</ref> It was founded by [[Taejo of Joseon|Yi Seong-gye]] in July 1392 and replaced by the [[Korean Empire]] in October 1897.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title= 조선 |encyclopedia= 한국민족문화대백과 }}</ref> The kingdom was founded following the aftermath of the overthrow of [[Goryeo]] in what is today the city of [[Kaesong]]. Early on, Korea was retitled and the capital was relocated to modern-day [[Seoul]]. The kingdom's northernmost borders were expanded to the natural boundaries at the rivers of [[Amnok River|Amnok]] and [[Tumen River|Tuman]] through the subjugation of the [[Jurchens]].

During its 500-year duration, Joseon encouraged the entrenchment of Confucian ideals and doctrines in Korean society. [[Neo-Confucianism]] was installed as the new state's ideology. [[Korean Buddhism|Buddhism]] was accordingly discouraged and occasionally faced persecutions. Joseon consolidated its effective rule over the territory of current Korea and saw the height of classical Korean culture, trade, literature, and science and technology. In the 1590s, the kingdom was severely weakened due to [[Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)|Japanese invasions]]. Several decades later, Joseon was invaded by the [[Later Jin (1616–1636)|Later Jin dynasty]] and the [[Qing dynasty]] in [[Later Jin invasion of Joseon|1627]] and [[Qing invasion of Joseon|1636–1637]] respectively, leading to an increasingly harsh isolationist policy, for which the country became known as the "[[hermit kingdom]]" in [[Western literature]]. After the end of these invasions from [[Manchuria]], Joseon experienced a nearly 200-year period of peace and prosperity, along with cultural and technological development. However, whatever power that the kingdom recovered during its isolation waned as the 18th century came to a close. Faced with internal strife, power struggles, international pressure, and rebellions at home, the Joseon kingdom declined rapidly in the late 19th century.

The Joseon period has left a substantial legacy to modern Korea; much of modern [[Korean culture]], etiquette, norms, and societal attitudes towards current issues, along with [[Korean language|the modern Korean language]] and [[Korean dialects|its dialects]], derive from the culture and traditions of Joseon. Modern Korean bureaucracy and administrative divisions were also established during the Joseon period.

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== History ==
{{History of Korea}}
{{Main|History of the Joseon dynasty}}

=== Early Joseon period ===
[[File:King Taejo Yi 02.jpg|thumb|left|[[Taejo of Joseon|King Taejo]]'s portrait]]

==== Founding ====
By the late 14th century, the nearly 500-year-old [[Goryeo]] established in 918 was tottering, its foundations collapsing from years of war and ''de facto'' occupation from the disintegrating [[Mongol Empire]]. Following the emergence of the [[Ming dynasty]], the royal court in Goryeo split into two conflicting factions: the group led by General Yi (supporting the Ming) and the camp led by [[Choe Yeong|General Choe]] (standing by the Yuan).

Goryeo claimed to be the successor of the ancient kingdom of [[Goguryeo]] (which was later renamed Goryeo); as such, restoring [[Manchuria]] as part of Korean territory was part of its foreign policy throughout its history. When a Ming messenger came to Goryeo in 1388, the 14th year of [[U of Goryeo]], to demand that Goguryeo's former northern territory be handed over to Ming China, General Choe seized the chance to argue for an attack on the [[Liaodong Peninsula]].

Yi was chosen to lead the attack; however, he revolted and swept back to Gaegyeong and initiated a [[coup d'état]], overthrowing King U in favor of his son, [[Chang of Goryeo]] (1388). He later killed King U and his son after a failed restoration and forcibly placed a royal named Yi on the throne (he became [[Gongyang of Goryeo]]). In 1392, Yi eliminated [[Jeong Mong-ju]], highly respected leader of a group loyal to Goryeo dynasty, and dethroned King Gongyang, exiling him to [[Wonju]], and before he ascended the throne. The Goryeo kingdom had come to an end after almost 500 years of rule.

In the beginning of his reign, Yi Seonggye, now ruler of Korea, intended to continue use of the name Goryeo for the country he ruled and simply change the royal line of descent to his own, thus maintaining the façade of continuing the 500-year-old Goryeo tradition. However, after numerous threats of mutiny from the drastically weakened but still influential Gwonmun nobles, who continued to swear allegiance to the remnants of the Goryeo and now the demoted Wang clan, the consensus in the reformed court was that a new dynastic title was needed to signify the change. In naming the new kingdom, Taejo contemplated two possibilities - "Hwaryeong" and "Joseon". After much internal deliberation, as well as endorsement by the neighboring Ming dynasty's emperor, Taejo declared the name of the kingdom to be Joseon, a tribute to the ancient Korean state of [[Gojoseon]].<ref>{{cite book |last= Kang|first= Jae-eun|date= 2006|title= The Land of Scholars: Two Thousand Years of Korean Confucianism|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=XB4UYXNQK1wC&q=ming+taizu+joseon|publisher= Homa & Sekey Books|page= 177|access-date= August 7, 2015|isbn= 9781931907309}} "Yi Seong-gye issued a royal edict to proclaim the name of the new kingdom to "Joseon" and issued amnesty to all criminals who opposed the transition. The statement by Taizu about "only the name of Joseon is beautiful and old" naturally refers to Gija Joseon."</ref> He also moved the capital to [[Seoul|Hanyang]] from Kaesong.

==== Strife of princes ====
[[File:Gyeongbok-gung palace-01 (xndr).jpg|alt=|left|thumb|The Throne at [[Gyeongbokgung]]]]

When the new dynasty was brought into existence, Taejo brought up the issue of which son would be his successor. Although Yi Bangwon, Taejo's fifth son by Queen Sineui, had contributed most to assisting his father's rise to power, the prime minister [[Jeong Dojeon]] and [[Nam Eun]] used their influence on King Taejo to name his eighth son (second son of Queen Sindeok) Grand Prince Uian (Yi Bangseok) as crown prince in 1392. This conflict arose largely because Jeong Dojeon, who shaped and laid down ideological, institutional, and legal foundations of the new kingdom more than anyone else, saw Joseon as a kingdom led by ministers appointed by the king while Yi Bangwon wanted to establish the absolute monarchy ruled directly by the king. With Taejo's support, Jeong Dojeon kept limiting the royal family's power by prohibiting political involvement of princes and attempting to abolish their private armies. Both sides were well aware of each other's great animosity and were getting ready to strike first.

After the sudden death of Queen Sindeok, while King Taejo was still in mourning for his second wife, Yi Bangwon struck first by raiding the palace and killed Jeong Dojeon and his supporters as well as Queen Sindeok's two sons (his half-brothers) including the crown prince in 1398. This incident became known as the First Strife of Princes.

Aghast at the fact that his sons were willing to kill each other for the crown, and psychologically exhausted from the death of his second wife, King Taejo abdicated and immediately crowned his second son Yi Banggwa as [[Jeongjong of Joseon|King Jeongjong]]. One of King Jeongjong's first acts as monarch was to revert the capital to [[Kaesong]], where he is believed to have been considerably more comfortable, away from the toxic power strife. Yet Yi Bangwon retained real power and was soon in conflict with his disgruntled older brother, Yi Banggan, who also yearned for power. In 1400, the tensions between Yi Bangwon's faction and Yi Banggan's camp escalated into an all-out conflict that came to be known as the Second Strife of Princes. In the aftermath of the struggle, the defeated Yi Banggan was exiled to [[Tosan County|Dosan]] while his supporters were executed. Thoroughly intimidated, King Jeongjong immediately invested Yi Bangwon as heir presumptive and voluntarily abdicated. That same year, Yi Bangwon assumed the throne of Joseon at long last as [[Taejong of Joseon|King Taejong]], third king of Joseon.

====Consolidation of royal power====
In the beginning of Taejong's reign, the Grand King Former, Taejo, refused to relinquish the royal seal that signified the legitimacy of any king's rule. Taejong began to initiate policies he believed would prove his qualification to rule. One of his first acts as king was to abolish the privilege enjoyed by the upper echelons of government and the aristocracy to maintain private armies. His revoking of such rights to field independent forces effectively severed their ability to muster large-scale revolts, and drastically increased the number of men employed in the national military. Taejong's next act as king was to revise the existing legislation concerning the taxation of land ownership and the recording of state of subjects. With the discovery of previously hidden land, national income increased twofold.

In 1399, Taejong had played an influential role in scrapping the [[Dopyeong Assembly]], a council of the old government administration that held a monopoly in court power during the waning years of the Goryeo kingdom, in favor of the [[State Council of Joseon]] ({{Hangul|의정부}} {{Hanja|議政府}}), a new branch of central administration that revolved around the king and his edicts. After passing the subject documentation and taxation legislation, King Taejong issued a new decree in which all decisions passed by the State Council could only come into effect with the approval of the king. This ended the custom of court ministers and advisors making decisions through debate and negotiations amongst themselves, and thus brought the royal power to new heights.

Shortly thereafter, Taejong installed an office, known as the [[Sinmun Office]], to hear cases in which aggrieved subjects felt that they had been exploited or treated unjustly by government officials or [[aristocracy (class)|aristocrat]]s. However, Taejong kept Jeong Dojeon's reforms intact for most part. In addition, Taejong executed or exiled many of his supporters who helped him ascend on the throne in order to strengthen the royal authority. To limit influence of in-laws, he also killed all four of his Queen's brothers and his son [[Sejong the Great|Sejong]]'s father-in-law. Taejong remains a controversial figure who killed many of his rivals and relatives to gain power and yet ruled effectively to improve the populace's lives, strengthen national defense, and lay down a solid foundation for his successor Sejong's rule.

====Sejong the Great====
[[File:영의정하연부부영정3.jpg|thumb|left|Portrait of [[Ha Yeon]] who served as [[Yeonguijeong]] during the [[Sejong of Joseon|King Sejong]]'s reign.]]
[[File:Hunmin jeong-eum.jpg|thumb|right|A page from the ''Hunmin Jeong-eum Eonhae'', a partial translation of ''[[Hunminjeongeum]]'', the original promulgation of the Korean alphabet]]

In August 1418, following Taejong's abdication two months earlier, [[Sejong the Great]] ascended the throne. In May 1419, King Sejong, under the advice and guidance of his father Taejong, embarked upon the [[Ōei Invasion|Gihae Eastern Expedition]] to remove the nuisance of [[Wokou|waegu]] (coastal pirates) who had been operating out of [[Tsushima Island]].

In September 1419, the ''[[daimyō]]'' of Tsushima, Sadamori, capitulated to the Joseon court. In 1443, The [[Treaty of Gyehae]] was signed in which the ''daimyō'' of Tsushima was granted rights to conduct trade with Korea in fifty ships per year in exchange for sending tribute to Korea and aiding to stop any Waegu coastal pirate raids on Korean ports.<ref>{{Cite book |title= Korea | last= Richard Rutt.| publisher= Routledge/Curzon| date= September 1999|isbn=978-0-7007-0464-4|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=vj8ShHzUxrYC&q=kyehae%20treaty&pg=PA255|display-authors=etal}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title= The Cambridge history of Japan |volume=3 |trans-title= Medieval Japan |last= John W. Hall.| publisher= Cambridge University Press | date= April 27, 1990|isbn=978-0-521-22354-6|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=lCd4reJRaG8C&q=kyehae%20treaty&pg=PA442|display-authors=etal}}</ref><ref>{{in lang|ko}} [http://100.nate.com/dicsearch/pentry.html?s=B&i=112816&v=42 계해약조 癸亥約條] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610053214/http://100.nate.com/dicsearch/pentry.html?s=B&i=112816&v=42 |date=2011-06-10 }} [[Nate (web portal)|Nate]] / [[Britannica]]</ref><ref>{{in lang|ko}}[http://100.nate.com/dicsearch/pentry.html?s=K&i=236670&v=42 계해조약 癸亥約條] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610053227/http://100.nate.com/dicsearch/pentry.html?s=K&i=236670&v=42 |date=2011-06-10 }} [[Nate (web portal)|Nate]] / [[Encyclopedia of Korean Culture]]</ref>

On the northern border, Sejong established four forts and six posts ({{Hanja|四郡六鎭}}; {{Hangul|사군육진}}) to safeguard his people from the [[Jurchen people|Jurchens]], who later became the [[Manchu people|Manchus]], living in Manchuria. In 1433, Sejong sent [[Kim Jong-seo (general)|Kim Jong-seo]], a government official, north to fend off the Jurchens. Kim's military campaign captured several castles, pushed north, and restored Korean territory, roughly the present-day border between North Korea and China.<ref>{{cite book | author=박영규 | title=한권으로 읽는 세종대왕실록 | publisher=웅진, 지식하우스 | year=2008 | isbn=978-89-01-07754-3}}</ref>

During the rule of Sejong, Korea saw advances in [[natural science]], [[agriculture]], [[literature]], [[traditional Chinese medicine]], and engineering. Because of such success, Sejong was given the title "Sejong the Great".<ref name="asiasociety">{{cite web|url=http://www.asiasociety.org/countries-history/traditions/king-sejong-great|title=King Sejong the Great And The Golden Age Of Korea|date=19 August 2008|publisher=asiasociety.org|access-date=27 November 2009}}</ref> The most remembered contribution of King Sejong is the creation of [[Hangul]], the Korean alphabet, in 1443; everyday use of [[Hanja]] in writing eventually was surpassed by Hangul in the later half of the 20th century.

====Six martyred ministers====
After King Sejong's death, his son [[Munjong of Joseon|Munjong]] continued his father's legacy but soon died of illness in 1452, just two years after coronation. He was succeeded by his twelve-year-old son, [[Danjong of Joseon|Danjong]]. In addition to two regents, [[Princess Gyeonghye]] also served as Danjong's guardian and, along with the general Kim Jongso, attempted to strengthen royal authority.<ref name="an">{{cite web |url = http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2016/05/628_153138.html |title=Forgotten story of Princess Gyeonghye |last1=An|first1=Seung-jun|website=Korea Times|date=4 April 2014|access-date=22 February 2018 }}</ref> However, Danjong's uncle, [[Sejo of Joseon|Sejo]], gained control of the government and eventually deposed his nephew to become the seventh king of Joseon himself in 1455. After [[Six martyred ministers|six ministers loyal to Danjong]] attempted to assassinate Sejo to return Danjong to the throne, Sejo executed the six ministers and also killed Danjong in his place of exile.

King Sejo enabled the government to determine exact population numbers and to mobilize troops effectively. He also revised the land ordinance to improve the national economy and encouraged the publication of books. Most importantly, he compiled the Grand Code for State Administration, which became the cornerstone of dynastic administration and provided the first form of constitutional law in a written form in Korea.

However, he undermined much of the foundation of many existing systems, including the Jiphyeonjeon which his predecessors King Sejong and Munjong had carefully laid down. He cut down on everything he deemed unworthy and caused countless complications in the long run. Many of these adjustments were done for his own power, not regarding the consequences and problems that would occur. The favoritism he showed towards the ministers who aided him in taking the throne led to increased corruption in the higher echelon of the political field.

====Institutional arrangements and Prosper culture====
Sejo's weak son [[Yejong of Joseon|Yejong]] succeeded him as the eighth king, but died two years later in 1469. Yejong's nephew [[Seongjong of Joseon|Seongjong]] ascended the throne. His reign was marked by the prosperity and growth of the national economy and the rise of neo-Confucian scholars called [[sarim]] who were encouraged by Seongjong to enter court politics. He established Hongmungwan ({{hanja|弘文館}}), the royal library and advisory council composed of Confucian scholars, with whom he discussed philosophy and government policies. He ushered in a cultural golden age that rivaled Sejong's reign by publishing numerous books on geography, ethics, and various other fields.

He also sent several military campaigns against the Jurchens on the northern border in 1491, like many of his predecessors. The campaign, led by General [[Heo Jong]], was successful, and the defeated Jurchens, led by the Udige clan ({{hanja|兀狄哈}}), retreated to the north of the [[Yalu River]]. King Seongjong was succeeded by his son, [[Yeonsangun of Joseon|Yeonsangun]], in 1494.

====Literati purges====
{{Main|Korean literati purges}}
[[File:Cho Kwang-jo in 1750.jpg|170px|thumb|Portrait of the neo-Confucian scholar, [[Jo Gwang-jo]] 조광조 (1482–1519)]]

[[Yeonsangun of Joseon|Yeonsangun]] is often considered the worst tyrant of the Joseon, whose reign was marked by [[Korean literati purges]] between 1498 and 1506. His behavior became erratic after he learned that his biological mother was not Queen Junghyeon but the [[deposed Queen Lady Yun]], who was forced to drink poison after poisoning one of Seongjong's concubines out of jealousy and leaving a scratch mark on Seongjong's face. When he was shown a piece of clothing that was allegedly stained with his mother's blood vomited after drinking poison, he beat to death two of Seongjong's concubines who had accused Consort Yun and he pushed Grand Queen Insu, who died afterward. He executed government officials who supported Consort Yun's death along with their families. He also executed [[sarim]] scholars for writing phrases critical of Sejo's usurpation of the throne.

Yeonsangun also seized a thousand women from the provinces to serve as palace entertainers and appropriated the [[Sungkyunkwan]] as a personal pleasure ground. He abolished the Office of Censors, whose function was to criticize inappropriate actions and policies of the king, and Hongmungwan. He banned the use of hangul when the common people wrote with it on posters criticizing the king. After twelve years of misrule, he was finally deposed in a coup that placed his half-brother [[Jungjong of Joseon|Jungjong]] on the throne in 1506.

Jungjong was a fundamentally weak king because of the circumstances that placed him on the throne, but his reign also saw a period of significant reforms led by his minister [[Jo Gwang-jo]], the charismatic leader of sarim. He established a local self-government system called [[hyangyak]] to strengthen local autonomy and communal spirit among the people, sought to reduce the gap between the rich and poor with a land reform that would distribute land to farmers more equally and limit the amount of land and number of slaves that one could own, promulgated widely among the populace Confucian writings with vernacular translations, and sought to trim the size of government by reducing the number of bureaucrats. According to the ''[[Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty]]'', it was said that no official dared to receive a bribe or exploit the populace during this time because as Inspector General, he applied law strictly.

These radical reforms were very popular with the populace but were fiercely opposed by the conservative officials who helped to put Jungjong on the throne. They plotted to cause Jungjong to doubt Jo's loyalty. Jo Gwangjo was executed, and most of his reform measures died with him in the resulting [[Korean literati purges#Third Literati Purge of 1519|Third Literati Purge of 1519]]. For nearly 50 years afterward, the court politics was marred by bloody and chaotic struggles between factions backing rival consorts and princes. In-laws of the royal family wielded great power and contributed to much corruption in that era.

===Middle Joseon period===
[[File:정철.jpg|thumb|[[Jeong Cheol]] 정철 (1536-1593), head of the Western faction]]

The middle Joseon period was marked by a series of intense and bloody power struggles between political factions that weakened the country and large-scale invasions by Japan and Manchu that nearly toppled the kingdom.

====Factional struggle====
{{Main|Political factions in Joseon dynasty}}

The [[Sarim]] faction had suffered a series of political defeats during the reigns of Yeonsangun, Jungjong, and [[Myeongjong of Joseon|Myeongjong]], but it gained control of the government during the reign of [[Seonjo of Joseon|King Seonjo]]. It soon split into opposing factions known as the [[Easterners]] and the [[Westerners (Korean political faction)|Westerners]]. Within decades the Easterners themselves divided into the [[Southerners (Korean political faction)|Southerners]] and the [[Northerners (Korean political faction)|Northerners]]; in the seventeenth century the Westerners as well permanently split into the [[Noron (Korean political faction)|Noron]] and the [[Soron (Korean political faction)|Soron]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ebrey |first1=Patricia |last2=Walthall |first2=Ann |date= 2013 |title= East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History, Volume II: From 1600 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=5pLGIcp4PMgC&q=patriarchs+joseon+faction&pg=PA255 |publisher= Cengage Learning|page= 255 |isbn= 978-1133606499|access-date= July 15, 2015}}</ref> The alternations in power among these factions were often accompanied by charges of treason and bloody purges, initiating a cycle of revenge with each change of regime.

One example is the [[1589 rebellion of Jeong Yeo-rip]], one of the bloodiest political purges of Joseon. Jeong Yeo-rip, an Easterner, had formed a society with group of supporters that also received military training to fight against [[Wokou|Waegu]]. There is still a dispute about the nature and purpose of his group, which reflected desire for classless society and spread throughout [[Honam]]. He was subsequently accused of conspiracy to start a rebellion. [[Jeong Cheol]], head of the Western faction, was in charge of investigating the case and used this event to effect widespread purge of Easterners who had slightest connection with Jeong Yeo-rip. Eventually 1000 Easterners were killed or exiled in the aftermath.

====Early Japanese invasions====
{{Main|Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)}}
[[File:Korea-Tongyeong Port-Turtle ship replica-02.jpg|alt=|thumb|[[turtle ship|The Turtle ship]] (replica)]]
Throughout Korean history, there was frequent [[piracy]] on sea and brigandage on land. The only purpose for the Joseon navy was to secure the maritime trade against the [[wokou]]. The navy repelled pirates using an advanced form of gunpowder technologies including cannons and [[fire arrows]] in form of [[singijeon]] deployed by [[hwacha]].

During the [[Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98)|Japanese invasions in the 1590s]], [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]], plotting the conquest of [[Ming dynasty|Ming China]] with [[Portuguese Empire|Portuguese]] guns, invaded Korea with his ''[[daimyō]]s'' and their troops, intending to use Korea as a stepping stone. Factional division in the Joseon court, inability to assess Japanese military capability, and failed attempts at diplomacy led to poor preparation on Joseon's part. The use of European firearms by the Japanese left most of the southern part of the Korean Peninsula occupied within months, with both [[Hanseong]] (present-day [[Seoul]]) and [[Pyongyang]] captured.
[[File:Korea-Tongyeong Port-Turtle ship replica-Inside-02.jpg|thumb|The Turtle Ship interior.]]
However, the invasion was slowed when Admiral [[Yi Sun-sin]] destroyed the Japanese invasion fleet. The guerrilla resistance that eventually formed also helped. Local resistance slowed down the Japanese advance and decisive naval victories by Admiral Yi left control over sea routes in Korean hands, severely hampering Japanese supply lines. Furthermore, Ming China intervened on the side of the Koreans, sending a large force in 1593 which pushed back the Japanese together with the Koreans.

During the war, Koreans developed powerful firearms and the [[turtle ship]]s. The Joseon and Ming forces defeated the Japanese at a deep price. Following the war, relations between Korea and Japan were completely suspended until 1609.

====Manchu invasions====
{{see also|First Manchu invasion of Korea|Second Manchu invasion of Korea}}
[[File:Jurchen warriors.jpg|thumb|left|A Korean painting depicting two Jurchen warriors and their horses]]

After the Japanese invasions, the Korean Peninsula was devastated. Meanwhile, [[Nurhaci]] (r. 1583–1626), the chieftain of the [[Jianzhou Jurchens]], was unifying the [[Jurchen people|Jurchen]] tribes of [[Manchuria]] into a strong coalition that his son [[Hong Taiji]] (r. 1626-–1643) would eventually rename the "Manchus." After he declared [[Seven Grievances]] against Ming China in 1618, Nurhaci and the Ming engaged in several military conflicts. On such occasions, Nurhaci required help from [[Gwanghaegun of Joseon]] (r.1608–1623), putting the Korean state in a difficult position because the Ming court was also requesting assistance.<ref name="Ebrey 349">{{harvnb|Ebrey|Walthall|Palais|2006|p=349}}.</ref> Gwanghaegun tried to maintain neutrality, but most of his officials opposed him for not supporting Ming China, which had saved Joseon during Hideyoshi's invasions.<ref name="Ebrey 349"/>

In 1623, Gwanghaegun was deposed and replaced by [[Injo of Joseon]] (r. 1623–1649), who banished Gwanghaejun's supporters. Reverting his predecessor's foreign policy, the new king decided to openly support the Ming, but a rebellion led by military commander [[Yi Gwal]] erupted in 1624 and wrecked Joseon's military defenses in the north.<ref name="Ebrey 349"/> Even after the rebellion had been suppressed, King Injo had to devote military forces to ensure the stability of the capital, leaving fewer soldiers to defend the northern borders.<ref name="Ebrey 349"/>

In 1627, a Jurchen army of 30,000 led by Nurhaci's nephew [[Amin (Qing dynasty)|Amin]] overran Joseon's defenses.<ref>{{harvnb|Kennedy|1943|}} (leader of the expedition); {{harvnb|Ebrey|Walthall|Palais|2006|p=350}} (number of troops).</ref> After a quick campaign that was assisted by northern yangban who had supported Gwanghaegun, the Jurchens imposed a treaty that forced Joseon to accept "brotherly relations" with the Jurchen kingdom.<ref name="Larsen 2008 36">{{harvnb|Larsen|2008|p=36}}.</ref> Because Injo persisted in his anti-Manchu policies, [[Qing dynasty|Qing]] emperor Hong Taiji sent a punitive expedition of 120,000 men to Joseon in 1636.<ref>{{harvnb|Ebrey|Walthall|Palais|2006|p=350}}.</ref> Defeated, King Injo was forced to end his relations with the Ming and recognize the Qing as suzerain instead.<ref>{{harvnb|Lee|de Bary|1997|p=269}}.</ref> Injo's successor [[Hyojong of Joseon]] (r. 1649–1659) tried to form an army to keep his enemies away and conquer the Qing for revenge, but could never act on his designs.<ref>{{harvnb|Larsen|2008|p=36}}; {{harvnb|Ebrey|Walthall|Palais|2006|p=350}}.</ref>

Despite reestablishing economic relations by officially entering the [[imperial Chinese tributary system]], Joseon leaders and intellectuals remained resentful of the Manchus, whom they regarded as barbarians.<ref name="Larsen 2008 36"/> Long after submitting to the Qing, the Joseon court and many Korean intellectuals kept using Ming [[Chinese era name|reign periods]], as when a scholar marked 1861 as "the 234th year of [[Chongzhen Emperor|Chongzhen]]."<ref>{{harvnb|Kim Haboush|2005|p=132}}.</ref>

===Late Joseon period===
====Emergence of Silhak and renaissance of the Joseon====
[[File:Kim Yuk 02.jpg|left|thumb|Portrait of Kim Yuk 김육 (1570–1658) an early Silhak philosopher of the Joseon period]]
[[File:Hwaseong2.jpg|thumb|[[Hwaseong Fortress]] in [[Suwon]]]]

After invasions from Japan and Manchuria, Joseon experienced a nearly 200-year period of peace. Joseon witnessed the emergence of [[Silhak]] (Practical Learning). The early group of Silhak scholars advocated comprehensive reform of civil service examination, taxation, natural sciences and the improvement in agromanagerial and agricultural techniques. It aimed to rebuild Joseon society after it had been devastated by the two invasions. Under the leadership of [[Kim Yuk]], the chief minister of [[Hyeonjong of Joseon|King Hyeonjong]], the implementation of reforms proved highly advantageous both to state revenues and to the lot of the peasants.

Factional conflict grew particularly intense under the reigns of the kings [[Sukjong of Joseon|Sukjong]] and [[Gyeongjong of Joseon|Gyeongjong]], with major rapid reversals of the ruling faction, known as *hwanguk* (換局; literally ''change in the state of affairs''), being commonplace. As a response, the next kings, [[Yeongjo of Joseon|Yeongjo]] and [[Jeongjo of Joseon|Jeongjo]], generally pursued the ''Tangpyeongchaek'' - a policy of maintaining balance and equality between the factions.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title= 탕평책 |encyclopedia= 한국민족문화대백과}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| last = 이성무| date = November 12, 2007| title = 조선당쟁사 2 탕평과 세도정치: 숙종조~고종조| publisher = 아름다운날 | isbn = 9788989354833}}</ref>

The two kings led a second renaissance of the Joseon kingdom.<ref>{{cite book|title=A Brief History of Korea|date=January 2005|publisher=Ewha Womans University Press|isbn=9788973006199|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o-WlUd3cjh0C&pg=PT98|access-date=23 December 2016|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Beirne|first1=Paul|title=Su-un and His World of Symbols: The Founder of Korea's First Indigenous Religion|date=April 2016|publisher=[[Routledge]]|isbn=9781317047490|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8OPeCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT38|access-date=23 December 2016|language=en}}</ref> Yeongjo's grandson, the enlightened King Jeongjo enacted various reforms throughout his reign, notably establishing Gyujanggak, a royal library in order to improve the cultural and political position of Joseon and to recruit gifted officers to run the nation. King Jeongjo also spearheaded bold social initiatives, opening government positions to those who would previously have been barred because of their social status. King Jeongjo had the support of the many Silhak scholars, who supported his regal power. King Jeongjo's reign also saw the further growth and development of Joseon's popular culture. At that time, the group of Silhak scholars encouraged the individual to reflect on state traditions and lifestyle, initiating the studies of Korea that addressed its history, geography, [[epigraphy]] and language.

[[File:Empress sin-jung-ik2.PNG|thumb|[[Queen Shinjeong|Sinjeong]], Queen Regent of Joseon. She served as nominal regent of Joseon, who selected [[Gojong of the Korean Empire|Gojong]] to place upon the throne.]]

====Government by in-law families====
After the death of King Jeongjo, the Joseon faced difficult external and internal problems. Internally, the foundation of national law and order weakened as a result of "Sedo" politics (in-law government) by royal in-law family.

Young [[Sunjo of Joseon|King Sunjo]] succeeded King Jeongjo in 1800. With Jeongjo's death the [[Intransigents (Joseon faction)|Intransigent Patriarch faction]] seized power with the regency of [[Queen Jeongsun|Queen Dowager Jeongsun]], whose family had strong ties to the Intransigents, and initiated a [[Catholic Persecution of 1801|persecution of Catholics]]. But after the retirement and death of the Queen Dowager, the Intransigents were gradually ousted and the Expedient faction, including the Andong Kim family of Kim Jo-sun, the father of the queen, gained power. Gradually the Andong Kims came to dominate the court.<ref>{{cite book| last = 오영교| date = July 25, 2007| title = 세도정권기 조선사회와 대전회통| publisher = 혜안 | isbn = 9788984943131}}</ref>

With the domination of the Andong Kims, the era of *sedo politics* or in-law rule began. The formidable in-law lineage monopolized the vital positions in government, holding sway over the political scene, and intervening in the succession of the throne. These kings had no monarchic authority and could not rule over the government. The yangban of other families, overwhelmed by the power exercised by the royal in-laws, could not speak out. As the power was concentrated in the hands of the royal in-law lineage, there was disorder in the governing process and corruption became rampant. Large sums were offered in bribes to the powerful lineages to obtain positions with nominally high rank. Even the low-ranking posts were bought and sold. This period, which spanned 60 years, saw the manifestation of both severe poverty among the Korean population and ceaseless rebellions in various parts of the country.

Externally, Joseon became increasingly [[isolationist]]. Its rulers sought to limit contact with foreign countries.

==== End of the dynasty ====
[[File:Korean headgear-Waryonggwan-01.jpg|left|thumb|[[Heungseon Daewongun]] 흥선 대원군(이하응)]]


In 1863 [[Gojong of the Korean Empire|King Gojong]] took the throne. His father, Regent [[Heungseon Daewongun]], ruled for him until Gojong reached adulthood. During the mid-1860s the Regent was the main proponent of isolationism and the instrument of the persecution of native and foreign Catholics, a policy that led directly to the [[French campaign against Korea|French Campaign against Korea]] in 1866. The early years of his rule also witnessed a large effort to restore the dilapidated [[Gyeongbok Palace]], the seat of royal authority. During his reign, the power and authority of the in-law families such as the Andong Kims sharply declined. In order to get rid of the Andong Kim and Pungyang Cho families, he promoted persons without making references to political party or family affiliations, and in order to reduce the burdens of the people and solidify the basis of the nation's economy, he reformed the tax system. [[United States expedition to Korea|In 1871, U.S. and Korean forces clashed]] in a U.S. attempt at "gunboat diplomacy" following on the [[General Sherman incident]] of 1866.

In 1873, King Gojong announced his assumption of royal rule. With the subsequent retirement of Heungseon Daewongun, the future Queen Min (later called [[Empress Myeongseong]]) became a power in the court, placing her family in high court positions.

Japan, after the [[Meiji Restoration]], acquired Western military technology, and forced Joseon to sign the [[Treaty of Ganghwa]] in 1876, opening three ports to trade and granting the Japanese extraterritoriality. [[Port Hamilton incident|Port Hamilton was briefly occupied]] by the [[Royal Navy]] in 1885.{{citation needed|date=February 2021}}

[[File:Portrait_of_Gojong_01.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Gojong of the Korean Empire|Emperor Gojong]]]]
Many Koreans despised Japanese and foreign influences over their land and the corrupt oppressive rule of the Joseon Dynasty. In 1881, the ''[[Byeolgigun]]'', a modern elite military unit, was formed with Japanese trainers. The salaries of the other soldiers were held back and in 1882 [[Imo incident|rioting soldiers]] attacked the Japanese officers and even forced the queen to take refuge in the countryside. In 1894, the [[Donghak Peasant Revolution]] saw farmers rise up in a mass rebellion, with peasant leader [[Jeon Bong-jun]] defeating the forces of local ruler Jo Byong-gap at the battle of [[Jeongeup|Go-bu]] on January 11, 1894; after the battle, Jo's properties were handed out to the peasants. By May, the peasant army had reached [[Jeonju]], and the Joseon government asked the [[Qing dynasty]] government for assistance in ending the revolt. The Qing sent 3,000 troops and the rebels negotiated a truce, but the Japanese considered the Qing presence a threat and sent in 8,000 troops of their own, seizing the Royal Palace in Seoul and installing a pro-Japanese government on 8 June 1894. This soon escalated into the [[First Sino-Japanese War]] (1894–1895) between Japan and Qing China, fought largely in Korea. [*The king made a deal with Japan partially out of isolationist views and conservative-misogynistic distrust of the queen's support for open trade policies towards the Western civilizations and China. He ended up preempting a specific disadvantageous, exclusive negotiation with Japan previous to the Queen's decision, which was later used as a political premise for Japan to wage military action. Scholars particularly during the Joseon era were touted for expressing allegiance to the king]

[[Empress Myeongseong]] (referred to as "Queen Min"<ref name="queen min">[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1895/11/10/106073098.pdf Characteristics of Queen of Corea] ''[[The New York Times]]'' November 10, 1895</ref>) had attempted to counter Japanese interference in Korea and was considering turning to the [[Russian Empire]] and to China for support. In 1895, Empress Myeongseong was assassinated by Japanese agents.<ref name="Dong-a 2002">{{cite news|url=http://www.donga.com/docs/magazine/shin/2004/11/09/200411090500053/200411090500053_1.html |script-title=ko:일본인 폭도가 가슴을 세 번 짓밟고 일본도로 난자했다 |newspaper=[[Dong-a Ilbo]] |author=Park Jong-hyo (박종효), former professor at [[Lomonosov Moscow State University]] |date= 2002-01-01 |issue= 508 |pages=472 ~ 485|language=ko}}</ref> The Japanese minister to Korea, [[Lieutenant-General]] [[Viscount]] [[Miura Gorō|Miura]], almost certainly orchestrated the plot against her. A group of Japanese agents<ref name="Dong-a 2002"/> entered the [[Gyeongbokgung]] Royal Palace in Seoul, which was under Japanese control,<ref name="Dong-a 2002"/> and Queen Min was killed and her body desecrated in the North wing of the palace.

The Qing acknowledged defeat in the [[Treaty of Shimonoseki]] (17 April 1895), which officially guaranteed Korea's independence from China.<ref name="britannica">{{Britannica|540685}}</ref> It was a step toward Japan gaining regional [[hegemony]] in Korea. The Joseon court, pressured by encroachment from larger powers, felt the need to reinforce national integrity and declared the [[Korean Empire]], along with the [[Gwangmu Reform]] in 1897. [[Gojong of Korea|King Gojong]] assumed the title of [[Emperor of Korea|Emperor]] in order to assert Korea's independence. In addition, other foreign powers were sought for military technology, especially Russia, to fend off the Japanese. Technically, 1897 marks the end of the Joseon period, as the official name of the empire was changed; however the Joseon Dynasty would still reign, albeit perturbed by Japan and Russia.

In a complicated series of maneuvers and counter-maneuvers, Japan pushed back the Russian fleet at the [[Battle of Port Arthur]] in 1905. With the conclusion of the 1904–1905 [[Russo-Japanese War]] with the [[Treaty of Portsmouth]], the way was open for Japan to take control of Korea. After the signing of the [[Eulsa Treaty|Protectorate Treaty]] in 1905, Korea became a [[protectorate]] of Japan. [[Prince]] [[Itō Hirobumi|Itō]] was the first [[Resident-General of Korea]], although he was assassinated by [[Korean independence activist]] [[An Jung-geun]] in 1909 at the train station at [[Harbin]]. In 1910 the [[Japanese Empire]] finally [[Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty|annexed]] Korea.

==Government==
{{See also|Joseon Dynasty politics}}

Joseon kingdom was a highly centralized monarchy and neo-Confucian bureaucracy as codified by [[Gyeongguk daejeon]], a sort of Joseon constitution.

=== King ===
{{see also|List of Joseon monarchs|House of Yi#House of Yi family tree|#Titles_and_styles_during_Joseon_Kingdom|label 2=Joseon kings family tree|label 3= Royal titles and styles during the Joseon Period}}
[[File:Seoul Gyeongbokgung Throne.jpg|thumb|upright|The [[Phoenix Throne]] of the king of Joseon in [[Gyeongbokgung]]]]
[[File:Flag of the king of Joseon.svg|thumb|upright|[[List of Korean flags|Royal standard of the King of Joseon]]]]
The king had absolute authority, but his actual power varied with political circumstances. He was bound by tradition, precedents set by earlier kings, [[Gyeongguk daejeon]], and Confucian teachings. The king commanded absolute loyalty from his officials and subjects, but the officials were also expected to persuade the king to the right path if the latter was thought to be mistaken. Natural disasters were thought to be due to the king's failings, and therefore, Joseon kings were very sensitive to their occurrences. When there was severe drought or a series of disasters, the king often formally sought criticism from officials and citizenry. On those occasions,
critics were immune from prosecution, regardless of what they said or wrote (although there were a few exceptions).

Direct communication between the king and the common people was possible through the ''sangeon'' ({{Korean|hangul=상언|hanja=上言|labels=no}}) written petition system and the ''gyeokjaeng'' ({{Korean|hangul=격쟁|hanja=擊錚|labels=no}}) oral petition system. Through the ''gyeokjaeng'' oral petition system, commoners could strike a gong or drum in front of the palace or during the king's public processions in order to appeal their grievances or petition to the king directly. This allowed even the illiterate members of Joseon society to make a petition to the king. More than 1,300 ''gyeokjaeng''-related accounts are recorded in the [[Ilseongnok]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Ilseongnok: Records of Daily Reflections|url=http://www.unesco.org/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/mow/nomination_forms/Korea%20Ilseongnok.pdf|website=Memory of the World Register|publisher=UNESCO|access-date=6 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Injae|first1=Lee|last2=Miller|first2=Owen|last3=Jinhoon|first3=Park|last4=Hyun-Hae|first4=Yi|title=Korean History in Maps|date=2014|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781107098466|page=93|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=46OTBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA93|access-date=6 December 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=상언격쟁|url=http://www.culturecontent.com/content/contentView.do?content_id=cp021002840001|website=문화콘텐츠닷컴|publisher=Korea Creative Content Agency|access-date=6 December 2017}}</ref>

==== Royal seals ====

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Image:Joseon wang bo (Royal Seal Treasure of the Joseon King).svg|Seal used from 1392 to 1401.
Image:Joseongukwangjiin (The Seal of the King of Joseon).svg| Seals used concurrent to the [[Ming dynasty]], from 1401 to 1637.<ref>[http://sillok.history.go.kr/id/kca_10106012_002 Veritable Records of Taejong, vol. 1, year of 1401, 6th month, 12nd day]</ref>
Image:Joseongukwangjiin (The Seal of the King of Joseon, 1637-1653).svg| Seals used concurrent to the [[Qing dynasty]] - used between 1637<ref>[http://sillok.history.go.kr/id/kpa_11511020_001 Veritable Records of Injoo, vol. 35, year of 1637, 11th month, 20nd day].</ref> and 1653.<ref>{{cite book |author= 김지남 |date= 1888 |title= Record of Joseon Diplomacy |volume= 3 |chapter=9|url= https://kyudb.snu.ac.kr/book/view.do?book_cd=GK00882_00 |page=126~127 }}</ref>
Image:Joseongukwangjiin (The Seal of the King of Joseon, 1653-1776).svg|Seal used concurrent to the [[Qing dynasty]] - between 1653 and 1776.<ref>[http://sillok.history.go.kr/id/kva_10008018_001 Veritable Records of Jeongjo, vol. 2, year of 1776, 8th month, 18nd day]</ref>
Image:Joseongukwangjiin (The Seal of the King of Joseon, 1776-1876).svg|Seal used concurrent to the [[Qing dynasty]] - between 1776 and 1876.
Image:Daejoseongukjusangjibo.svg|The seal was produced on December 15, 1876, for use in Japanese-related state documents.
Image:Daegunjubo.svg|"Daegunjubo" designed to replace the former sergeant "Joseongukwangjiin". used as the seal of the king for documents such as appointment documents for high-ranking government officials and ordinances proclaimed in Korea.- between 1882 and 1897<ref name="great">[http://kyudb.snu.ac.kr/pf01/rendererImg.do?item_cd=SJW&book_cd=GK12788_00&vol_no=2902&page_no=003a Journal of the Royal Secretariat, vol. 2902, year of 1882, 7th month, 1nd day]</ref>
Image:DaejoseonDaegunjubo.svg|"DaejoseonDaegunjubo" were used as ‘the seal of state’ for credentials in diplomatic relations with other countries. : between 1882<ref name="great"/>
</gallery>

===Officials===
Government officials were ranked in 18 levels, ranging from first senior rank (정1품, 正一品) down to ninth junior rank (종9품, 從九品). Seniority and promotion was achieved through royal decree, based on examination or recommendation. The officials from 1st senior rank to 3rd senior rank wore red robes. Those from 3rd junior rank to 6th junior rank wore blue. Those below wore green robes.<ref>[[Gyeongguk daejeon]]</ref>

Here, "government official" means one who occupied an office which gave its holder [[yangban]] status - hereditary nobility for three generations. In order to become such an official, one had to pass a series of [[gwageo]] examinations. There were three kinds of gwageo exams - literary, military, and miscellaneous. The literary route was the most prestigious. Many key posts, including all [[#Three Offices|Censorate]] posts, were open only to officials who advanced through literary exam. The literary route involved a series of four tests. To qualify, one had to pass them all. 33 candidates who were chosen in this manner would take the final exam, before the king. The candidate with the highest score was appointed to a position of 6th junior rank (a jump of six ranks). The two candidates with the next highest scores were appointed to a position of 7th junior rank. The seven candidates with next highest scores were assigned to 8th junior rank. The remaining 23 candidates were given 9th junior rank, the lowest of 18 ranks.

The officials of 1st senior rank, 1st junior rank, and 2nd senior rank were addressed with honorific "dae-gam" (대감, 大監) while those of 2nd junior rank and 3rd senior rank were addressed with honorific "[[yeong-gam]]" (영감, 令監).<ref>Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, "About Rank of Joseon Officials"</ref> These red-robed officials, collectively called "dangsanggwan" (당상관, 堂上官), took part in deciding government policies by attending cabinet meetings. The rest of the ranked officials were called "danghagwan" (당하관, 堂下官).

===Central government===
[[File:Joseon-Portrait_of_Cha_Jegong-Geumgwanjobok.jpg|thumb|Portrait of The Chief State Councillor [[Yeongeuijeong|Chae Jegong]] (1720~1799)]]
====State Council====

[[State Council of Joseon|State Council]] (Uijeongbu, 의정부, 議政府) was the highest deliberative body, whose power however declined over the course of the period. The Chief State Councillor ([[Yeonguijeong]], 영의정, 領議政), Left State Councillor ([[Jwauijeong]], 좌의정, 左議政), and Right State Councillor (Uuijeong, 우의정, 右議政) were the highest-ranking officials in the government (All three were of 1st senior rank). They were assisted by Left Minister (Jwachanseong, 좌찬성, 左贊成) and Right Minister (Uichangseong, 우찬성, 右贊成), both of 1st junior rank, and seven lower ranking officials. The power of State Council was inversely proportional to the king's power. There were periods when it directly controlled [[Six Ministries of Joseon|Six Ministries]], the chief executive body of Joseon government, but it primarily served in advisory role under stronger kings. State councillors served in several other positions concurrently.

====Six Ministries====
[[Six Ministries of Joseon|Six Ministries]] (Yukjo, 육조, 六曹) make up the chief executive body. Each minister (Panseo, 판서, 判書) was of 2nd senior rank and was assisted by deputy minister (Champan, 참판, 參判), who was of 2nd junior rank. Ministry of Personnel was the most senior office of six ministries. As the influence of State Council waned over time, Minister of Personnel was often de facto head of ministers. Six ministries include in the order of seniority.

:*Ministry of Personnel (Ijo, 이조, 吏曹) - was primarily concerned with appointment of officials
:*Ministry of Taxation (Hojo, 호조, 戶曹) - taxation, finances, census, agriculture, and land policies
:*Ministry of Rites (Yejo, 예조, 禮曺) - rituals, culture, diplomacy, gwageo exam
:*Ministry of Defence (Byeongjo, 병조, 兵曺) - military affairs
:**Office of Police Bureau ([[Podocheong]], 포도청, 捕盜廳) - office for public order
:*Ministry of Justice (Hyeongjo, 형조, 刑曺) - administration of law, slavery, punishments
:*Ministry of Commerce (Gongjo, 공조, 工曹) - industry, public works, manufacturing, mining

====Three Offices====
[[File:윤봉구 초상.jpg|thumb|Portrait of The Inspector General Yun Bonggu (1681-1767)]]
[[Three Offices]], or ''Samsa'' (삼사), is a collective name for three offices that functioned as major organ of press and provided checks and balance on the king and the officials. While modeled after the Chinese system, they played much more prominent roles in Joseon government than their Chinese counterparts. In their role as organ of press, they did not have actual authority to decide or implement policies, but had influential voice in the ensuing debate.
The officials who served in these offices tended to be younger and of lower rank compared to other offices but had strong academic reputation and enjoyed special privileges and great prestige (For instance, censors were permitted to drink during working hours because of their function of criticizing the king). To be appointed, they went through more thorough review of character and family background. Three Offices provided the fastest route of promotion to high posts and was almost a requirement to becoming a State Councillor.
:*Office of Inspector General (Saheonbu·사헌부) - It monitored government administration and officials at each level in both central and local governments for corruption, malfeasance, or inefficiency. It was also in charge of advancing public morals and Confucian customs and redressing grievances of the populace. It was headed by Inspector General (Daesaheon·대사헌), a position of 2nd junior rank, who oversaw 30 largely independent officials.
:*Office of Censors (Saganwon·사간원) - Its chief function was to remonstrate with the king if there was wrong or improper action or policy. Important decrees of the king were first reviewed by censors, who could ask to withdraw them if judged improper. It also issued opinions about the general state of affairs. It was composed of five officials, led by Chief Censor (Daesagan·대사간), of 3rd senior rank.
While the primary focus for Office of Inspector General is the government officials and Office of Censors is focused on the king, two offices often performed each other's functions, and there was much overlap. Together they were called "Yangsa," (양사) which literally means "Both Offices," and often worked jointly especially when they sought to reverse the king's decision.
:*Office of Special Advisors (Hongmungwan·홍문관 弘文館) - It oversaw the royal library and served as research institute to study Confucian philosophy and answer the king's questions. Its officials took part in the daily lessons called ''gyeongyeon'' (경연), in which they discussed history and Confucian philosophy with the king. Since these discussions often led to commentary on current political issues, its officials had significant influence as advisors. It was headed by Chief Scholar (Daejehak·대제학), a part-time post of 2nd senior rank that served concurrently in another high post (such as in State Council), and Deputy Chief Scholar (Bujehak·부제학), a full-time post of 3rd senior rank that actually ran the office. There was great prestige attached to being Chief Scholar in this deeply Confucian society. (The office was established to replace [[Hall of Worthies]] (Jiphyeonjeon·집현전) after the latter was abolished by [[Sejo of Joseon|King Sejo]] in the aftermath of [[Six martyred ministers]].)

====Other offices====
The major offices include the following:
*Royal Secretariat (Seungjeongwon, 승정원) served as a liaison between the king and Six Ministries. There were six royal secretaries (승지), one for each ministry, and all were of 3rd senior rank. Their primary role was to pass down royal decree to the ministries and submit petitions from the officials and the populace to the king, but they also advised the king and served in other key positions close to the king. In particular Chief Royal Secretary (도승지), a liaison to Ministry of Personnel, served the king in the closest proximity of all government official and often enjoyed great power that was derived from the king's favor. Hong Guk-yeong (during [[Jeongjo of Joseon|Jeongjo]]'s reign) and Han Myeong-hwe (during [[Sejo of Joseon|Sejo]]) are some examples of chief royal secretaries who were the most powerful official of their time.
*Capital Bureau (Hanseongbu, 한성부) was in charge of running the capital, ''Hanyang'' or present-day Seoul. It was led by ''Panyoon'' (판윤), of 2nd senior second rank equivalent to today's mayor of Seoul.
*Royal Investigation Bureau (Uigeumbu, 의금부) was an investigative and enforcement organ under direct control of the king. It chiefly dealt with treason and other serious cases that concerned the king and royal family and served to arrest, investigate, imprison, and carry out sentences against the suspected offenders, who were often government officials.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.doopedia.co.kr/doopedia/master/master.do?_method=view&MAS_IDX=130510001403866|script-title=ko:한성부|publisher=Doosan Encyclopedia|access-date=2014-03-01|language=ko}}</ref>
*Office of Records (Chunchugwan, 춘추관) officials wrote, compiled, and maintained the government and historical records. It was headed by State Councillors, and many posts were held by officials serving in other offices concurrently. There were eight historiographers whose sole function was to record the meetings for history.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.doopedia.co.kr/doopedia/master/master.do?_method=view&MAS_IDX=101013000868787|script-title=ko:춘추관|publisher=Doosan Encyclopedia|access-date=2014-03-01|language=ko}}</ref>
*[[Seonggyungwan]] or Royal Academy (성균관) prepared future government officials. Those who passed first two stages of [[gwageo]] examinations (literary exam) were admitted to Seonggyungwan. The class size was usually 200 students, who lived in the residential hall and followed strict routine and school rules. (Tuition, room and board were provided by the government.) It also served as the state shrine for [[Korean Confucianism|Confucian]] and Korean Confucian sages. The students' opinions on government policies, especially collective statements and demonstrations, could be influential as they represented fresh and uncorrupted consensus of young scholars. The official in charge was Daesaseong (대사성), of 3rd senior rank, and 36 other officials including those from other offices were involved in running the academy.

===Local government===
The officials of high rank were sent from the central government. Sometimes a [[secret royal inspector]] (Amhaeng-eosa·암행어사) was appointed by the king to travel incognito and monitor the provincial officials. These undercover inspectors were generally young officials of lower rank but were invested with the royal authority to dismiss corrupt officials.
* Provinces (Do·도 道) - There were eight provinces, each of which was governed by Governor (Gwanchalsa·관찰사 觀察使), a position of 2nd junior rank.
* Bu(부) - administrative offices in charge of major cities in provinces. Each bu was led by Buyoon (부윤), which was equivalent to Governor in rank.
* Mok (목 牧) - There were twenty moks, which governed large counties named 'ju'(주 州). They were run by Moksa (목사 牧使), of 3rd senior rank.
* County (Gun·군 郡) - There were eighty counties in Joseon, each governed by Gunsu (군수 郡守), a 4th junior rank.
* Hyeon (현 縣) - Large hyeons were governed by Hyeongryeong (현령 縣令) of 5th junior rank while smaller hyeons were governed by Hyeonggam (현감 縣監) of 6th junior rank.

=== Administrative divisions ===
{{Main|Eight Provinces of Korea}}

During most of the Joseon period, Korea was divided into [[Eight Provinces of Korea|eight provinces]] (do; 도; 道). The eight provinces' boundaries remained unchanged for almost five centuries from 1413 to 1895, and formed a geographic paradigm that is still reflected today in the Korean Peninsula's administrative divisions, dialects, and regional distinctions. The names of all eight provinces are still preserved today, in one form or another.
[[File:김후영정.jpg|thumb|Portrait of Kim Hu (1751-1805), a military officer of the Joseon Dynasty]]
===Military===
{{See also|Korean armour|Korean cannon|Chongtong|Korean sword}}

====[[Naegeumwi]]====
These royal guards were elite troops of 200 men guarding the king, queen, and ministers. These were soldiers hand-selected by the king. They usually wore red robes.

====King's private guard====
The King's private guard consisted of personal bodyguards of the king. They wore black robes.

====[[Joseon Army]]====
The main army consisted of 50,000 troops, and the king appoints their generals. They usually wore black and white robes and various types of armor. However, those drafted or volunteered must buy their armor or use a set of armor they owned. They consist of infantry, elite soldiers or ''pengbaesu'', cavalry or ''gabsa'', archers, and artillery.

====[[Joseon Navy]]====
The Joseon Navy comprises of two types of main warships, the [[panokseon]] and the [[turtle ship]]. They also utilized small vessels and fishing boats for reconnaissance and landings. The king also appoints their admirals.

== Foreign affairs ==
{{main|Joseon diplomacy}}

===China===
{{Main|Joseon missions to Imperial China}}
Although the Joseon dynasty considered 1392 as the foundation of the Joseon kingdom, Imperial China did not immediately acknowledge the new government on the Korean peninsula. In 1401, the Ming court recognized Joseon as a [[tributary state]] in its [[Tributary system of China|tributary system]]. In 1403, the [[Yongle Emperor]] conveyed a patent and a gold seal to [[Taejong of Joseon]], thus confirming his status and that of his dynasty.<ref name="kang49">Kang, Etsuko H. (1997). [https://books.google.com/books?id=4f0jnNzdRb4C&pg=PA49&dq= ''Diplomacy and Ideology in Japanese-Korean Relations: from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century,'' p. 49.]</ref>

In the 19th century, China had faced major disputes due to the rise of the West and Japan. These countries, which have already established a sovereign state system, have asked about the "unknown status" of the relationship between Qing and Joseon. Its motives were the [[French expedition to Korea|Byeong-in yangyo]] (1866) and the [[Shinmiyangyo]] (1871). France and the U.S. asked if the war with Joseon would be invasion of the Qing Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty would intervene. Then China replied, "Joseon is a tributary state, but it is an independent state and it is an independent state, but it is a tributary state." The world then confirmed that Joseon is a sovereign state like any other tributary state of China.<ref>{{cite news |url = https://www.donga.com/news/Opinion/article/all/20210528/107151591/1 |script-title = ko:‘반일’ 이전에 ‘항청’… 속국을 거부한 조선의 싸움[박훈 한일 역사의 갈림길]－ |publisher = [[The Dong-a Ilbo]] |author = Park Hoon (박훈) |date = 2021-05-28 |language = ko |quote = 19세기 후반 서양과 일본의 대두로 중대한 도전에 직면하게 된다. 이미 주권국가 체제를 확립한 이 국가들이 조청(朝淸)관계의 ‘정체’를 묻기 시작한 것이다. 그 계기는 병인양요(1866년), 신미양요(1871년)였다. 프랑스와 미국은 조선과 전쟁을 하면 청나를 침범하는 게 되는지, 청나라는 개입할 것인지, 그 이전에 도대체 조청관계는 어떤 것인지를 물었다. 청 정부의 답변은 ‘속국이지만 자주적인 나라이고, 자주적이지만 동시에 속국’이었다. 즉, 속국자주(屬國自主)였다. |trans-quote= In the 19th century, China had faced major disputes due to the rise of the West and Japan. These countries, which have already established a sovereign state system, have asked about the "unknown status" of the relationship between Qing and Joseon. Its motives were the [[French expedition to Korea|Byeong-in yangyo]] (1866) and the [[Shinmiyangyo]] (1871). France and the United States asked if the war with Joseon would be invasion of the Qing dynasty and the Qing dynasty would intervene. Then the Qing dynasty replied, "Joseon is a tributary state, but it is an independent state and it is an independent state, but it is a tributary state." The world then confirmed that Joseon is a sovereign state like any other tributary state of China.}}</ref>{{better source|date=August 2021}}

Traditionally, China had a ''laissez-faire'' policy toward Joseon; despite being a tributary of China, Joseon was autonomous in its internal and external affairs, and China did not manipulate or interfere in them. However, after 1879, China abandoned its ''laissez-faire'' policy and became directly involved in the affairs of Joseon. This "radical change in China's policy" was in reaction to the growing influence of Western powers and Japan in Joseon, and to ensure China's national security. China's new policy toward Joseon was set by [[Li Hongzhang]] and implemented by [[Yuan Shikai]]. According to Ming-te Lin: "Li's control of Korea from 1885 to 1894 through [Yuan Shikai] as resident official represented an anachronistic policy of intervention toward Korea."{{sfn|Lin|2014|pp=69–71}}

===Gyorin===
{{Main|Gyorin}}
This long-term, strategic policy contrasts with the ''[[gyorin]]'' (''kyorin'') (neighborly relations) diplomacy in dealings with [[Jurchen people|Jurchen]], Japan, [[Ryukyu Kingdom]], [[Siam]] and [[Java]].<ref>Chun-gil Kim [https://books.google.com/books?id=WBZjBPt1H8AC&pg=PA76&dq= ''The History of Korea,'' pp. 76-77.] 7</ref> Gyorin was applied to a multi-national foreign policy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://enc.daum.net/dic100/contents.do?query1=b10s4187a|title=사대교린 (조선 외교), Britannica online Korea}}</ref> The unique nature of these bilateral diplomatic exchanges evolved from a conceptual framework developed by the Chinese. Gradually, the theoretical models would be modified, mirroring the evolution of a unique relationship.<ref>Toby, Ronald P. (1991). [https://books.google.com/books?id=2hK7tczn2QoC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=korean+diplomacy+1711&source=bl&ots=k4W8TZxzjN&sig=Zi2nOmpTuZUK9bQL9ulL_Jnt47k&hl=en&ei=YJmtSeGQIeH8tgfknIWLBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA87,M1 ''State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu,'' p. 87.]</ref>

===Japan===
{{Main|Joseon missions to Japan}}
As an initial step, a diplomatic mission was dispatched to Japan in 1402. The Joseon envoy sought to bring about the re-establishment of amicable relations between the two countries and he was charged to commemorate the good relations which existed in ancient times. This mission was successful, and ''[[shōgun]]'' [[Ashikaga Yoshimitsu]] was reported to have been favorably impressed by this initial embassy.<ref name="Titsingh, p. 320">Titsingh, p. 320.</ref> Not less than 70 diplomatic missions were dispatched from the Joseon capital to Japan before the beginning of Japan's [[Edo period]].<ref>Lewis, James Bryant. ''Frontier contact between chosŏn Korea and Tokugawa Japan'', p. 269 n. 89, citing ''Hanguk Chungse tae-il kysōpsa yŏngu'' (1996) by Na Chongpu.</ref>

Reciprocal missions were construed as a means of communication between Korean kings and Japanese ''shōguns'' of almost equal ranking. The emperors of Japan at the time were figureheads with no actual political or military power<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FwztKKtQ_rAC&pg=PA1 | title=The Emperors of Modern Japan| isbn=978-9004168220| last1=Shillony| first1=Ben-Ami| year=2008}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OvzPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA40 |title = Jews & the Japanese: The Successful Outsiders|isbn = 9781462903962|last1 = Shillony|first1 = Ben-Ami|date = January 24, 2012}}</ref> and the actual political and military rulers of Japan that Joseon communicated with were the shoguns who were represented as "tycoon of Japan" in many foreign communications in order to avoid the conflict with the [[Sinocentrism|Sinocentric system]] in which the [[emperor of China]] was the highest authority, and all rulers of tributary states were known as "kings".<ref>Kang, [https://books.google.com/books?id=4f0jnNzdRb4C&pg=PA206&dq= ''Diplomacy and Ideology'', p. 206.]</ref>

== Society ==
[[File:朝鲜传统丧服方笠.jpg|thumb|Woman's mourning clothes in Joseon]]
{{main|Society in the Joseon Dynasty}}
[[File:허전초상.jpg|left|thumb|A portrait of a civil [[bureaucrat]] in the Joseon period]]

The exact population figures of Joseon-era Korea are disputed as government records of households are considered unreliable in this period.<ref>Ch'oe YH, PH Lee & WT de Bary (eds.) (2000), Sources of Korean Tradition: Volume II: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries. [[Columbia University Press]], p. 6</ref> Between 1810 and 1850, the population declined approximately 10% and remained stable.<ref>Jun SH, JB Lewis & H-R Kang (2008), ''Korean Expansion and Decline from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century: A View Suggested by Adam Smith''. J. Econ. Hist. 68: 244–82.</ref> Before the [[Gwangmu Reform#Health care system|introduction of modern medicine]] by the [[Korean Empire]] government in the early 20th century, the average life expectancy for peasant and commoner Korean males was 24 and for females 26 years, accounting for infant mortality.<ref>"...before the introduction of modern medicine in the early 1900s the average life expectancy for Koreans was just 24 for males and 26 for females." {{Cite book
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Joseon Korea installed a centralised administrative system controlled by civil [[bureaucrat]]s and military officers who were collectively called [[Yangban]]. By the end of the 18th century, the yangban had acquired most of the traits of a hereditary nobility except that the status was based on a unique mixture of family position, [[gwageo]] examinations for Confucian learning, and a civil service system. The family of a yangban who did not succeed to become a government official for the third generation lost their yangban status and became commoners. For most part, the only way to become a government official was to pass a series of gwageo exams (One had to pass "lesser gwageo" exam (소과) in both of two stages to qualify for greater gwageo exam, which again one had to pass in both of two stages to become a government official.) The yangban and the king, in an uneasy balance, controlled the central government and military institutions. The proportion of yangban may have reached as high as 30% by 1800, due to the later practices of transaction of yangban status to peasants, although there was considerable local variation.<ref>Oh SC (2006), ''Economic growth in P'yongan Province and the development of Pyongyang in the Late Choson Period''. Korean Stud. 30: 3–22</ref> As the government was small, a great many yangban were local gentry of high social status, but not always of high income.<ref>Haboush JHK (1988), A Heritage of Kings: One Man's Monarchy in the Confucian World. Columbia University Press, pp. 88–9.</ref>

Another portion of the population were slaves or [[serfs]] (''[[nobi]]''), "low borns" (''[[cheonmin]]'') or [[untouchability|untouchable]] outcastes (''[[baekjeong]]''). [[Slavery in Korea]] was hereditary, as well as a form of legal punishment. The nobi were socially indistinct from freemen other than the ruling [[yangban]] class, and some possessed property rights, legal entities and civil rights. Hence, some scholars argue that it's inappropriate to call them "slaves",<ref>{{cite web|first1=Young-hoon|last1= Rhee|first2=Donghyu|last2= Yang|title=Korean Nobi in American Mirror: Yi Dynasty Coerced Labor in Comparison to the Slavery in the Antebellum Southern United States|url=https://ideas.repec.org/p/snu/ioerwp/no26.html |work=Working Paper Series |publisher=Institute of Economic Research, Seoul National University}}</ref> while some scholars describe them as [[serfs]].<ref>{{cite book|editor=Gwyn Campbell|title=Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia|author=Bok Rae Kim|chapter=Nobi: A Korean System of Slavery|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J0iRAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA153|date=23 November 2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-75917-9|pages=153–157}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Palais|first1=James B.|title=Views on Korean social history|publisher=Institute for Modern Korean Studies, Yonsei University|isbn=9788971414415|page=50|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xxi5AAAAIAAJ|access-date=15 February 2017|language=en|quote=Another target of his critique is the insistence that slaves (nobi) in Korea, especially in Choson dynasty, were closer to serfs (nongno) than true slaves (noye) in Europe and America, enjoying more freedom and independence than what a slave would normally be allowed.|year=1998}}</ref> There were both government- and privately owned nobi, and the government occasionally gave them to yangban. Privately owned nobi could be inherited as personal property. During poor harvests, many [[sangmin]] people would voluntarily become nobi in order to survive.{{Citation needed|date=May 2009}} The nobi population could fluctuate up to about one-third of the population, but on average the nobi made up about 10% of the total population.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rodriguez|first1=Junius P.|title=The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9780874368857|page=[https://archive.org/details/historicalencycl01rodr/page/392 392]|url=https://archive.org/details/historicalencycl01rodr|url-access=registration|quote=10 percent of the total population on average, but it could rise up to one-third of the total.|access-date=14 February 2017|language=en|year=1997}}</ref> Joseon slaves could, and often did, own property.<ref>Haboush (1988: 88); Ch'oe et al. (2000: 158)</ref> Private slaves could buy their freedom.

[[File:Middle Class in Joseon.jpg|left|thumb|A Joseon painting which represents the Chungin (literally "middle people"), equivalent to the [[petite bourgeoisie]]]]
Many of the remaining 40-50% of the population were surely farmers,<ref>Haboush, 1988: 89</ref> but recent work has raised important issues about the size of other groups: merchants and traders, local government or quasi-governmental clerks (''[[Chungin]]''), craftsmen and laborers, textile workers, etc.<ref>Jun SH & JB Lewis (2004), On double-entry bookkeeping in Eighteenth-century Korea: A consideration of the account books from two clan associations and a private academy. [http://www.iisg.nl/hpw/korea2.pdf International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, Netherlands (080626)]</ref> Given the size of the population, it may be that a typical person had more than one role. Most farming was, at any rate, commercial, not subsistence.<ref>Jun et al. (2008).</ref> In addition to generating additional income, a certain amount of occupational dexterity may have been required to avoid the worst effects of an often heavy and corrupt tax system.<ref>Ch'oe et al. (2000: 73).</ref>

During the Late Joseon, the Confucian ideals of propriety and "filial piety" gradually came to be equated with a strict observance to a complex social hierarchy, with many fine gradations. By the early 18th century the social critic [[Yi Junghwan]] (1690–1756) sarcastically complained that "[W]ith so many different ranks and grades separating people from one another, people tend not to have a very large circle of friends."<ref>이중환, "총론" in 택리지, p. 355, quoted in translation in Choe et al. (2000: 162).</ref> But, even as Yi wrote, the informal social distinctions of the Early Joseon were being reinforced by legal discrimination, such as [[Sumptuary law]]<ref>Haboush (1988: 78)</ref> regulating the dress of different social groups, and laws restricting inheritance and property ownership by women.<ref>Haboush JHK (2003), ''Versions and subversions: Patriarchy and polygamy in Korean narratives'', in D Ko, JHK Haboush & JR Piggott (eds.), Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea and Japan. [[University of California Press]], pp. 279-304.</ref> Precisely because of the tenets of the Confucian ''[[Classic of Filial Piety]]'', the adult male practice of Joseon Korea prescribed to keep both hair and beard, in contrast to the Japanese [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa]] period.

Yet, these laws may have been announced precisely because social mobility was increasing, particularly during the prosperous century beginning about 1710.<ref>Haboush (1988: 88-89); Oh (2006)</ref> The original social hierarchy of the Joseon era was developed based on the social hierarchy of the [[Goryeo]] era. In the 14th–16th centuries, this hierarchy was strict and stable. Since economic opportunities to change status were limited, no law was needed.

In the late 17–19th centuries, however, new commercial groups emerged, and the old class system was extremely weakened. Especially, the population of [[Daegu]] region's Yangban class was expected to reach nearly 70 percent in 1858.<ref>{{cite book | author=아틀라스 한국사 편찬위원회 | title=아틀라스한국사 | publisher=사계절 | year=2004 | isbn=978-89-5828-032-3 | pages=132–133}}</ref>

In 1801, Government-owned slaves were all emancipated, and the institution gradually died out over the next century.<ref>Ch'oe et al., 2000:7.</ref> By 1858 the nobi population stood at about 1.5 percent of the total population of Korea.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Campbell|first1=Gwyn|title=Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135759179|page=163|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J0iRAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA163|access-date=14 February 2017|language=en|date=2004-11-23}}</ref> The institution was completely abolished as part of a social plan in the [[Gabo Reform]] of 1894.


== Culture ==
The Joseon Dynasty presided over two periods of great cultural growth, during which Joseon culture created the first [[Korean tea ceremony]], [[Korean garden]]s, and extensive historic works. The royal dynasty also built several fortresses and palaces.

=== Clothing ===
[[File:Hyewon-Wolha-jeongin-2.jpg|left|thumb|Men's (right) and Women's (left) clothes ([[Hanbok]]) of Joseon period. A portrait painted by [[Shin Yun-bok]] (1758-?)]]
[[File:Korea-Yi Chegwan-Portrait of a Confucian scholar.jpg|160px|thumb|Male dress of a [[Seonbi]]. A portrait painted by [[Yi Jaegwan]] (1783-1837)]]
During the Joseon period, jeogori of women's [[hanbok]] became gradually tightened and shortened. In the 16th century, jeogori was baggy and reached below the waist, but by the 19th century, jeogori was shortened to the point that it did not cover the breasts, so another piece of cloth (''heoritti'') was used to cover them. At the end of the 19th century, [[Daewon-gun]] introduced [[Magoja]], a [[Manchu]]-style jacket, to Korea, which is often worn with hanbok to this day.

Chima was full-skirted and jeogori was short and tight in the late Joseon period. Fullness in the skirt was emphasized round the hips. Many undergarments were worn underneath chima such as darisokgot, soksokgot, dansokgot, and gojengi to achieve a desired silhouette. Because jeogori was so short it became natural to expose heoritti or ''heorimari'' which functioned like a corset. The white linen cloth exposed under jeogori in the picture is heoritti.
[[File:Korea-Seoul-Royal wedding ceremony 1366-06a.jpg|thumb|Royal Ceremony with Joseon era clothing]]
The upper classes wore hanbok of closely woven [[ramie]] cloth or other high-grade lightweight materials in warm weather and of plain and patterned silks the rest of the year. Commoners were restricted by law as well as resources to cotton at best. The upper classes wore a variety of colors, though bright colors were generally worn by children and girls and subdued colors by middle-aged men and women. Commoners were restricted by law to everyday clothes of white, but for special occasions they wore dull shades of pale pink, light green, gray, and charcoal. Formally, when Korean men went outdoors, they were required to wear overcoats known as ''durumagi'' which reach the knees.

=== Art ===
{{See also|Joseon white porcelain}}
[[File:서문보 산수도(山水圖) 15세기.jpg|thumb|Early Joseon landscape painting by Seo Munbo in the late 15th century.]]
[[File:백자 청화매죽문 항아리.jpg|thumb|left|15th century. Joseon period, Korea. Blue and white porcelain jar with plum and bamboo design.]]
[[File:김홍도금강사군첩.jpg|thumb|Landscape of Mt. Geumgang by [[Gim Hongdo|Kim Hong-do]] (1745–1806?) in 1788.]]

The Mid-Joseon period painting styles moved towards increased [[Realism (visual arts)|realism]]. A national painting style of landscapes called "true view" began - moving from the traditional Chinese style of idealized general landscapes to particular locations exactly rendered. While not photographic, the style was academic enough to become established and supported as a standardized style in Korean painting. At this time China ceased to have pre-eminent influence, Korean art took its own course, and became increasingly distinctive to the traditional Chinese painting.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.minbaek.kr/Contents/Item/E0052156|title=조선예술(朝鮮藝術) - 한국민족문화대백과사전|website=www.minbaek.kr|access-date=2020-02-03}}</ref>

[[Ceramic art|Ceramics]] are a form of popular art during the Joseon period. Examples of ceramics include white porcelain or white porcelain decorated with cobalt, copper red [[underglaze]], blue underglaze and iron underglaze. Ceramics from the Joseon period differ from other periods because artists felt that each piece of art deserved its own uniquely cultivated personality.<ref name="BMA">{{cite book|last=[[Birmingham Museum of Art]]|title=Birmingham Museum of Art : guide to the collection|year=2010|publisher=Birmingham Museum of Art|location=[Birmingham, Ala]|isbn=978-1-904832-77-5|pages=35–39|url=http://artsbma.org}}</ref>

Beginning in the 10th century, white porcelain has been crafted in [[Korea]]. Historically overshadowed by the popularity of [[celadon]], it was not until the 15th and 16th centuries that white porcelain was recognized for its own artistic value. Among the most prized of Korean ceramics are large white jars. Their shape is symbolic of the moon and their color is associated with the ideals of purity and modesty of [[Confucianism]]. During this period, the bureau that oversaw the meals and court banquets of the royal family strictly controlled the production of white porcelain.<ref name="BMA"/>

[[Blue and white porcelain]] artifacts decorating white porcelain with paintings and designs in [[underglaze]] by using natural [[cobalt]] pigment are another example of popular wares of the Joseon period. Many of these items were created by court painters employed by the royal family. During this period, the popular style of landscape paintings is mirrored in the decoration of ceramics.<ref name="BMA"/> Initially developed by the Chinese at the [[Jingdezhen ware|Jingdezhen kilns]] in the mid-14th century, Joseon began to produce this type of porcelain from the 15th century under Chinese influence. The first cobalt imported from China was used by Korean artists. In 1463 when sources of cobalt were discovered in [[Korea]], artists and their buyers found the material was inferior in quality and preferred the more expensive imported cobalt. Korean porcelain with imported cobalt decoration contradict the emphasis of an orderly, frugal and moderate life in [[Neo-Confucianism]].<ref name="BMA"/>

Strikingly different from cobalt, porcelain items with a copper-red [[underglaze]] are the most difficult to successfully craft. During production, these items require great skill and attention or will turn gray during the process of firing. While the birthplace of ceramics with copper red underglaze is widely disputed, these items originated during 12th century in [[Korea]] and became increasingly popular during the second half of the Joseon period. Some experts have pointed to the kilns of Bunwon-ri in [[Gwangju, Gyeonggi]], a city that played a significant role in the production of ceramics during the Joseon period, as a possible birthplace.<ref name="BMA"/>

Porcelain was also decorated with iron. These items commonly consisted of jars or other utilitarian pieces.<ref name="BMA"/>

===Literature===
During the Joseon period, the ''[[Yangban]]'' scholars and educated literati studied [[Thirteen Classics|Confucian classics]] and [[Neo-Confucianism|Neo-Confucian]] literature.<ref name="Met">{{cite web |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/yang/hd_yang.htm |publisher=[[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] |title=Yangban: The Cultural Life of the Joseon Literati |first=Soyoung |last=Lee |date=October 2004 |access-date=15 June 2020}}</ref><ref name="Lee">{{cite book |title=A New History of Korea |first=Ki-baik |last=Lee |author-link=Lee Ki-baik |translator-last1=Wagner |translator-first1=Edward Willett |translator-link1=Edward Willett Wagner |translator-last2=Schultz |translator-first2=Edward J. |year=1984 |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]}}</ref>{{rp|204}}

The middle and upper classes of Joseon society were proficient in [[Classical Chinese]].<ref name="Lee" />{{rp|329}} The Joseon official records (such as the ''[[Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty]]'' and ''[[Seungjeongwon ilgi]]'') and the written works of the Yangban literati were written in Classical Chinese.<ref name="Met"/><ref name="Lee"/>{{rp|243,329}}<ref name="Orchiston-Green-Strom">{{cite book |title=New Insights From Recent Studies in Historical Astronomy: Following in the Footsteps of F. Richard Stephenson |first1=Wayne |last1=Orchiston |first2=David A. |last2=Green |first3=Richard |last3=Strom |publisher=[[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]] |year=2014}}</ref>{{rp|74}}

Newspapers like the ''[[Hwangseong Sinmun]]'' towards the end of the period were written in the [[Korean language]] using the [[Korean mixed script]].<ref name="Lee"/>{{rp|329}}

====Annals of the Joseon Dynasty====
{{main|Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty}}
The ''Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty'' (also known as the ''Annals of the Joseon Dynasty'') are the annual records of the Joseon Dynasty, which were kept from 1413 to 1865. The annals, or ''sillok'', comprise 1,893 volumes and are thought to cover the longest continual period of a single dynasty in the world. With the exception of two ''sillok'' compiled during the [[Korea under Japanese rule|colonial era]], the ''Annals'' are the 151st [[National treasures of Korea|national treasure of Korea]] and listed in [[UNESCO]]'s [[Memory of the World]] registry.

====Uigwe====
{{main|Uigwe}}
''[[Uigwe]]'' is a collection of royal [[Protocol (diplomacy)|protocol]]s of the Joseon period, which records and prescribes through text and stylized illustration the important ceremonies and rites of the royal family.

===Education===
{{main|Education in the Joseon dynasty}}


=== Buddhism and Confucianism ===
The Joseon kingdom was noted for having Confucianism as its main philosophy. However Buddhism actually was a part of the Joseon period.{{disputed|date=April 2021}} The study of literary exchanges between Confucian scholar officials and Buddhists shows that Buddhism was not cast out. There literary exchanges show a middle ground of both philosophies. "scholar-officials - Some who in public castigated Buddhism as a heresy and deluded tradition, in private visited temples and associated closely with monks."{{citation needed|date=April 2021}} This shows that while in public some scholars shamed Buddhism their exchanges with Buddhists show that in the very least it was not cast outside of the kingdom.

One example of this is a famous Joseon scholar official {{interlanguage link|Pak Sedang|ko|박세당}} (박세당, 朴世堂, 1629–1703). He argues against Buddhism with the following "People say that [[Han Yu]] and [[Ouyang Xiu]] have harshly criticized Buddhism and therefore have only discussed what is aberrant and have not fully investigated what is profound. People say, their understanding is lacking and they have not fully examined it [its profoundness]. I, myself, don’t think that is the case… The heresies under heaven, they are also rather foul. Among them, Buddhism is the worst. If a person is inclined to Buddhism then he is of the kind that pursues what is foul. Is it not clear that there is nothing further to discuss? It is like Mencius who [also felt no need to argue in detail when he] criticized Yang Zhu and Mozi.<ref name="Kim 59–82">{{cite journal|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/589236|title=A Shared Cultural Realm: Literary Exchanges between Scholar-Officials and Poet-Monks in the Mid Joseon Period|first=Sung-Eun Thomas|last=Kim|date=20 August 2015|journal=Seoul Journal of Korean Studies|volume=28|issue=1|pages=59–82|via=Project MUSE|doi=10.1353/seo.2015.0015|hdl=10371/164813|s2cid=145807329}}</ref> Surely, he did not argue further than to say [[Yang Zhu]] and [[Mozi]] did not respect their fathers and their emperors."<ref name="Kim 59–82"/> However he writes a poem that seemingly supports Buddhism.{{how|date=April 2021}}

{| class="wikitable"
|久離塵俗萬緣虛
|For long, I have left the mundane world whose innumerable conditions are empty;
|-
|只愛游方不戀居
|I have but travelled here and there, finding no enjoyment in settled life.
|-
|明日又浮滄海去
|Tomorrow once again I leave for Changhae;
|-
|沃州寥落舊精廬
|The old, pure and simple hut of Okju province looks lonely.
|}

Buddhism was a part of the Joseon kingdom. While not supported publicly, privately it was very prevalent in Confucian-scholar officials.{{unbalanced opinion|date=April 2021}}<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kyuhee|first=Cho|date=2015|title=Pathways to Korean Culture: Paintings of the Joseon Period (1392–1910) by Burglind Jungmann (review)|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/589236|journal=Seoul Journal of Korean Studies|doi=10.1353/seo.2015.0011|s2cid=142352051|access-date=April 30, 2016}}</ref>

=== Music ===
{{main|Music of Korea}}

The ''Joseon'' period developed several musical forms. The form with the most extant pieces is ''[[sijo]]''<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kim|first=Hyŭnggyu|title=Understanding Korean Literature|pages=66}}</ref> (Hangul: 시조/Hanja: 時調). ''Sijo'' is a poetic form consisting of three lines, each with four feet, traditionally sung very slowly. In Korean verse, a foot is generally a short syntactic unit, such as a noun with an adjective or a verb with an adverb. For example:
{| class="wikitable"
|+
|어인

WhyCOP.ATTR
|벌리완대  

insect-ceaselessly
|낙락장송(落落長松)

tall and full pine tree
|다 먹는고

all eatQ
|-
|부리 긴

beak longATTR
|져고리는

woodpeckerTOP
|어느 곳에

which placeLOC
|가 있는고

go existQ
|-
|空山에

deserted mountainLOC
|落木聲 들릴제

sound of a tree falling audible FUT.ATTR
|내 안 들데

cause NEG actively AUX experienced
|업세라

not existEMP
|}

==== Translation ====
''Can tiny insects devour a whole great spreading pine?''

''Where is the long-billed woodpecker? Why is he not here?''

''When I hear the sound of falling trees, I cannot contain myself for sorrow.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rutt|first=Richard|title=The Bamboo Grove: An Introduction to Sijo|pages=No.15}}</ref>''

Here, like other Korean musical forms, each foot can stand on its own. As ''sijo'' were sung in Korean, the pioneering of Hangul created the possibility for ''sijo'' to be written down without the use of substitutions such as [[Idu script]]. The first copy of ''sijo'' is of the 'Twelve Songs of ''Dosan''<nowiki/>' by ''Yi Hwang'' written in 1565, which were written 100 years after the proclamation of [[Hangul]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rutt|first=Richard|title=The Bamboo Grove: An Introduction to Sijo|pages=157}}</ref> Additionally, the first anthology of ''sijo'' was compiled by ''Kim Cheontaek'' in 1728;<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rutt|first=Richard|title=The Bamboo Grove: An Introduction to Sijo|pages=158}}</ref> before the anthology few ''sijo'' were written.

''Kim Cheontaek''<nowiki/>'s anthology represents a change in the authorship of ''sijo''. At first, ''sijo'' were primarily composed by the ''[[yangban]]'' aristocracy and entertainers of the ''[[Kisaeng]]'' class. However, by the mid-seventeenth century, the [[Chungin|''jungin'']] or “professional class” were composing ''sijo'' as well. This also coincided with a new form of ''sijo'' called “narrative ''sijo''” (Hangul: 사설시조/Hanja: 辭說時調), in which the first two lines were greatly lengthened.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kim|first=Hyŭnggyu|title=Understanding Korean Literature|pages=71}}</ref> This expansion is likely a development from the so-called “irregular ''sijo''” (Hangul: 엇시조/Hanja: 旕時調), in which there was a minor lengthening of one of the first two lines.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.naver.com/|title=네이버|website=www.naver.com}}</ref> While there are very few remaining irregular ''sijo'', and the form has not been revived, there is a sizable body of narrative ''sijo'' and the form continues to evolve.

''[[Pansori|P'ansori]]'' (Hangul: 판소리) is another musical form that combines singing and prose to portray a story. Its development likely originates from shaman rituals and the songs within the [[Jeolla Province|''Jeolla'' Province]]. It became a full-fledged musical form by the middle of the eighteenth century, and not long thereafter the yangban aristocracy also became interested in it. Originally there was a set of twelve stories that were sung, but only five were written down, and hence those five are the only ones sung today. Having been developed by commoners, ''p'ansori'' usually reflected their attitudes and aspirations, but by becoming popular with the ''yangban'', ''p'ansori'' shifted somewhat toward ''yangban'' sensibilities and restrictions. ''P'ansori'' had a strong influence of the writing of the time, both because of the ''p'ansori'' novel (each based on one of the twelve stories) and by increasing the realism of the classical novel.

== Science and technology ==
{{See also|History of science and technology in Korea}}
[[File:Korean celestial globe.jpg|thumb|Korean [[celestial globe]] first made by the scientist [[Jang Yeong-sil]] during the reign of [[King Sejong]]]]

=== 15th century ===
The Joseon period under the reign of [[Sejong the Great]] was Korea's greatest period of scientific advancement. Under Sejong's new policy, [[Cheonmin]] (low-status) people such as [[Jang Yeong-sil]] were allowed to work for the government. At a young age, Jang displayed talent as an inventor and engineer, creating machines to facilitate agricultural work. These included supervising the building of aqueducts and canals.
[[File:BoRuGak Jagyeongnu.JPG|thumb|Surviving portion of the Water Clock (Jagyeongnu)]]
Some of his inventions were an automated (self-striking) [[water clock]] (the Jagyeokru) which worked by activating motions of wooden figures to indicate time visually (invented in 1434 by Jang), a subsequent more complicated water-clock with additional astronomical devices, and an improved model of the previous metal movable printing type created in the [[Goryeo Dynasty]]. The new model was of even higher quality and was twice as fast. Other inventions were the [[sight glass]], and the [[udometer]].

The highpoint of Korean astronomy was during the Joseon period, where men such as Jang created devices such as celestial globes which indicated the positions of the sun, moon, and the stars.<ref>{{cite book | author=백석기 | title=웅진위인전기 #11 장영실 | publisher=웅진출판사 | year=1987 | page=56}}</ref> Later celestial globes (Gyupyo, 규표) were attuned to the seasonal variations.

The apex of astronomical and calendarial advances under [[King Sejong]] was the [[Chiljeongsan]], which compiled computations of the courses of the seven heavenly objects (five visible planets, the sun, and moon),
developed in 1442. This work made it possible for scientists to calculate and accurately predict all the major heavenly phenomena, such as solar eclipses and other stellar movements.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indiana.edu/~easc/resources/korea_slides/science/9-1.htm|title=Korea And The Korean People}}</ref>
[[Honcheonsigye]] is an astronomical clock created by [[Song I-yeong]] in 1669. The clock has an armillary sphere with a diameter of 40 cm. The sphere is activated by a working clock mechanism, showing the position of celestial objects at any given time.

[[Kangnido]], a Korean-made map of the world was created in 1402 by [[Kim Sa-hyeong]] (김사형, 金士衡), [[Yi Mu (early Joseon)|Yi Mu]] (이무, 李茂) and [[Yi Hoe]] (이회, 李撓). The map was created in the second year of the reign of [[Taejong of Joseon]]. The map was made by combining Chinese, Korean and Japanese maps.

=== 16th–19th century ===
The scientific and technological advance in the late Joseon period was less progressed than the early Joseon period.

16th-century court physician, [[Heo Jun]] wrote a number of medical texts, his most significant achievement being [[Dongeui Bogam]], which is often noted as the defining text of [[Traditional Korean medicine]]. The work spread to China and Japan, where it is still regarded as one of the classics of [[Oriental medicine]] today.

The first soft [[ballistic vest]], [[Myunjebaegab]], was invented in Joseon [[Korea]] in the 1860s shortly after the [[French campaign against Korea (1866)]]. [[Heungseon Daewongun]] ordered development of bullet-proof armor because of increasing threats from Western armies. [[Kim Gi-du]] and [[Gang Yun]] found that [[cotton]] could protect against bullets if thick enough, and devised bullet-proof vests made of 30 layers of cotton. The vests were used in battle during the [[United States expedition to Korea]] (1871), when the US Navy attacked [[Ganghwa Island]] in 1871. The US Army captured one of the vests and took it to the US, where it was stored at the [[Smithsonian Museum]] until 2007. The vest has since been sent back to Korea and is currently on display to the public.

== Economy ==

=== Commerce ===
During the Goryeo period, Korea had a healthy trade relationship with the Japanese, Chinese, and Manchurians. An example of prosperous, international trade port is [[Pyongnam]]. Koreans offered [[brocades]], jewelries, [[ginseng]], [[silk]], and [[porcelain]], renowned famous worldwide. But, during the Joseon period, Confucianism was adopted as the national philosophy, and, in process of eliminating certain [[Buddhist]] beliefs, [[Korean pottery and porcelain#Goryeo|Goryeo Cheongja]] porcelains were replaced by white [[Baekja]], which lost favour of the Chinese. Also, commerce became more restricted during this time in order to promote agriculture. Because silver was used as currency in China, it played an important role in Korea-China trade.

== House of Yi ==
{{Main|House of Yi}}
{{see also|House of Yi#House of Yi family tree|label 1=The family tree of Joseon kings}}
[[File:Fuuzokugahou-Myeongseong.gif|thumb|Japanese illustration of [[Gojong of Korea|King Gojong]] and Queen Min receiving [[Inoue Kaoru]]]]
[[File:Choseon Imperial family.jpg|thumb|This compilation photo, taken about 1915, shows the following royal family members, from left: [[Prince Imperial Ui|Prince Ui (''Ui chinwang'' 의친왕)]], the 6th son of Gojong; [[Emperor Sunjong of the Korean Empire|Sunjong]], the 2nd son and the last monarch of Joseon; [[Crown Prince Euimin|Prince Yeong (''Yeong chinwang'' 영친왕)]], the 7th son; [[Gojong of Korea|Gojong]], the former King; [[Empress Sunjeong of the Korean Empire|Queen Yoon (''Yoon daebi'')]], Queen Consort of Sunjong; Deogindang Gimbi, wife of Prince Ui; and [[Kenichi Momoyama|Yi Geon]], the eldest son of Prince Ui. The seated child in the front row is [[Deokhye, Princess of Korea|Princess Deokhye (''Deokhye ongju'' 덕혜옹주)]], Gojong's last child. (This is a compilation of individual photographs since the Imperial Japanese did not allow them to be in the same room at the same time, and some were forced to leave Korea.)]]

The following is a simplified relation of Joseon royalty (Korean Imperial Family) during the late period of the dynasty:
* [[Gojong of Korea|Emperor Gojong]] (1852–1919) – 26th head of the Korean Imperial Household, adoptive heir to [[Crown Prince Hyomyeong]]
** [[Sunjong of Korea|Emperor Sunjong]] (1874–1926) – 27th head of the Korean Imperial Household
** [[Yi Kang]], Prince Imperial Ui (1877–1955) – 5th son of Gojong
*** Prince [[Yi Geon]] (1909–1991) – eldest son of Yi Kang; renounced the Imperial title and heritage by becoming a Japanese citizen in 1947
*** Prince [[Yi U]] (1912–1945) – 2nd son of Yi Kang; adopted as the heir to [[Yi Jun-yong]], grandson of [[Heungseon Daewongun]]
**** [[Yi Cheong]] (1936–)
**** Yi Jong (1940–1966)
*** [[Yi Hae-won]] (1919–2020) – 2nd daughter of Yi Kang; married in 1936 to Yi Seung-gyu from the Yongin Yi Clan
*** Yi Gap (1938–2014) – 9th son of Yi Kang
**** [[Yi Won]] (1962–) – eldest son of Yi Gap; adopted by Yi Ku as the 30th head of the Korean Imperial Household
***** 1st son (1998–)
***** 2nd son (1999–)
*** [[Yi Seok]] (1941–) – 10th son of Yi Kang; self-claimed head of the Korean Imperial Household
**** [[Yi Hong]] (1976–), first daughter of Yi Seok
***** 1st daughter (2001–)
**** Yi Jin (1979–), 2nd daughter of Yi Seok
**** Yi Jeonghun (1980–), son of Yi Seok
** [[Yi Un]], Imperial Crown Prince (1897–1970) – 28th head of the Korean Imperial Household; married in 1920 to Princess Masako of Nashimoto (Yi Bangja), an imperial member of the [[Empire of Japan]].
*** Prince Yi Jin (1921–1922)
*** Prince [[Yi Ku]] (1931–2005) — 29th head of the Korean Imperial Household; son of Yi Un
** [[Princess Deokhye]] (1912–1989) — married in 1931 to Count Sō Takeyuki
*** Jong Jeonghye (1932–?), disappeared since 1956

==See also==

* [[History of Korea]]
* [[Annals of the Joseon Dynasty]]
* [[List of monarchs of Korea]]
* [[House of Yi#House of Yi family tree|Kings family tree]]
*[[Politics of the Joseon dynasty|Joseon Dynasty politics]]
* [[Korean Empire]]

== Notes ==
{{Notelist}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==Bibliography==
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== Further reading ==
* ''A Cultural History of Modern Korea'', Wannae Joe, ed. with intro. by Hongkyu A. Choe, Elizabeth NY, and Seoul Korea: Hollym, 2000.
* ''An Introduction to Korean Culture'', ed. Koo & Nahm, Elizabeth NJ, and Seoul Korea: Hollym, 1998. 2nd edition.
* ''Noon Eu Ro Bo Neun Han Gook Yuk Sa #7'' by Jang Pyung Soon. Copyright 1998 Joong Ang Gyo Yook Yun Goo Won, Ltd, pp. 46–7.
* [https://www.jstor.org/stable/23718933 Alston, Dane. 2008. "Emperor and Emissary: The Hongwu Emperor, Kwŏn Kŭn, and the Poetry of Late Fourteenth Century Diplomacy". Korean Studies 32. University of Hawai'i Press: 104–47.]
* [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41490257 Kye, Seung B.. 2010. "Huddling Under the Imperial Umbrella: A Korean Approach to Ming China in the Early 1500s". The Journal of Korean Studies 15 (1). University of Washington Center for Korea Studies: 41–66.]
* [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41485331 Robinson, David M.. 2004. "Disturbing Images: Rebellion, Usurpation, and Rulership in Early Sixteenth-century East Asia—Korean Writings on Emperor Wuzong". The Journal of Korean Studies 9 (1). University of Washington Center for Korea Studies: 97–127.]
* [https://www.jstor.org/stable/23720024 Robinson, Kenneth R.. 1992. "From Raiders to Traders: Border Security and Border Control in Early Chosŏn, 1392—1450". Korean Studies 16. University of Hawai'i Press: 94–115.]
* Ji-Young Lee. 2020. "The Founding of the Korean Chosŏn Dynasty, 1392." in ''[[doi:10.1017/9781108807401|East Asia in the World Twelve Events That Shaped the Modern International Order]]''. Cambridge University Press.

== External links ==
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* {{Cite book|author=[[:ja:三谷博|三谷博]]|date=January 2016|title=グローバル化への対応－中・日・韓三国の分岐－|publisher=[[:ja:統計研究会|統計研究会]]『学際』第1号|url=http://www.isr.or.jp/TokeiKen/pdf/gakusai/1_05.pdf|ref=三谷}}
* {{Cite book|author=[[:ja:原田環|原田環]]|date=June 2005|title=東アジアの国際関係とその近代化－朝鮮と－|publisher=[[Japan–South Korea Joint History Research Project]]報告書（第1期）|url=http://www.jkcf.or.jp/history_arch/first/3/02-0j_harada_j.pdf|
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928110202/http://www.instrok.org/instrok/lesson1/page01.html?thisChar=4 Cultural Values of the Choson Dynasty] – from Instrok.org, created by the [[East Rock Institute]].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150510203519/http://www.sungjinyang.com/history/hermit.html "Click into the Hermit Kingdom" (Written by Yang Sung-jin and published by Dongbang Media in Seoul, South Korea) – 100 articles in English on the Joseon Dynasty]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050207052645/http://royalcity.or.kr/ Korean royal family website] – currently available only in Korean.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050313144134/http://myhome.shinbiro.com/~mss1/choson.html Choson dynasty]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050113191703/http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200501/200501120024.html "Japanese Document Sheds New Light on Korean Queen's Murder"] – Ohmynews.com's uncovered document about murder of Queen Minbi
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060202204421/http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200601/200601270013.html "E-Annals Bring Chosun History to Everyman"], The Chosun Ilbo, January 27, 2006.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080604062746/http://www.bennettsfineart.com/lee%20dynasty.htm "Korean Lee (Yi) Dynasty Granite Sculptures.]

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UserArtificial820029: The Chinese tributary system was a largely symbolic Confucian world order with its basis in trade & philosophical relations between foreign states & various Chinese dynasties. Its relation to the sovereignty of party states was flexible & diverse. Larger party states (e.g., Joseon Korea & Tokugawa Japan) enjoyed full sovereignty in both domestic & foreign affairs, & their intl status cannot be considered 'tributary states'. The 1882 Qing-Joseon Treaty did not change the legal status of Joseon.

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| conventional_long_name = Great Joseon / Chosŏn
| native_name = {{lang|ko|朝鮮}} ({{lang|ko|조선}})<ref>{{cite news |url = http://www.newstown.co.kr/newsbuilder/service/article/messmail.asp?P_Index=72824 |script-title = ko:(세상사는 이야기) 왜색에 물든 우리말-(10) |publisher = Newstown |author = Li, Jun-gyu (이준규) |date = 2009-07-22 |language = ko |quote = 1392년부터 1910년까지 한반도전역을 통치하였던 조선(朝鮮)은 일반적으로 조선왕조(朝鮮王朝)라 칭하였으며, 어보(御寶), 국서(國書)등에도 대조선국(大朝鮮國)이라는 명칭을 사용하였었다. (translation) Joseon which had ruled from 1392 to 1910 was commonly referred to as the "Joseon dynasty" while "Great Joseon State" was used in the royal seal, national documents, and others. }}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
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| date_end = 13 October
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'''Joseon''' (also transcribed as '''Chosŏn''', {{lang-ko|대조선국; 大朝鮮國}}, {{Literal translation|Great Joseon State}}) was a Korean dynastic kingdom that lasted for approximately five centuries.<ref>{{cite web |title=Chosŏn dynasty {{!}} Korean history |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Choson-dynasty |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. |access-date=10 February 2019 |language=en}}</ref> It was the last dynastic kingdom of Korea.<ref name="Confucianism">{{cite book|title=Women Our History|year=2019|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lxGnDwAAQBAJ&q=joseon+longest+confucian+dynasty+korea&pg=PA82|page=82|isbn=9780241395332|author1=D. K}}</ref> It was founded by [[Taejo of Joseon|Yi Seong-gye]] in July 1392 and replaced by the [[Korean Empire]] in October 1897.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title= 조선 |encyclopedia= 한국민족문화대백과 }}</ref> The kingdom was founded following the aftermath of the overthrow of [[Goryeo]] in what is today the city of [[Kaesong]]. Early on, Korea was retitled and the capital was relocated to modern-day [[Seoul]]. The kingdom's northernmost borders were expanded to the natural boundaries at the rivers of [[Amnok River|Amnok]] and [[Tumen River|Tuman]] through the subjugation of the [[Jurchens]].

During its 500-year duration, Joseon encouraged the entrenchment of Confucian ideals and doctrines in Korean society. [[Neo-Confucianism]] was installed as the new state's ideology. [[Korean Buddhism|Buddhism]] was accordingly discouraged and occasionally faced persecutions. Joseon consolidated its effective rule over the territory of current Korea and saw the height of classical Korean culture, trade, literature, and science and technology. In the 1590s, the kingdom was severely weakened due to [[Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)|Japanese invasions]]. Several decades later, Joseon was invaded by the [[Later Jin (1616–1636)|Later Jin dynasty]] and the [[Qing dynasty]] in [[Later Jin invasion of Joseon|1627]] and [[Qing invasion of Joseon|1636–1637]] respectively, leading to an increasingly harsh isolationist policy, for which the country became known as the "[[hermit kingdom]]" in [[Western literature]]. After the end of these invasions from [[Manchuria]], Joseon experienced a nearly 200-year period of peace and prosperity, along with cultural and technological development. However, whatever power that the kingdom recovered during its isolation waned as the 18th century came to a close. Faced with internal strife, power struggles, international pressure, and rebellions at home, the Joseon kingdom declined rapidly in the late 19th century.

The Joseon period has left a substantial legacy to modern Korea; much of modern [[Korean culture]], etiquette, norms, and societal attitudes towards current issues, along with [[Korean language|the modern Korean language]] and [[Korean dialects|its dialects]], derive from the culture and traditions of Joseon.

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== History ==
{{History of Korea}}
{{Main|History of the Joseon dynasty}}

=== Early Joseon period ===
[[File:King Taejo Yi 02.jpg|thumb|left|[[Taejo of Joseon|King Taejo]]'s portrait]]

==== Founding ====
By the late 14th century, the nearly 500-year-old [[Goryeo]] established in 918 was tottering, its foundations collapsing from years of war and ''de facto'' occupation from the disintegrating [[Mongol Empire]]. Following the emergence of the [[Ming dynasty]], the royal court in Goryeo split into two conflicting factions: the group led by General Yi (supporting the Ming) and the camp led by [[Choe Yeong|General Choe]] (standing by the Yuan).

Goryeo claimed to be the successor of the ancient kingdom of [[Goguryeo]] (which was later renamed Goryeo); as such, restoring [[Manchuria]] as part of Korean territory was part of its foreign policy throughout its history. When a Ming messenger came to Goryeo in 1388, the 14th year of [[U of Goryeo]], to demand that Goguryeo's former northern territory be handed over to Ming China, General Choe seized the chance to argue for an attack on the [[Liaodong Peninsula]].

Yi was chosen to lead the attack; however, he revolted and swept back to Gaegyeong and initiated a [[coup d'état]], overthrowing King U in favor of his son, [[Chang of Goryeo]] (1388). He later killed King U and his son after a failed restoration and forcibly placed a royal named Yi on the throne (he became [[Gongyang of Goryeo]]). In 1392, Yi eliminated [[Jeong Mong-ju]], highly respected leader of a group loyal to Goryeo dynasty, and dethroned King Gongyang, exiling him to [[Wonju]], and before he ascended the throne. The Goryeo kingdom had come to an end after almost 500 years of rule.

In the beginning of his reign, Yi Seonggye, now ruler of Korea, intended to continue use of the name Goryeo for the country he ruled and simply change the royal line of descent to his own, thus maintaining the façade of continuing the 500-year-old Goryeo tradition. However, after numerous threats of mutiny from the drastically weakened but still influential Gwonmun nobles, who continued to swear allegiance to the remnants of the Goryeo and now the demoted Wang clan, the consensus in the reformed court was that a new dynastic title was needed to signify the change. In naming the new kingdom, Taejo contemplated two possibilities - "Hwaryeong" and "Joseon". After much internal deliberation, as well as endorsement by the neighboring Ming dynasty's emperor, Taejo declared the name of the kingdom to be Joseon, a tribute to the ancient Korean state of [[Gojoseon]].<ref>{{cite book |last= Kang|first= Jae-eun|date= 2006|title= The Land of Scholars: Two Thousand Years of Korean Confucianism|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=XB4UYXNQK1wC&q=ming+taizu+joseon|publisher= Homa & Sekey Books|page= 177|access-date= August 7, 2015|isbn= 9781931907309}} "Yi Seong-gye issued a royal edict to proclaim the name of the new kingdom to "Joseon" and issued amnesty to all criminals who opposed the transition. The statement by Taizu about "only the name of Joseon is beautiful and old" naturally refers to Gija Joseon."</ref> He also moved the capital to [[Seoul|Hanyang]] from Kaesong.

==== Strife of princes ====
[[File:Gyeongbok-gung palace-01 (xndr).jpg|alt=|left|thumb|The Throne at [[Gyeongbokgung]]]]

When the new dynasty was brought into existence, Taejo brought up the issue of which son would be his successor. Although Yi Bangwon, Taejo's fifth son by Queen Sineui, had contributed most to assisting his father's rise to power, the prime minister [[Jeong Dojeon]] and [[Nam Eun]] used their influence on King Taejo to name his eighth son (second son of Queen Sindeok) Grand Prince Uian (Yi Bangseok) as crown prince in 1392. This conflict arose largely because Jeong Dojeon, who shaped and laid down ideological, institutional, and legal foundations of the new kingdom more than anyone else, saw Joseon as a kingdom led by ministers appointed by the king while Yi Bangwon wanted to establish the absolute monarchy ruled directly by the king. With Taejo's support, Jeong Dojeon kept limiting the royal family's power by prohibiting political involvement of princes and attempting to abolish their private armies. Both sides were well aware of each other's great animosity and were getting ready to strike first.

After the sudden death of Queen Sindeok, while King Taejo was still in mourning for his second wife, Yi Bangwon struck first by raiding the palace and killed Jeong Dojeon and his supporters as well as Queen Sindeok's two sons (his half-brothers) including the crown prince in 1398. This incident became known as the First Strife of Princes.

Aghast at the fact that his sons were willing to kill each other for the crown, and psychologically exhausted from the death of his second wife, King Taejo abdicated and immediately crowned his second son Yi Banggwa as [[Jeongjong of Joseon|King Jeongjong]]. One of King Jeongjong's first acts as monarch was to revert the capital to [[Kaesong]], where he is believed to have been considerably more comfortable, away from the toxic power strife. Yet Yi Bangwon retained real power and was soon in conflict with his disgruntled older brother, Yi Banggan, who also yearned for power. In 1400, the tensions between Yi Bangwon's faction and Yi Banggan's camp escalated into an all-out conflict that came to be known as the Second Strife of Princes. In the aftermath of the struggle, the defeated Yi Banggan was exiled to [[Tosan County|Dosan]] while his supporters were executed. Thoroughly intimidated, King Jeongjong immediately invested Yi Bangwon as heir presumptive and voluntarily abdicated. That same year, Yi Bangwon assumed the throne of Joseon at long last as [[Taejong of Joseon|King Taejong]], third king of Joseon.

====Consolidation of royal power====
In the beginning of Taejong's reign, the Grand King Former, Taejo, refused to relinquish the royal seal that signified the legitimacy of any king's rule. Taejong began to initiate policies he believed would prove his qualification to rule. One of his first acts as king was to abolish the privilege enjoyed by the upper echelons of government and the aristocracy to maintain private armies. His revoking of such rights to field independent forces effectively severed their ability to muster large-scale revolts, and drastically increased the number of men employed in the national military. Taejong's next act as king was to revise the existing legislation concerning the taxation of land ownership and the recording of state of subjects. With the discovery of previously hidden land, national income increased twofold.

In 1399, Taejong had played an influential role in scrapping the [[Dopyeong Assembly]], a council of the old government administration that held a monopoly in court power during the waning years of the Goryeo kingdom, in favor of the [[State Council of Joseon]] ({{Hangul|의정부}} {{Hanja|議政府}}), a new branch of central administration that revolved around the king and his edicts. After passing the subject documentation and taxation legislation, King Taejong issued a new decree in which all decisions passed by the State Council could only come into effect with the approval of the king. This ended the custom of court ministers and advisors making decisions through debate and negotiations amongst themselves, and thus brought the royal power to new heights.

Shortly thereafter, Taejong installed an office, known as the [[Sinmun Office]], to hear cases in which aggrieved subjects felt that they had been exploited or treated unjustly by government officials or [[aristocracy (class)|aristocrat]]s. However, Taejong kept Jeong Dojeon's reforms intact for most part. In addition, Taejong executed or exiled many of his supporters who helped him ascend on the throne in order to strengthen the royal authority. To limit influence of in-laws, he also killed all four of his Queen's brothers and his son [[Sejong the Great|Sejong]]'s father-in-law. Taejong remains a controversial figure who killed many of his rivals and relatives to gain power and yet ruled effectively to improve the populace's lives, strengthen national defense, and lay down a solid foundation for his successor Sejong's rule.

====Sejong the Great====
[[File:영의정하연부부영정3.jpg|thumb|left|Portrait of [[Ha Yeon]] who served as [[Yeonguijeong]] during the [[Sejong of Joseon|King Sejong]]'s reign.]]
[[File:Hunmin jeong-eum.jpg|thumb|right|A page from the ''Hunmin Jeong-eum Eonhae'', a partial translation of ''[[Hunminjeongeum]]'', the original promulgation of the Korean alphabet]]

In August 1418, following Taejong's abdication two months earlier, [[Sejong the Great]] ascended the throne. In May 1419, King Sejong, under the advice and guidance of his father Taejong, embarked upon the [[Ōei Invasion|Gihae Eastern Expedition]] to remove the nuisance of [[Wokou|waegu]] (coastal pirates) who had been operating out of [[Tsushima Island]].

In September 1419, the ''[[daimyō]]'' of Tsushima, Sadamori, capitulated to the Joseon court. In 1443, The [[Treaty of Gyehae]] was signed in which the ''daimyō'' of Tsushima was granted rights to conduct trade with Korea in fifty ships per year in exchange for sending tribute to Korea and aiding to stop any Waegu coastal pirate raids on Korean ports.<ref>{{Cite book |title= Korea | last= Richard Rutt.| publisher= Routledge/Curzon| date= September 1999|isbn=978-0-7007-0464-4|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=vj8ShHzUxrYC&q=kyehae%20treaty&pg=PA255|display-authors=etal}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title= The Cambridge history of Japan |volume=3 |trans-title= Medieval Japan |last= John W. Hall.| publisher= Cambridge University Press | date= April 27, 1990|isbn=978-0-521-22354-6|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=lCd4reJRaG8C&q=kyehae%20treaty&pg=PA442|display-authors=etal}}</ref><ref>{{in lang|ko}} [http://100.nate.com/dicsearch/pentry.html?s=B&i=112816&v=42 계해약조 癸亥約條] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610053214/http://100.nate.com/dicsearch/pentry.html?s=B&i=112816&v=42 |date=2011-06-10 }} [[Nate (web portal)|Nate]] / [[Britannica]]</ref><ref>{{in lang|ko}}[http://100.nate.com/dicsearch/pentry.html?s=K&i=236670&v=42 계해조약 癸亥約條] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610053227/http://100.nate.com/dicsearch/pentry.html?s=K&i=236670&v=42 |date=2011-06-10 }} [[Nate (web portal)|Nate]] / [[Encyclopedia of Korean Culture]]</ref>

On the northern border, Sejong established four forts and six posts ({{Hanja|四郡六鎭}}; {{Hangul|사군육진}}) to safeguard his people from the [[Jurchen people|Jurchens]], who later became the [[Manchu people|Manchus]], living in Manchuria. In 1433, Sejong sent [[Kim Jong-seo (general)|Kim Jong-seo]], a government official, north to fend off the Jurchens. Kim's military campaign captured several castles, pushed north, and restored Korean territory, roughly the present-day border between North Korea and China.<ref>{{cite book | author=박영규 | title=한권으로 읽는 세종대왕실록 | publisher=웅진, 지식하우스 | year=2008 | isbn=978-89-01-07754-3}}</ref>

During the rule of Sejong, Korea saw advances in [[natural science]], [[agriculture]], [[literature]], [[traditional Chinese medicine]], and engineering. Because of such success, Sejong was given the title "Sejong the Great".<ref name="asiasociety">{{cite web|url=http://www.asiasociety.org/countries-history/traditions/king-sejong-great|title=King Sejong the Great And The Golden Age Of Korea|date=19 August 2008|publisher=asiasociety.org|access-date=27 November 2009}}</ref> The most remembered contribution of King Sejong is the creation of [[Hangul]], the Korean alphabet, in 1443; everyday use of [[Hanja]] in writing eventually was surpassed by Hangul in the later half of the 20th century.

====Six martyred ministers====
After King Sejong's death, his son [[Munjong of Joseon|Munjong]] continued his father's legacy but soon died of illness in 1452, just two years after coronation. He was succeeded by his twelve-year-old son, [[Danjong of Joseon|Danjong]]. In addition to two regents, [[Princess Gyeonghye]] also served as Danjong's guardian and, along with the general Kim Jongso, attempted to strengthen royal authority.<ref name="an">{{cite web |url = http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2016/05/628_153138.html |title=Forgotten story of Princess Gyeonghye |last1=An|first1=Seung-jun|website=Korea Times|date=4 April 2014|access-date=22 February 2018 }}</ref> However, Danjong's uncle, [[Sejo of Joseon|Sejo]], gained control of the government and eventually deposed his nephew to become the seventh king of Joseon himself in 1455. After [[Six martyred ministers|six ministers loyal to Danjong]] attempted to assassinate Sejo to return Danjong to the throne, Sejo executed the six ministers and also killed Danjong in his place of exile.

King Sejo enabled the government to determine exact population numbers and to mobilize troops effectively. He also revised the land ordinance to improve the national economy and encouraged the publication of books. Most importantly, he compiled the Grand Code for State Administration, which became the cornerstone of dynastic administration and provided the first form of constitutional law in a written form in Korea.

However, he undermined much of the foundation of many existing systems, including the Jiphyeonjeon which his predecessors King Sejong and Munjong had carefully laid down. He cut down on everything he deemed unworthy and caused countless complications in the long run. Many of these adjustments were done for his own power, not regarding the consequences and problems that would occur. The favoritism he showed towards the ministers who aided him in taking the throne led to increased corruption in the higher echelon of the political field.

====Institutional arrangements and Prosper culture====
Sejo's weak son [[Yejong of Joseon|Yejong]] succeeded him as the eighth king, but died two years later in 1469. Yejong's nephew [[Seongjong of Joseon|Seongjong]] ascended the throne. His reign was marked by the prosperity and growth of the national economy and the rise of neo-Confucian scholars called [[sarim]] who were encouraged by Seongjong to enter court politics. He established Hongmungwan ({{hanja|弘文館}}), the royal library and advisory council composed of Confucian scholars, with whom he discussed philosophy and government policies. He ushered in a cultural golden age that rivaled Sejong's reign by publishing numerous books on geography, ethics, and various other fields.

He also sent several military campaigns against the Jurchens on the northern border in 1491, like many of his predecessors. The campaign, led by General [[Heo Jong]], was successful, and the defeated Jurchens, led by the Udige clan ({{hanja|兀狄哈}}), retreated to the north of the [[Yalu River]]. King Seongjong was succeeded by his son, [[Yeonsangun of Joseon|Yeonsangun]], in 1494.

====Literati purges====
{{Main|Korean literati purges}}
[[File:Cho Kwang-jo in 1750.jpg|170px|thumb|Portrait of the neo-Confucian scholar, [[Jo Gwang-jo]] 조광조 (1482–1519)]]

[[Yeonsangun of Joseon|Yeonsangun]] is often considered the worst tyrant of the Joseon, whose reign was marked by [[Korean literati purges]] between 1498 and 1506. His behavior became erratic after he learned that his biological mother was not Queen Junghyeon but the [[deposed Queen Lady Yun]], who was forced to drink poison after poisoning one of Seongjong's concubines out of jealousy and leaving a scratch mark on Seongjong's face. When he was shown a piece of clothing that was allegedly stained with his mother's blood vomited after drinking poison, he beat to death two of Seongjong's concubines who had accused Consort Yun and he pushed Grand Queen Insu, who died afterward. He executed government officials who supported Consort Yun's death along with their families. He also executed [[sarim]] scholars for writing phrases critical of Sejo's usurpation of the throne.

Yeonsangun also seized a thousand women from the provinces to serve as palace entertainers and appropriated the [[Sungkyunkwan]] as a personal pleasure ground. He abolished the Office of Censors, whose function was to criticize inappropriate actions and policies of the king, and Hongmungwan. He banned the use of hangul when the common people wrote with it on posters criticizing the king. After twelve years of misrule, he was finally deposed in a coup that placed his half-brother [[Jungjong of Joseon|Jungjong]] on the throne in 1506.

Jungjong was a fundamentally weak king because of the circumstances that placed him on the throne, but his reign also saw a period of significant reforms led by his minister [[Jo Gwang-jo]], the charismatic leader of sarim. He established a local self-government system called [[hyangyak]] to strengthen local autonomy and communal spirit among the people, sought to reduce the gap between the rich and poor with a land reform that would distribute land to farmers more equally and limit the amount of land and number of slaves that one could own, promulgated widely among the populace Confucian writings with vernacular translations, and sought to trim the size of government by reducing the number of bureaucrats. According to the ''[[Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty]]'', it was said that no official dared to receive a bribe or exploit the populace during this time because as Inspector General, he applied law strictly.

These radical reforms were very popular with the populace but were fiercely opposed by the conservative officials who helped to put Jungjong on the throne. They plotted to cause Jungjong to doubt Jo's loyalty. Jo Gwangjo was executed, and most of his reform measures died with him in the resulting [[Korean literati purges#Third Literati Purge of 1519|Third Literati Purge of 1519]]. For nearly 50 years afterward, the court politics was marred by bloody and chaotic struggles between factions backing rival consorts and princes. In-laws of the royal family wielded great power and contributed to much corruption in that era.

===Middle Joseon period===
[[File:정철.jpg|thumb|[[Jeong Cheol]] 정철 (1536-1593), head of the Western faction]]

The middle Joseon period was marked by a series of intense and bloody power struggles between political factions that weakened the country and large-scale invasions by Japan and Manchu that nearly toppled the kingdom.

====Factional struggle====
{{Main|Political factions in Joseon dynasty}}

The [[Sarim]] faction had suffered a series of political defeats during the reigns of Yeonsangun, Jungjong, and [[Myeongjong of Joseon|Myeongjong]], but it gained control of the government during the reign of [[Seonjo of Joseon|King Seonjo]]. It soon split into opposing factions known as the [[Easterners]] and the [[Westerners (Korean political faction)|Westerners]]. Within decades the Easterners themselves divided into the [[Southerners (Korean political faction)|Southerners]] and the [[Northerners (Korean political faction)|Northerners]]; in the seventeenth century the Westerners as well permanently split into the [[Noron (Korean political faction)|Noron]] and the [[Soron (Korean political faction)|Soron]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ebrey |first1=Patricia |last2=Walthall |first2=Ann |date= 2013 |title= East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History, Volume II: From 1600 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=5pLGIcp4PMgC&q=patriarchs+joseon+faction&pg=PA255 |publisher= Cengage Learning|page= 255 |isbn= 978-1133606499|access-date= July 15, 2015}}</ref> The alternations in power among these factions were often accompanied by charges of treason and bloody purges, initiating a cycle of revenge with each change of regime.

One example is the [[1589 rebellion of Jeong Yeo-rip]], one of the bloodiest political purges of Joseon. Jeong Yeo-rip, an Easterner, had formed a society with group of supporters that also received military training to fight against [[Wokou|Waegu]]. There is still a dispute about the nature and purpose of his group, which reflected desire for classless society and spread throughout [[Honam]]. He was subsequently accused of conspiracy to start a rebellion. [[Jeong Cheol]], head of the Western faction, was in charge of investigating the case and used this event to effect widespread purge of Easterners who had slightest connection with Jeong Yeo-rip. Eventually 1000 Easterners were killed or exiled in the aftermath.

====Early Japanese invasions====
{{Main|Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)}}
[[File:Korea-Tongyeong Port-Turtle ship replica-02.jpg|alt=|thumb|[[turtle ship|The Turtle ship]] (replica)]]
Throughout Korean history, there was frequent [[piracy]] on sea and brigandage on land. The only purpose for the Joseon navy was to secure the maritime trade against the [[wokou]]. The navy repelled pirates using an advanced form of gunpowder technologies including cannons and [[fire arrows]] in form of [[singijeon]] deployed by [[hwacha]].

During the [[Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98)|Japanese invasions in the 1590s]], [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]], plotting the conquest of [[Ming dynasty|Ming China]] with [[Portuguese Empire|Portuguese]] guns, invaded Korea with his ''[[daimyō]]s'' and their troops, intending to use Korea as a stepping stone. Factional division in the Joseon court, inability to assess Japanese military capability, and failed attempts at diplomacy led to poor preparation on Joseon's part. The use of European firearms by the Japanese left most of the southern part of the Korean Peninsula occupied within months, with both [[Hanseong]] (present-day [[Seoul]]) and [[Pyongyang]] captured.
[[File:Korea-Tongyeong Port-Turtle ship replica-Inside-02.jpg|thumb|The Turtle Ship interior.]]
However, the invasion was slowed when Admiral [[Yi Sun-sin]] destroyed the Japanese invasion fleet. The guerrilla resistance that eventually formed also helped. Local resistance slowed down the Japanese advance and decisive naval victories by Admiral Yi left control over sea routes in Korean hands, severely hampering Japanese supply lines. Furthermore, Ming China intervened on the side of the Koreans, sending a large force in 1593 which pushed back the Japanese together with the Koreans.

During the war, Koreans developed powerful firearms and the [[turtle ship]]s. The Joseon and Ming forces defeated the Japanese at a deep price. Following the war, relations between Korea and Japan were completely suspended until 1609.

====Manchu invasions====
{{see also|First Manchu invasion of Korea|Second Manchu invasion of Korea}}
[[File:Jurchen warriors.jpg|thumb|left|A Korean painting depicting two Jurchen warriors and their horses]]

After the Japanese invasions, the Korean Peninsula was devastated. Meanwhile, [[Nurhaci]] (r. 1583–1626), the chieftain of the [[Jianzhou Jurchens]], was unifying the [[Jurchen people|Jurchen]] tribes of [[Manchuria]] into a strong coalition that his son [[Hong Taiji]] (r. 1626-–1643) would eventually rename the "Manchus." After he declared [[Seven Grievances]] against Ming China in 1618, Nurhaci and the Ming engaged in several military conflicts. On such occasions, Nurhaci required help from [[Gwanghaegun of Joseon]] (r.1608–1623), putting the Korean state in a difficult position because the Ming court was also requesting assistance.<ref name="Ebrey 349">{{harvnb|Ebrey|Walthall|Palais|2006|p=349}}.</ref> Gwanghaegun tried to maintain neutrality, but most of his officials opposed him for not supporting Ming China, which had saved Joseon during Hideyoshi's invasions.<ref name="Ebrey 349"/>

In 1623, Gwanghaegun was deposed and replaced by [[Injo of Joseon]] (r. 1623–1649), who banished Gwanghaejun's supporters. Reverting his predecessor's foreign policy, the new king decided to openly support the Ming, but a rebellion led by military commander [[Yi Gwal]] erupted in 1624 and wrecked Joseon's military defenses in the north.<ref name="Ebrey 349"/> Even after the rebellion had been suppressed, King Injo had to devote military forces to ensure the stability of the capital, leaving fewer soldiers to defend the northern borders.<ref name="Ebrey 349"/>

In 1627, a Jurchen army of 30,000 led by Nurhaci's nephew [[Amin (Qing dynasty)|Amin]] overran Joseon's defenses.<ref>{{harvnb|Kennedy|1943|}} (leader of the expedition); {{harvnb|Ebrey|Walthall|Palais|2006|p=350}} (number of troops).</ref> After a quick campaign that was assisted by northern yangban who had supported Gwanghaegun, the Jurchens imposed a treaty that forced Joseon to accept "brotherly relations" with the Jurchen kingdom.<ref name="Larsen 2008 36">{{harvnb|Larsen|2008|p=36}}.</ref> Because Injo persisted in his anti-Manchu policies, [[Qing dynasty|Qing]] emperor Hong Taiji sent a punitive expedition of 120,000 men to Joseon in 1636.<ref>{{harvnb|Ebrey|Walthall|Palais|2006|p=350}}.</ref> Defeated, King Injo was forced to end his relations with the Ming and recognize the Qing as suzerain instead.<ref>{{harvnb|Lee|de Bary|1997|p=269}}.</ref> Injo's successor [[Hyojong of Joseon]] (r. 1649–1659) tried to form an army to keep his enemies away and conquer the Qing for revenge, but could never act on his designs.<ref>{{harvnb|Larsen|2008|p=36}}; {{harvnb|Ebrey|Walthall|Palais|2006|p=350}}.</ref>

Despite reestablishing economic relations by officially entering the [[imperial Chinese tributary system]], Joseon leaders and intellectuals remained resentful of the Manchus, whom they regarded as barbarians.<ref name="Larsen 2008 36"/> Long after submitting to the Qing, the Joseon court and many Korean intellectuals kept using Ming [[Chinese era name|reign periods]], as when a scholar marked 1861 as "the 234th year of [[Chongzhen Emperor|Chongzhen]]."<ref>{{harvnb|Kim Haboush|2005|p=132}}.</ref>

===Late Joseon period===
====Emergence of Silhak and renaissance of the Joseon====
[[File:Kim Yuk 02.jpg|left|thumb|Portrait of Kim Yuk 김육 (1570–1658) an early Silhak philosopher of the Joseon period]]
[[File:Hwaseong2.jpg|thumb|[[Hwaseong Fortress]] in [[Suwon]]]]

After invasions from Japan and Manchuria, Joseon experienced a nearly 200-year period of peace. Joseon witnessed the emergence of [[Silhak]] (Practical Learning). The early group of Silhak scholars advocated comprehensive reform of civil service examination, taxation, natural sciences and the improvement in agromanagerial and agricultural techniques. It aimed to rebuild Joseon society after it had been devastated by the two invasions. Under the leadership of [[Kim Yuk]], the chief minister of [[Hyeonjong of Joseon|King Hyeonjong]], the implementation of reforms proved highly advantageous both to state revenues and to the lot of the peasants.

Factional conflict grew particularly intense under the reigns of the kings [[Sukjong of Joseon|Sukjong]] and [[Gyeongjong of Joseon|Gyeongjong]], with major rapid reversals of the ruling faction, known as *hwanguk* (換局; literally ''change in the state of affairs''), being commonplace. As a response, the next kings, [[Yeongjo of Joseon|Yeongjo]] and [[Jeongjo of Joseon|Jeongjo]], generally pursued the ''Tangpyeongchaek'' - a policy of maintaining balance and equality between the factions.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title= 탕평책 |encyclopedia= 한국민족문화대백과}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| last = 이성무| date = November 12, 2007| title = 조선당쟁사 2 탕평과 세도정치: 숙종조~고종조| publisher = 아름다운날 | isbn = 9788989354833}}</ref>

The two kings led a second renaissance of the Joseon kingdom.<ref>{{cite book|title=A Brief History of Korea|date=January 2005|publisher=Ewha Womans University Press|isbn=9788973006199|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o-WlUd3cjh0C&pg=PT98|access-date=23 December 2016|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Beirne|first1=Paul|title=Su-un and His World of Symbols: The Founder of Korea's First Indigenous Religion|date=April 2016|publisher=[[Routledge]]|isbn=9781317047490|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8OPeCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT38|access-date=23 December 2016|language=en}}</ref> Yeongjo's grandson, the enlightened King Jeongjo enacted various reforms throughout his reign, notably establishing Gyujanggak, a royal library in order to improve the cultural and political position of Joseon and to recruit gifted officers to run the nation. King Jeongjo also spearheaded bold social initiatives, opening government positions to those who would previously have been barred because of their social status. King Jeongjo had the support of the many Silhak scholars, who supported his regal power. King Jeongjo's reign also saw the further growth and development of Joseon's popular culture. At that time, the group of Silhak scholars encouraged the individual to reflect on state traditions and lifestyle, initiating the studies of Korea that addressed its history, geography, [[epigraphy]] and language.

[[File:Empress sin-jung-ik2.PNG|thumb|[[Queen Shinjeong|Sinjeong]], Queen Regent of Joseon. She served as nominal regent of Joseon, who selected [[Gojong of the Korean Empire|Gojong]] to place upon the throne.]]

====Government by in-law families====
After the death of King Jeongjo, the Joseon faced difficult external and internal problems. Internally, the foundation of national law and order weakened as a result of "Sedo" politics (in-law government) by royal in-law family.

Young [[Sunjo of Joseon|King Sunjo]] succeeded King Jeongjo in 1800. With Jeongjo's death the [[Intransigents (Joseon faction)|Intransigent Patriarch faction]] seized power with the regency of [[Queen Jeongsun|Queen Dowager Jeongsun]], whose family had strong ties to the Intransigents, and initiated a [[Catholic Persecution of 1801|persecution of Catholics]]. But after the retirement and death of the Queen Dowager, the Intransigents were gradually ousted and the Expedient faction, including the Andong Kim family of Kim Jo-sun, the father of the queen, gained power. Gradually the Andong Kims came to dominate the court.<ref>{{cite book| last = 오영교| date = July 25, 2007| title = 세도정권기 조선사회와 대전회통| publisher = 혜안 | isbn = 9788984943131}}</ref>

With the domination of the Andong Kims, the era of *sedo politics* or in-law rule began. The formidable in-law lineage monopolized the vital positions in government, holding sway over the political scene, and intervening in the succession of the throne. These kings had no monarchic authority and could not rule over the government. The yangban of other families, overwhelmed by the power exercised by the royal in-laws, could not speak out. As the power was concentrated in the hands of the royal in-law lineage, there was disorder in the governing process and corruption became rampant. Large sums were offered in bribes to the powerful lineages to obtain positions with nominally high rank. Even the low-ranking posts were bought and sold. This period, which spanned 60 years, saw the manifestation of both severe poverty among the Korean population and ceaseless rebellions in various parts of the country.

Externally, Joseon became increasingly [[isolationist]]. Its rulers sought to limit contact with foreign countries.

==== End of the dynasty ====
[[File:Korean headgear-Waryonggwan-01.jpg|left|thumb|[[Heungseon Daewongun]] 흥선 대원군(이하응)]]


In 1863 [[Gojong of the Korean Empire|King Gojong]] took the throne. His father, Regent [[Heungseon Daewongun]], ruled for him until Gojong reached adulthood. During the mid-1860s the Regent was the main proponent of isolationism and the instrument of the persecution of native and foreign Catholics, a policy that led directly to the [[French campaign against Korea|French Campaign against Korea]] in 1866. The early years of his rule also witnessed a large effort to restore the dilapidated [[Gyeongbok Palace]], the seat of royal authority. During his reign, the power and authority of the in-law families such as the Andong Kims sharply declined. In order to get rid of the Andong Kim and Pungyang Cho families, he promoted persons without making references to political party or family affiliations, and in order to reduce the burdens of the people and solidify the basis of the nation's economy, he reformed the tax system. [[United States expedition to Korea|In 1871, U.S. and Korean forces clashed]] in a U.S. attempt at "gunboat diplomacy" following on the [[General Sherman incident]] of 1866.

In 1873, King Gojong announced his assumption of royal rule. With the subsequent retirement of Heungseon Daewongun, the future Queen Min (later called [[Empress Myeongseong]]) became a power in the court, placing her family in high court positions.

Japan, after the [[Meiji Restoration]], acquired Western military technology, and forced Joseon to sign the [[Treaty of Ganghwa]] in 1876, opening three ports to trade and granting the Japanese extraterritoriality. [[Port Hamilton incident|Port Hamilton was briefly occupied]] by the [[Royal Navy]] in 1885.{{citation needed|date=February 2021}}

[[File:Portrait_of_Gojong_01.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Gojong of the Korean Empire|Emperor Gojong]]]]
Many Koreans despised Japanese and foreign influences over their land and the corrupt oppressive rule of the Joseon Dynasty. In 1881, the ''[[Byeolgigun]]'', a modern elite military unit, was formed with Japanese trainers. The salaries of the other soldiers were held back and in 1882 [[Imo incident|rioting soldiers]] attacked the Japanese officers and even forced the queen to take refuge in the countryside. In 1894, the [[Donghak Peasant Revolution]] saw farmers rise up in a mass rebellion, with peasant leader [[Jeon Bong-jun]] defeating the forces of local ruler Jo Byong-gap at the battle of [[Jeongeup|Go-bu]] on January 11, 1894; after the battle, Jo's properties were handed out to the peasants. By May, the peasant army had reached [[Jeonju]], and the Joseon government asked the [[Qing dynasty]] government for assistance in ending the revolt. The Qing sent 3,000 troops and the rebels negotiated a truce, but the Japanese considered the Qing presence a threat and sent in 8,000 troops of their own, seizing the Royal Palace in Seoul and installing a pro-Japanese government on 8 June 1894. This soon escalated into the [[First Sino-Japanese War]] (1894–1895) between Japan and Qing China, fought largely in Korea. [*The king made a deal with Japan partially out of isolationist views and conservative-misogynistic distrust of the queen's support for open trade policies towards the Western civilizations and China. He ended up preempting a specific disadvantageous, exclusive negotiation with Japan previous to the Queen's decision, which was later used as a political premise for Japan to wage military action. Scholars particularly during the Joseon era were touted for expressing allegiance to the king]

[[Empress Myeongseong]] (referred to as "Queen Min"<ref name="queen min">[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1895/11/10/106073098.pdf Characteristics of Queen of Corea] ''[[The New York Times]]'' November 10, 1895</ref>) had attempted to counter Japanese interference in Korea and was considering turning to the [[Russian Empire]] and to China for support. In 1895, Empress Myeongseong was assassinated by Japanese agents.<ref name="Dong-a 2002">{{cite news|url=http://www.donga.com/docs/magazine/shin/2004/11/09/200411090500053/200411090500053_1.html |script-title=ko:일본인 폭도가 가슴을 세 번 짓밟고 일본도로 난자했다 |newspaper=[[Dong-a Ilbo]] |author=Park Jong-hyo (박종효), former professor at [[Lomonosov Moscow State University]] |date= 2002-01-01 |issue= 508 |pages=472 ~ 485|language=ko}}</ref> The Japanese minister to Korea, [[Lieutenant-General]] [[Viscount]] [[Miura Gorō|Miura]], almost certainly orchestrated the plot against her. A group of Japanese agents<ref name="Dong-a 2002"/> entered the [[Gyeongbokgung]] Royal Palace in Seoul, which was under Japanese control,<ref name="Dong-a 2002"/> and Queen Min was killed and her body desecrated in the North wing of the palace.

The Qing acknowledged defeat in the [[Treaty of Shimonoseki]] (17 April 1895), which officially guaranteed Korea's independence from China.<ref name="britannica">{{Britannica|540685}}</ref> It was a step toward Japan gaining regional [[hegemony]] in Korea. The Joseon court, pressured by encroachment from larger powers, felt the need to reinforce national integrity and declared the [[Korean Empire]], along with the [[Gwangmu Reform]] in 1897. [[Gojong of Korea|King Gojong]] assumed the title of [[Emperor of Korea|Emperor]] in order to assert Korea's independence. In addition, other foreign powers were sought for military technology, especially Russia, to fend off the Japanese. Technically, 1897 marks the end of the Joseon period, as the official name of the empire was changed; however the Joseon Dynasty would still reign, albeit perturbed by Japan and Russia.

In a complicated series of maneuvers and counter-maneuvers, Japan pushed back the Russian fleet at the [[Battle of Port Arthur]] in 1905. With the conclusion of the 1904–1905 [[Russo-Japanese War]] with the [[Treaty of Portsmouth]], the way was open for Japan to take control of Korea. After the signing of the [[Eulsa Treaty|Protectorate Treaty]] in 1905, Korea became a [[protectorate]] of Japan. [[Prince]] [[Itō Hirobumi|Itō]] was the first [[Resident-General of Korea]], although he was assassinated by [[Korean independence activist]] [[An Jung-geun]] in 1909 at the train station at [[Harbin]]. In 1910 the [[Japanese Empire]] finally [[Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty|annexed]] Korea.

==Government==
{{See also|Joseon Dynasty politics}}

Joseon kingdom was a highly centralized monarchy and neo-Confucian bureaucracy as codified by [[Gyeongguk daejeon]], a sort of Joseon constitution.

=== King ===
{{see also|List of Joseon monarchs|House of Yi#House of Yi family tree|#Titles_and_styles_during_Joseon_Kingdom|label 2=Joseon kings family tree|label 3= Royal titles and styles during the Joseon Period}}
[[File:Seoul Gyeongbokgung Throne.jpg|thumb|upright|The [[Phoenix Throne]] of the king of Joseon in [[Gyeongbokgung]]]]
[[File:Flag of the king of Joseon.svg|thumb|upright|[[List of Korean flags|Royal standard of the King of Joseon]]]]
The king had absolute authority, but his actual power varied with political circumstances. He was bound by tradition, precedents set by earlier kings, [[Gyeongguk daejeon]], and Confucian teachings. The king commanded absolute loyalty from his officials and subjects, but the officials were also expected to persuade the king to the right path if the latter was thought to be mistaken. Natural disasters were thought to be due to the king's failings, and therefore, Joseon kings were very sensitive to their occurrences. When there was severe drought or a series of disasters, the king often formally sought criticism from officials and citizenry. On those occasions,
critics were immune from prosecution, regardless of what they said or wrote (although there were a few exceptions).

Direct communication between the king and the common people was possible through the ''sangeon'' ({{Korean|hangul=상언|hanja=上言|labels=no}}) written petition system and the ''gyeokjaeng'' ({{Korean|hangul=격쟁|hanja=擊錚|labels=no}}) oral petition system. Through the ''gyeokjaeng'' oral petition system, commoners could strike a gong or drum in front of the palace or during the king's public processions in order to appeal their grievances or petition to the king directly. This allowed even the illiterate members of Joseon society to make a petition to the king. More than 1,300 ''gyeokjaeng''-related accounts are recorded in the [[Ilseongnok]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Ilseongnok: Records of Daily Reflections|url=http://www.unesco.org/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/mow/nomination_forms/Korea%20Ilseongnok.pdf|website=Memory of the World Register|publisher=UNESCO|access-date=6 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Injae|first1=Lee|last2=Miller|first2=Owen|last3=Jinhoon|first3=Park|last4=Hyun-Hae|first4=Yi|title=Korean History in Maps|date=2014|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781107098466|page=93|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=46OTBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA93|access-date=6 December 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=상언격쟁|url=http://www.culturecontent.com/content/contentView.do?content_id=cp021002840001|website=문화콘텐츠닷컴|publisher=Korea Creative Content Agency|access-date=6 December 2017}}</ref>

==== Royal seals ====

<gallery>
Image:Joseon wang bo (Royal Seal Treasure of the Joseon King).svg|Seal used from 1392 to 1401.
Image:Joseongukwangjiin (The Seal of the King of Joseon).svg| Seals used concurrent to the [[Ming dynasty]], from 1401 to 1637.<ref>[http://sillok.history.go.kr/id/kca_10106012_002 Veritable Records of Taejong, vol. 1, year of 1401, 6th month, 12nd day]</ref>
Image:Joseongukwangjiin (The Seal of the King of Joseon, 1637-1653).svg| Seals used concurrent to the [[Qing dynasty]] - used between 1637<ref>[http://sillok.history.go.kr/id/kpa_11511020_001 Veritable Records of Injoo, vol. 35, year of 1637, 11th month, 20nd day].</ref> and 1653.<ref>{{cite book |author= 김지남 |date= 1888 |title= Record of Joseon Diplomacy |volume= 3 |chapter=9|url= https://kyudb.snu.ac.kr/book/view.do?book_cd=GK00882_00 |page=126~127 }}</ref>
Image:Joseongukwangjiin (The Seal of the King of Joseon, 1653-1776).svg|Seal used concurrent to the [[Qing dynasty]] - between 1653 and 1776.<ref>[http://sillok.history.go.kr/id/kva_10008018_001 Veritable Records of Jeongjo, vol. 2, year of 1776, 8th month, 18nd day]</ref>
Image:Joseongukwangjiin (The Seal of the King of Joseon, 1776-1876).svg|Seal used concurrent to the [[Qing dynasty]] - between 1776 and 1876.
Image:Daejoseongukjusangjibo.svg|The seal was produced on December 15, 1876, for use in Japanese-related state documents.
Image:Daegunjubo.svg|"Daegunjubo" designed to replace the former sergeant "Joseongukwangjiin". used as the seal of the king for documents such as appointment documents for high-ranking government officials and ordinances proclaimed in Korea.- between 1882 and 1897<ref name="great">[http://kyudb.snu.ac.kr/pf01/rendererImg.do?item_cd=SJW&book_cd=GK12788_00&vol_no=2902&page_no=003a Journal of the Royal Secretariat, vol. 2902, year of 1882, 7th month, 1nd day]</ref>
Image:DaejoseonDaegunjubo.svg|"DaejoseonDaegunjubo" were used as ‘the seal of state’ for credentials in diplomatic relations with other countries. : between 1882<ref name="great"/>
</gallery>

===Officials===
Government officials were ranked in 18 levels, ranging from first senior rank (정1품, 正一品) down to ninth junior rank (종9품, 從九品). Seniority and promotion was achieved through royal decree, based on examination or recommendation. The officials from 1st senior rank to 3rd senior rank wore red robes. Those from 3rd junior rank to 6th junior rank wore blue. Those below wore green robes.<ref>[[Gyeongguk daejeon]]</ref>

Here, "government official" means one who occupied an office which gave its holder [[yangban]] status - hereditary nobility for three generations. In order to become such an official, one had to pass a series of [[gwageo]] examinations. There were three kinds of gwageo exams - literary, military, and miscellaneous. The literary route was the most prestigious. Many key posts, including all [[#Three Offices|Censorate]] posts, were open only to officials who advanced through literary exam. The literary route involved a series of four tests. To qualify, one had to pass them all. 33 candidates who were chosen in this manner would take the final exam, before the king. The candidate with the highest score was appointed to a position of 6th junior rank (a jump of six ranks). The two candidates with the next highest scores were appointed to a position of 7th junior rank. The seven candidates with next highest scores were assigned to 8th junior rank. The remaining 23 candidates were given 9th junior rank, the lowest of 18 ranks.

The officials of 1st senior rank, 1st junior rank, and 2nd senior rank were addressed with honorific "dae-gam" (대감, 大監) while those of 2nd junior rank and 3rd senior rank were addressed with honorific "[[yeong-gam]]" (영감, 令監).<ref>Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, "About Rank of Joseon Officials"</ref> These red-robed officials, collectively called "dangsanggwan" (당상관, 堂上官), took part in deciding government policies by attending cabinet meetings. The rest of the ranked officials were called "danghagwan" (당하관, 堂下官).

===Central government===
[[File:Joseon-Portrait_of_Cha_Jegong-Geumgwanjobok.jpg|thumb|Portrait of The Chief State Councillor [[Yeongeuijeong|Chae Jegong]] (1720~1799)]]
====State Council====

[[State Council of Joseon|State Council]] (Uijeongbu, 의정부, 議政府) was the highest deliberative body, whose power however declined over the course of the period. The Chief State Councillor ([[Yeonguijeong]], 영의정, 領議政), Left State Councillor ([[Jwauijeong]], 좌의정, 左議政), and Right State Councillor (Uuijeong, 우의정, 右議政) were the highest-ranking officials in the government (All three were of 1st senior rank). They were assisted by Left Minister (Jwachanseong, 좌찬성, 左贊成) and Right Minister (Uichangseong, 우찬성, 右贊成), both of 1st junior rank, and seven lower ranking officials. The power of State Council was inversely proportional to the king's power. There were periods when it directly controlled [[Six Ministries of Joseon|Six Ministries]], the chief executive body of Joseon government, but it primarily served in advisory role under stronger kings. State councillors served in several other positions concurrently.

====Six Ministries====
[[Six Ministries of Joseon|Six Ministries]] (Yukjo, 육조, 六曹) make up the chief executive body. Each minister (Panseo, 판서, 判書) was of 2nd senior rank and was assisted by deputy minister (Champan, 참판, 參判), who was of 2nd junior rank. Ministry of Personnel was the most senior office of six ministries. As the influence of State Council waned over time, Minister of Personnel was often de facto head of ministers. Six ministries include in the order of seniority.

:*Ministry of Personnel (Ijo, 이조, 吏曹) - was primarily concerned with appointment of officials
:*Ministry of Taxation (Hojo, 호조, 戶曹) - taxation, finances, census, agriculture, and land policies
:*Ministry of Rites (Yejo, 예조, 禮曺) - rituals, culture, diplomacy, gwageo exam
:*Ministry of Defence (Byeongjo, 병조, 兵曺) - military affairs
:**Office of Police Bureau ([[Podocheong]], 포도청, 捕盜廳) - office for public order
:*Ministry of Justice (Hyeongjo, 형조, 刑曺) - administration of law, slavery, punishments
:*Ministry of Commerce (Gongjo, 공조, 工曹) - industry, public works, manufacturing, mining

====Three Offices====
[[File:윤봉구 초상.jpg|thumb|Portrait of The Inspector General Yun Bonggu (1681-1767)]]
[[Three Offices]], or ''Samsa'' (삼사), is a collective name for three offices that functioned as major organ of press and provided checks and balance on the king and the officials. While modeled after the Chinese system, they played much more prominent roles in Joseon government than their Chinese counterparts. In their role as organ of press, they did not have actual authority to decide or implement policies, but had influential voice in the ensuing debate.
The officials who served in these offices tended to be younger and of lower rank compared to other offices but had strong academic reputation and enjoyed special privileges and great prestige (For instance, censors were permitted to drink during working hours because of their function of criticizing the king). To be appointed, they went through more thorough review of character and family background. Three Offices provided the fastest route of promotion to high posts and was almost a requirement to becoming a State Councillor.
:*Office of Inspector General (Saheonbu·사헌부) - It monitored government administration and officials at each level in both central and local governments for corruption, malfeasance, or inefficiency. It was also in charge of advancing public morals and Confucian customs and redressing grievances of the populace. It was headed by Inspector General (Daesaheon·대사헌), a position of 2nd junior rank, who oversaw 30 largely independent officials.
:*Office of Censors (Saganwon·사간원) - Its chief function was to remonstrate with the king if there was wrong or improper action or policy. Important decrees of the king were first reviewed by censors, who could ask to withdraw them if judged improper. It also issued opinions about the general state of affairs. It was composed of five officials, led by Chief Censor (Daesagan·대사간), of 3rd senior rank.
While the primary focus for Office of Inspector General is the government officials and Office of Censors is focused on the king, two offices often performed each other's functions, and there was much overlap. Together they were called "Yangsa," (양사) which literally means "Both Offices," and often worked jointly especially when they sought to reverse the king's decision.
:*Office of Special Advisors (Hongmungwan·홍문관 弘文館) - It oversaw the royal library and served as research institute to study Confucian philosophy and answer the king's questions. Its officials took part in the daily lessons called ''gyeongyeon'' (경연), in which they discussed history and Confucian philosophy with the king. Since these discussions often led to commentary on current political issues, its officials had significant influence as advisors. It was headed by Chief Scholar (Daejehak·대제학), a part-time post of 2nd senior rank that served concurrently in another high post (such as in State Council), and Deputy Chief Scholar (Bujehak·부제학), a full-time post of 3rd senior rank that actually ran the office. There was great prestige attached to being Chief Scholar in this deeply Confucian society. (The office was established to replace [[Hall of Worthies]] (Jiphyeonjeon·집현전) after the latter was abolished by [[Sejo of Joseon|King Sejo]] in the aftermath of [[Six martyred ministers]].)

====Other offices====
The major offices include the following:
*Royal Secretariat (Seungjeongwon, 승정원) served as a liaison between the king and Six Ministries. There were six royal secretaries (승지), one for each ministry, and all were of 3rd senior rank. Their primary role was to pass down royal decree to the ministries and submit petitions from the officials and the populace to the king, but they also advised the king and served in other key positions close to the king. In particular Chief Royal Secretary (도승지), a liaison to Ministry of Personnel, served the king in the closest proximity of all government official and often enjoyed great power that was derived from the king's favor. Hong Guk-yeong (during [[Jeongjo of Joseon|Jeongjo]]'s reign) and Han Myeong-hwe (during [[Sejo of Joseon|Sejo]]) are some examples of chief royal secretaries who were the most powerful official of their time.
*Capital Bureau (Hanseongbu, 한성부) was in charge of running the capital, ''Hanyang'' or present-day Seoul. It was led by ''Panyoon'' (판윤), of 2nd senior second rank equivalent to today's mayor of Seoul.
*Royal Investigation Bureau (Uigeumbu, 의금부) was an investigative and enforcement organ under direct control of the king. It chiefly dealt with treason and other serious cases that concerned the king and royal family and served to arrest, investigate, imprison, and carry out sentences against the suspected offenders, who were often government officials.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.doopedia.co.kr/doopedia/master/master.do?_method=view&MAS_IDX=130510001403866|script-title=ko:한성부|publisher=Doosan Encyclopedia|access-date=2014-03-01|language=ko}}</ref>
*Office of Records (Chunchugwan, 춘추관) officials wrote, compiled, and maintained the government and historical records. It was headed by State Councillors, and many posts were held by officials serving in other offices concurrently. There were eight historiographers whose sole function was to record the meetings for history.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.doopedia.co.kr/doopedia/master/master.do?_method=view&MAS_IDX=101013000868787|script-title=ko:춘추관|publisher=Doosan Encyclopedia|access-date=2014-03-01|language=ko}}</ref>
*[[Seonggyungwan]] or Royal Academy (성균관) prepared future government officials. Those who passed first two stages of [[gwageo]] examinations (literary exam) were admitted to Seonggyungwan. The class size was usually 200 students, who lived in the residential hall and followed strict routine and school rules. (Tuition, room and board were provided by the government.) It also served as the state shrine for [[Korean Confucianism|Confucian]] and Korean Confucian sages. The students' opinions on government policies, especially collective statements and demonstrations, could be influential as they represented fresh and uncorrupted consensus of young scholars. The official in charge was Daesaseong (대사성), of 3rd senior rank, and 36 other officials including those from other offices were involved in running the academy.

===Local government===
The officials of high rank were sent from the central government. Sometimes a [[secret royal inspector]] (Amhaeng-eosa·암행어사) was appointed by the king to travel incognito and monitor the provincial officials. These undercover inspectors were generally young officials of lower rank but were invested with the royal authority to dismiss corrupt officials.
* Provinces (Do·도 道) - There were eight provinces, each of which was governed by Governor (Gwanchalsa·관찰사 觀察使), a position of 2nd junior rank.
* Bu(부) - administrative offices in charge of major cities in provinces. Each bu was led by Buyoon (부윤), which was equivalent to Governor in rank.
* Mok (목 牧) - There were twenty moks, which governed large counties named 'ju'(주 州). They were run by Moksa (목사 牧使), of 3rd senior rank.
* County (Gun·군 郡) - There were eighty counties in Joseon, each governed by Gunsu (군수 郡守), a 4th junior rank.
* Hyeon (현 縣) - Large hyeons were governed by Hyeongryeong (현령 縣令) of 5th junior rank while smaller hyeons were governed by Hyeonggam (현감 縣監) of 6th junior rank.

=== Administrative divisions ===
{{Main|Eight Provinces of Korea}}

During most of the Joseon period, Korea was divided into [[Eight Provinces of Korea|eight provinces]] (do; 도; 道). The eight provinces' boundaries remained unchanged for almost five centuries from 1413 to 1895, and formed a geographic paradigm that is still reflected today in the Korean Peninsula's administrative divisions, dialects, and regional distinctions. The names of all eight provinces are still preserved today, in one form or another.
[[File:김후영정.jpg|thumb|Portrait of Kim Hu (1751-1805), a military officer of the Joseon Dynasty]]
===Military===
{{See also|Korean armour|Korean cannon|Chongtong|Korean sword}}

====[[Naegeumwi]]====
These royal guards were elite troops of 200 men guarding the king, queen, and ministers. These were soldiers hand-selected by the king. They usually wore red robes.

====King's private guard====
The King's private guard consisted of personal bodyguards of the king. They wore black robes.

====[[Joseon Army]]====
The main army consisted of 50,000 troops, and the king appoints their generals. They usually wore black and white robes and various types of armor. However, those drafted or volunteered must buy their armor or use a set of armor they owned. They consist of infantry, elite soldiers or ''pengbaesu'', cavalry or ''gabsa'', archers, and artillery.

====[[Joseon Navy]]====
The Joseon Navy comprises of two types of main warships, the [[panokseon]] and the [[turtle ship]]. They also utilized small vessels and fishing boats for reconnaissance and landings. The king also appoints their admirals.

== Foreign affairs ==
{{main|Joseon diplomacy}}

===China===
{{Main|Joseon missions to Imperial China}}
Although the Joseon dynasty considered 1392 as the foundation of the Joseon kingdom, Imperial China did not immediately acknowledge the new government on the Korean peninsula. In 1401, the Ming court recognized Joseon as a [[tributary state]] in its [[Tributary system of China|tributary system]]. In 1403, the [[Yongle Emperor]] conveyed a patent and a gold seal to [[Taejong of Joseon]], thus confirming his status and that of his dynasty.<ref name="kang49">Kang, Etsuko H. (1997). [https://books.google.com/books?id=4f0jnNzdRb4C&pg=PA49&dq= ''Diplomacy and Ideology in Japanese-Korean Relations: from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century,'' p. 49.]</ref>

In the 19th century, China had faced major disputes due to the rise of the West and Japan. These countries, which have already established a sovereign state system, have asked about the "unknown status" of the relationship between Qing and Joseon. Its motives were the [[French expedition to Korea|Byeong-in yangyo]] (1866) and the [[Shinmiyangyo]] (1871). France and the U.S. asked if the war with Joseon would be invasion of the Qing Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty would intervene. Then China replied, "Joseon is a tributary state, but it is an independent state and it is an independent state, but it is a tributary state." The world then confirmed that Joseon is a sovereign state like any other tributary state of China.<ref>{{cite news |url = https://www.donga.com/news/Opinion/article/all/20210528/107151591/1 |script-title = ko:‘반일’ 이전에 ‘항청’… 속국을 거부한 조선의 싸움[박훈 한일 역사의 갈림길]－ |publisher = [[The Dong-a Ilbo]] |author = Park Hoon (박훈) |date = 2021-05-28 |language = ko |quote = 19세기 후반 서양과 일본의 대두로 중대한 도전에 직면하게 된다. 이미 주권국가 체제를 확립한 이 국가들이 조청(朝淸)관계의 ‘정체’를 묻기 시작한 것이다. 그 계기는 병인양요(1866년), 신미양요(1871년)였다. 프랑스와 미국은 조선과 전쟁을 하면 청나를 침범하는 게 되는지, 청나라는 개입할 것인지, 그 이전에 도대체 조청관계는 어떤 것인지를 물었다. 청 정부의 답변은 ‘속국이지만 자주적인 나라이고, 자주적이지만 동시에 속국’이었다. 즉, 속국자주(屬國自主)였다. |trans-quote= In the 19th century, China had faced major disputes due to the rise of the West and Japan. These countries, which have already established a sovereign state system, have asked about the "unknown status" of the relationship between Qing and Joseon. Its motives were the [[French expedition to Korea|Byeong-in yangyo]] (1866) and the [[Shinmiyangyo]] (1871). France and the United States asked if the war with Joseon would be invasion of the Qing dynasty and the Qing dynasty would intervene. Then the Qing dynasty replied, "Joseon is a tributary state, but it is an independent state and it is an independent state, but it is a tributary state." The world then confirmed that Joseon is a sovereign state like any other tributary state of China.}}</ref>{{better source|date=August 2021}}

Traditionally, China had a ''laissez-faire'' policy toward Joseon; despite being a tributary of China, Joseon was autonomous in its internal and external affairs, and China did not manipulate or interfere in them. However, after 1879, China abandoned its ''laissez-faire'' policy and became directly involved in the affairs of Joseon. This "radical change in China's policy" was in reaction to the growing influence of Western powers and Japan in Joseon, and to ensure China's national security. China's new policy toward Joseon was set by [[Li Hongzhang]] and implemented by [[Yuan Shikai]]. According to Ming-te Lin: "Li's control of Korea from 1885 to 1894 through [Yuan Shikai] as resident official represented an anachronistic policy of intervention toward Korea."{{sfn|Lin|2014|pp=69–71}}

===Gyorin===
{{Main|Gyorin}}
This long-term, strategic policy contrasts with the ''[[gyorin]]'' (''kyorin'') (neighborly relations) diplomacy in dealings with [[Jurchen people|Jurchen]], Japan, [[Ryukyu Kingdom]], [[Siam]] and [[Java]].<ref>Chun-gil Kim [https://books.google.com/books?id=WBZjBPt1H8AC&pg=PA76&dq= ''The History of Korea,'' pp. 76-77.] 7</ref> Gyorin was applied to a multi-national foreign policy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://enc.daum.net/dic100/contents.do?query1=b10s4187a|title=사대교린 (조선 외교), Britannica online Korea}}</ref> The unique nature of these bilateral diplomatic exchanges evolved from a conceptual framework developed by the Chinese. Gradually, the theoretical models would be modified, mirroring the evolution of a unique relationship.<ref>Toby, Ronald P. (1991). [https://books.google.com/books?id=2hK7tczn2QoC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=korean+diplomacy+1711&source=bl&ots=k4W8TZxzjN&sig=Zi2nOmpTuZUK9bQL9ulL_Jnt47k&hl=en&ei=YJmtSeGQIeH8tgfknIWLBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA87,M1 ''State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu,'' p. 87.]</ref>

===Japan===
{{Main|Joseon missions to Japan}}
As an initial step, a diplomatic mission was dispatched to Japan in 1402. The Joseon envoy sought to bring about the re-establishment of amicable relations between the two countries and he was charged to commemorate the good relations which existed in ancient times. This mission was successful, and ''[[shōgun]]'' [[Ashikaga Yoshimitsu]] was reported to have been favorably impressed by this initial embassy.<ref name="Titsingh, p. 320">Titsingh, p. 320.</ref> Not less than 70 diplomatic missions were dispatched from the Joseon capital to Japan before the beginning of Japan's [[Edo period]].<ref>Lewis, James Bryant. ''Frontier contact between chosŏn Korea and Tokugawa Japan'', p. 269 n. 89, citing ''Hanguk Chungse tae-il kysōpsa yŏngu'' (1996) by Na Chongpu.</ref>

Reciprocal missions were construed as a means of communication between Korean kings and Japanese ''shōguns'' of almost equal ranking. The emperors of Japan at the time were figureheads with no actual political or military power<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FwztKKtQ_rAC&pg=PA1 | title=The Emperors of Modern Japan| isbn=978-9004168220| last1=Shillony| first1=Ben-Ami| year=2008}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OvzPAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA40 |title = Jews & the Japanese: The Successful Outsiders|isbn = 9781462903962|last1 = Shillony|first1 = Ben-Ami|date = January 24, 2012}}</ref> and the actual political and military rulers of Japan that Joseon communicated with were the shoguns who were represented as "tycoon of Japan" in many foreign communications in order to avoid the conflict with the [[Sinocentrism|Sinocentric system]] in which the [[emperor of China]] was the highest authority, and all rulers of tributary states were known as "kings".<ref>Kang, [https://books.google.com/books?id=4f0jnNzdRb4C&pg=PA206&dq= ''Diplomacy and Ideology'', p. 206.]</ref>

== Society ==
[[File:朝鲜传统丧服方笠.jpg|thumb|Woman's mourning clothes in Joseon]]
{{main|Society in the Joseon Dynasty}}
[[File:허전초상.jpg|left|thumb|A portrait of a civil [[bureaucrat]] in the Joseon period]]

The exact population figures of Joseon-era Korea are disputed as government records of households are considered unreliable in this period.<ref>Ch'oe YH, PH Lee & WT de Bary (eds.) (2000), Sources of Korean Tradition: Volume II: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries. [[Columbia University Press]], p. 6</ref> Between 1810 and 1850, the population declined approximately 10% and remained stable.<ref>Jun SH, JB Lewis & H-R Kang (2008), ''Korean Expansion and Decline from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century: A View Suggested by Adam Smith''. J. Econ. Hist. 68: 244–82.</ref> Before the [[Gwangmu Reform#Health care system|introduction of modern medicine]] by the [[Korean Empire]] government in the early 20th century, the average life expectancy for peasant and commoner Korean males was 24 and for females 26 years, accounting for infant mortality.<ref>"...before the introduction of modern medicine in the early 1900s the average life expectancy for Koreans was just 24 for males and 26 for females." {{Cite book
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Joseon Korea installed a centralised administrative system controlled by civil [[bureaucrat]]s and military officers who were collectively called [[Yangban]]. By the end of the 18th century, the yangban had acquired most of the traits of a hereditary nobility except that the status was based on a unique mixture of family position, [[gwageo]] examinations for Confucian learning, and a civil service system. The family of a yangban who did not succeed to become a government official for the third generation lost their yangban status and became commoners. For most part, the only way to become a government official was to pass a series of gwageo exams (One had to pass "lesser gwageo" exam (소과) in both of two stages to qualify for greater gwageo exam, which again one had to pass in both of two stages to become a government official.) The yangban and the king, in an uneasy balance, controlled the central government and military institutions. The proportion of yangban may have reached as high as 30% by 1800, due to the later practices of transaction of yangban status to peasants, although there was considerable local variation.<ref>Oh SC (2006), ''Economic growth in P'yongan Province and the development of Pyongyang in the Late Choson Period''. Korean Stud. 30: 3–22</ref> As the government was small, a great many yangban were local gentry of high social status, but not always of high income.<ref>Haboush JHK (1988), A Heritage of Kings: One Man's Monarchy in the Confucian World. Columbia University Press, pp. 88–9.</ref>

Another portion of the population were slaves or [[serfs]] (''[[nobi]]''), "low borns" (''[[cheonmin]]'') or [[untouchability|untouchable]] outcastes (''[[baekjeong]]''). [[Slavery in Korea]] was hereditary, as well as a form of legal punishment. The nobi were socially indistinct from freemen other than the ruling [[yangban]] class, and some possessed property rights, legal entities and civil rights. Hence, some scholars argue that it's inappropriate to call them "slaves",<ref>{{cite web|first1=Young-hoon|last1= Rhee|first2=Donghyu|last2= Yang|title=Korean Nobi in American Mirror: Yi Dynasty Coerced Labor in Comparison to the Slavery in the Antebellum Southern United States|url=https://ideas.repec.org/p/snu/ioerwp/no26.html |work=Working Paper Series |publisher=Institute of Economic Research, Seoul National University}}</ref> while some scholars describe them as [[serfs]].<ref>{{cite book|editor=Gwyn Campbell|title=Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia|author=Bok Rae Kim|chapter=Nobi: A Korean System of Slavery|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J0iRAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA153|date=23 November 2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-75917-9|pages=153–157}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Palais|first1=James B.|title=Views on Korean social history|publisher=Institute for Modern Korean Studies, Yonsei University|isbn=9788971414415|page=50|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xxi5AAAAIAAJ|access-date=15 February 2017|language=en|quote=Another target of his critique is the insistence that slaves (nobi) in Korea, especially in Choson dynasty, were closer to serfs (nongno) than true slaves (noye) in Europe and America, enjoying more freedom and independence than what a slave would normally be allowed.|year=1998}}</ref> There were both government- and privately owned nobi, and the government occasionally gave them to yangban. Privately owned nobi could be inherited as personal property. During poor harvests, many [[sangmin]] people would voluntarily become nobi in order to survive.{{Citation needed|date=May 2009}} The nobi population could fluctuate up to about one-third of the population, but on average the nobi made up about 10% of the total population.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rodriguez|first1=Junius P.|title=The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9780874368857|page=[https://archive.org/details/historicalencycl01rodr/page/392 392]|url=https://archive.org/details/historicalencycl01rodr|url-access=registration|quote=10 percent of the total population on average, but it could rise up to one-third of the total.|access-date=14 February 2017|language=en|year=1997}}</ref> Joseon slaves could, and often did, own property.<ref>Haboush (1988: 88); Ch'oe et al. (2000: 158)</ref> Private slaves could buy their freedom.

[[File:Middle Class in Joseon.jpg|left|thumb|A Joseon painting which represents the Chungin (literally "middle people"), equivalent to the [[petite bourgeoisie]]]]
Many of the remaining 40-50% of the population were surely farmers,<ref>Haboush, 1988: 89</ref> but recent work has raised important issues about the size of other groups: merchants and traders, local government or quasi-governmental clerks (''[[Chungin]]''), craftsmen and laborers, textile workers, etc.<ref>Jun SH & JB Lewis (2004), On double-entry bookkeeping in Eighteenth-century Korea: A consideration of the account books from two clan associations and a private academy. [http://www.iisg.nl/hpw/korea2.pdf International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, Netherlands (080626)]</ref> Given the size of the population, it may be that a typical person had more than one role. Most farming was, at any rate, commercial, not subsistence.<ref>Jun et al. (2008).</ref> In addition to generating additional income, a certain amount of occupational dexterity may have been required to avoid the worst effects of an often heavy and corrupt tax system.<ref>Ch'oe et al. (2000: 73).</ref>

During the Late Joseon, the Confucian ideals of propriety and "filial piety" gradually came to be equated with a strict observance to a complex social hierarchy, with many fine gradations. By the early 18th century the social critic [[Yi Junghwan]] (1690–1756) sarcastically complained that "[W]ith so many different ranks and grades separating people from one another, people tend not to have a very large circle of friends."<ref>이중환, "총론" in 택리지, p. 355, quoted in translation in Choe et al. (2000: 162).</ref> But, even as Yi wrote, the informal social distinctions of the Early Joseon were being reinforced by legal discrimination, such as [[Sumptuary law]]<ref>Haboush (1988: 78)</ref> regulating the dress of different social groups, and laws restricting inheritance and property ownership by women.<ref>Haboush JHK (2003), ''Versions and subversions: Patriarchy and polygamy in Korean narratives'', in D Ko, JHK Haboush & JR Piggott (eds.), Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea and Japan. [[University of California Press]], pp. 279-304.</ref> Precisely because of the tenets of the Confucian ''[[Classic of Filial Piety]]'', the adult male practice of Joseon Korea prescribed to keep both hair and beard, in contrast to the Japanese [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa]] period.

Yet, these laws may have been announced precisely because social mobility was increasing, particularly during the prosperous century beginning about 1710.<ref>Haboush (1988: 88-89); Oh (2006)</ref> The original social hierarchy of the Joseon era was developed based on the social hierarchy of the [[Goryeo]] era. In the 14th–16th centuries, this hierarchy was strict and stable. Since economic opportunities to change status were limited, no law was needed.

In the late 17–19th centuries, however, new commercial groups emerged, and the old class system was extremely weakened. Especially, the population of [[Daegu]] region's Yangban class was expected to reach nearly 70 percent in 1858.<ref>{{cite book | author=아틀라스 한국사 편찬위원회 | title=아틀라스한국사 | publisher=사계절 | year=2004 | isbn=978-89-5828-032-3 | pages=132–133}}</ref>

In 1801, Government-owned slaves were all emancipated, and the institution gradually died out over the next century.<ref>Ch'oe et al., 2000:7.</ref> By 1858 the nobi population stood at about 1.5 percent of the total population of Korea.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Campbell|first1=Gwyn|title=Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135759179|page=163|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J0iRAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA163|access-date=14 February 2017|language=en|date=2004-11-23}}</ref> The institution was completely abolished as part of a social plan in the [[Gabo Reform]] of 1894.


== Culture ==
The Joseon Dynasty presided over two periods of great cultural growth, during which Joseon culture created the first [[Korean tea ceremony]], [[Korean garden]]s, and extensive historic works. The royal dynasty also built several fortresses and palaces.

=== Clothing ===
[[File:Hyewon-Wolha-jeongin-2.jpg|left|thumb|Men's (right) and Women's (left) clothes ([[Hanbok]]) of Joseon period. A portrait painted by [[Shin Yun-bok]] (1758-?)]]
[[File:Korea-Yi Chegwan-Portrait of a Confucian scholar.jpg|160px|thumb|Male dress of a [[Seonbi]]. A portrait painted by [[Yi Jaegwan]] (1783-1837)]]
During the Joseon period, jeogori of women's [[hanbok]] became gradually tightened and shortened. In the 16th century, jeogori was baggy and reached below the waist, but by the 19th century, jeogori was shortened to the point that it did not cover the breasts, so another piece of cloth (''heoritti'') was used to cover them. At the end of the 19th century, [[Daewon-gun]] introduced [[Magoja]], a [[Manchu]]-style jacket, to Korea, which is often worn with hanbok to this day.

Chima was full-skirted and jeogori was short and tight in the late Joseon period. Fullness in the skirt was emphasized round the hips. Many undergarments were worn underneath chima such as darisokgot, soksokgot, dansokgot, and gojengi to achieve a desired silhouette. Because jeogori was so short it became natural to expose heoritti or ''heorimari'' which functioned like a corset. The white linen cloth exposed under jeogori in the picture is heoritti.
[[File:Korea-Seoul-Royal wedding ceremony 1366-06a.jpg|thumb|Royal Ceremony with Joseon era clothing]]
The upper classes wore hanbok of closely woven [[ramie]] cloth or other high-grade lightweight materials in warm weather and of plain and patterned silks the rest of the year. Commoners were restricted by law as well as resources to cotton at best. The upper classes wore a variety of colors, though bright colors were generally worn by children and girls and subdued colors by middle-aged men and women. Commoners were restricted by law to everyday clothes of white, but for special occasions they wore dull shades of pale pink, light green, gray, and charcoal. Formally, when Korean men went outdoors, they were required to wear overcoats known as ''durumagi'' which reach the knees.

=== Art ===
{{See also|Joseon white porcelain}}
[[File:서문보 산수도(山水圖) 15세기.jpg|thumb|Early Joseon landscape painting by Seo Munbo in the late 15th century.]]
[[File:백자 청화매죽문 항아리.jpg|thumb|left|15th century. Joseon period, Korea. Blue and white porcelain jar with plum and bamboo design.]]
[[File:김홍도금강사군첩.jpg|thumb|Landscape of Mt. Geumgang by [[Gim Hongdo|Kim Hong-do]] (1745–1806?) in 1788.]]

The Mid-Joseon period painting styles moved towards increased [[Realism (visual arts)|realism]]. A national painting style of landscapes called "true view" began - moving from the traditional Chinese style of idealized general landscapes to particular locations exactly rendered. While not photographic, the style was academic enough to become established and supported as a standardized style in Korean painting. At this time China ceased to have pre-eminent influence, Korean art took its own course, and became increasingly distinctive to the traditional Chinese painting.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.minbaek.kr/Contents/Item/E0052156|title=조선예술(朝鮮藝術) - 한국민족문화대백과사전|website=www.minbaek.kr|access-date=2020-02-03}}</ref>

[[Ceramic art|Ceramics]] are a form of popular art during the Joseon period. Examples of ceramics include white porcelain or white porcelain decorated with cobalt, copper red [[underglaze]], blue underglaze and iron underglaze. Ceramics from the Joseon period differ from other periods because artists felt that each piece of art deserved its own uniquely cultivated personality.<ref name="BMA">{{cite book|last=[[Birmingham Museum of Art]]|title=Birmingham Museum of Art : guide to the collection|year=2010|publisher=Birmingham Museum of Art|location=[Birmingham, Ala]|isbn=978-1-904832-77-5|pages=35–39|url=http://artsbma.org}}</ref>

Beginning in the 10th century, white porcelain has been crafted in [[Korea]]. Historically overshadowed by the popularity of [[celadon]], it was not until the 15th and 16th centuries that white porcelain was recognized for its own artistic value. Among the most prized of Korean ceramics are large white jars. Their shape is symbolic of the moon and their color is associated with the ideals of purity and modesty of [[Confucianism]]. During this period, the bureau that oversaw the meals and court banquets of the royal family strictly controlled the production of white porcelain.<ref name="BMA"/>

[[Blue and white porcelain]] artifacts decorating white porcelain with paintings and designs in [[underglaze]] by using natural [[cobalt]] pigment are another example of popular wares of the Joseon period. Many of these items were created by court painters employed by the royal family. During this period, the popular style of landscape paintings is mirrored in the decoration of ceramics.<ref name="BMA"/> Initially developed by the Chinese at the [[Jingdezhen ware|Jingdezhen kilns]] in the mid-14th century, Joseon began to produce this type of porcelain from the 15th century under Chinese influence. The first cobalt imported from China was used by Korean artists. In 1463 when sources of cobalt were discovered in [[Korea]], artists and their buyers found the material was inferior in quality and preferred the more expensive imported cobalt. Korean porcelain with imported cobalt decoration contradict the emphasis of an orderly, frugal and moderate life in [[Neo-Confucianism]].<ref name="BMA"/>

Strikingly different from cobalt, porcelain items with a copper-red [[underglaze]] are the most difficult to successfully craft. During production, these items require great skill and attention or will turn gray during the process of firing. While the birthplace of ceramics with copper red underglaze is widely disputed, these items originated during 12th century in [[Korea]] and became increasingly popular during the second half of the Joseon period. Some experts have pointed to the kilns of Bunwon-ri in [[Gwangju, Gyeonggi]], a city that played a significant role in the production of ceramics during the Joseon period, as a possible birthplace.<ref name="BMA"/>

Porcelain was also decorated with iron. These items commonly consisted of jars or other utilitarian pieces.<ref name="BMA"/>

===Literature===
During the Joseon period, the ''[[Yangban]]'' scholars and educated literati studied [[Thirteen Classics|Confucian classics]] and [[Neo-Confucianism|Neo-Confucian]] literature.<ref name="Met">{{cite web |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/yang/hd_yang.htm |publisher=[[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] |title=Yangban: The Cultural Life of the Joseon Literati |first=Soyoung |last=Lee |date=October 2004 |access-date=15 June 2020}}</ref><ref name="Lee">{{cite book |title=A New History of Korea |first=Ki-baik |last=Lee |author-link=Lee Ki-baik |translator-last1=Wagner |translator-first1=Edward Willett |translator-link1=Edward Willett Wagner |translator-last2=Schultz |translator-first2=Edward J. |year=1984 |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]}}</ref>{{rp|204}}

The middle and upper classes of Joseon society were proficient in [[Classical Chinese]].<ref name="Lee" />{{rp|329}} The Joseon official records (such as the ''[[Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty]]'' and ''[[Seungjeongwon ilgi]]'') and the written works of the Yangban literati were written in Classical Chinese.<ref name="Met"/><ref name="Lee"/>{{rp|243,329}}<ref name="Orchiston-Green-Strom">{{cite book |title=New Insights From Recent Studies in Historical Astronomy: Following in the Footsteps of F. Richard Stephenson |first1=Wayne |last1=Orchiston |first2=David A. |last2=Green |first3=Richard |last3=Strom |publisher=[[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]] |year=2014}}</ref>{{rp|74}}

Newspapers like the ''[[Hwangseong Sinmun]]'' towards the end of the period were written in the [[Korean language]] using the [[Korean mixed script]].<ref name="Lee"/>{{rp|329}}

====Annals of the Joseon Dynasty====
{{main|Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty}}
The ''Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty'' (also known as the ''Annals of the Joseon Dynasty'') are the annual records of the Joseon Dynasty, which were kept from 1413 to 1865. The annals, or ''sillok'', comprise 1,893 volumes and are thought to cover the longest continual period of a single dynasty in the world. With the exception of two ''sillok'' compiled during the [[Korea under Japanese rule|colonial era]], the ''Annals'' are the 151st [[National treasures of Korea|national treasure of Korea]] and listed in [[UNESCO]]'s [[Memory of the World]] registry.

====Uigwe====
{{main|Uigwe}}
''[[Uigwe]]'' is a collection of royal [[Protocol (diplomacy)|protocol]]s of the Joseon period, which records and prescribes through text and stylized illustration the important ceremonies and rites of the royal family.

===Education===
{{main|Education in the Joseon dynasty}}


=== Buddhism and Confucianism ===
The Joseon kingdom was noted for having Confucianism as its main philosophy. However Buddhism actually was a part of the Joseon period.{{disputed|date=April 2021}} The study of literary exchanges between Confucian scholar officials and Buddhists shows that Buddhism was not cast out. There literary exchanges show a middle ground of both philosophies. "scholar-officials - Some who in public castigated Buddhism as a heresy and deluded tradition, in private visited temples and associated closely with monks."{{citation needed|date=April 2021}} This shows that while in public some scholars shamed Buddhism their exchanges with Buddhists show that in the very least it was not cast outside of the kingdom.

One example of this is a famous Joseon scholar official {{interlanguage link|Pak Sedang|ko|박세당}} (박세당, 朴世堂, 1629–1703). He argues against Buddhism with the following "People say that [[Han Yu]] and [[Ouyang Xiu]] have harshly criticized Buddhism and therefore have only discussed what is aberrant and have not fully investigated what is profound. People say, their understanding is lacking and they have not fully examined it [its profoundness]. I, myself, don’t think that is the case… The heresies under heaven, they are also rather foul. Among them, Buddhism is the worst. If a person is inclined to Buddhism then he is of the kind that pursues what is foul. Is it not clear that there is nothing further to discuss? It is like Mencius who [also felt no need to argue in detail when he] criticized Yang Zhu and Mozi.<ref name="Kim 59–82">{{cite journal|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/589236|title=A Shared Cultural Realm: Literary Exchanges between Scholar-Officials and Poet-Monks in the Mid Joseon Period|first=Sung-Eun Thomas|last=Kim|date=20 August 2015|journal=Seoul Journal of Korean Studies|volume=28|issue=1|pages=59–82|via=Project MUSE|doi=10.1353/seo.2015.0015|hdl=10371/164813|s2cid=145807329}}</ref> Surely, he did not argue further than to say [[Yang Zhu]] and [[Mozi]] did not respect their fathers and their emperors."<ref name="Kim 59–82"/> However he writes a poem that seemingly supports Buddhism.{{how|date=April 2021}}

{| class="wikitable"
|久離塵俗萬緣虛
|For long, I have left the mundane world whose innumerable conditions are empty;
|-
|只愛游方不戀居
|I have but travelled here and there, finding no enjoyment in settled life.
|-
|明日又浮滄海去
|Tomorrow once again I leave for Changhae;
|-
|沃州寥落舊精廬
|The old, pure and simple hut of Okju province looks lonely.
|}

Buddhism was a part of the Joseon kingdom. While not supported publicly, privately it was very prevalent in Confucian-scholar officials.{{unbalanced opinion|date=April 2021}}<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kyuhee|first=Cho|date=2015|title=Pathways to Korean Culture: Paintings of the Joseon Period (1392–1910) by Burglind Jungmann (review)|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/589236|journal=Seoul Journal of Korean Studies|doi=10.1353/seo.2015.0011|s2cid=142352051|access-date=April 30, 2016}}</ref>

=== Music ===
{{main|Music of Korea}}

The ''Joseon'' period developed several musical forms. The form with the most extant pieces is ''[[sijo]]''<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kim|first=Hyŭnggyu|title=Understanding Korean Literature|pages=66}}</ref> (Hangul: 시조/Hanja: 時調). ''Sijo'' is a poetic form consisting of three lines, each with four feet, traditionally sung very slowly. In Korean verse, a foot is generally a short syntactic unit, such as a noun with an adjective or a verb with an adverb. For example:
{| class="wikitable"
|+
|어인

WhyCOP.ATTR
|벌리완대  

insect-ceaselessly
|낙락장송(落落長松)

tall and full pine tree
|다 먹는고

all eatQ
|-
|부리 긴

beak longATTR
|져고리는

woodpeckerTOP
|어느 곳에

which placeLOC
|가 있는고

go existQ
|-
|空山에

deserted mountainLOC
|落木聲 들릴제

sound of a tree falling audible FUT.ATTR
|내 안 들데

cause NEG actively AUX experienced
|업세라

not existEMP
|}

==== Translation ====
''Can tiny insects devour a whole great spreading pine?''

''Where is the long-billed woodpecker? Why is he not here?''

''When I hear the sound of falling trees, I cannot contain myself for sorrow.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rutt|first=Richard|title=The Bamboo Grove: An Introduction to Sijo|pages=No.15}}</ref>''

Here, like other Korean musical forms, each foot can stand on its own. As ''sijo'' were sung in Korean, the pioneering of Hangul created the possibility for ''sijo'' to be written down without the use of substitutions such as [[Idu script]]. The first copy of ''sijo'' is of the 'Twelve Songs of ''Dosan''<nowiki/>' by ''Yi Hwang'' written in 1565, which were written 100 years after the proclamation of [[Hangul]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rutt|first=Richard|title=The Bamboo Grove: An Introduction to Sijo|pages=157}}</ref> Additionally, the first anthology of ''sijo'' was compiled by ''Kim Cheontaek'' in 1728;<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rutt|first=Richard|title=The Bamboo Grove: An Introduction to Sijo|pages=158}}</ref> before the anthology few ''sijo'' were written.

''Kim Cheontaek''<nowiki/>'s anthology represents a change in the authorship of ''sijo''. At first, ''sijo'' were primarily composed by the ''[[yangban]]'' aristocracy and entertainers of the ''[[Kisaeng]]'' class. However, by the mid-seventeenth century, the [[Chungin|''jungin'']] or “professional class” were composing ''sijo'' as well. This also coincided with a new form of ''sijo'' called “narrative ''sijo''” (Hangul: 사설시조/Hanja: 辭說時調), in which the first two lines were greatly lengthened.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kim|first=Hyŭnggyu|title=Understanding Korean Literature|pages=71}}</ref> This expansion is likely a development from the so-called “irregular ''sijo''” (Hangul: 엇시조/Hanja: 旕時調), in which there was a minor lengthening of one of the first two lines.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.naver.com/|title=네이버|website=www.naver.com}}</ref> While there are very few remaining irregular ''sijo'', and the form has not been revived, there is a sizable body of narrative ''sijo'' and the form continues to evolve.

''[[Pansori|P'ansori]]'' (Hangul: 판소리) is another musical form that combines singing and prose to portray a story. Its development likely originates from shaman rituals and the songs within the [[Jeolla Province|''Jeolla'' Province]]. It became a full-fledged musical form by the middle of the eighteenth century, and not long thereafter the yangban aristocracy also became interested in it. Originally there was a set of twelve stories that were sung, but only five were written down, and hence those five are the only ones sung today. Having been developed by commoners, ''p'ansori'' usually reflected their attitudes and aspirations, but by becoming popular with the ''yangban'', ''p'ansori'' shifted somewhat toward ''yangban'' sensibilities and restrictions. ''P'ansori'' had a strong influence of the writing of the time, both because of the ''p'ansori'' novel (each based on one of the twelve stories) and by increasing the realism of the classical novel.

== Science and technology ==
{{See also|History of science and technology in Korea}}
[[File:Korean celestial globe.jpg|thumb|Korean [[celestial globe]] first made by the scientist [[Jang Yeong-sil]] during the reign of [[King Sejong]]]]

=== 15th century ===
The Joseon period under the reign of [[Sejong the Great]] was Korea's greatest period of scientific advancement. Under Sejong's new policy, [[Cheonmin]] (low-status) people such as [[Jang Yeong-sil]] were allowed to work for the government. At a young age, Jang displayed talent as an inventor and engineer, creating machines to facilitate agricultural work. These included supervising the building of aqueducts and canals.
[[File:BoRuGak Jagyeongnu.JPG|thumb|Surviving portion of the Water Clock (Jagyeongnu)]]
Some of his inventions were an automated (self-striking) [[water clock]] (the Jagyeokru) which worked by activating motions of wooden figures to indicate time visually (invented in 1434 by Jang), a subsequent more complicated water-clock with additional astronomical devices, and an improved model of the previous metal movable printing type created in the [[Goryeo Dynasty]]. The new model was of even higher quality and was twice as fast. Other inventions were the [[sight glass]], and the [[udometer]].

The highpoint of Korean astronomy was during the Joseon period, where men such as Jang created devices such as celestial globes which indicated the positions of the sun, moon, and the stars.<ref>{{cite book | author=백석기 | title=웅진위인전기 #11 장영실 | publisher=웅진출판사 | year=1987 | page=56}}</ref> Later celestial globes (Gyupyo, 규표) were attuned to the seasonal variations.

The apex of astronomical and calendarial advances under [[King Sejong]] was the [[Chiljeongsan]], which compiled computations of the courses of the seven heavenly objects (five visible planets, the sun, and moon),
developed in 1442. This work made it possible for scientists to calculate and accurately predict all the major heavenly phenomena, such as solar eclipses and other stellar movements.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indiana.edu/~easc/resources/korea_slides/science/9-1.htm|title=Korea And The Korean People}}</ref>
[[Honcheonsigye]] is an astronomical clock created by [[Song I-yeong]] in 1669. The clock has an armillary sphere with a diameter of 40 cm. The sphere is activated by a working clock mechanism, showing the position of celestial objects at any given time.

[[Kangnido]], a Korean-made map of the world was created in 1402 by [[Kim Sa-hyeong]] (김사형, 金士衡), [[Yi Mu (early Joseon)|Yi Mu]] (이무, 李茂) and [[Yi Hoe]] (이회, 李撓). The map was created in the second year of the reign of [[Taejong of Joseon]]. The map was made by combining Chinese, Korean and Japanese maps.

=== 16th–19th century ===
The scientific and technological advance in the late Joseon period was less progressed than the early Joseon period.

16th-century court physician, [[Heo Jun]] wrote a number of medical texts, his most significant achievement being [[Dongeui Bogam]], which is often noted as the defining text of [[Traditional Korean medicine]]. The work spread to China and Japan, where it is still regarded as one of the classics of [[Oriental medicine]] today.

The first soft [[ballistic vest]], [[Myunjebaegab]], was invented in Joseon [[Korea]] in the 1860s shortly after the [[French campaign against Korea (1866)]]. [[Heungseon Daewongun]] ordered development of bullet-proof armor because of increasing threats from Western armies. [[Kim Gi-du]] and [[Gang Yun]] found that [[cotton]] could protect against bullets if thick enough, and devised bullet-proof vests made of 30 layers of cotton. The vests were used in battle during the [[United States expedition to Korea]] (1871), when the US Navy attacked [[Ganghwa Island]] in 1871. The US Army captured one of the vests and took it to the US, where it was stored at the [[Smithsonian Museum]] until 2007. The vest has since been sent back to Korea and is currently on display to the public.

== Economy ==

=== Commerce ===
During the Goryeo period, Korea had a healthy trade relationship with the Japanese, Chinese, and Manchurians. An example of prosperous, international trade port is [[Pyongnam]]. Koreans offered [[brocades]], jewelries, [[ginseng]], [[silk]], and [[porcelain]], renowned famous worldwide. But, during the Joseon period, Confucianism was adopted as the national philosophy, and, in process of eliminating certain [[Buddhist]] beliefs, [[Korean pottery and porcelain#Goryeo|Goryeo Cheongja]] porcelains were replaced by white [[Baekja]], which lost favour of the Chinese. Also, commerce became more restricted during this time in order to promote agriculture. Because silver was used as currency in China, it played an important role in Korea-China trade.

== House of Yi ==
{{Main|House of Yi}}
{{see also|House of Yi#House of Yi family tree|label 1=The family tree of Joseon kings}}
[[File:Fuuzokugahou-Myeongseong.gif|thumb|Japanese illustration of [[Gojong of Korea|King Gojong]] and Queen Min receiving [[Inoue Kaoru]]]]
[[File:Choseon Imperial family.jpg|thumb|This compilation photo, taken about 1915, shows the following royal family members, from left: [[Prince Imperial Ui|Prince Ui (''Ui chinwang'' 의친왕)]], the 6th son of Gojong; [[Emperor Sunjong of the Korean Empire|Sunjong]], the 2nd son and the last monarch of Joseon; [[Crown Prince Euimin|Prince Yeong (''Yeong chinwang'' 영친왕)]], the 7th son; [[Gojong of Korea|Gojong]], the former King; [[Empress Sunjeong of the Korean Empire|Queen Yoon (''Yoon daebi'')]], Queen Consort of Sunjong; Deogindang Gimbi, wife of Prince Ui; and [[Kenichi Momoyama|Yi Geon]], the eldest son of Prince Ui. The seated child in the front row is [[Deokhye, Princess of Korea|Princess Deokhye (''Deokhye ongju'' 덕혜옹주)]], Gojong's last child. (This is a compilation of individual photographs since the Imperial Japanese did not allow them to be in the same room at the same time, and some were forced to leave Korea.)]]

The following is a simplified relation of Joseon royalty (Korean Imperial Family) during the late period of the dynasty:
* [[Gojong of Korea|Emperor Gojong]] (1852–1919) – 26th head of the Korean Imperial Household, adoptive heir to [[Crown Prince Hyomyeong]]
** [[Sunjong of Korea|Emperor Sunjong]] (1874–1926) – 27th head of the Korean Imperial Household
** [[Yi Kang]], Prince Imperial Ui (1877–1955) – 5th son of Gojong
*** Prince [[Yi Geon]] (1909–1991) – eldest son of Yi Kang; renounced the Imperial title and heritage by becoming a Japanese citizen in 1947
*** Prince [[Yi U]] (1912–1945) – 2nd son of Yi Kang; adopted as the heir to [[Yi Jun-yong]], grandson of [[Heungseon Daewongun]]
**** [[Yi Cheong]] (1936–)
**** Yi Jong (1940–1966)
*** [[Yi Hae-won]] (1919–2020) – 2nd daughter of Yi Kang; married in 1936 to Yi Seung-gyu from the Yongin Yi Clan
*** Yi Gap (1938–2014) – 9th son of Yi Kang
**** [[Yi Won]] (1962–) – eldest son of Yi Gap; adopted by Yi Ku as the 30th head of the Korean Imperial Household
***** 1st son (1998–)
***** 2nd son (1999–)
*** [[Yi Seok]] (1941–) – 10th son of Yi Kang; self-claimed head of the Korean Imperial Household
**** [[Yi Hong]] (1976–), first daughter of Yi Seok
***** 1st daughter (2001–)
**** Yi Jin (1979–), 2nd daughter of Yi Seok
**** Yi Jeonghun (1980–), son of Yi Seok
** [[Yi Un]], Imperial Crown Prince (1897–1970) – 28th head of the Korean Imperial Household; married in 1920 to Princess Masako of Nashimoto (Yi Bangja), an imperial member of the [[Empire of Japan]].
*** Prince Yi Jin (1921–1922)
*** Prince [[Yi Ku]] (1931–2005) — 29th head of the Korean Imperial Household; son of Yi Un
** [[Princess Deokhye]] (1912–1989) — married in 1931 to Count Sō Takeyuki
*** Jong Jeonghye (1932–?), disappeared since 1956

==See also==

* [[History of Korea]]
* [[Annals of the Joseon Dynasty]]
* [[List of monarchs of Korea]]
* [[House of Yi#House of Yi family tree|Kings family tree]]
*[[Politics of the Joseon dynasty|Joseon Dynasty politics]]
* [[Korean Empire]]

== Notes ==
{{Notelist}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

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== Further reading ==
* ''A Cultural History of Modern Korea'', Wannae Joe, ed. with intro. by Hongkyu A. Choe, Elizabeth NY, and Seoul Korea: Hollym, 2000.
* ''An Introduction to Korean Culture'', ed. Koo & Nahm, Elizabeth NJ, and Seoul Korea: Hollym, 1998. 2nd edition.
* ''Noon Eu Ro Bo Neun Han Gook Yuk Sa #7'' by Jang Pyung Soon. Copyright 1998 Joong Ang Gyo Yook Yun Goo Won, Ltd, pp. 46–7.
* [https://www.jstor.org/stable/23718933 Alston, Dane. 2008. "Emperor and Emissary: The Hongwu Emperor, Kwŏn Kŭn, and the Poetry of Late Fourteenth Century Diplomacy". Korean Studies 32. University of Hawai'i Press: 104–47.]
* [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41490257 Kye, Seung B.. 2010. "Huddling Under the Imperial Umbrella: A Korean Approach to Ming China in the Early 1500s". The Journal of Korean Studies 15 (1). University of Washington Center for Korea Studies: 41–66.]
* [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41485331 Robinson, David M.. 2004. "Disturbing Images: Rebellion, Usurpation, and Rulership in Early Sixteenth-century East Asia—Korean Writings on Emperor Wuzong". The Journal of Korean Studies 9 (1). University of Washington Center for Korea Studies: 97–127.]
* [https://www.jstor.org/stable/23720024 Robinson, Kenneth R.. 1992. "From Raiders to Traders: Border Security and Border Control in Early Chosŏn, 1392—1450". Korean Studies 16. University of Hawai'i Press: 94–115.]
* Ji-Young Lee. 2020. "The Founding of the Korean Chosŏn Dynasty, 1392." in ''[[doi:10.1017/9781108807401|East Asia in the World Twelve Events That Shaped the Modern International Order]]''. Cambridge University Press.

== External links ==
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* {{Cite book|author=[[:ja:三谷博|三谷博]]|date=January 2016|title=グローバル化への対応－中・日・韓三国の分岐－|publisher=[[:ja:統計研究会|統計研究会]]『学際』第1号|url=http://www.isr.or.jp/TokeiKen/pdf/gakusai/1_05.pdf|ref=三谷}}
* {{Cite book|author=[[:ja:原田環|原田環]]|date=June 2005|title=東アジアの国際関係とその近代化－朝鮮と－|publisher=[[Japan–South Korea Joint History Research Project]]報告書（第1期）|url=http://www.jkcf.or.jp/history_arch/first/3/02-0j_harada_j.pdf|
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928110202/http://www.instrok.org/instrok/lesson1/page01.html?thisChar=4 Cultural Values of the Choson Dynasty] – from Instrok.org, created by the [[East Rock Institute]].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150510203519/http://www.sungjinyang.com/history/hermit.html "Click into the Hermit Kingdom" (Written by Yang Sung-jin and published by Dongbang Media in Seoul, South Korea) – 100 articles in English on the Joseon Dynasty]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050207052645/http://royalcity.or.kr/ Korean royal family website] – currently available only in Korean.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050313144134/http://myhome.shinbiro.com/~mss1/choson.html Choson dynasty]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050113191703/http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200501/200501120024.html "Japanese Document Sheds New Light on Korean Queen's Murder"] – Ohmynews.com's uncovered document about murder of Queen Minbi
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060202204421/http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200601/200601270013.html "E-Annals Bring Chosun History to Everyman"], The Chosun Ilbo, January 27, 2006.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080604062746/http://www.bennettsfineart.com/lee%20dynasty.htm "Korean Lee (Yi) Dynasty Granite Sculptures.]

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Kil Chae

2021-09-21T05:41:14Z

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{{family name hatnote|Gil||lang=Korean}}
{{Infobox person
| birth_place = [[Bonghan-ri]], [[Goa-eup]], [[Gumi, Gyeongsangbuk-do|Gumi]], [[Gyeongsang]], [[Korea]]
| name =
| birth_date = 1353
| death_date = {{death year and age|1419|1353}}
| module = {{Infobox Korean name
| hangul = 길재
| hanja = 吉再
| mr = Kil Chae
| rr = Gil Jae
| hangulho = 야은, 금오산인
| hanjaho = 冶隱, 金烏山人
| rrho = Ya-eun, Geumosanin
| mrho = Yaŭn, Kŭmosanin
| hangulja = 재보
| hanjaja = 再父
| rrja = Jaebo
| mrja = Chaebo
| child = yes}}
}}
[[File:Letter of Gil Jae-Goryeo.jpg|thumb|200px|Letter of Gil Jae]]

'''Gil Jae''' or '''Kil Jae''' (1353–1419) was a Korean scholar-official of the [[Goryeo]] period then of the [[Joseon]] period.

== Works ==
* ''Yaeun jip'' (야은집, 冶隱集)
* ''Yaeun eunhaeng seupyu'' (야은언행습유, 冶隱言行拾遺)
* ''Yaeun sokjip'' (야은속집, 冶隱續集)

== See also ==
* [[Jeong Mong-ju]]
* [[Jeong Do-jeon]]
* [[Kwon Geun]]
* [[Jeong Inji]]

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131110073701/http://english.gumi.go.kr/open_content/life/honor/giljae/ Gil Jae], gumi.go.kr

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Yi Saek

2021-09-21T05:39:47Z

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{{more citations needed|date=January 2021}}
[[File:Yi Saek.jpg|thumb|180px|Yi Saek]]
{{Infobox Korean name
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|caption =
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|hanja = {{linktext|李|穡}}
|rr = I Saek
|mr = I Saek
|hangulho = {{linktext|목|은}}
|hanjaho = {{linktext|牧|隱}}
|rrho = Mogeun
|mrho = Mokŭn
|hangulja = {{linktext|영|숙}}
|hanjaja = {{linktext|穎|叔}}
|rrja = Yeongsuk
|mrja = Yŏngsuk
}}
{{family name hatnote|[[Lee (Korean name)|Yi]]||lang=Korean}}

'''Yi Saek''' ([[Korean language|Korean]]: 이색, [[Hanja]]: 李穡, 1328 – 1396), also known by his pen name '''Mogeun''' ([[Korean language|Korean]]: 목은), was a [[Korean people|Korean]] writer and poet. His family belonged to the Hansan Yi clan.<ref>{{cite web |title=이색(李穡) - 한국민족문화대백과사전 |url=http://encykorea.aks.ac.kr/Contents/Index?contents_id=E0044640 |website=encykorea.aks.ac.kr}}</ref> Yi Saek played a crucial role in the introduction and localisation of philosophy of [[Zhu Xi]]. He studied Neo-Confucianism in [[Yuan Dynasty]] [[China]] and opened an academy after his return to [[Goryeo]], and from his academy the founders of [[Joseon Dynasty]] were educated.

Many of his disciples, such as [[Jeong Do-jeon]] and [[Kwon Geun|Gwon Geun]], used Neo-Confucianism as the ideological basis for overthrowing the [[Buddhist]] kingdom of [[Goryeo]] and establishing Confucian Joseon. However, Yi Saek himself remained loyal to the Goryeo Dynasty and didn't believe the wiping out of Buddhism, as Jeong Do-jeon insisted, would be of any benefit. Yi Saek believed in the co-existence of the "Three Disciplines": [[Confucianism]], [[Buddhism]] and [[Taoism]]. Yi Saek resigned from all political positions after the founding of the Joseon Dynasty.

Not much is known about how he died, but some say that he was murdered while crossing a bridge, like [[Jeong Mong-ju]] (four years earlier in 1392). When he was offered the position of Prime Minister by [[Taejo of Joseon|Yi Seong-gye]], Yi Saek turned the offer down and told him that he could not serve two kings (of [[Goryeo]] and [[Joseon]]). Yi Seong-gye subsequently ordered his men to kill him if he was not able to cross the bridge in time, and if he does cross it in time, to let him go. He died because he didn't cross the bridge in time.

Yi Saek left various poetry, essays and letters compiled in ''The Collected Works of Mogeun''.

==In popular culture==
* Portrayed by Lee Dae-ro in the 1983 [[Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation|MBC]] TV series ''[[The King of Chudong Palace]]''.
*Portrayed by Jeon In-taek in the 2005–2006 [[Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation|MBC]] TV series ''[[Sin Don (TV series)|Shin Don]]''.
* Portrayed by Park Ji-il in the 2014 [[KBS1]] TV series ''[[Jeong Do-jeon (TV series)|Jeong Do-jeon]]''.
* Portrayed by [[Kim Jong-soo (actor)|Kim Jong-soo]] in the 2015-2016 SBS TV series ''[[Six Flying Dragons]]''.

==See also==
*[[List of Korean philosophers]]

==References==
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List of South Korean regions by GDP

2021-09-16T14:33:20Z

UserArtificial820029: /* By GDP per capita (2019)[6] */

{{short description|Wikimedia list article}}
This is a '''list of South Korean regions by GDP.''' All data are sourced from the latest regional statistics published by the [[South Korean Government]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kostat.go.kr/portal/korea/kor_nw/2/1/index.board?bmode=read&aSeq=365352|title=2016년 지역소득(잠정) 보도자료 전체>보도자료>새소식>통계청|website=kostat.go.kr}}</ref> the [[OECD]] and the [[International Monetary Fund]] (IMF).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://biz.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/12/21/2011122102164.html|title=울산, 2년 연속 개인소득 1위…총생산·총소득도 1위(종합)|date=12 April 2021}}</ref><ref name=imf>[http://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/index.php World Economic Outlook Database], [[International Monetary Fund]]. Implied PPP conversion rate</ref> The [[South Korean won]] has been converted to the [[international dollar]] using the IMF's [[Purchasing Power Parity]] conversion rate.

== By GDP (PPP,2016) ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Rank
!Region
!GDP in mil.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ny.gdp.mktp.pp.cd?end=2014&start=1990&year_high_desc=true|title=GDP, PPP (current international $) {{!}} Data|website=data.worldbank.org|language=en-us|access-date=2018-11-17}}</ref>
!Comparable country/region<ref name="imf2" />
|-
|1
|[[Gyeonggi]]
|$425,716
|{{HKG}}
|-
|2
|[[Seoul]]
|$408,265
|{{AUT}}
|-
|3
|[[Chungnam]]
|$133,917
|{{GTM}}
|-
|4
|[[Gyeongnam]]
|$123,247
|{{GHA}}
|-
|5
|[[Gyeongbuk]]
|$112,979
|{{GHA}}
|-
|6
|[[Busan]]
|$92,838
|{{PAN}}
|-
|7
|[[Incheon]]
|$92,453
|{{PAN}}
|-
|8
|[[Ulsan]]
|$81,448
|{{CRI}}
|-
|9
|[[Jeonnam]]
|$77,987
|{{BOL}}
|-
|10
|[[Chungbuk]]
|$64,166
|{{MAC}}
|-
|11
|[[Daegu]]
|$56,793
|{{Flag|El Salvador}}
|-
|12
|[[Jeonbuk]]
|$53,600
|{{Flag|El Salvador}}
|-
|13
|[[Gangwon-do (South Korea)|Gangwon]]
|$47,688
|{{LAO}}
|-
|14
|[[Daejeon]]
|$41,071
|{{BIH}}
|-
|15
|[[Gwangju]]
|$38,496
|{{EST}}
|-
|16
|[[Jeju-do|Jeju]]
|$19,335
|{{HTI}}
|-
|17
|[[Sejong City|Sejong]]
|$12,764
|{{TGO}}
|-
|–
|{{KOR}}
|$1,934,033
|{{CAN}}
|}

== By GDP per capita (nominal) (2019)<ref>{{Cite web|title=KOSIS|url=https://kosis.kr/statHtml/statHtml.do?orgId=101&tblId=DT_1C86&conn_path=I2&language=en|access-date=2021-09-16|website=kosis.kr}}</ref> ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Rank
! Region
! GDP per capita (USD)<ref>{{cite web|title=KOSIS|url=https://kosis.kr/statHtml/statHtml.do?orgId=101&tblId=DT_1C86&conn_path=I2&language=en|url-status=live|website=kosis.kr}}</ref>
! Comparable country<ref name=imf2>[http://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/index.php World Economic Outlook Database], [[International Monetary Fund]]. GDP per capita.</ref>
|-
| 1 || [[Ulsan]] || $65,112 || {{flag|Iceland}}
|-
| 2 || [[Chungnam|South Chungcheong]] || $51,874|| {{flag|Germany}}
|-
| 3 || [[Seoul]] || $45,118 || {{flag|United Kingdom}}
|-
| 4 || [[Chungbuk|North Chungcheong]] || $42,704 || {{flag|Japan}}
|-
| 5 || [[Jeonnam|South Jeolla]]|| $43,402|| {{flag|France}}
|-
| 6 || [[Gyeongbuk|North Gyeongsang]]|| $40,082 || {{flag|Japan}}
|-
| – || ''National Average'' || $37,274 || {{flag|South Korea}}
|-
| 7 || [[Sejong City|Sejong]] || $35,802 || {{flag|United Arab Emirates}}
|-
| 8 || [[Gyeonggi]] || $36,064|| {{flag|United Arab Emirates}}
|-
| 9 || [[Gyeongnam|South Gyeongsang]] || $34,040 || {{flag|Brunei}}
|-
| 10 || [[Gangwon-do (South Korea)|Gangwon]] || $32,192 || {{flag|Puerto Rico}}
|-
| 11 || [[Jeju-do|Jeju]] || $30,792 || {{flag|Spain}}
|-
| 12 || [[Incheon]] || $30,584 || {{flag|Spain}}
|-
| 13 || [[Jeonbuk|North Jeolla]] || $28,835 || {{flag|Cyprus}}
|-
| 14 || [[Daejeon]] || $28,561 || {{flag|Slovenia}}
|-
| 15 || [[Gwangju]] || $27,799 || {{flag|Slovenia}}
|-
| 16 || [[Busan]] || $27,577 || {{flag|Slovenia}}
|-
| 17 || [[Daegu]] || $23,883 || {{flag|Bahrain}}
|}

== See also ==
* [[Administrative divisions of South Korea]]
* [[Economy of South Korea]]
* [[List of Korea-related topics]]
* [[List of subnational entities]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{Asian topic|List of|suffix=subdivisions by GDP|countries_only=yes}}
{{GDP country lists}}
{{Economy of South Korea}}

[[Category:Gross state product|S]]
[[Category:Economy of South Korea-related lists|GDP]]
[[Category:Lists of places in South Korea|GDP]]
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List of South Korean regions by GDP

2021-09-16T14:32:07Z

UserArtificial820029: /* By GDP per capita (2018) */

{{short description|Wikimedia list article}}
This is a '''list of South Korean regions by GDP.''' All data are sourced from the latest regional statistics published by the [[South Korean Government]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kostat.go.kr/portal/korea/kor_nw/2/1/index.board?bmode=read&aSeq=365352|title=2016년 지역소득(잠정) 보도자료 전체>보도자료>새소식>통계청|website=kostat.go.kr}}</ref> the [[OECD]] and the [[International Monetary Fund]] (IMF).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://biz.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/12/21/2011122102164.html|title=울산, 2년 연속 개인소득 1위…총생산·총소득도 1위(종합)|date=12 April 2021}}</ref><ref name=imf>[http://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/index.php World Economic Outlook Database], [[International Monetary Fund]]. Implied PPP conversion rate</ref> The [[South Korean won]] has been converted to the [[international dollar]] using the IMF's [[Purchasing Power Parity]] conversion rate.

== By GDP (PPP,2016) ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Rank
!Region
!GDP in mil.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ny.gdp.mktp.pp.cd?end=2014&start=1990&year_high_desc=true|title=GDP, PPP (current international $) {{!}} Data|website=data.worldbank.org|language=en-us|access-date=2018-11-17}}</ref>
!Comparable country/region<ref name="imf2" />
|-
|1
|[[Gyeonggi]]
|$425,716
|{{HKG}}
|-
|2
|[[Seoul]]
|$408,265
|{{AUT}}
|-
|3
|[[Chungnam]]
|$133,917
|{{GTM}}
|-
|4
|[[Gyeongnam]]
|$123,247
|{{GHA}}
|-
|5
|[[Gyeongbuk]]
|$112,979
|{{GHA}}
|-
|6
|[[Busan]]
|$92,838
|{{PAN}}
|-
|7
|[[Incheon]]
|$92,453
|{{PAN}}
|-
|8
|[[Ulsan]]
|$81,448
|{{CRI}}
|-
|9
|[[Jeonnam]]
|$77,987
|{{BOL}}
|-
|10
|[[Chungbuk]]
|$64,166
|{{MAC}}
|-
|11
|[[Daegu]]
|$56,793
|{{Flag|El Salvador}}
|-
|12
|[[Jeonbuk]]
|$53,600
|{{Flag|El Salvador}}
|-
|13
|[[Gangwon-do (South Korea)|Gangwon]]
|$47,688
|{{LAO}}
|-
|14
|[[Daejeon]]
|$41,071
|{{BIH}}
|-
|15
|[[Gwangju]]
|$38,496
|{{EST}}
|-
|16
|[[Jeju-do|Jeju]]
|$19,335
|{{HTI}}
|-
|17
|[[Sejong City|Sejong]]
|$12,764
|{{TGO}}
|-
|–
|{{KOR}}
|$1,934,033
|{{CAN}}
|}

== By GDP per capita (2019)<ref>{{Cite web|title=KOSIS|url=https://kosis.kr/statHtml/statHtml.do?orgId=101&tblId=DT_1C86&conn_path=I2&language=en|access-date=2021-09-16|website=kosis.kr}}</ref> ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Rank
! Region
! GDP per capita (USD)<ref>{{cite web|title=KOSIS|url=https://kosis.kr/statHtml/statHtml.do?orgId=101&tblId=DT_1C86&conn_path=I2&language=en|url-status=live|website=kosis.kr}}</ref>
! Comparable country<ref name=imf2>[http://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/index.php World Economic Outlook Database], [[International Monetary Fund]]. GDP per capita.</ref>
|-
| 1 || [[Ulsan]] || $65,112 || {{flag|Iceland}}
|-
| 2 || [[Chungnam|South Chungcheong]] || $51,874|| {{flag|Germany}}
|-
| 3 || [[Seoul]] || $45,118 || {{flag|United Kingdom}}
|-
| 4 || [[Chungbuk|North Chungcheong]] || $42,704 || {{flag|Japan}}
|-
| 5 || [[Jeonnam|South Jeolla]]|| $43,402|| {{flag|France}}
|-
| 6 || [[Gyeongbuk|North Gyeongsang]]|| $40,082 || {{flag|Japan}}
|-
| – || ''National Average'' || $37,274 || {{flag|South Korea}}
|-
| 7 || [[Sejong City|Sejong]] || $35,802 || {{flag|United Arab Emirates}}
|-
| 8 || [[Gyeonggi]] || $36,064|| {{flag|United Arab Emirates}}
|-
| 9 || [[Gyeongnam|South Gyeongsang]] || $34,040 || {{flag|Brunei}}
|-
| 10 || [[Gangwon-do (South Korea)|Gangwon]] || $32,192 || {{flag|Puerto Rico}}
|-
| 11 || [[Jeju-do|Jeju]] || $30,792 || {{flag|Spain}}
|-
| 12 || [[Incheon]] || $30,584 || {{flag|Spain}}
|-
| 13 || [[Jeonbuk|North Jeolla]] || $28,835 || {{flag|Cyprus}}
|-
| 14 || [[Daejeon]] || $28,561 || {{flag|Slovenia}}
|-
| 15 || [[Gwangju]] || $27,799 || {{flag|Slovenia}}
|-
| 16 || [[Busan]] || $27,577 || {{flag|Slovenia}}
|-
| 17 || [[Daegu]] || $23,883 || {{flag|Bahrain}}
|}

== See also ==
* [[Administrative divisions of South Korea]]
* [[Economy of South Korea]]
* [[List of Korea-related topics]]
* [[List of subnational entities]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{Asian topic|List of|suffix=subdivisions by GDP|countries_only=yes}}
{{GDP country lists}}
{{Economy of South Korea}}

[[Category:Gross state product|S]]
[[Category:Economy of South Korea-related lists|GDP]]
[[Category:Lists of places in South Korea|GDP]]
[[Category:Ranked lists of country subdivisions|South Korea]]

Sino-Korean vocabulary

2021-09-16T01:57:34Z

UserArtificial820029: /* Words created in Korea using Chinese characters */

{{About|Korean words of Chinese origin|the Korean use of Chinese characters|Hanja}}
{{short description|Korean words of Chinese origin}}
'''Sino-Korean''' '''vocabulary''' or '''Hanja''' ({{Korean|hangul=한자|hanja={{linktext|漢字|語}}}}) refers to [[Korean language|Korean]] words of [[Chinese language|Chinese]] origin. Sino-Korean vocabulary includes words borrowed directly from Chinese, as well as new Korean words created from [[Chinese characters]]. These terms were probably borrowed during the era of [[Chinese-language literature of Korea|Literary Chinese]] in Korea. About 60 percent of Korean words are of Chinese origin;<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H4CsWDEi52IC&q=sino-korean%20words&pg=PA44|title=Korean Language in Culture And Society|last=Sohn|first=Ho-Min|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|year=2006|isbn=0824826949|pages=44–55}}</ref> however, the percentage of Sino-Korean words in modern usage is estimated to be lower. Many words are often truncated, or altered and treated as native to the Korean language.

== History ==
The use of Chinese and Chinese characters in Korea dates back to at least 194 [[Common Era|BCE]]. While Sino-Korean words were widely used during the [[Three Kingdoms of Korea|Three Kingdoms]] period, they became even more popular during the [[Silla]] period. During this time, male aristocrats changed their [[Korean name|given names]] to Sino-Korean names. Additionally, the government changed all official titles and place names in the country to Sino-Korean.<ref name=":0" />

Sino-Korean words remained popular during the [[Goryeo]] and [[Joseon]] periods.<ref name=":0" /> However, Sino-Korean vocabulary has continued to grow in [[South Korea]], where the meanings of Chinese characters are used to produce new words in Korean that do not exist in Chinese. By contrast, North Korean policy has called for many Sino-Korean words to be replaced by native Korean terms.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pfb2QHJtw54C&q=history+of+sino-korean+words&pg=PA24|title=A History of Korean Literature|last=Lee|first=Peter H.|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2003|isbn=1139440861|pages=21–25}}</ref>

== Usage ==
Sino-Korean words constitute about 60 percent of South Korean vocabulary, the remainder being native Korean words and [[loanword]]s from other languages, mostly [[English language|English]]. Sino-Korean words are typically used in formal or literary contexts,<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ggVsnUCbiAC&q=sino-korean+words&pg=PA83|title=Using Korean: A Guide to Contemporary Usage|last=Choo|first=Miho|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2008|isbn=978-1139471398|pages=85–92}}</ref> and to express abstract or complex ideas.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QP8nDwAAQBAJ&q=sino-korean+words&pg=PA4|title=Modern Korean Grammar: A Practical Guide|last=Byon|first=Andrew Sangpil|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2017|isbn=978-1351741293|pages=3–18}}</ref> Almost all [[List of Korean surnames|Korean surnames]] and most [[List of Korean given names|Korean given names]] are Sino-Korean.<ref name=":0" /> Additionally, [[Korean numerals]] can be expressed with Sino-Korean and native Korean words, though each set of numerals has different purposes.<ref name=":2" />

Sino-Korean words may be written either in the Korean alphabet, known as [[Hangul]], or in Chinese characters, known as [[Hanja]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=psO_Oli22m8C&q=sino-korean+words&pg=PR9|title=Handbook of Korean Vocabulary: An Approach to Word Recognition and Comprehension|last1=Choo|first1=Miho|last2=O'Grady|first2=William|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|year=1996|isbn=0824818156|pages=ix}}</ref>

== Examples ==

=== Words borrowed from Chinese ===
Sino-Korean words borrowed directly from Chinese come mainly from [[Chinese classics]], [[Chinese literature|literature]], and [[Colloquialism|colloquial]] Chinese.<ref name=":3" />
{| class="wikitable"
!Word
![[Hangul]] ([[Revised Romanization of Korean|RR]])
![[Hanja]]
!Hanja meaning
!Ref
|-
|parents
|부모 (bumo)
|父母
|"father mother"
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hanja.naver.com/word?q=%E7%88%B6%E6%AF%8D&cp_code=0&sound_id=0|title=父母|website=Naver Hanja Dictionary|language=ko-KR|access-date=2018-02-19}}</ref>
|-
|student
|학생 (haksaeng)
|學生
|"study student"
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hanja.naver.com/word?q=%E5%AD%B8%E7%94%9F&cp_code=0&sound_id=0|title=學生|website=Naver Hanja Dictionary|language=ko-KR|access-date=2018-02-19}}</ref>
|-
|sun
|태양 (taeyang)
|太陽
|"great light"
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hanja.naver.com/word?q=%E5%A4%AA%E9%99%BD&cp_code=0&sound_id=0|title=太陽|website=Naver Hanja Dictionary|language=ko-KR|access-date=2018-02-19}}</ref>
|-
|question
|질문 (jilmun)
|質問
|"background ask"
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hanja.naver.com/word?q=%E8%B3%AA%E5%95%8F&cp_code=0&sound_id=0|title=質問|website=Naver Hanja Dictionary|language=ko-KR|access-date=2018-02-19}}</ref>
|}

=== Words created in Korea using Chinese characters ===
These words below were created in Korea using Chinese characters. They are not used in China, Japan, nor Vietnam.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Definition
![[Hangul|Hangeul]]
![[Revised Romanization of Korean|Revised Romanization]]
![[Hanja]]
|-
|false; rumor; canard
|낭설
|nangseol
|浪說
|-
|marital compatibility; well-suited; well-matched
|궁합
|gunghap
|宮合
|-
|flu; influenza; common cold
|감기
|gamgi
|感氣
|-
|egg
|계란
|gyeran
|鷄卵
|-
|deceptive; trickster
|고단수
|godansu
|高段數
|-
|hardship; trouble; suffering
|고생
|gosaeng
|苦生
|-
|notebook
|공책
|gongchaek
|空冊
|-
|determiner (grammar); prenoun
|관형사
|gwanhyeongsa
|冠形詞
|-
|prison; penitentiary
|교도소
|gyodoso
|矯導所
|-
|assortment (of goods)
|구색
|gusaek
|具色
|-
|a joke
|농담
|nongdam
|弄談
|-
|unity; join; combine
|단합
|danhap
|團合
|-
|reply; response; answer
|답장
|dapjang
|答狀
|-
|fortune; lucky
|다행
|dahaeng
|多幸
|-
|cod(fish)
|대구
|daegu
|大口
|-
|mass transportation; public transit
|대중교통
|daejung-gyotong
|大衆交通
|-
|site
|대지
|daeji
|垈地
|-
|indebtedness
|덕분
|deokbun
|德分
|-
|subcontract
|도급
|dogeup
|都給
|-
|unmarried young man; bachelor; youngster
|도령
|doryeong
|道令
|-
|flu; influenza
|독감
|dokgam
|毒感
|-
|same age
|동갑
|donggap
|同甲
|-
|sense of kinship
|동질감
|dongjilgam
|同質感
|-
|beer
|맥주
|maekju
|麥酒
|-
|pollck
|명태
|myeongtae
|明太
|-
|(national) holiday
|명절
|myeongjeol
|名節
|-
|business card containing name
|명함
|myeongham
|名銜
|-
|carpenter
|목수
|moksu
|木手
|-
|extinction; annihilation
|몰사
|molsa
|沒死
|-
|massacre; slaughter; extermination
|몰살
|molsal
|沒殺
|-
|hibiscus
|무궁화
|mugunghwa
|無窮花
|-
|visit to sick person
|문병
|munbyeong
|問病
|-
|questioning; interrogating
|문초
|muncho
|問招
|-
|uneasy; uncomfortable; to be apologetic
|미안
|mian
|未安
|-
|public harm
|민폐
|minpye
|民弊
|-
|sitting cushion; sitting mat
|방석
|bangseok
|方席
|-
|lottery ticket
|복권
|bokgwon
|福券
|-
|real estate agency
|복덕방
|bokdeokbang
|福德房
|-
|off-season; slow season
|비수기
|bisugi
|非需期
|-
|ice rink
|빙상장
|bingsangjang
|氷上場
|-
|cemetery; grave; tomb
|산소
|sanso
|山所
|-
|fish (specifically prepared as food)
|생선
|saengseon
|生鮮
|-
|stone mason
|석수
|seoksu
|石手
|-
|present; gift
|선물
|seonmul
|膳物
|-
|peak season; busy season
|성수기
|seongsugi
|盛需期
|-
|(your) name
|성함
|seongham
|姓銜
|-
|sexual harrassment
|성희롱
|seonghuirong
|性戲弄
|-
|duty; responsibility; task
|소임
|soim
|所任
|-
|precious; valuable
|소중
|sojung
|所重
|-
|trip; picnic; excursion
|소풍
|sopung
|逍風
|-
|cheque
|수표
|supyo
|手票
|-
|beginning of; start of; embark upon
|시작
|sijak
|始作
|-
|earnestly request
|신신당부
|sinsindangbu
|申申當付
|-
|child actor or actress
|아역
|ayeok
|兒役
|-
|seize; distrainment; sequestration
|압류
|amnyu (apryu)
|押留
|-
|bad term; grudge
|앙숙
|angsuk
|怏宿
|-
|uproar; clamor; commotion
|야단
|yadan
|惹端
|-
|socks
|양말
|yangmal
|洋襪
|-
|heartlessness; mercilessness
|야박
|yabak
|野薄
|-
|as expected; also
|역시
|yeoksi
|亦是
|-
|yellow-green; light green
|연두
|yeondu
|軟豆
|-
|alien; extraterrestrial
|외계인
|oegyein
|外界人
|-
|native speaker
|원어민
|woneomin
|原語民
|-
|exclave
|월경지
|wolgyeongji
|越境地
|-
|beginning; commencing
|위시
|wisi
|爲始
|-
|lean on; depend on; rely on
|의지
|uiji
|依支
|-
|move (to, into, from)
|이사
|isa
|移徙
|-
|rice-planting machine
|이앙기
|ianggi
|移秧機
|-
|behalf
|자기편
|jagipyeon
|自己便
|-
|determination; decision; plan
|작정
|jakjeong
|作定
|-
|gloves; mittens
|장갑
|janggap
|掌匣 / 掌甲
|-
|lease; charter
|전세
|jeonse
|專貰
|-
|procedure (for); process (of); steps; proceedings
|절차
|jeolcha
|節次
|-
|lovers' talk
|정담
|jeongdam
|情談
|-
|identity
|정체성
|jeongcheseong
|正體性
|-
|bakery; bakeshop
|제과점
|jegwajeom
|製菓店
|-
|gas station
|주유소
|juyuso
|注油所
|-
|kettle
|주전자
|jujeonja
|酒煎子
|-
|sorry; pardon; regrettable
|죄송
|joesong
|罪悚
|-
|purse; wallet
|지갑
|jigap
|紙匣
|-
|order; turn; table of contents
|차례
|charye
|次例
|-
|bookstore
|책방
|chaekbang
|冊房
|-
|window
|창문
|changmun
|窓門
|-
|ceiling
|천장
|cheonjang
|天障
|-
|wedding invitation
|청첩장
|cheongcheopjang
|請牒狀
|-
|elementary school
|초등학교
|chodeung-hakgyo
|初等學敎
|-
|elementary school student
|초등학생
|chodeung-haksaeng
|初等學生
|-
|spring fever
|춘곤증
|chungonjeung
|春困症
|-
|release; launch
|출시
|chulsi
|出市
|-
|stairs; stairway; staircase
|층계
|cheunggye
|層階
|-
|friend
|친구
|chingu
|親舊
|-
|spring of clock; clockwork
|태엽
|taeyeop
|胎葉
|-
|consilience
|통섭
|tongseop
|統攝
|-
|convenience store
|편의점
|pyeoneuijeom
|便宜店
|-
|letter; epistle
|편지
|pyeonji
|便紙
|-
|a visit; a trip; travelling
|행차
|haengcha
|行次
|-
|brag; bluff; boast
|허풍
|heopung
|虛風
|-
|cash
|현찰
|hyeonchal
|現札
|-
|circumstances; conditions
|형편
|hyeongpyeon
|形便
|-
|go crazy; be out of one's mind
|환장
|hwanjang
|換腸
|-
|change of seasons; in-between seasons
|환절기
|hwanjeolgi
|換節期
|}

=== Words borrowed from Sino-Japanese ===
Sino-Korean words borrowed from Sino-Japanese are used only in Korean and Japanese, not in Chinese.<ref name=":3" />
{| class="wikitable"
!Word
![[Hangul]] ([[Revised Romanization of Korean|RR]])
![[Hanja]]
!Hanja meaning<ref name=":0" />
!Ref
|-
|airplane
|비행기 (bihaenggi)
|飛行機
|"fly go machine"
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hanja.naver.com/word?q=%E9%A3%9B%E8%A1%8C%E6%A9%9F&cp_code=0&sound_id=0|title=飛行機|website=Naver Hanja Dictionary|language=ko-KR|access-date=2018-02-19}}</ref>
|-

|movie
|영화 (yeonghwa)
|映畫
|"shine picture"
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hanja.naver.com/word?q=%E6%98%A0%E7%95%AB&cp_code=0&sound_id=0|title=映畫|website=Naver Hanja Dictionary|language=ko-KR|access-date=2018-02-19}}</ref>
|}

==See also==
*[[Korean language]]
*[[Hanja]]
*[[Korean mixed script]]
*[[Sino-Japanese vocabulary]]
*[[Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary]]

==References==
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Sino-Korean vocabulary

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{{About|Korean words of Chinese origin|the Korean use of Chinese characters|Hanja}}
{{short description|Korean words of Chinese origin}}
'''Sino-Korean''' '''vocabulary''' or '''Hanja''' ({{Korean|hangul=한자|hanja={{linktext|漢字|語}}}}) refers to [[Korean language|Korean]] words of [[Chinese language|Chinese]] origin. Sino-Korean vocabulary includes words borrowed directly from Chinese, as well as new Korean words created from [[Chinese characters]]. These terms were probably borrowed during the era of [[Chinese-language literature of Korea|Literary Chinese]] in Korea. About 60 percent of Korean words are of Chinese origin;<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H4CsWDEi52IC&q=sino-korean%20words&pg=PA44|title=Korean Language in Culture And Society|last=Sohn|first=Ho-Min|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|year=2006|isbn=0824826949|pages=44–55}}</ref> however, the percentage of Sino-Korean words in modern usage is estimated to be lower. Many words are often truncated, or altered and treated as native to the Korean language.

== History ==
The use of Chinese and Chinese characters in Korea dates back to at least 194 [[Common Era|BCE]]. While Sino-Korean words were widely used during the [[Three Kingdoms of Korea|Three Kingdoms]] period, they became even more popular during the [[Silla]] period. During this time, male aristocrats changed their [[Korean name|given names]] to Sino-Korean names. Additionally, the government changed all official titles and place names in the country to Sino-Korean.<ref name=":0" />

Sino-Korean words remained popular during the [[Goryeo]] and [[Joseon]] periods.<ref name=":0" /> However, Sino-Korean vocabulary has continued to grow in [[South Korea]], where the meanings of Chinese characters are used to produce new words in Korean that do not exist in Chinese. By contrast, North Korean policy has called for many Sino-Korean words to be replaced by native Korean terms.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pfb2QHJtw54C&q=history+of+sino-korean+words&pg=PA24|title=A History of Korean Literature|last=Lee|first=Peter H.|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2003|isbn=1139440861|pages=21–25}}</ref>

== Usage ==
Sino-Korean words constitute about 60 percent of South Korean vocabulary, the remainder being native Korean words and [[loanword]]s from other languages, mostly [[English language|English]]. Sino-Korean words are typically used in formal or literary contexts,<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ggVsnUCbiAC&q=sino-korean+words&pg=PA83|title=Using Korean: A Guide to Contemporary Usage|last=Choo|first=Miho|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2008|isbn=978-1139471398|pages=85–92}}</ref> and to express abstract or complex ideas.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QP8nDwAAQBAJ&q=sino-korean+words&pg=PA4|title=Modern Korean Grammar: A Practical Guide|last=Byon|first=Andrew Sangpil|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2017|isbn=978-1351741293|pages=3–18}}</ref> Almost all [[List of Korean surnames|Korean surnames]] and most [[List of Korean given names|Korean given names]] are Sino-Korean.<ref name=":0" /> Additionally, [[Korean numerals]] can be expressed with Sino-Korean and native Korean words, though each set of numerals has different purposes.<ref name=":2" />

Sino-Korean words may be written either in the Korean alphabet, known as [[Hangul]], or in Chinese characters, known as [[Hanja]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=psO_Oli22m8C&q=sino-korean+words&pg=PR9|title=Handbook of Korean Vocabulary: An Approach to Word Recognition and Comprehension|last1=Choo|first1=Miho|last2=O'Grady|first2=William|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|year=1996|isbn=0824818156|pages=ix}}</ref>

== Examples ==

=== Words borrowed from Chinese ===
Sino-Korean words borrowed directly from Chinese come mainly from [[Chinese classics]], [[Chinese literature|literature]], and [[Colloquialism|colloquial]] Chinese.<ref name=":3" />
{| class="wikitable"
!Word
![[Hangul]] ([[Revised Romanization of Korean|RR]])
![[Hanja]]
!Hanja meaning
!Ref
|-
|parents
|부모 (bumo)
|父母
|"father mother"
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hanja.naver.com/word?q=%E7%88%B6%E6%AF%8D&cp_code=0&sound_id=0|title=父母|website=Naver Hanja Dictionary|language=ko-KR|access-date=2018-02-19}}</ref>
|-
|student
|학생 (haksaeng)
|學生
|"study student"
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hanja.naver.com/word?q=%E5%AD%B8%E7%94%9F&cp_code=0&sound_id=0|title=學生|website=Naver Hanja Dictionary|language=ko-KR|access-date=2018-02-19}}</ref>
|-
|sun
|태양 (taeyang)
|太陽
|"great light"
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hanja.naver.com/word?q=%E5%A4%AA%E9%99%BD&cp_code=0&sound_id=0|title=太陽|website=Naver Hanja Dictionary|language=ko-KR|access-date=2018-02-19}}</ref>
|-
|question
|질문 (jilmun)
|質問
|"background ask"
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hanja.naver.com/word?q=%E8%B3%AA%E5%95%8F&cp_code=0&sound_id=0|title=質問|website=Naver Hanja Dictionary|language=ko-KR|access-date=2018-02-19}}</ref>
|}

=== Words created in Korea using Chinese characters ===
These words below were created in Korea using Chinese characters. They are not used in China, Japan, nor Vietnam.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Definition
![[Hangul|Hangeul]]
![[Revised Romanization of Korean|Revised Romanization]]
![[Hanja]]
|-
|false; rumor; canard
|낭설
|nangseol
|浪說
|-
|marital compatibility; well-suited; well-matched
|궁합
|gunghap
|宮合
|-
|flu; influenza; common cold
|감기
|gamgi
|感氣
|-
|egg
|계란
|gyeran
|鷄卵
|-
|deceptive; trickster
|고단수
|godansu
|高段數
|-
|hardship; trouble; suffering
|고생
|gosaeng
|苦生
|-
|notebook
|공책
|gongchaek
|空冊
|-
|determiner (grammar); prenoun
|관형사
|gwanhyeongsa
|冠形詞
|-
|prison; penitentiary
|교도소
|gyodoso
|矯導所
|-
|assortment (of goods)
|구색
|gusaek
|具色
|-
|a joke
|농담
|nongdam
|弄談
|-
|unity; join; combine
|단합
|danhap
|團合
|-
|reply; response; answer
|답장
|dapjang
|答狀
|-
|fortune; lucky
|다행
|dahaeng
|多幸
|-
|cod(fish)
|대구
|daegu
|大口
|-
|mass transportation; public transit
|대중교통
|daejung-gyotong
|大衆交通
|-
|site
|대지
|daeji
|垈地
|-
|indebtedness
|덕분
|deokbun
|德分
|-
|subcontract
|도급
|dogeup
|都給
|-
|unmarried young man; bachelor; youngster
|도령
|doryeong
|道令
|-
|flu; influenza
|독감
|dokgam
|毒感
|-
|same age
|동갑
|donggap
|同甲
|-
|sense of kinship
|동질감
|dongjilgam
|同質感
|-
|beer
|맥주
|maekju
|麥酒
|-
|pollck
|명태
|myeongtae
|明太
|-
|(national) holiday
|명절
|myeongjeol
|名節
|-
|business card containing name
|명함
|myeongham
|名銜
|-
|carpenter
|목수
|moksu
|木手
|-
|extinction; annihilation
|몰사
|molsa
|沒死
|-
|massacre; slaughter; extermination
|몰살
|molsal
|沒殺
|-
|hibiscus
|무궁화
|mugunghwa
|無窮花
|-
|visit to sick person
|문병
|munbyeong
|問病
|-
|questioning; interrogating
|문초
|muncho
|問招
|-
|uneasy; uncomfortable; to be apologetic
|미안
|mian
|未安
|-
|public harm
|민폐
|minpye
|民弊
|-
|sitting cushion; sitting mat
|방석
|bangseok
|方席
|-
|lottery ticket
|복권
|bokgwon
|福券
|-
|real estate agency
|복덕방
|bokdeokbang
|福德房
|-
|off-season; slow season
|비수기
|bisugi
|非需期
|-
|ice rink
|빙상장
|bingsangjang
|氷上場
|-
|cemetery; grave; tomb
|산소
|sanso
|山所
|-
|fish (specifically prepared as food)
|생선
|saengseon
|生鮮
|-
|stone mason
|석수
|seoksu
|石手
|-
|present; gift
|선물
|seonmul
|膳物
|-
|peak season; busy season
|성수기
|seongsugi
|盛需期
|-
|(your) name
|성함
|seongham
|姓銜
|-
|sexual harrassment
|성희롱
|seonghuirong
|性戲弄
|-
|duty; responsibility; task
|소임
|soim
|所任
|-
|precious; valuable
|소중
|sojung
|所重
|-
|trip; picnic; excursion
|소풍
|sopung
|逍風
|-
|cheque
|수표
|supyo
|手票
|-
|beginning of; start of; embark upon
|시작
|sijak
|始作
|-
|earnestly request
|신신당부
|sinsindangbu
|申申當付
|-
|child actor or actress
|아역
|ayeok
|兒役
|-
|seize; distrainment; sequestration
|압류
|amnyu (apryu)
|押留
|-
|bad term; grudge
|앙숙
|angsuk
|怏宿
|-
|uproar; clamor; commotion
|야단
|yadan
|惹端
|-
|socks
|양말
|yangmal
|洋襪
|-
|heartlessness; mercilessness
|야박
|yabak
|野薄
|-
|as expected; also
|역시
|yeoksi
|亦是
|-
|yellow-green; light green
|연두
|yeondu
|軟豆
|-
|alien; extraterrestrial
|외계인
|oegyein
|外界人
|-
|native speaker
|원어민
|woneomin
|原語民
|-
|exclave
|월경지
|wolgyeongji
|越境地
|-
|beginning; commencing
|위시
|wisi
|爲始
|-
|lean on; depend on; rely on
|의지
|uiji
|依支
|-
|move (to, into, from)
|이사
|isa
|移徙
|-
|rice-planting machine
|이앙기
|ianggi
|移秧機
|-
|behalf
|자기편
|jagipyeon
|自己便
|-
|determination; decision; plan
|작정
|jakjeong
|作定
|-
|gloves; mittens
|장갑
|janggap
|掌匣 / 掌甲
|-
|lease; charter
|전세
|jeonse
|專貰
|-
|procedure (for); process (of); steps; proceedings
|절차
|jeolcha
|節次
|-
|lovers' talk
|정담
|jeongdam
|情談
|-
|identity
|정체성
|jeongcheseong
|正體性
|-
|bakery; bakeshop
|제과점
|jegwajeom
|製菓店
|-
|gas station
|주유소
|juyuso
|注油所
|-
|kettle
|주전자
|jujeonja
|酒煎子
|-
|sorry; pardon; regrettable
|죄송
|joesong
|罪悚
|-
|purse; wallet
|지갑
|jigap
|紙匣
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|order; turn; table of contents
|차례
|charye
|次例
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|bookstore
|책방
|chaekbang
|冊房
|-
|window
|창문
|changmun
|窓門
|-
|ceiling
|천장
|cheonjang
|天障
|-
|wedding invitation
|청첩장
|cheongcheopjang
|請牒狀
|-
|elementary school
|초등학교
|chodeung-hakgyo
|初等學敎
|-
|spring fever
|춘곤증
|chungonjeung
|春困症
|-
|release; launch
|출시
|chulsi
|出市
|-
|stairs; stairway; staircase
|층계
|cheunggye
|層階
|-
|friend
|친구
|chingu
|親舊
|-
|spring of clock; clockwork
|태엽
|taeyeop
|胎葉
|-
|consilience
|통섭
|tongseop
|統攝
|-
|convenience store
|편의점
|pyeoneuijeom
|便宜店
|-
|letter; epistle
|편지
|pyeonji
|便紙
|-
|a visit; a trip; travelling
|행차
|haengcha
|行次
|-
|brag; bluff; boast
|허풍
|heopung
|虛風
|-
|cash
|현찰
|hyeonchal
|現札
|-
|circumstances; conditions
|형편
|hyeongpyeon
|形便
|-
|go crazy; be out of one's mind
|환장
|hwanjang
|換腸
|-
|change of seasons; in-between seasons
|환절기
|hwanjeolgi
|換節期
|}

=== Words borrowed from Sino-Japanese ===
Sino-Korean words borrowed from Sino-Japanese are used only in Korean and Japanese, not in Chinese.<ref name=":3" />
{| class="wikitable"
!Word
![[Hangul]] ([[Revised Romanization of Korean|RR]])
![[Hanja]]
!Hanja meaning<ref name=":0" />
!Ref
|-
|airplane
|비행기 (bihaenggi)
|飛行機
|"fly go machine"
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hanja.naver.com/word?q=%E9%A3%9B%E8%A1%8C%E6%A9%9F&cp_code=0&sound_id=0|title=飛行機|website=Naver Hanja Dictionary|language=ko-KR|access-date=2018-02-19}}</ref>
|-

|movie
|영화 (yeonghwa)
|映畫
|"shine picture"
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hanja.naver.com/word?q=%E6%98%A0%E7%95%AB&cp_code=0&sound_id=0|title=映畫|website=Naver Hanja Dictionary|language=ko-KR|access-date=2018-02-19}}</ref>
|}

==See also==
*[[Korean language]]
*[[Hanja]]
*[[Korean mixed script]]
*[[Sino-Japanese vocabulary]]
*[[Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Chinese loan vocabularies}}
{{Portal bar|Language}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sino-Korean Vocabulary}}
[[Category:Korean language]]
[[Category:Chinese language|Korean]]

Sino-Korean vocabulary

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{{About|Korean words of Chinese origin|the Korean use of Chinese characters|Hanja}}
{{short description|Korean words of Chinese origin}}
'''Sino-Korean''' '''vocabulary''' or '''Hanja''' ({{Korean|hangul=한자|hanja={{linktext|漢字|語}}}}) refers to [[Korean language|Korean]] words of [[Chinese language|Chinese]] origin. Sino-Korean vocabulary includes words borrowed directly from Chinese, as well as new Korean words created from [[Chinese characters]]. These terms were probably borrowed during the era of [[Chinese-language literature of Korea|Literary Chinese]] in Korea. About 60 percent of Korean words are of Chinese origin;<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H4CsWDEi52IC&q=sino-korean%20words&pg=PA44|title=Korean Language in Culture And Society|last=Sohn|first=Ho-Min|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|year=2006|isbn=0824826949|pages=44–55}}</ref> however, the percentage of Sino-Korean words in modern usage is estimated to be lower. Many words are often truncated, or altered and treated as native to the Korean language.

== History ==
The use of Chinese and Chinese characters in Korea dates back to at least 194 [[Common Era|BCE]]. While Sino-Korean words were widely used during the [[Three Kingdoms of Korea|Three Kingdoms]] period, they became even more popular during the [[Silla]] period. During this time, male aristocrats changed their [[Korean name|given names]] to Sino-Korean names. Additionally, the government changed all official titles and place names in the country to Sino-Korean.<ref name=":0" />

Sino-Korean words remained popular during the [[Goryeo]] and [[Joseon]] periods.<ref name=":0" /> However, Sino-Korean vocabulary has continued to grow in [[South Korea]], where the meanings of Chinese characters are used to produce new words in Korean that do not exist in Chinese. By contrast, North Korean policy has called for many Sino-Korean words to be replaced by native Korean terms.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pfb2QHJtw54C&q=history+of+sino-korean+words&pg=PA24|title=A History of Korean Literature|last=Lee|first=Peter H.|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2003|isbn=1139440861|pages=21–25}}</ref>

== Usage ==
Sino-Korean words constitute about 60 percent of South Korean vocabulary, the remainder being native Korean words and [[loanword]]s from other languages, mostly [[English language|English]]. Sino-Korean words are typically used in formal or literary contexts,<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ggVsnUCbiAC&q=sino-korean+words&pg=PA83|title=Using Korean: A Guide to Contemporary Usage|last=Choo|first=Miho|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2008|isbn=978-1139471398|pages=85–92}}</ref> and to express abstract or complex ideas.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QP8nDwAAQBAJ&q=sino-korean+words&pg=PA4|title=Modern Korean Grammar: A Practical Guide|last=Byon|first=Andrew Sangpil|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2017|isbn=978-1351741293|pages=3–18}}</ref> Almost all [[List of Korean surnames|Korean surnames]] and most [[List of Korean given names|Korean given names]] are Sino-Korean.<ref name=":0" /> Additionally, [[Korean numerals]] can be expressed with Sino-Korean and native Korean words, though each set of numerals has different purposes.<ref name=":2" />

Sino-Korean words may be written either in the Korean alphabet, known as [[Hangul]], or in Chinese characters, known as [[Hanja]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=psO_Oli22m8C&q=sino-korean+words&pg=PR9|title=Handbook of Korean Vocabulary: An Approach to Word Recognition and Comprehension|last1=Choo|first1=Miho|last2=O'Grady|first2=William|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|year=1996|isbn=0824818156|pages=ix}}</ref>

== Examples ==

=== Words borrowed from Chinese ===
Sino-Korean words borrowed directly from Chinese come mainly from [[Chinese classics]], [[Chinese literature|literature]], and [[Colloquialism|colloquial]] Chinese.<ref name=":3" />
{| class="wikitable"
!Word
![[Hangul]] ([[Revised Romanization of Korean|RR]])
![[Hanja]]
!Hanja meaning
!Ref
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|parents
|부모 (bumo)
|父母
|"father mother"
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hanja.naver.com/word?q=%E7%88%B6%E6%AF%8D&cp_code=0&sound_id=0|title=父母|website=Naver Hanja Dictionary|language=ko-KR|access-date=2018-02-19}}</ref>
|-
|student
|학생 (haksaeng)
|學生
|"study student"
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hanja.naver.com/word?q=%E5%AD%B8%E7%94%9F&cp_code=0&sound_id=0|title=學生|website=Naver Hanja Dictionary|language=ko-KR|access-date=2018-02-19}}</ref>
|-
|sun
|태양 (taeyang)
|太陽
|"great light"
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hanja.naver.com/word?q=%E5%A4%AA%E9%99%BD&cp_code=0&sound_id=0|title=太陽|website=Naver Hanja Dictionary|language=ko-KR|access-date=2018-02-19}}</ref>
|-
|question
|질문 (jilmun)
|質問
|"background ask"
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hanja.naver.com/word?q=%E8%B3%AA%E5%95%8F&cp_code=0&sound_id=0|title=質問|website=Naver Hanja Dictionary|language=ko-KR|access-date=2018-02-19}}</ref>
|}

=== Words created in Korea using Chinese characters ===
These words below were created in Korea using Chinese characters. They are not used in China, Japan, nor Vietnam.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Definition
![[Hangul|Hangeul]]
![[Revised Romanization of Korean|Revised Romanization]]
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|false; rumor; canard
|낭설
|nangseol
|浪說
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|marital compatibility; well-suited; well-matched
|궁합
|gunghap
|宮合
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|flu; influenza; common cold
|감기
|gamgi
|感氣
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|egg
|계란
|gyeran
|鷄卵
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|deceptive; trickster
|고단수
|godansu
|高段數
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|hardship; trouble; suffering
|고생
|gosaeng
|苦生
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|notebook
|공책
|gongchaek
|空冊
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|determiner (grammar); prenoun
|관형사
|gwanhyeongsa
|冠形詞
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|prison; penitentiary
|교도소
|gyodoso
|矯導所
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|assortment (of goods)
|구색
|gusaek
|具色
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|a joke
|농담
|nongdam
|弄談
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|unity; join; combine
|단합
|danhap
|團合
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|reply; response; answer
|답장
|dapjang
|答狀
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|fortune; lucky
|다행
|dahaeng
|多幸
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|cod(fish)
|대구
|daegu
|大口
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|mass transportation; public transit
|대중교통
|daejung-gyotong
|大衆交通
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|site
|대지
|daeji
|垈地
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|indebtedness
|덕분
|deokbun
|德分
|-
|subcontract
|도급
|dogeup
|都給
|-
|unmarried young man; bachelor; youngster
|도령
|doryeong
|道令
|-
|flu; influenza
|독감
|dokgam
|毒感
|-
|same age
|동갑
|donggap
|同甲
|-
|sense of kinship
|동질감
|dongjilgam
|同質感
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|beer
|맥주
|maekju
|麥酒
|-
|pollck
|명태
|myeongtae
|明太
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|(national) holiday
|명절
|myeongjeol
|名節
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|business card containing name
|명함
|myeongham
|名銜
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|carpenter
|목수
|moksu
|木手
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|extinction; annihilation
|몰사
|molsa
|沒死
|-
|massacre; slaughter; extermination
|몰살
|molsal
|沒殺
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|hibiscus
|무궁화
|mugunghwa
|無窮花
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|visit to sick person
|문병
|munbyeong
|問病
|-
|questioning; interrogating
|문초
|muncho
|問招
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|uneasy; uncomfortable; to be apologetic
|미안
|mian
|未安
|-
|public harm
|민폐
|minpye
|民弊
|-
|sitting cushion; sitting mat
|방석
|bangseok
|方席
|-
|lottery ticket
|복권
|bokgwon
|福券
|-
|real estate agency
|복덕방
|bokdeokbang
|福德房
|-
|off-season; slow season
|비수기
|bisugi
|非需期
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|ice rink
|빙상장
|bingsangjang
|氷上場
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|cemetery; grave; tomb
|산소
|sanso
|山所
|-
|fish (specifically prepared as food)
|생선
|saengseon
|生鮮
|-
|stone mason
|석수
|seoksu
|石手
|-
|present; gift
|선물
|seonmul
|膳物
|-
|peak season; busy season
|성수기
|seongsugi
|盛需期
|-
|(your) name
|성함
|seongham
|姓銜
|-
|sexual harrassment
|성희롱
|seonghuirong
|性戲弄
|-
|duty; responsibility; task
|소임
|soim
|所任
|-
|precious; valuable
|소중
|sojung
|所重
|-
|trip; picnic; excursion
|소풍
|sopung
|逍風
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|cheque
|수표
|supyo
|手票
|-
|beginning of; start of; embark upon
|시작
|sijak
|始作
|-
|earnestly request
|신신당부
|sinsindangbu
|申申當付
|-
|child actor or actress
|아역
|ayeok
|兒役
|-
|seize; distrainment; sequestration
|압류
|amnyu (apryu)
|押留
|-
|bad term; grudge
|앙숙
|angsuk
|怏宿
|-
|uproar; clamor; commotion
|야단
|yadan
|惹端
|-
|socks
|양말
|yangmal
|洋襪
|-
|heartlessness; mercilessness
|야박
|yabak
|野薄
|-
|as expected; also
|역시
|yeoksi
|亦是
|-
|yellow-green; light green
|연두
|yeondu
|軟豆
|-
|alien; extraterrestrial
|외계인
|oegyein
|外界人
|-
|native speaker
|원어민
|woneomin
|原語民
|-
|exclave
|월경지
|wolgyeongji
|越境地
|-
|beginning; commencing
|위시
|wisi
|爲始
|-
|lean on; depend on; rely on
|의지
|uiji
|依支
|-
|move (to, into, from)
|이사
|isa
|移徙
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|rice-planting machine
|이앙기
|ianggi
|移秧機
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=== Words borrowed from Sino-Japanese ===
Sino-Korean words borrowed from Sino-Japanese are used only in Korean and Japanese, not in Chinese.<ref name=":3" />
{| class="wikitable"
!Word
![[Hangul]] ([[Revised Romanization of Korean|RR]])
![[Hanja]]
!Hanja meaning<ref name=":0" />
!Ref
|-
|airplane
|비행기 (bihaenggi)
|飛行機
|"fly go machine"
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hanja.naver.com/word?q=%E9%A3%9B%E8%A1%8C%E6%A9%9F&cp_code=0&sound_id=0|title=飛行機|website=Naver Hanja Dictionary|language=ko-KR|access-date=2018-02-19}}</ref>
|-

|movie
|영화 (yeonghwa)
|映畫
|"shine picture"
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hanja.naver.com/word?q=%E6%98%A0%E7%95%AB&cp_code=0&sound_id=0|title=映畫|website=Naver Hanja Dictionary|language=ko-KR|access-date=2018-02-19}}</ref>
|}

==See also==
*[[Korean language]]
*[[Hanja]]
*[[Korean mixed script]]
*[[Sino-Japanese vocabulary]]
*[[Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Chinese loan vocabularies}}
{{Portal bar|Language}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sino-Korean Vocabulary}}
[[Category:Korean language]]
[[Category:Chinese language|Korean]]

List of cities by GDP

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{{short description|Wikipedia list article}}
[[File:OECD_Top_10_Metro_GDP.png|alt=|thumb|300x300px|GDP of the ten largest metropolitan economies in the OECD, 2001-2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=CITIES|title=Metropolitan Areas|last=|first=|date=|website=OECD.Stat|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412004539/https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=CITIES|archive-date=12 April 2019|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USAGDPDEFQISMEI|title=GDP Implicit Price Deflator in United States|last=Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development|date=1955-01-01|website=FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis|access-date=2020-04-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191126212225/https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USAGDPDEFQISMEI|archive-date=26 November 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>]]
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}
This is a '''list of cities in the world by gross domestic product (GDP)'''. The [[United Nations]] uses three definitions for what constitutes a city, as not all cities may be classified using the same criteria. Cities may be defined as the [[city proper|cities proper]], the extent of their [[urban area]], or their [[metropolitan area|metropolitan regions]].<ref name="UNICEF">{{cite web |url = http://www.unicef.org/sowc2012/statistics.php |title=SOWC-2012-DEFINITIONS|publisher=[[UNICEF]]|accessdate=29 January 2014 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131208114052/http://www.unicef.org/sowc2012/statistics.php |archivedate=8 December 2013}}</ref> The methodology of calculating GDP may differ between the studies and are widely based on projections and sometimes approximate estimations, notably for cities that are not within the [[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]]. Refer to sources for more information. Click on the headers to reorganize columns.

==List==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:1em auto 1em auto;"
|-
! [[City proper]] / [[Metropolitan area]]
! style="width:130px"|Country/Region
! style="width:100px"|UNSD sub‑region<ref>{{cite web|url=http://millenniumindicators.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm|title=Composition of macro geographical (continental) regions, geographical sub-regions, and selected economic and other groupings|publisher=United Nations|accessdate=23 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713041240/http://millenniumindicators.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm|archive-date=13 July 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>
! style="width:75px"|Official est. Nominal GDP ($BN)
! style="width:75"|Brookings Institution<ref name="Brookings">{{cite web |url= https://www.brookings.edu/research/global-metro-monitor/ |title= Global city GDP 2014 |publisher= [[Brookings Institution]] |accessdate= 8 May 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170525113815/https://www.brookings.edu/research/global-metro-monitor/ |archive-date= 25 May 2017 |url-status= live }}</ref> 2014 est. [[Purchasing power parity|PPP]]-adjusted GDP ($BN)
|-
| [[Aachen]]-[[Liège]]-[[Maastricht]]
|{{flagicon|EU}} {{GER}} {{BEL}} {{NED}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|99.7}}
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| [[Aberdeen]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|11.3}} (2008)<ref name="2008 estimate">{{cite web |url=http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/regional-analysis/urban-audit/urban-audit-iv---united-kingdom-cities-compared-with-other-european-cities---march-2012/all-data-for-uk-cities---as-at-08-03-12.xls |format=xls |title=2008 estimate |date=6 March 2012 |publisher=Office for National Statistics |accessdate=13 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021170806/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/regional-analysis/urban-audit/urban-audit-iv---united-kingdom-cities-compared-with-other-european-cities---march-2012/all-data-for-uk-cities---as-at-08-03-12.xls |archive-date=21 October 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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| [[Abidjan]]
|{{CIV}}
| Africa
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| [[Abu Dhabi]]
|{{ARE}}
| Western Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|119}}<ref name = "2012 estimate abu dhabi">{{cite web|url=https://ded.abudhabi.ae/en/studies-indicators/EconomicReports/Economic%20Report%20of%20AD%202012.pdf|title=Abu Dhabi Economic Report|access-date=15 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304122833/https://ded.abudhabi.ae/en/studies-indicators/EconomicReports/Economic%20Report%20of%20AD%202012.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|178.3}}
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| [[Addis Ababa]]
|{{ETH}}
| Africa
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| [[Adelaide]]
|{{AUS}}
| Oceania
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|59.1}} (2015–16)<ref>[http://www.sgsep.com.au/application/files/9914/8106/1313/GDP_by_major_capital_city_201516_-_high_res.pdf '''2015–16 est.''' / SGSEP] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180422113418/https://www.sgsep.com.au/application/files/9914/8106/1313/GDP_by_major_capital_city_201516_-_high_res.pdf |date=22 April 2018 }} AUD 78,251 million according to the SGS Economics and Planning table, i.e. US$59.1 billion at current exchange rates, using the 8 June 2017 AUD/USD exchange rate used by the IMF</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|47.4}}
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| [[Ahmedabad]]
|{{IND}}
| South Asia
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| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|68}}<ref name="Haritas">{{Cite web|title=Richest Cities Of India|url=http://businessworld.in/article/Richest-Cities-Of-India/28-06-2017-121011|last=Haritas|first=Bhragu|website=BW Businessworld|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200302220702/http://www.businessworld.in/article/Richest-Cities-Of-India/28-06-2017-121011/|archive-date=2 March 2020|access-date=2020-04-19}}</ref>
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| [[Akron]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|36.800}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|32.8}}
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| [[Albany, New York|Albany]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|59.657}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|58.4}}
|-
| [[Albuquerque]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|42.896}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|39.9}}
|-
| [[Alexandria]]
|{{EGY}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|32.4}}
|-
| [[Algiers]]
|{{ALG}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Allentown, Pennsylvania|Allentown]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|45.024}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|37.3}}
|-
| [[Almaty]]
|{{KAZ}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|53.1}}
|-
| [[Amsterdam]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{NLD}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|154.0}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|320.6}}<ref group="Note">This includes [[Rotterdam]].</ref>
|-
| [[Anápolis]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|6.740}} (2011)<ref name="bra1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Ankara]]
|{{TUR}}
| Western Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|104.9}}
|-
| [[Anshan]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|67.4}}
|-
| [[Arnhem]]-[[Nijmegen]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{NLD}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|27.9}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|44.4}}
|-
| [[Athens]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{GRC}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|93.7}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|129.6}}
|-
| [[Atlanta]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|397.261}} (2018)<ref name="usa1">{{cite web|url=https://www.bea.gov/data/gdp/gdp-county-metro-and-other-areas|title=GDP by County, Metro, and Other Areas|date=12 December 2019|publisher=[[Bureau of Economic Analysis]]|location=Suitland, Maryland|accessdate=15 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212141532/https://www.bea.gov/data/gdp/gdp-county-metro-and-other-areas|archive-date=12 December 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|294.4}}
|-
| [[Auckland]]
|{{NZL}}
| Oceania
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|49.5}}
|-
| [[Greater Austin|Austin]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|146.784}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|107.4}}
|-
| [[Bakersfield]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|49.514}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|47.9}}
|-
| [[Baghdad]]
|{{IRQ}}
| Western Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Baltimore]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|205.313}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|173.7}}
|-
| [[Bandung]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{IDN}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|{{nts|62.3}} <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bandungkota.bps.go.id/statictable/2019/01/23/191/pdrb-kota-bandung-atas-dasar-harga-konstan-2010-menurut-lapangan-usaha-juta-rupiah-2010-2017.html|title=Badan Pusat Statistik Kota Bandung|website=bandungkota.bps.go.id|access-date=2019-02-28}}{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Batam]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{IDN}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|35.3}}
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[Bangkok]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{THA}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|147.97}}
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|306.8}}
|-
| [[Baotou]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|40.8}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|94.1}}
|-
| [[Barcelona]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{ESP}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|173.315}} (2017)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|171.0}}
|-
| [[Basel]]-[[Mulhouse]]
|{{CHE}}{{FRA}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|56.2}}
|-
| [[Baton Rouge]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|56.315}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|53.5}}
|-
| [[Beijing]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|513}} (2019)<ref name="data2018-2019">GDP-2019 is a preliminary data, and GDP-2018 is a revision based on the 2018 CASEN: {{cite press_release| url=http://data.stats.gov.cn/english/easyquery.htm?cn=E0102| title=Home - Regional - Quarterly by Province| publisher=China NBS| date=April 15, 2020| accessdate=April 15, 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200330081935/http://data.stats.gov.cn/english/easyquery.htm?cn=E0102| archive-date=30 March 2020| url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|506.1}}
|-
| [[Belfast]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|25.5}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Belgrade]]
|{{SRB}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|17.4}} (2014)<ref>[http://pod2.stat.gov.rs/ObjavljenePublikacije/G2016/pdf/G20162019.pdf Statistical Yearbook of Serbia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171013213156/http://pod2.stat.gov.rs/ObjavljenePublikacije/G2016/pdf/G20162019.pdf |date=13 October 2017 }}, pp. 146–47. ''Statistical Office of Serbia''. GDP of Belgrade district in 2014 was 1,514,166 mio RSD x 0.0115 = 17.4 bn USD.</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Belo Horizonte]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|54.996}} (2011)<ref name="bra1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|84.7}}
|-
| [[Bengaluru]]
|{{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|45.1}}
|-
| [[Berlin]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{DEU}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|215.2}} (2015)<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.statistik-bw.de/VGRdL/tbls/index.jsp?lang=#tab03|title=Aktuelle Ergebnisse – VGR dL|last=Baden-Württemberg|first=Statistisches Landesamt|website=www.statistik-bw.de|language=de|access-date=2018-06-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190213033332/https://www.statistik-bw.de/VGRdL/tbls/index.jsp?lang=#tab03|archive-date=13 February 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|157.7}}
|-
| [[Bielefeld]]-[[Detmold]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{DEU}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|50.5}}
|-
| [[Bilbao]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{ESP}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|36.9}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|38.5}}
|-
| [[Birmingham]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|81.8}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|121.1}}
|-
| [[Birmingham, Alabama]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|62.881}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|54.164}}
|-
| [[Bogotá]]
|{{COL}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|159.9}}
|-
| [[Bologna]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{ITA}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|43.4}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|36.3}}
|-
| [[Bordeaux]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{FRA}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|55.9}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|40.2}}
|-
| [[Boston]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|463.570}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|360.1}}
|-
| [[Brasília]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|164.482}} (2011)<ref name="bra1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|141.9}}
|-
| [[Braunschweig]]-[[Wolfsburg]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{DEU}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|45.5}}
|-
| [[Bremen]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{DEU}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|30.4}} (2015)<ref name=":1" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|47.9}}
|-
| [[Greater Bridgeport|Bridgeport]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|89.387}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|70.0}}
|-
| [[Brisbane]]
|{{AUS}}
| Oceania
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|120.6}} (2015–16)<ref>[http://www.sgsep.com.au/application/files/9914/8106/1313/GDP_by_major_capital_city_201516_-_high_res.pdf '''2015–16 est.''' / SGSEP] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180422113418/https://www.sgsep.com.au/application/files/9914/8106/1313/GDP_by_major_capital_city_201516_-_high_res.pdf |date=22 April 2018 }} AUD 157,931 million according to the SGS Economics and Planning table, i.e. US$120.6 billion at current exchange rates, using the 8 June 2017 AUD/USD exchange rate used by the IMF</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|96.6}}
|-
| [[Bristol]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|88.448}} (2017)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|47.7}}
|-
| [[Brussels]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{BEL}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|144.359}} (2016)<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?dataset=met_10r_3gdp&lang=en|title=Eurostat|access-date=19 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180619140110/http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?dataset=met_10r_3gdp&lang=en|archive-date=19 June 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|254.3}}
|-
| [[Bucharest]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{ROU}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|49.407}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|72.4}}
|-
| [[Budapest]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{HUN}}
| Central Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|58.5}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|98.0}}
|-
| [[Buenos Aires]]
|{{ARG}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|315.9}}
|-
| [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|68.989}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|72.7}}
|-
| [[Bursa]]
|{{TUR}}
| Western Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|80.1}}
|-
| [[Busan]]-[[Ulsan]]
|{{KOR}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|241}} (2018)<ref>{{Cite web|title=보도자료 전체 {{!}} 통계청|url=http://kostat.go.kr/portal/korea/kor_nw/1/1/index.board?bmode=read&bSeq=&aSeq=379534&pageNo=1&rowNum=10&navCount=10&currPg=&searchInfo=&sTarget=title&sTxt=|access-date=2020-08-14|website=kostat.go.kr}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|296.5}}
|-
| [[Cairo]]
|{{EGY}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|102.2}}
|-
| [[Calgary]]
|{{CAN}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|97.9}}
|-
| [[Cambridge]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Campinas]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|40.525}} (2011)<ref name="bra1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|59.3}}
|-
| [[Campo Grande]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|9.211}} (2011)<ref name="bra1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Campos dos Goytacazes]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|16.174}} (2011)<ref name="bra1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Cape Town]]
|{{ZAF}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|58.9}}
|-
| [[Caracas]]
|{{VEN}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|51.8}}
|-
| [[Cardiff]]-[[Newport, Wales|Newport]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|33.7}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|36.0}}
|-
| [[Casablanca]]
|{{MAR}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|37.9}}
|-
| [[Chandigarh]]
| {{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Changchun]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|96.7}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|124.5}}
|-
| [[Changsha]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|156.0}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|186.4}}
|-
| [[Changzhou]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|98.1}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|110.9}}
|-
| [[Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|169.862}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|126.2}}
|-
| [[Chengdu]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|205.7}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn">{{cite web|title = National Bureau of Statistics of China|url = http://data.stats.gov.cn/easyquery.htm?cn=E0105|website = data.stats.gov.cn|accessdate = 2017-08-25|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170913222141/http://data.stats.gov.cn/easyquery.htm?cn=E0105|archive-date = 13 September 2017|url-status = live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|233.5}}
|-
| [[Chennai]]
|{{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|{{nts|78.6}} <ref name="Haritas" />
|-
| [[Chicago]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|689.464}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|563.2}}
|-
| [[Chittagong]]
|{{BGD}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Chongqing]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|342}} (2019)<ref name="data2018-2019">GDP-2019 is a preliminary data, and GDP-2018 is a revision based on the 2018 CASEN: {{cite press_release| url=http://data.stats.gov.cn/english/easyquery.htm?cn=E0102| title=Home - Regional - Quarterly by Province| publisher=China NBS| date=April 15, 2020| accessdate=April 15, 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200330081935/http://data.stats.gov.cn/english/easyquery.htm?cn=E0102| archive-date=30 March 2020| url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|315.6}}
|-
| [[Cincinnati]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|141.052}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|110.9}}
|-
| [[Cleveland]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|134.369}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|115.1}}
|-
| [[Columbia, South Carolina|Columbia]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|43.118}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|37.2}}
|-
| [[Columbus, Ohio|Columbus]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|129.328}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|108.9}}
|-
| [[Copenhagen]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{DNK}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|134.3}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|127.0}}<ref group="Note">This includes [[Malmö]].</ref>
|-
| [[Cork (city)|Cork]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{IRL}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
{{nts|24.0}} (2015)
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Cracow]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{POL}}
| Central Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|22.0}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|33.1}}
|-
| [[Coventry]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|7.4}} (2008)<ref name="2008 estimate"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Curitiba]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|58.082}} (2011)<ref name="bra1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|57.7}}
|-
| [[Daegu]]
|{{KOR}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|56.9}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|54.5}}
|-
| [[Daejeon]]
|{{KOR}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|39.6}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|39.6}}
|-
| [[Dalian]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|109.1}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|198.8}}
|-
| [[Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex|Dallas–Fort Worth]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|512.509}} (2018)
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|412.7}}
|-
| [[Daqing]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|39.7}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|98.5}}
|-
| [[Dayton]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|43.254}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|37.5}}
|-
| [[Dar es Salaam]]
|{{TZA}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Delhi]] (NCR)
|{{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|293.6}}<ref name="Haritas" />
|-
| [[Denver]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|214.157}} (2017)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|169.7}}
|-
| [[Des Moines]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|50.339}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|39.5}}
|-
| [[Detroit]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|267.731}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|207.5}}
|-
| [[Dhaka]]
|{{BGD}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|78}}
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Doha]]
|{{QAT}}
| Western Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Dongguan]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|112.3}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|141.1}}
|-
| [[Dongying]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|56.3}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|83.7}}
|-
| [[Dubai]]
|{{ARE}}
| Western Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|82.9}}
|-
| [[Dublin]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{IRL}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|127.8}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|90.1}}
|-
| [[Durban]]
|{{ZAF}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|48.9}}
|-
| [[Durham, North Carolina|Durham]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|54.687}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|37.0}}
|-
| [[East Rand]]
|{{ZAF}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|55.3}}
|-
| [[Edinburgh]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|41.8}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|32.5}}
|-
| [[Edmonton]]
|{{CAN}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|83.0}}
|-
| [[Eindhoven]]-[[Den Bosch]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{NLD}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|91.5}}
|-
| [[El Paso]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|32.570}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|32.7}}
|-
| [[Faisalabad]]
|{{PAK}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|20.55}}<ref name=PBIT>{{cite web| url=http://www.pbit.gop.pk/punjab_at_glance| title=Punjab at a Glance| publisher=Punjab Board of Investment & Trade, Government of The Punjab| date=2016| accessdate=15 April 2017| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170416133204/http://www.pbit.gop.pk/punjab_at_glance| archive-date=16 April 2017| url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| [[Faridabad]]
| {{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Florence]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{ITA}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|40.1}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|52.5}}
|-
| [[Fortaleza]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|42.010}} (2011)<ref name="bra1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|35.2}}
|-
| [[Foshan]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|141.4}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|184.5}}
|-
| [[Frankfurt]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{DEU}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|230.0}}
|-
| [[Fresno]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|47.408}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|45.5}}
|-
| [[Fukuoka–Kitakyushu]]
|{{JPN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|185}} (2013)<ref>[http://www.esri.cao.go.jp/jp/sna/sonota/kenmin/kenmin_top.html '''Approx., 2013 est.''' / GDP of Fukuoka Prefecture is 19.0 [[Trillion (short scale)|trillion]] yen (approximately US$185 billion).] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171017202328/http://www.esri.cao.go.jp/jp/sna/sonota/kenmin/kenmin_top.html |date=17 October 2017 }} Cabinet Office, Government of Japan. Retrieved 14 August 2016.</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|193.3}}
|-
| [[Fuzhou]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|105.2}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|117.4}}
|-
| [[Geneva]]
|{{CHE}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|44.0}}
|-
| [[George Town, Penang|George Town]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{MYS}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|38.0}}
|-
| [[Glasgow]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|66.4}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|56.7}}
|-
| [[Gothenburg]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{SWE}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|84.4}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|40.0}}
|-
| [[Ghaziabad]]
|{{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Grand Rapids]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|61.615}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|51.6}}
|-
| [[Greensboro]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|43.154}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|40.9}}
|-
| [[Greenville, South Carolina|Greenville]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|46.431}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|35.6}}
|-
| [[Goiânia]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|22.763}} (2011)<ref name="bra1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Guadalajara]]
|{{MEX}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|80.7}}
|-
| [[Guangzhou]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|341}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|380.3}}
|-
| [[Gujranwala]]
|{{PAK}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|21}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|20.3}}
|-
| [[Gurgaon]]
| {{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|25}} (2018)
|-
| [[Guwahati]]
| {{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|2.7}} (2018)
|-
| [[Gwangju]]
|{{KOR}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|36.8}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|36.7}}
|-
| [[Haifa]]
|{{ISR}} {{flagicon|Palestine}} [[State of Palestine|Palestine]]
| Western Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|40.4}}
|-
| [[Hamamatsu]]
|{{JPN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|52.3}}
|-
| [[Hamburg]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{DEU}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|120.1}} (2015)<ref name=":1" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|161.4}}
|-
| [[Hangzhou]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|150.8}} (2015)<ref>{{cite web |title = National Bureau of Statistics of China |url = http://data.stats.gov.cn/easyquery.htm?cn=E0105 |website = data.stats.gov.cn |accessdate = 2017-08-25 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170913222141/http://data.stats.gov.cn/easyquery.htm?cn=E0105 |archive-date = 13 September 2017 |url-status = live }}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|219.5}}
|-
| [[Hannover]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{DEU}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|51.5}} (2015)<ref name=":1" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|59.6}}
|-
| [[Hanoi]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{VNM}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Harbin]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|94.1}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|127.9}}
|-
| [[Harrisburg]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|39.896}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|35.1}}
|-
| [[Greater Hartford|Hartford]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|99.465}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|101.2}}
|-
| [[Hefei]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|106.8}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|120.9}}
|-
| [[Helsinki]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{FIN}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|90.8}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|77.1}}
|-
| [[Hiroshima]]
|{{JPN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|74.9}}
|-
| [[Ho Chi Minh City]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{VNM}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|71.1}}
|-
| [[Hong Kong]]
|{{HKG}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|373}} (2019)<ref name="IMFWEOHK">{{cite web |url=https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2019/02/weodata/weorept.aspx?pr.x=58&pr.y=13&sy=2017&ey=2021&scsm=1&ssd=1&sort=country&ds=.&br=1&c=532&s=NGDPD%2CPPPGDP%2CNGDPDPC%2CPPPPC&grp=0&a= |title=World Economic Outlook Database, October 2019 |website=IMF.org |publisher=[[International Monetary Fund]] |access-date=17 October 2019 }}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|416.0}}
|-
| [[Honolulu]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|69.252}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|58.6}}
|-
| [[Greater Houston|Houston]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|478.778}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|483.2}}
|-
| [[Hsinchu]]
|{{TWN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|38.4}}
|-
| [[Huhehaote]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|70.1}}
|-
| [[Huntsville, Alabama|Huntsville]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|27.558}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]]
|{{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|{{nts|75.2}} <ref name="Haritas" />
|-
| [[Indianapolis metropolitan area|Indianapolis]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|140.762}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|113.606}}
|-
| [[Islamabad]]
|{{PAK}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|18.7}}
|-
| [[Istanbul]]
|{{TUR}}
| Western Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|348.7}}
|-
| [[Izmir]]
|{{TUR}}
| Western Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|80.1}}
|-
| [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|83.186}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|63.8}}
|-
| [[Jakarta]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{IDN}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|{{nts|200.9}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jakarta.bps.go.id/pressrelease/2019/02/06/335/pertumbuhan-ekonomi-dki-jakarta-tahun-2018-sebesar-6-17-persen.html|title=BPS Provinsi DKI Jakarta|website=jakarta.bps.go.id|access-date=2019-02-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228192426/https://jakarta.bps.go.id/pressrelease/2019/02/06/335/pertumbuhan-ekonomi-dki-jakarta-tahun-2018-sebesar-6-17-persen.html|archive-date=28 February 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|321.3}}
|-
| [[Jammu]]
| {{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|1.}}
|-
| [[Jeddah]]
|{{SAU}}
| Western Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|160.6}}
|-
| [[Jerusalem]]
|{{ISR}} {{flagicon|Palestine}} [[State of Palestine|Palestine]]
| Western Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|48.0}} (2015)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.lloyds.com/cityriskindex/locations/city/jerusalem |title=Archived copy |access-date=27 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006180852/http://www.lloyds.com/cityriskindex/locations/city/jerusalem |archive-date=6 October 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-

| [[Jinan]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|106.7}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|136.8}}
|-
| [[Johannesburg]]
|{{ZAF}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|82.9}}
|-
| [[Jundiaí]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|20.081}} (2011)<ref name="bra1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Kabul]]
|{{AFG}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|6}}
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Kagoshima]]
|{{JPN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|34.3}}
|-
| [[Kano]]
|{{NGA}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|132.703}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|105.9}}
|-
| [[Kaohsiung]]
|{{TWN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|113.647}}
|-
| [[Karachi]]
|{{PAK}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|144}} (2017)
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Karlsruhe]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{DEU}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|37.6}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|137.1}}
|-
| [[Katowice]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{POL}}
| Central Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|37.9}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|122.3}}
|-
| [[Kaunas]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{LTU}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|10.0}} (2016)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://osp.stat.gov.lt/statistiniu-rodikliu-analize?id=8,446&status=A#/|title=Rodiklių duomenų bazė - Oficialiosios statistikos portalas|website=osp.stat.gov.lt|access-date=11 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128132514/https://osp.stat.gov.lt/statistiniu-rodikliu-analize?id=8,446&status=A#/|archive-date=28 January 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Khartoum]]
|{{SDN}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Kiev]]
|{{UKR}}
| Eastern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|30.4}} (2018)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ukrstat.gov.ua/operativ/operativ2008/vvp/vrp/vrp2018_ost_e.xls|title=State Statistics Service of Ukraine|last=|first=|date=|website=www.ukrstat.gov.ua|access-date=}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Kingston-upon-Hull]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|17.7}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Kinshasa]]
|{{Flag|DR Congo}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Klaipėda]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{LTU}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|6.0}} (2016)<ref name="Indicators database">{{cite web |url=http://osp.stat.gov.lt/en/statistiniu-rodikliu-analize?id=8446&status=A |title=Statistinių rodiklių analizė |website=Osp.stat.gov.lt |accessdate=2017-04-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170821085627/https://osp.stat.gov.lt/en/statistiniu-rodikliu-analize?id=8446&status=A |archive-date=21 August 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Knoxville, Tennessee|Knoxville]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|43.307}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|38.3}}
|-
| [[Kolkata]]
|{{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| 150<ref>{{Cite web|title=Archived copy|url=http://www.walkthroughindia.com/offbeat/top-10-richest-cities-india-based-gdp/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200329082750/http://www.walkthroughindia.com/offbeat/top-10-richest-cities-india-based-gdp/|archive-date=29 March 2020|access-date=29 March 2020}}</ref>
|-
| [[Kuala Lumpur]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{MYS}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|171.8}}
|-
| [[Kumamoto]]
|{{JPN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|41.8}}
|-
| [[Kunming]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|72.0}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|88.6}}
|-
| [[Kuwait City]]
|{{KWT}}
| Western Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|166.5}}
|-
| [[Lagos]]
|{{NGA}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|74.67}} (2010)<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.lagosstate.gov.ng/images/pageimages/downloadfiles/docs/LAGOS_STATE_GDP2010.pdf | title=Lagos Gross Domestic Product | publisher=Lagos State Government | date=2010 | accessdate=16 March 2015 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150425055927/http://www.lagosstate.gov.ng/images/pageimages/downloadfiles/docs/LAGOS_STATE_GDP2010.pdf | archivedate=25 April 2015}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Lahore]]
|{{PAK}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|58.14}} (2015)<ref name="Lahore Fact Sheet">{{cite web|title=Lahore Fact Sheet|url=http://www.lloyds.com/cityriskindex/locations/fact_sheet/lahore|publisher=Lloyd's|accessdate=19 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821060947/http://www.lloyds.com/cityriskindex/locations/fact_sheet/lahore|archive-date=21 August 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/world2016t.html |title=GaWC – The World According to GaWC 2016 |publisher=lboro.ac.uk |date=24 April 2017 |accessdate=30 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131010004859/http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/world2010t.html |archive-date=10 October 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Las Vegas]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|122.423}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|93.9}}
|-
| [[Leeds]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|44.8}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|74.6}}<ref group="Note">This includes [[Bradford]].</ref>
|-
| [[Leicester]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|46.8}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Leipzig]]-[[Halle (Saale)|Halle]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{DEU}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|33.4}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|39.6}}
|-
| [[Lille]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{FRA}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|83.3}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|98.5}}
|-
| [[Lima]]
|{{PER}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|176.5}}
|-
| [[Linz]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{AUT}}
| Central Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|37.9}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|44.6}}
|-
| [[Lisbon]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{PRT}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|72.0}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|96.3}}
|-
| [[Little Rock]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|38.252}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|40.7}}
|-
| [[Liverpool]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|47.8}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|65.8}}
|-
| [[London]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|633.9}} (2018)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/bulletins/regionaleconomicactivitybygrossdomesticproductuk/1998to2018/pdf|title=Regional economic activity by gross domestic product, UK: 1998 to 2018|access-date=17 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224103937/https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/bulletins/regionaleconomicactivitybygrossdomesticproductuk/1998to2018/pdf|archive-date=24 December 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|835.7}}
|-
| [[Greater Los Angeles|Los Angeles]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|1,294}} (2018)<ref name="stlouisfed.org1">[https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NGMP31080 Total Gross Domestic Product for Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191126024835/https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NGMP31080 |date=26 November 2019 }} Federal Reserve Economic Data. Retrieved 16 June 2019</ref><ref name="stlouisfed.org2">[https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NGMP40140 Total Gross Domestic Product for Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616224607/https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NGMP40140 |date=16 June 2019 }} Federal Reserve Economic Data. Retrieved 16 June 2019</ref><ref name="stlouisfed.org3">[https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NGMP37100 Total Gross Domestic Product for Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616224609/https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NGMP37100 |date=16 June 2019 }} Federal Reserve Economic Data. Retrieved 16 June 2019</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|860.5}}
|-
| [[Louisville metropolitan area|Louisville]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|72.093}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|62.397}}
|-
| [[Luanda]]
|{{AGO}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Lucknow]]
|{{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|25}} <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanpur |title=Archived copy |access-date=29 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200501021537/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanpur |archive-date=1 May 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{Circular reference|date=June 2020}}
|-
| [[Ludhiana]]
| {{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|15}}
|-
| [[Luxembourg]]-[[Trier]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{LUX}}{{GER}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|62}} (2014)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.brookings.edu/research/global-metro-monitor/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=17 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401130959/https://www.brookings.edu/research/global-metro-monitor/ |archive-date=1 April 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|62}}
|-
| [[Luton]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Lyon]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{FRA}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|88.2}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|97.0}}
|-
| [[Macau]]
|{{Flag|Macau}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|53.7}} (2018)<ref name="imf3">{{cite web|url=http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2017/01/weodata/weorept.aspx?sy=2015&ey=2016&scsm=1&ssd=1&sort=country&ds=.&br=1&c=546%2C532&s=NGDPD&grp=0&a=&pr.x=54&pr.y=10|title=Macau|publisher=[[International Monetary Fund]]|accessdate=2017-08-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170825102206/http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2017/01/weodata/weorept.aspx?sy=2015&ey=2016&scsm=1&ssd=1&sort=country&ds=.&br=1&c=546%2C532&s=NGDPD&grp=0&a=&pr.x=54&pr.y=10|archive-date=25 August 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|53.9}}
|-
| [[Madison, Wisconsin|Madison]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|51.481}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|41.8}}

|-
| [[Madrid]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{ESP}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|248.56}} (2017)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|262.3}}
|-
| [[Makassar]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{IDN}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|37.7}}
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[Manaus]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|51.025}} (2011)<ref name="bra1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Manchester]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|113.7}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|92.3}}
|-
| [[Metro Manila|Manila]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{PHL}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|192.6}} (2018)
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|190.8}}
|-
| [[Marseille]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{FRA}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|104.1}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|60.3}}
|-
| [[Medellín]]
|{{COL}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|43.5}}
|-
| [[Medan]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{IDN}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|{{nts|52.4}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://medankota.bps.go.id/dynamictable/2018/08/27/49/-seri-2010-produk-domestik-regional-bruto-kota-medan-atas-dasar-harga-konstan-2010-menurut-pengeluaran-jua-rupiah-2010-2017.html|title=Badan Pusat Statistik Kota Medan|website=medankota.bps.go.id|access-date=2019-02-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101213854/https://medankota.bps.go.id/dynamictable/2018/08/27/49/-seri-2010-produk-domestik-regional-bruto-kota-medan-atas-dasar-harga-konstan-2010-menurut-pengeluaran-jua-rupiah-2010-2017.html|archive-date=1 January 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Melbourne]]
|{{AUS}}
| Oceania
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|229.2}} (2015–16)<ref>[http://www.sgsep.com.au/application/files/9914/8106/1313/GDP_by_major_capital_city_201516_-_high_res.pdf '''2015–16 est.''' / SGSEP] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180422113418/https://www.sgsep.com.au/application/files/9914/8106/1313/GDP_by_major_capital_city_201516_-_high_res.pdf |date=22 April 2018 }} AUD 303,560 million according to the SGS Economics and Planning table, i.e. US$229.188 billion at current exchange rates, using the 8 June 2017 AUD/USD exchange rate used by the IMF</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|178.4}}
|-
| [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|76.749}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|65.0}}
|-
| [[Mexico City]]
|{{MEX}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|403}}
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|403.6}}
|-
| [[Miami]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|354.740}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|262.7}}
|-
| [[Milan]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{ITA}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|312.1}}
|-
| [[Milwaukee]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|103.731}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|86.5}}
|-
| [[Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota|Minneapolis/St. Paul]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|263.690}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|211.4}}
|-
| [[Minsk]]
|{{BLR}}
| Eastern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|16.1}} (2018)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.belstat.gov.by/en/ofitsialnaya-statistika/real-sector-of-the-economy/national-accounts/graphical-data-graphs-diagrams/grps-of-regions-and-minsk-city-and-their-percentage-shares-in-gdp-in-2017/|title=GRPs of regions and Minsk city and their percentage shares in GDP in 2018|website=www.belstat.gov.by|access-date=2020-04-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191113162955/http://www.belstat.gov.by/en/ofitsialnaya-statistika/real-sector-of-the-economy/national-accounts/graphical-data-graphs-diagrams/grps-of-regions-and-minsk-city-and-their-percentage-shares-in-gdp-in-2017/|archive-date=13 November 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Monterrey]]
|{{MEX}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|122.9}}
|-
| [[Montevideo]]
|{{URY}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Montreal]]
|{{CAN}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|155.9}}
|-
| [[Moscow]]
|{{RUS}}
| Eastern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|225.0}} (2015)<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web |url=http://mrd.gks.ru/wps/wcm/connect/rosstat_ts/mrd/ru/statistics/grp/ |title=Валовой региональный продукт::Мордовиястат |website=Mrd.gks.ru |accessdate=2017-04-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180217021320/http://mrd.gks.ru/wps/wcm/connect/rosstat_ts/mrd/ru/statistics/grp/ |archive-date=17 February 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|553.3}}
|-
| [[Multan]]
|{{PAK}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|17.425}} (2016)
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|24.15}}
|-
| [[Mumbai]]
|{{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|{{nts|368}}<ref name="Haritas" />
|-
| [[Munich Metropolitan Region|Munich]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{DEU}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|190.0}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|219.9}}
|-
| [[Chūkyō Metropolitan Area|Nagoya]]
|{{JPN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|368}} (2013)<ref>[http://www.esri.cao.go.jp/jp/sna/sonota/kenmin/kenmin_top.html '''Approx., 2013 est.''' / GDP of Aichi Prefecture is 37.8 trillion yen (approximately US$368 billion).] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171017202328/http://www.esri.cao.go.jp/jp/sna/sonota/kenmin/kenmin_top.html |date=17 October 2017 }} Cabinet Office, Government of Japan. Retrieved 14 August 2016.</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|363.8}}
|-
| [[Nagpur]]
|{{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|15.1}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=15 Richest (by GDP) Cities in India|url=https://www.worldlistmania.com/15-richest-gdp-cities-india/|access-date=2020-06-18|language=en-US}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Nairobi]]
|{{KEN}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Nanchang]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|74.1}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|96.0}}
|-
| [[Nanjing]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|173.5}} (2017)
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|202.7}}
|-
| [[Nanning]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|61.0}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|70.3}}
|-
| [[Nantes]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{FRA}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|51.0}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|32.0}}
|-
| [[Nantong]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|114.6}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|128.3}}
|-
| [[Naples]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{ITA}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|62.8}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|85.5}}
|-
| [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|132.202}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|95.0}}
|-
| [[New Haven]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|53.613}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|53.3}}
|-
| [[New Orleans]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|80.287}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|74.2}}
|-
| [[New York metropolitan area|New York]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|1732}} (2019)<ref name="NYCMetroGMP">{{cite web|url=https://apps.bea.gov/regional/bearfacts/action.cfm#tabs-2|title=U.S. metro areas – ranked by Gross Metropolitan Product (GMP) 2019 {{!}} Statistic|website=Statista|accessdate=31 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181022232802/https://apps.bea.gov/regional/bearfacts/action.cfm#tabs-2|archive-date=22 October 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|1403}}
|-
| [[Newcastle upon Tyne|Newcastle]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|36.0}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|44.6}}
|-
| [[Nice]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{FRA}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|36.1}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|46.0}}
|-
| [[Niigata, Niigata|Niigata]]
|{{JPN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|50.3}}
|-
| [[Ningbo]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|145.8}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|179.0}}
|-
| [[Noida]]
|{{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Nottingham]]-[[Derby]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|51.0}}
|-
| [[Nuremberg Metropolitan Region|Nürnberg-Fürth]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{DEU}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|164.6}} (2014)<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/603802/umfrage/bruttoinlandsprodukt-in-den-metropolregionen-in-deutschland/|title=Bruttoinlandsprodukt in den Metropolregionen in Deutschland 2014 {{!}} Statistik|website=Statista|language=de|access-date=2018-06-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616204005/https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/603802/umfrage/bruttoinlandsprodukt-in-den-metropolregionen-in-deutschland/|archive-date=16 June 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|74.5}}
|-
| [[Okayama]]
|{{JPN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|56.8}}
|-
| [[Oklahoma City metropolitan area|Oklahoma City]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|81.016}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|70.010}}
|-
| [[Omaha]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|62.760}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|51.2}}
|-
| [[Orlando]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|138.947}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|116.2}}
|-
| [[Keihanshin|Osaka–Kobe]]
|{{JPN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|681}} (2015)
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|671.3}}<ref group="Note">This includes [[Kyoto]].</ref>
|-
| [[Oslo]]
|{{NOR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|74.0}} (2014)<ref>[https://www.ssb.no/en/nasjonalregnskap-og-konjunkturer/statistikker/fnr/aar/2016-10-20?fane=tabell&sort=nummer&tabell=281277 Regional Accounts, 2014] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922050534/https://www.ssb.no/en/nasjonalregnskap-og-konjunkturer/statistikker/fnr/aar/2016-10-20?fane=tabell&sort=nummer&tabell=281277 |date=22 September 2017 }} – ''Statistics Norway''. National GDP at 2,707.8 bn NOK, Oslo at 17.1% of the total = 463 bn NOK x 0.16 = 74 bn USD.</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|74.4}}
|-
| [[Ottawa]]
|{{CAN}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|58.2}}
|-
| [[Oxnard]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|59.631}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|46.3}}
|-
| [[Palembang]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{IDN}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|33.5}}
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[Paris]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{FRA}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|866}} (2018)<ref>[https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/10474907/1-05032020-AP-EN.pdf/81807e19-e4c8-2e53-c98a-933f5bf30f58&ved=2ahUKEwi-u5GHnujpAhUOuIsKHaOlDG0QFjACegQIBRAJ&usg=AOvVaw0NnWnyaFRad5NgG3NGcbJP&cshid=1591276979492 '''2018 est.''' / Eurostat] {{Webarchive|url=https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/10474907/1-05032020-AP-EN.pdf/81807e19-e4c8-2e53-c98a-933f5bf30f58&ved=2ahUKEwi-u5GHnujpAhUOuIsKHaOlDG0QFjACegQIBRAJ&usg=AOvVaw0NnWnyaFRad5NgG3NGcbJP&cshid=1591276979492 |date=3 March 2018 }} €734 billion according to Eurostat, i.e. US$866 using the 2018 euro/dollar exchange rate of 0.85</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|715.1}}
|-
| [[Patna]]
| {{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Perth]]
|{{AUS}}
| Oceania
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|112.2}} (2015–16)<ref>[http://www.sgsep.com.au/application/files/9914/8106/1313/GDP_by_major_capital_city_201516_-_high_res.pdf '''2015–16 est.''' / SGSEP] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180422113418/https://www.sgsep.com.au/application/files/9914/8106/1313/GDP_by_major_capital_city_201516_-_high_res.pdf |date=22 April 2018 }} AUD 148,674 million according to the SGS Economics and Planning table, i.e. US$112.2 billion at current exchange rates, using the 8 June 2017 AUD/USD exchange rate used by the IMF</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|134.0}}
|-
| [[Philadelphia]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|444.148}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|346.5}}
|-
| [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|255.211}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|207.1}}
|-
| [[Pittsburgh]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|152.840}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|138.4}}
|-
| [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|164.419}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|158.5}}
|-
| [[Porto]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{PRT}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|31.3}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|43.0}}
|-
| [[Porto Alegre]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|45.506}} (2011)<ref name="bra1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|62.1}}
|-
| [[Portsmouth]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|25.9}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|51.6}}<ref group="Note">This includes [[Southampton]].</ref>
|-
| [[Prague]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{CZE}}
| Central Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|64}} (2018)<ref>https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/10474907/1-05032020-AP-EN.pdf/81807e19-e4c8-2e53-c98a-933f5bf30f58&ved=2ahUKEwi-u5GHnujpAhUOuIsKHaOlDG0QFjACegQIBRAJ&usg=AOvVaw0NnWnyaFRad5NgG3NGcbJP&cshid=1591276979492</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|89.2}}
|-
| [[Pretoria]]
|{{ZAF}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|49.9}}
|-
| [[Providence metropolitan area|Providence]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|87.414}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|78.114}}
|-
| [[Puebla, Puebla|Puebla]]
|{{MEX}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|38.1}}
|-
| [[Pune]]
|{{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|69}}<ref name="Haritas" />
|-
| [[Pyongyang]]
|{{PRK}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Qingdao]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|163.5}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|208.7}}
|-
| [[Quebec City]]
|{{CAN}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|33.4}}
|-
| [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|83.665}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|64.4}}
|-
| [[Rangoon]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{MMR}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Recife]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|36.448}} (2011)<ref name="bra1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|40.5}}
|-
| [[Rhine-Ruhr]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{DEU}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|350.30}} (2014)<ref name=":2" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|485.2}}
|-
| [[Greater Richmond Region|Richmond]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|85.792}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|71.589}}
|-
| [[Riga]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{LVA}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|16.0}} (2014)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sus.lv/en/21-gross-domestic-product|title=2.1. Gross Domestic Product | Stratēģijas Uzraudzības Sistēma|website=www.sus.lv|access-date=11 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128190448/http://www.sus.lv/en/21-gross-domestic-product|archive-date=28 January 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Rio de Janeiro]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|209.366}} (2011)<ref name="bra1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|176.6}}
|-
| [[Inland Empire|Riverside–San Bernardino]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|187.109}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|154.904}}
|-
| [[Riyadh]]
|{{SAU}}
| Western Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|163.5}}
|-
| [[Rochester, New York|Rochester]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|63.870}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|67.8}}
|-
| [[Rome]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{ITA}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|166.8}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|163.2}}
|-
| [[Rotterdam]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{NLD}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|69.0}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|320.6}}<ref group="Note">This includes [[Amsterdam]].</ref>
|-
| [[Saarbrucken]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{DEU}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|41.7}}
|-
| [[Sacramento]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|145.479}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|127.4}}
|-
| [[Salt Lake City metropolitan area|Salt Lake City]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|94.306}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|73.836}}
|-
| [[St. Louis]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|169.839}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|140.6}}
|-
| [[Saint Petersburg]]
|{{RUS}}
| Eastern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|63}}<ref name="autogenerated1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|119.6}}
|-
| [[Salvador, Bahia|Salvador]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|38.819}} (2011)<ref name="bra1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|38.5}}
|-
| [[Greater San Antonio|San Antonio]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|133.633}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|102.771}}
|-
| [[San Diego]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|245.138}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|202.5}}
|-
| [[San Francisco–Oakland–Berkeley, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area|San Francisco]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|548.613}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|331.0}}
|-
| [[San Jose, California|San Jose]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|331.020}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|160.3}}
|-
| [[San Juan, Puerto Rico|San Juan]]
|{{Flag|Puerto Rico}}
| Caribbean
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|42.7}}
|-
| [[Santiago, Chile|Santiago]]
|{{CHL}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|171.4}}
|-
| [[Santos, São Paulo|Santos]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|28.609}} (2011)<ref name="bra1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[São José dos Campos]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|30.148}} (2011)<ref name="bra1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[São José dos Pinhais]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|14.726}} (2011)<ref name="bra1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[São Paulo]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|408.938}} (2013)<ref name="bra1">{{cite web|url=http://www.cidades.ibge.gov.br/comparamun/compara.php?lang=&coduf=35&idtema=152&codv=V07&order=dado&dir=desc&lista=uf&custom=|archive-url=https://archive.today/20160219214704/http://www.cidades.ibge.gov.br/comparamun/compara.php?lang=&coduf=35&idtema=152&codv=V07&order=dado&dir=desc&lista=uf&custom=|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-02-19|title=Posição ocupada pelos maiores municípios brasileiros em relação ao Produto Interno Bruto, Est. 2013|date=2013|publisher=IBGE}}</ref><ref name="bra9">{{cite web|url=https://www.exchange-rates.org/Rate/USD/BRL/12-31-2013|title=US DOLLAR RATES FOR 12/31/2013 / BRAZILIAN REAL|date=2013|publisher=EXCHANGE-RATES.ORG|access-date=22 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190922211524/https://www.exchange-rates.org/Rate/USD/BRL/12-31-2013|archive-date=22 September 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|430.5}}
|-
| [[Sapporo]]
|{{JPN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|80.5}}
|-
| [[Seattle]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|392.036}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|267.5}}
|-
| [[Semarang]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{IDN}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|41.1}}
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[Sendai]]
|{{JPN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|75.3}}
|-
| [[Seoul]]
|{{KOR}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|894.9}} (2018)<ref>[http://www.index.go.kr/potal/main/EachDtlPageDetail.do?idx_cd=1008 '''2018 est.''' Statistics Korea] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816080650/http://www.index.go.kr/potal/main/EachDtlPageDetail.do?idx_cd=1008 |date=16 August 2016 }} [[Seoul Capital Area]] includes Incheon and Gyeonggi-do, so metro GDP = 422,395+88,390+473,845 = 984,630 billion Won, at 2018 average exchange rate of 1100.30 KRW per USD.</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|845.9}}
|-
| [[Seville]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{ESP}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|44.665}} (2018)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|35.8}}
|-
| [[Shanghai]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|469}} (2017)<ref name=":0">{{cite web|title = Shanghai first Chinese city to top 3 trillion yuan GDP|url = http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201801/20/WS5a629e9ba3106e7dcc135729.html|website = China Daily|accessdate = 2018-01-20|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180120071431/http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201801/20/WS5a629e9ba3106e7dcc135729.html|archive-date = 20 January 2018|url-status = live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|594.0}}
|-
| [[Shantou]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|34.8}} (2017)<ref name=":0" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|38.7}}
|-
| [[Sheffield]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|17.4}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|39.8}}
|-
| [[Shenyang]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|86.9}} (2017)<ref name=":0" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|189.3}}
|-
| [[Shenzhen]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|338}} (2017)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2128310/shenzhen-88-cent-hi-tech-growth-roll-hit-y2tr-2017|title=Shenzhen economic expansion dwarfs growth in Hong Kong and Singapore|date=15 January 2018|website=South China Morning Post|access-date=28 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190826190148/https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2128310/shenzhen-88-cent-hi-tech-growth-roll-hit-y2tr-2017|archive-date=26 August 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|363.2}}
|-
| [[Shijiazhuang]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|95.7}} (2017)<ref name=":0" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|130.5}}
|-
| [[Shillong]]
| {{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Shimla]]
| {{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Shizuoka, Shizuoka|Shizuoka]]
|{{JPN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|58.4}}
|-
| [[Singapore]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{SGP}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|349.5}} (2018)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.singstat.gov.sg/stats/keyind.html#econind |title='''2011 est.''' / Singapore: Economic Indicators |publisher=Statistics Singapore |accessdate=3 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221030353/http://www.singstat.gov.sg/stats/keyind.html |archivedate=21 February 2009}}</ref><ref>Singapore GDP in 2011 estimate is 326.8 Billion SGD, which is equivalent to 263.6 Billion USD using 3 February 2013 exchange rate</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|365.9}}
|-
| [[Sofia]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{BGR}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|24.0}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|43.8}}
|-
| [[Sorocaba]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|21.313}} (2011)<ref name="bra1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[Southampton]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|9.6}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|51.6}}<ref group="Note">This includes [[Portsmouth]].</ref>
|-
| [[Springfield, Massachusetts|Springfield]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|34.706}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|32.8}}
|-
| [[Stockholm]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{SWE}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|180}}<ref name=":3">{{cite web|title=Contacts – City of Stockholm|url=http://international.stockholm.se/Press-and-media/Stockholm-facts/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130708150635/http://international.stockholm.se/Press-and-media/Stockholm-facts/|archive-date=8 July 2013|accessdate=2017-04-01|website=International.stockholm.se}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|143.0}}
|-
| [[Strasbourg]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{FRA}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|37.3}}
|-
| [[Stuttgart]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{GER}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|173.5}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|157.8}}
|-
| [[Surabaya]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{IDN}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|128.2}} <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jatim.bps.go.id/dynamictable/2018/01/16/223/pdrb-atas-dasar-harga-berlaku-menurut-kabupaten-kota-di-jawa-timur-2010-2016.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228135904/https://jatim.bps.go.id/dynamictable/2018/01/16/223/pdrb-atas-dasar-harga-berlaku-menurut-kabupaten-kota-di-jawa-timur-2010-2016.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2019-02-28|title=Surabaya Urban Area (Surabaya + Gresik + Sidoarjo)|last=East Java BPS|first=Statistics Indonesia|website=jatim.bps.go.id|language=id|access-date=2018-11-04}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[Suwon]]
|{{KOR}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|296.5}}
|-
| [[Suzhou]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|256.5}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|339.0}}
|-
| [[Sydney]]
|{{AUS}}
| Oceania
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|302.7}} (2015–16)<ref>[http://www.sgsep.com.au/application/files/9914/8106/1313/GDP_by_major_capital_city_201516_-_high_res.pdf '''2015–16 est.''' / SGSEP] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180422113418/https://www.sgsep.com.au/application/files/9914/8106/1313/GDP_by_major_capital_city_201516_-_high_res.pdf |date=22 April 2018 }} AUD 400,900 million according to the SGS Economics and Planning table, i.e. US$302.7 billion at current exchange rates, using the 8 June 2017 AUD/USD exchange rate used by the IMF</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|223.4}}
|-
| [[Syracuse, New York|Syracuse]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|41.356}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|40.6}}
|-
| [[Taichung]]
|{{TWN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|114.7}}
|-
| [[Tainan]]
|{{TWN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|76.7}}
|-
| [[Taipei]]
|{{TWN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|327.3}}
|-
| [[Taiyuan]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|63.0}}
|-
| [[Tallinn]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{EST}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|20}} (2018)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pub.stat.ee/px-web.2001/Dialog/varval.asp?ma=NAA0050&lang=1|title=Harju County|website=issuu|access-date=28 August 2019}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[Tampa]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|159.002}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|130.3}}
|-
| [[Tangerang]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{IDN}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|38.6}}
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[Tangshan]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|105.3}} (2017)<ref name=":0" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|162.3}}
|-
| [[Taoyuan, Taiwan|Taoyuan]]
|{{TWN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|86.8}}
|-
| [[Tbilisi]]
|{{GEO}}
| Eastern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|8.0}} (2017)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.geostat.ge/index.php/ka|title=საქართველოს სტატისტიკის ეროვნული სამსახური|website=www.geostat.ge|language=Georgian|access-date=28 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190913194536/https://www.geostat.ge/index.php/ka|archive-date=13 September 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[Tehran]]
|{{IRN}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[Tel Aviv]]
|{{ISR}} {{flagicon|Palestine}} [[State of Palestine|Palestine]]
| Western Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|153.3}}
|-
| [[Thessaloniki]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{GRC}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|19.8}} (2011)<ref>[http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/submitViewTableAction.do '''Approx., 2011 est.''' / Eurostat.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006122431/http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/submitViewTableAction.do |date=6 October 2014 }} Retrieved 11 May 2017.</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[Tianjin]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|204}} (2019)<ref name="data2018-2019">GDP-2019 is a preliminary data, and GDP-2018 is a revision based on the 2018 CASEN: {{cite press_release| url=http://data.stats.gov.cn/english/easyquery.htm?cn=E0102| title=Home - Regional - Quarterly by Province| publisher=China NBS| date=April 15, 2020| accessdate=April 15, 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200330081935/http://data.stats.gov.cn/english/easyquery.htm?cn=E0102| archive-date=30 March 2020| url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|372.0}}
|-
| [[Greater Tokyo Area|Tokyo]]
|{{JPN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|1893}} (2015)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.toukei.metro.tokyo.jp/tnenkan/tn-eindex.htm|title=TOKYO STATISTICAL YEARBOOK|website=www.toukei.metro.tokyo.jp|access-date=11 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330013345/http://www.toukei.metro.tokyo.jp/tnenkan/tn-eindex.htm|archive-date=30 March 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|1617}}
|-
| [[Toronto]]
|{{CAN}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|334}} (2014)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www1.toronto.ca/static_files/economic_development_and_culture/docs/Economic%20indicators/economic_indicators.pdf |title=Economic Indicators |website=www1.toronto.ca |accessdate=2017-04-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929112630/https://www1.toronto.ca/static_files/economic_development_and_culture/docs/Economic%20indicators/economic_indicators.pdf |archivedate=29 September 2017}} Toronto CMA GDP was 334.1B CAD, converted at the average CAD/USD exchange rate of 1.104 for 2014.</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|276.3}}
|-
| [[Toulouse]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{FRA}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|58.7}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|47.4}}
|-
| [[Tucson]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|44.876}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|41.2}}
|-
| [[Tulsa]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|57.232}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|48.6}}
|-
| [[Turin]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{ITA}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|76.9}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|78.8}}
|-
| [[Uberlandia]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|14.728}} (2011)<ref name="bra1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[Ulsan]]
|{{KOR}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|67.9}} (2017)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|296.5}}
|-
| [[Valencia]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{ESP}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|60.274}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|52.7}}
|-
| [[Vancouver]]
|{{CAN}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|109.8}}
|-
| [[Venice]]-[[Padua]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{ITA}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|62.2}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|57.3}}
|-
| [[Vienna]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{AUT}}
| Central Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|131.9}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|183.7}}<ref group="Note">This includes [[Bratislava]].</ref>
|-
| [[Vilnius]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{LTU}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|20.0}} (2016)<ref name="Indicators database" />
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[Virginia Beach, Virginia|Virginia Beach]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|100.976}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|92.1}}
|-
| [[Visakhapatnam]]
|{{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|43.5}}<ref name="Haritas" />
|-
| [[Vitória, Espírito Santo|Vitória]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|28.357}} (2011)<ref name="bra1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|35.6}}
|-
| [[Warsaw]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{POL}}
| Central Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|100}} (2017)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/9618249/1-26022019-AP-EN.pdf/f765d183-c3d2-4e2f-9256-cc6665909c80 |title=Archived copy |access-date=28 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190902020336/https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/9618249/1-26022019-AP-EN.pdf/f765d183-c3d2-4e2f-9256-cc6665909c80 |archive-date=2 September 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|141.1}}
|-
| [[Washington, D.C.]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|540.684}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|442.2}}
|-
| [[Wenzhou]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|80.8}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|101.9}}
|-
| [[Winnipeg]]
|{{CAN}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|32.5}}
|-
| [[Worcester, Massachusetts|Worcester]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|50.934}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|44.7}}
|-
| [[Wuhan]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|198.6}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|231.6}}
|-
| [[Wulumuqi]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|59.6}}
|-
| [[Wuxi]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|155.7}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|211.5}}
|-
| [[Xiamen]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|64.4}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|76.1}}
|-
| [[Xian]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|110.6}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|124.2}}
|-
| [[Xuzhou]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|97.8}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|113.2}}
|-
| [[Yantai]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|108.7}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|149.0}}
|-
| [[Yerevan]]
|{{ARM}}
| Eastern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|5.23}} (2018)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.yerevan.am/en/economy/|title=Archived copy|access-date=28 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190905085409/http://www.yerevan.am/en/economy/|archive-date=5 September 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|5.23}}
|-
| [[Zhengzhou]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|135.3}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|156.0}}
|-
| [[Zhongshan]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|51.1}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|68.7}}
|-
| [[Zhuhai]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|38.0}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|41.3}}
|-
| [[Zibo]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|70.8}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|100.3}}
|-
| [[Zürich]]
|{{CHE}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|109.1}}
|-
|Busan-Ulsan
|{{KOR}}
|East Asia
|241 (2018)<ref>{{Cite web|title=보도자료 전체 {{!}} 통계청|url=http://kostat.go.kr/portal/korea/kor_nw/1/1/index.board?bmode=read&bSeq=&aSeq=379534&pageNo=1&rowNum=10&navCount=10&currPg=&searchInfo=&sTarget=title&sTxt=|access-date=2020-08-14|website=kostat.go.kr}}</ref>
|
|}
{{clear}}

;Notes
{{Reflist|group="Note"}}

==See also==
* [[List of cheapest cities]]
* [[List of countries by GDP]]
* [[List of metropolitan areas in the European Union by GDP]]
* [[List of U.S. metropolitan areas by GDP]]
* [[List of most expensive cities for expatriate employees]]
* [[List of country subdivisions by GDP over 200 billion USD]]

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

{{Cities}}

[[Category:Lists of cities|GDP]]
[[Category:Economies by city|GDP]]
[[Category:Gross state product|*]]
[[Category:Lists of cities by GDP| ]]

List of cities by GDP

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{{short description|Wikipedia list article}}
[[File:OECD_Top_10_Metro_GDP.png|alt=|thumb|300x300px|GDP of the ten largest metropolitan economies in the OECD, 2001-2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=CITIES|title=Metropolitan Areas|last=|first=|date=|website=OECD.Stat|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412004539/https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=CITIES|archive-date=12 April 2019|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USAGDPDEFQISMEI|title=GDP Implicit Price Deflator in United States|last=Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development|date=1955-01-01|website=FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis|access-date=2020-04-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191126212225/https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USAGDPDEFQISMEI|archive-date=26 November 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>]]
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}
This is a '''list of cities in the world by gross domestic product (GDP)'''. The [[United Nations]] uses three definitions for what constitutes a city, as not all cities may be classified using the same criteria. Cities may be defined as the [[city proper|cities proper]], the extent of their [[urban area]], or their [[metropolitan area|metropolitan regions]].<ref name="UNICEF">{{cite web |url = http://www.unicef.org/sowc2012/statistics.php |title=SOWC-2012-DEFINITIONS|publisher=[[UNICEF]]|accessdate=29 January 2014 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131208114052/http://www.unicef.org/sowc2012/statistics.php |archivedate=8 December 2013}}</ref> The methodology of calculating GDP may differ between the studies and are widely based on projections and sometimes approximate estimations, notably for cities that are not within the [[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]]. Refer to sources for more information. Click on the headers to reorganize columns.

==List==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:1em auto 1em auto;"
|-
! [[City proper]] / [[Metropolitan area]]
! style="width:130px"|Country/Region
! style="width:100px"|UNSD sub‑region<ref>{{cite web|url=http://millenniumindicators.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm|title=Composition of macro geographical (continental) regions, geographical sub-regions, and selected economic and other groupings|publisher=United Nations|accessdate=23 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713041240/http://millenniumindicators.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm|archive-date=13 July 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>
! style="width:75px"|Official est. Nominal GDP ($BN)
! style="width:75"|Brookings Institution<ref name="Brookings">{{cite web |url= https://www.brookings.edu/research/global-metro-monitor/ |title= Global city GDP 2014 |publisher= [[Brookings Institution]] |accessdate= 8 May 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170525113815/https://www.brookings.edu/research/global-metro-monitor/ |archive-date= 25 May 2017 |url-status= live }}</ref> 2014 est. [[Purchasing power parity|PPP]]-adjusted GDP ($BN)
|-
| [[Aachen]]-[[Liège]]-[[Maastricht]]
|{{flagicon|EU}} {{GER}} {{BEL}} {{NED}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|99.7}}
|-
| [[Aberdeen]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|11.3}} (2008)<ref name="2008 estimate">{{cite web |url=http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/regional-analysis/urban-audit/urban-audit-iv---united-kingdom-cities-compared-with-other-european-cities---march-2012/all-data-for-uk-cities---as-at-08-03-12.xls |format=xls |title=2008 estimate |date=6 March 2012 |publisher=Office for National Statistics |accessdate=13 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021170806/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/regional-analysis/urban-audit/urban-audit-iv---united-kingdom-cities-compared-with-other-european-cities---march-2012/all-data-for-uk-cities---as-at-08-03-12.xls |archive-date=21 October 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Abidjan]]
|{{CIV}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Abu Dhabi]]
|{{ARE}}
| Western Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|119}}<ref name = "2012 estimate abu dhabi">{{cite web|url=https://ded.abudhabi.ae/en/studies-indicators/EconomicReports/Economic%20Report%20of%20AD%202012.pdf|title=Abu Dhabi Economic Report|access-date=15 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304122833/https://ded.abudhabi.ae/en/studies-indicators/EconomicReports/Economic%20Report%20of%20AD%202012.pdf|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|178.3}}
|-
| [[Addis Ababa]]
|{{ETH}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Adelaide]]
|{{AUS}}
| Oceania
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|59.1}} (2015–16)<ref>[http://www.sgsep.com.au/application/files/9914/8106/1313/GDP_by_major_capital_city_201516_-_high_res.pdf '''2015–16 est.''' / SGSEP] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180422113418/https://www.sgsep.com.au/application/files/9914/8106/1313/GDP_by_major_capital_city_201516_-_high_res.pdf |date=22 April 2018 }} AUD 78,251 million according to the SGS Economics and Planning table, i.e. US$59.1 billion at current exchange rates, using the 8 June 2017 AUD/USD exchange rate used by the IMF</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|47.4}}
|-
| [[Ahmedabad]]
|{{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|68}}<ref name="Haritas">{{Cite web|title=Richest Cities Of India|url=http://businessworld.in/article/Richest-Cities-Of-India/28-06-2017-121011|last=Haritas|first=Bhragu|website=BW Businessworld|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200302220702/http://www.businessworld.in/article/Richest-Cities-Of-India/28-06-2017-121011/|archive-date=2 March 2020|access-date=2020-04-19}}</ref>
|-
| [[Akron]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|36.800}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|32.8}}
|-
| [[Albany, New York|Albany]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|59.657}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|58.4}}
|-
| [[Albuquerque]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|42.896}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|39.9}}
|-
| [[Alexandria]]
|{{EGY}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|32.4}}
|-
| [[Algiers]]
|{{ALG}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Allentown, Pennsylvania|Allentown]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|45.024}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|37.3}}
|-
| [[Almaty]]
|{{KAZ}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|53.1}}
|-
| [[Amsterdam]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{NLD}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|154.0}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|320.6}}<ref group="Note">This includes [[Rotterdam]].</ref>
|-
| [[Anápolis]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|6.740}} (2011)<ref name="bra1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Ankara]]
|{{TUR}}
| Western Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|104.9}}
|-
| [[Anshan]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|67.4}}
|-
| [[Arnhem]]-[[Nijmegen]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{NLD}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|27.9}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|44.4}}
|-
| [[Athens]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{GRC}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|93.7}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|129.6}}
|-
| [[Atlanta]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|397.261}} (2018)<ref name="usa1">{{cite web|url=https://www.bea.gov/data/gdp/gdp-county-metro-and-other-areas|title=GDP by County, Metro, and Other Areas|date=12 December 2019|publisher=[[Bureau of Economic Analysis]]|location=Suitland, Maryland|accessdate=15 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212141532/https://www.bea.gov/data/gdp/gdp-county-metro-and-other-areas|archive-date=12 December 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|294.4}}
|-
| [[Auckland]]
|{{NZL}}
| Oceania
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|49.5}}
|-
| [[Greater Austin|Austin]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|146.784}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|107.4}}
|-
| [[Bakersfield]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|49.514}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|47.9}}
|-
| [[Baghdad]]
|{{IRQ}}
| Western Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Baltimore]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|205.313}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|173.7}}
|-
| [[Bandung]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{IDN}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|{{nts|62.3}} <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bandungkota.bps.go.id/statictable/2019/01/23/191/pdrb-kota-bandung-atas-dasar-harga-konstan-2010-menurut-lapangan-usaha-juta-rupiah-2010-2017.html|title=Badan Pusat Statistik Kota Bandung|website=bandungkota.bps.go.id|access-date=2019-02-28}}{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Batam]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{IDN}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|35.3}}
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[Bangkok]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{THA}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|147.97}}
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|306.8}}
|-
| [[Baotou]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|40.8}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|94.1}}
|-
| [[Barcelona]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{ESP}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|173.315}} (2017)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|171.0}}
|-
| [[Basel]]-[[Mulhouse]]
|{{CHE}}{{FRA}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|56.2}}
|-
| [[Baton Rouge]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|56.315}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|53.5}}
|-
| [[Beijing]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|513}} (2019)<ref name="data2018-2019">GDP-2019 is a preliminary data, and GDP-2018 is a revision based on the 2018 CASEN: {{cite press_release| url=http://data.stats.gov.cn/english/easyquery.htm?cn=E0102| title=Home - Regional - Quarterly by Province| publisher=China NBS| date=April 15, 2020| accessdate=April 15, 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200330081935/http://data.stats.gov.cn/english/easyquery.htm?cn=E0102| archive-date=30 March 2020| url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|506.1}}
|-
| [[Belfast]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|25.5}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Belgrade]]
|{{SRB}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|17.4}} (2014)<ref>[http://pod2.stat.gov.rs/ObjavljenePublikacije/G2016/pdf/G20162019.pdf Statistical Yearbook of Serbia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171013213156/http://pod2.stat.gov.rs/ObjavljenePublikacije/G2016/pdf/G20162019.pdf |date=13 October 2017 }}, pp. 146–47. ''Statistical Office of Serbia''. GDP of Belgrade district in 2014 was 1,514,166 mio RSD x 0.0115 = 17.4 bn USD.</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Belo Horizonte]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|54.996}} (2011)<ref name="bra1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|84.7}}
|-
| [[Bengaluru]]
|{{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|45.1}}
|-
| [[Berlin]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{DEU}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|215.2}} (2015)<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.statistik-bw.de/VGRdL/tbls/index.jsp?lang=#tab03|title=Aktuelle Ergebnisse – VGR dL|last=Baden-Württemberg|first=Statistisches Landesamt|website=www.statistik-bw.de|language=de|access-date=2018-06-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190213033332/https://www.statistik-bw.de/VGRdL/tbls/index.jsp?lang=#tab03|archive-date=13 February 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|157.7}}
|-
| [[Bielefeld]]-[[Detmold]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{DEU}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|50.5}}
|-
| [[Bilbao]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{ESP}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|36.9}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|38.5}}
|-
| [[Birmingham]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|81.8}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|121.1}}
|-
| [[Birmingham, Alabama]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|62.881}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|54.164}}
|-
| [[Bogotá]]
|{{COL}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|159.9}}
|-
| [[Bologna]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{ITA}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|43.4}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|36.3}}
|-
| [[Bordeaux]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{FRA}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|55.9}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|40.2}}
|-
| [[Boston]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|463.570}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|360.1}}
|-
| [[Brasília]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|164.482}} (2011)<ref name="bra1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|141.9}}
|-
| [[Braunschweig]]-[[Wolfsburg]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{DEU}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|45.5}}
|-
| [[Bremen]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{DEU}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|30.4}} (2015)<ref name=":1" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|47.9}}
|-
| [[Greater Bridgeport|Bridgeport]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|89.387}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|70.0}}
|-
| [[Brisbane]]
|{{AUS}}
| Oceania
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|120.6}} (2015–16)<ref>[http://www.sgsep.com.au/application/files/9914/8106/1313/GDP_by_major_capital_city_201516_-_high_res.pdf '''2015–16 est.''' / SGSEP] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180422113418/https://www.sgsep.com.au/application/files/9914/8106/1313/GDP_by_major_capital_city_201516_-_high_res.pdf |date=22 April 2018 }} AUD 157,931 million according to the SGS Economics and Planning table, i.e. US$120.6 billion at current exchange rates, using the 8 June 2017 AUD/USD exchange rate used by the IMF</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|96.6}}
|-
| [[Bristol]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|88.448}} (2017)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|47.7}}
|-
| [[Brussels]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{BEL}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|144.359}} (2016)<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?dataset=met_10r_3gdp&lang=en|title=Eurostat|access-date=19 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180619140110/http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?dataset=met_10r_3gdp&lang=en|archive-date=19 June 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|254.3}}
|-
| [[Bucharest]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{ROU}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|49.407}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|72.4}}
|-
| [[Budapest]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{HUN}}
| Central Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|58.5}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|98.0}}
|-
| [[Buenos Aires]]
|{{ARG}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|315.9}}
|-
| [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|68.989}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|72.7}}
|-
| [[Bursa]]
|{{TUR}}
| Western Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|80.1}}
|-
| [[Busan]]
|{{KOR}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|75.9}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|296.5}}
|-
| [[Cairo]]
|{{EGY}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|102.2}}
|-
| [[Calgary]]
|{{CAN}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|97.9}}
|-
| [[Cambridge]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Campinas]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|40.525}} (2011)<ref name="bra1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|59.3}}
|-
| [[Campo Grande]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|9.211}} (2011)<ref name="bra1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Campos dos Goytacazes]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|16.174}} (2011)<ref name="bra1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Cape Town]]
|{{ZAF}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|58.9}}
|-
| [[Caracas]]
|{{VEN}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|51.8}}
|-
| [[Cardiff]]-[[Newport, Wales|Newport]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|33.7}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|36.0}}
|-
| [[Casablanca]]
|{{MAR}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|37.9}}
|-
| [[Chandigarh]]
| {{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Changchun]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|96.7}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|124.5}}
|-
| [[Changsha]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|156.0}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|186.4}}
|-
| [[Changzhou]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|98.1}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|110.9}}
|-
| [[Charlotte, North Carolina|Charlotte]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|169.862}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|126.2}}
|-
| [[Chengdu]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|205.7}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn">{{cite web|title = National Bureau of Statistics of China|url = http://data.stats.gov.cn/easyquery.htm?cn=E0105|website = data.stats.gov.cn|accessdate = 2017-08-25|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170913222141/http://data.stats.gov.cn/easyquery.htm?cn=E0105|archive-date = 13 September 2017|url-status = live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|233.5}}
|-
| [[Chennai]]
|{{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|{{nts|78.6}} <ref name="Haritas" />
|-
| [[Chicago]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|689.464}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|563.2}}
|-
| [[Chittagong]]
|{{BGD}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Chongqing]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|342}} (2019)<ref name="data2018-2019">GDP-2019 is a preliminary data, and GDP-2018 is a revision based on the 2018 CASEN: {{cite press_release| url=http://data.stats.gov.cn/english/easyquery.htm?cn=E0102| title=Home - Regional - Quarterly by Province| publisher=China NBS| date=April 15, 2020| accessdate=April 15, 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200330081935/http://data.stats.gov.cn/english/easyquery.htm?cn=E0102| archive-date=30 March 2020| url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|315.6}}
|-
| [[Cincinnati]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|141.052}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|110.9}}
|-
| [[Cleveland]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|134.369}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|115.1}}
|-
| [[Columbia, South Carolina|Columbia]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|43.118}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|37.2}}
|-
| [[Columbus, Ohio|Columbus]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|129.328}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|108.9}}
|-
| [[Copenhagen]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{DNK}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|134.3}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|127.0}}<ref group="Note">This includes [[Malmö]].</ref>
|-
| [[Cork (city)|Cork]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{IRL}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
{{nts|24.0}} (2015)
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Cracow]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{POL}}
| Central Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|22.0}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|33.1}}
|-
| [[Coventry]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|7.4}} (2008)<ref name="2008 estimate"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Curitiba]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|58.082}} (2011)<ref name="bra1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|57.7}}
|-
| [[Daegu]]
|{{KOR}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|56.9}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|54.5}}
|-
| [[Daejeon]]
|{{KOR}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|39.6}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|39.6}}
|-
| [[Dalian]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|109.1}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|198.8}}
|-
| [[Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex|Dallas–Fort Worth]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|512.509}} (2018)
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|412.7}}
|-
| [[Daqing]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|39.7}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|98.5}}
|-
| [[Dayton]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|43.254}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|37.5}}
|-
| [[Dar es Salaam]]
|{{TZA}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Delhi]] (NCR)
|{{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|293.6}}<ref name="Haritas" />
|-
| [[Denver]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|214.157}} (2017)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|169.7}}
|-
| [[Des Moines]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|50.339}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|39.5}}
|-
| [[Detroit]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|267.731}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|207.5}}
|-
| [[Dhaka]]
|{{BGD}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|78}}
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Doha]]
|{{QAT}}
| Western Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Dongguan]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|112.3}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|141.1}}
|-
| [[Dongying]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|56.3}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|83.7}}
|-
| [[Dubai]]
|{{ARE}}
| Western Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|82.9}}
|-
| [[Dublin]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{IRL}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|127.8}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|90.1}}
|-
| [[Durban]]
|{{ZAF}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|48.9}}
|-
| [[Durham, North Carolina|Durham]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|54.687}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|37.0}}
|-
| [[East Rand]]
|{{ZAF}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|55.3}}
|-
| [[Edinburgh]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|41.8}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|32.5}}
|-
| [[Edmonton]]
|{{CAN}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|83.0}}
|-
| [[Eindhoven]]-[[Den Bosch]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{NLD}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|91.5}}
|-
| [[El Paso]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|32.570}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|32.7}}
|-
| [[Faisalabad]]
|{{PAK}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|20.55}}<ref name=PBIT>{{cite web| url=http://www.pbit.gop.pk/punjab_at_glance| title=Punjab at a Glance| publisher=Punjab Board of Investment & Trade, Government of The Punjab| date=2016| accessdate=15 April 2017| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170416133204/http://www.pbit.gop.pk/punjab_at_glance| archive-date=16 April 2017| url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| [[Faridabad]]
| {{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Florence]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{ITA}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|40.1}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|52.5}}
|-
| [[Fortaleza]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|42.010}} (2011)<ref name="bra1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|35.2}}
|-
| [[Foshan]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|141.4}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|184.5}}
|-
| [[Frankfurt]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{DEU}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|230.0}}
|-
| [[Fresno]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|47.408}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|45.5}}
|-
| [[Fukuoka–Kitakyushu]]
|{{JPN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|185}} (2013)<ref>[http://www.esri.cao.go.jp/jp/sna/sonota/kenmin/kenmin_top.html '''Approx., 2013 est.''' / GDP of Fukuoka Prefecture is 19.0 [[Trillion (short scale)|trillion]] yen (approximately US$185 billion).] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171017202328/http://www.esri.cao.go.jp/jp/sna/sonota/kenmin/kenmin_top.html |date=17 October 2017 }} Cabinet Office, Government of Japan. Retrieved 14 August 2016.</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|193.3}}
|-
| [[Fuzhou]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|105.2}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|117.4}}
|-
| [[Geneva]]
|{{CHE}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|44.0}}
|-
| [[George Town, Penang|George Town]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{MYS}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|38.0}}
|-
| [[Glasgow]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|66.4}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|56.7}}
|-
| [[Gothenburg]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{SWE}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|84.4}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|40.0}}
|-
| [[Ghaziabad]]
|{{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Grand Rapids]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|61.615}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|51.6}}
|-
| [[Greensboro]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|43.154}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|40.9}}
|-
| [[Greenville, South Carolina|Greenville]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|46.431}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|35.6}}
|-
| [[Goiânia]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|22.763}} (2011)<ref name="bra1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Guadalajara]]
|{{MEX}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|80.7}}
|-
| [[Guangzhou]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|341}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|380.3}}
|-
| [[Gujranwala]]
|{{PAK}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|21}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|20.3}}
|-
| [[Gurgaon]]
| {{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|25}} (2018)
|-
| [[Guwahati]]
| {{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|2.7}} (2018)
|-
| [[Gwangju]]
|{{KOR}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|36.8}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|36.7}}
|-
| [[Haifa]]
|{{ISR}} {{flagicon|Palestine}} [[State of Palestine|Palestine]]
| Western Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|40.4}}
|-
| [[Hamamatsu]]
|{{JPN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|52.3}}
|-
| [[Hamburg]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{DEU}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|120.1}} (2015)<ref name=":1" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|161.4}}
|-
| [[Hangzhou]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|150.8}} (2015)<ref>{{cite web |title = National Bureau of Statistics of China |url = http://data.stats.gov.cn/easyquery.htm?cn=E0105 |website = data.stats.gov.cn |accessdate = 2017-08-25 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170913222141/http://data.stats.gov.cn/easyquery.htm?cn=E0105 |archive-date = 13 September 2017 |url-status = live }}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|219.5}}
|-
| [[Hannover]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{DEU}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|51.5}} (2015)<ref name=":1" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|59.6}}
|-
| [[Hanoi]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{VNM}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Harbin]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|94.1}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|127.9}}
|-
| [[Harrisburg]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|39.896}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|35.1}}
|-
| [[Greater Hartford|Hartford]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|99.465}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|101.2}}
|-
| [[Hefei]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|106.8}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|120.9}}
|-
| [[Helsinki]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{FIN}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|90.8}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|77.1}}
|-
| [[Hiroshima]]
|{{JPN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|74.9}}
|-
| [[Ho Chi Minh City]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{VNM}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|71.1}}
|-
| [[Hong Kong]]
|{{HKG}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|373}} (2019)<ref name="IMFWEOHK">{{cite web |url=https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2019/02/weodata/weorept.aspx?pr.x=58&pr.y=13&sy=2017&ey=2021&scsm=1&ssd=1&sort=country&ds=.&br=1&c=532&s=NGDPD%2CPPPGDP%2CNGDPDPC%2CPPPPC&grp=0&a= |title=World Economic Outlook Database, October 2019 |website=IMF.org |publisher=[[International Monetary Fund]] |access-date=17 October 2019 }}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|416.0}}
|-
| [[Honolulu]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|69.252}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|58.6}}
|-
| [[Greater Houston|Houston]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|478.778}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|483.2}}
|-
| [[Hsinchu]]
|{{TWN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|38.4}}
|-
| [[Huhehaote]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|70.1}}
|-
| [[Huntsville, Alabama|Huntsville]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|27.558}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]]
|{{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|{{nts|75.2}} <ref name="Haritas" />
|-
| [[Indianapolis metropolitan area|Indianapolis]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|140.762}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|113.606}}
|-
| [[Islamabad]]
|{{PAK}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|18.7}}
|-
| [[Istanbul]]
|{{TUR}}
| Western Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|348.7}}
|-
| [[Izmir]]
|{{TUR}}
| Western Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|80.1}}
|-
| [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|83.186}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|63.8}}
|-
| [[Jakarta]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{IDN}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|{{nts|200.9}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jakarta.bps.go.id/pressrelease/2019/02/06/335/pertumbuhan-ekonomi-dki-jakarta-tahun-2018-sebesar-6-17-persen.html|title=BPS Provinsi DKI Jakarta|website=jakarta.bps.go.id|access-date=2019-02-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228192426/https://jakarta.bps.go.id/pressrelease/2019/02/06/335/pertumbuhan-ekonomi-dki-jakarta-tahun-2018-sebesar-6-17-persen.html|archive-date=28 February 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|321.3}}
|-
| [[Jammu]]
| {{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|1.}}
|-
| [[Jeddah]]
|{{SAU}}
| Western Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|160.6}}
|-
| [[Jerusalem]]
|{{ISR}} {{flagicon|Palestine}} [[State of Palestine|Palestine]]
| Western Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|48.0}} (2015)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.lloyds.com/cityriskindex/locations/city/jerusalem |title=Archived copy |access-date=27 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006180852/http://www.lloyds.com/cityriskindex/locations/city/jerusalem |archive-date=6 October 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-

| [[Jinan]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|106.7}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|136.8}}
|-
| [[Johannesburg]]
|{{ZAF}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|82.9}}
|-
| [[Jundiaí]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|20.081}} (2011)<ref name="bra1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Kabul]]
|{{AFG}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|6}}
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Kagoshima]]
|{{JPN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|34.3}}
|-
| [[Kano]]
|{{NGA}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|132.703}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|105.9}}
|-
| [[Kaohsiung]]
|{{TWN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|113.647}}
|-
| [[Karachi]]
|{{PAK}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|144}} (2017)
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Karlsruhe]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{DEU}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|37.6}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|137.1}}
|-
| [[Katowice]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{POL}}
| Central Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|37.9}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|122.3}}
|-
| [[Kaunas]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{LTU}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|10.0}} (2016)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://osp.stat.gov.lt/statistiniu-rodikliu-analize?id=8,446&status=A#/|title=Rodiklių duomenų bazė - Oficialiosios statistikos portalas|website=osp.stat.gov.lt|access-date=11 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128132514/https://osp.stat.gov.lt/statistiniu-rodikliu-analize?id=8,446&status=A#/|archive-date=28 January 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Khartoum]]
|{{SDN}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Kiev]]
|{{UKR}}
| Eastern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|30.4}} (2018)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ukrstat.gov.ua/operativ/operativ2008/vvp/vrp/vrp2018_ost_e.xls|title=State Statistics Service of Ukraine|last=|first=|date=|website=www.ukrstat.gov.ua|access-date=}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Kingston-upon-Hull]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|17.7}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Kinshasa]]
|{{Flag|DR Congo}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Klaipėda]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{LTU}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|6.0}} (2016)<ref name="Indicators database">{{cite web |url=http://osp.stat.gov.lt/en/statistiniu-rodikliu-analize?id=8446&status=A |title=Statistinių rodiklių analizė |website=Osp.stat.gov.lt |accessdate=2017-04-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170821085627/https://osp.stat.gov.lt/en/statistiniu-rodikliu-analize?id=8446&status=A |archive-date=21 August 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Knoxville, Tennessee|Knoxville]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|43.307}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|38.3}}
|-
| [[Kolkata]]
|{{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| 150<ref>{{Cite web|title=Archived copy|url=http://www.walkthroughindia.com/offbeat/top-10-richest-cities-india-based-gdp/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200329082750/http://www.walkthroughindia.com/offbeat/top-10-richest-cities-india-based-gdp/|archive-date=29 March 2020|access-date=29 March 2020}}</ref>
|-
| [[Kuala Lumpur]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{MYS}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|171.8}}
|-
| [[Kumamoto]]
|{{JPN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|41.8}}
|-
| [[Kunming]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|72.0}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|88.6}}
|-
| [[Kuwait City]]
|{{KWT}}
| Western Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|166.5}}
|-
| [[Lagos]]
|{{NGA}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|74.67}} (2010)<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.lagosstate.gov.ng/images/pageimages/downloadfiles/docs/LAGOS_STATE_GDP2010.pdf | title=Lagos Gross Domestic Product | publisher=Lagos State Government | date=2010 | accessdate=16 March 2015 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150425055927/http://www.lagosstate.gov.ng/images/pageimages/downloadfiles/docs/LAGOS_STATE_GDP2010.pdf | archivedate=25 April 2015}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Lahore]]
|{{PAK}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|58.14}} (2015)<ref name="Lahore Fact Sheet">{{cite web|title=Lahore Fact Sheet|url=http://www.lloyds.com/cityriskindex/locations/fact_sheet/lahore|publisher=Lloyd's|accessdate=19 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821060947/http://www.lloyds.com/cityriskindex/locations/fact_sheet/lahore|archive-date=21 August 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/world2016t.html |title=GaWC – The World According to GaWC 2016 |publisher=lboro.ac.uk |date=24 April 2017 |accessdate=30 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131010004859/http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/world2010t.html |archive-date=10 October 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Las Vegas]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|122.423}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|93.9}}
|-
| [[Leeds]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|44.8}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|74.6}}<ref group="Note">This includes [[Bradford]].</ref>
|-
| [[Leicester]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|46.8}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Leipzig]]-[[Halle (Saale)|Halle]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{DEU}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|33.4}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|39.6}}
|-
| [[Lille]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{FRA}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|83.3}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|98.5}}
|-
| [[Lima]]
|{{PER}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|176.5}}
|-
| [[Linz]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{AUT}}
| Central Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|37.9}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|44.6}}
|-
| [[Lisbon]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{PRT}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|72.0}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|96.3}}
|-
| [[Little Rock]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|38.252}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|40.7}}
|-
| [[Liverpool]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|47.8}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|65.8}}
|-
| [[London]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|633.9}} (2018)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/bulletins/regionaleconomicactivitybygrossdomesticproductuk/1998to2018/pdf|title=Regional economic activity by gross domestic product, UK: 1998 to 2018|access-date=17 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224103937/https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/bulletins/regionaleconomicactivitybygrossdomesticproductuk/1998to2018/pdf|archive-date=24 December 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|835.7}}
|-
| [[Greater Los Angeles|Los Angeles]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|1,294}} (2018)<ref name="stlouisfed.org1">[https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NGMP31080 Total Gross Domestic Product for Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191126024835/https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NGMP31080 |date=26 November 2019 }} Federal Reserve Economic Data. Retrieved 16 June 2019</ref><ref name="stlouisfed.org2">[https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NGMP40140 Total Gross Domestic Product for Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616224607/https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NGMP40140 |date=16 June 2019 }} Federal Reserve Economic Data. Retrieved 16 June 2019</ref><ref name="stlouisfed.org3">[https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NGMP37100 Total Gross Domestic Product for Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616224609/https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NGMP37100 |date=16 June 2019 }} Federal Reserve Economic Data. Retrieved 16 June 2019</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|860.5}}
|-
| [[Louisville metropolitan area|Louisville]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|72.093}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|62.397}}
|-
| [[Luanda]]
|{{AGO}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Lucknow]]
|{{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|25}} <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanpur |title=Archived copy |access-date=29 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200501021537/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanpur |archive-date=1 May 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{Circular reference|date=June 2020}}
|-
| [[Ludhiana]]
| {{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|15}}
|-
| [[Luxembourg]]-[[Trier]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{LUX}}{{GER}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|62}} (2014)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.brookings.edu/research/global-metro-monitor/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=17 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401130959/https://www.brookings.edu/research/global-metro-monitor/ |archive-date=1 April 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|62}}
|-
| [[Luton]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Lyon]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{FRA}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|88.2}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|97.0}}
|-
| [[Macau]]
|{{Flag|Macau}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|53.7}} (2018)<ref name="imf3">{{cite web|url=http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2017/01/weodata/weorept.aspx?sy=2015&ey=2016&scsm=1&ssd=1&sort=country&ds=.&br=1&c=546%2C532&s=NGDPD&grp=0&a=&pr.x=54&pr.y=10|title=Macau|publisher=[[International Monetary Fund]]|accessdate=2017-08-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170825102206/http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2017/01/weodata/weorept.aspx?sy=2015&ey=2016&scsm=1&ssd=1&sort=country&ds=.&br=1&c=546%2C532&s=NGDPD&grp=0&a=&pr.x=54&pr.y=10|archive-date=25 August 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|53.9}}
|-
| [[Madison, Wisconsin|Madison]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|51.481}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|41.8}}

|-
| [[Madrid]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{ESP}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|248.56}} (2017)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|262.3}}
|-
| [[Makassar]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{IDN}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|37.7}}
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[Manaus]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|51.025}} (2011)<ref name="bra1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Manchester]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|113.7}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|92.3}}
|-
| [[Metro Manila|Manila]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{PHL}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|192.6}} (2018)
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|190.8}}
|-
| [[Marseille]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{FRA}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|104.1}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|60.3}}
|-
| [[Medellín]]
|{{COL}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|43.5}}
|-
| [[Medan]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{IDN}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|{{nts|52.4}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://medankota.bps.go.id/dynamictable/2018/08/27/49/-seri-2010-produk-domestik-regional-bruto-kota-medan-atas-dasar-harga-konstan-2010-menurut-pengeluaran-jua-rupiah-2010-2017.html|title=Badan Pusat Statistik Kota Medan|website=medankota.bps.go.id|access-date=2019-02-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101213854/https://medankota.bps.go.id/dynamictable/2018/08/27/49/-seri-2010-produk-domestik-regional-bruto-kota-medan-atas-dasar-harga-konstan-2010-menurut-pengeluaran-jua-rupiah-2010-2017.html|archive-date=1 January 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Melbourne]]
|{{AUS}}
| Oceania
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|229.2}} (2015–16)<ref>[http://www.sgsep.com.au/application/files/9914/8106/1313/GDP_by_major_capital_city_201516_-_high_res.pdf '''2015–16 est.''' / SGSEP] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180422113418/https://www.sgsep.com.au/application/files/9914/8106/1313/GDP_by_major_capital_city_201516_-_high_res.pdf |date=22 April 2018 }} AUD 303,560 million according to the SGS Economics and Planning table, i.e. US$229.188 billion at current exchange rates, using the 8 June 2017 AUD/USD exchange rate used by the IMF</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|178.4}}
|-
| [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|76.749}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|65.0}}
|-
| [[Mexico City]]
|{{MEX}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|403}}
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|403.6}}
|-
| [[Miami]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|354.740}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|262.7}}
|-
| [[Milan]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{ITA}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|312.1}}
|-
| [[Milwaukee]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|103.731}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|86.5}}
|-
| [[Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota|Minneapolis/St. Paul]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|263.690}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|211.4}}
|-
| [[Minsk]]
|{{BLR}}
| Eastern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|16.1}} (2018)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.belstat.gov.by/en/ofitsialnaya-statistika/real-sector-of-the-economy/national-accounts/graphical-data-graphs-diagrams/grps-of-regions-and-minsk-city-and-their-percentage-shares-in-gdp-in-2017/|title=GRPs of regions and Minsk city and their percentage shares in GDP in 2018|website=www.belstat.gov.by|access-date=2020-04-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191113162955/http://www.belstat.gov.by/en/ofitsialnaya-statistika/real-sector-of-the-economy/national-accounts/graphical-data-graphs-diagrams/grps-of-regions-and-minsk-city-and-their-percentage-shares-in-gdp-in-2017/|archive-date=13 November 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Monterrey]]
|{{MEX}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|122.9}}
|-
| [[Montevideo]]
|{{URY}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Montreal]]
|{{CAN}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|155.9}}
|-
| [[Moscow]]
|{{RUS}}
| Eastern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|225.0}} (2015)<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web |url=http://mrd.gks.ru/wps/wcm/connect/rosstat_ts/mrd/ru/statistics/grp/ |title=Валовой региональный продукт::Мордовиястат |website=Mrd.gks.ru |accessdate=2017-04-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180217021320/http://mrd.gks.ru/wps/wcm/connect/rosstat_ts/mrd/ru/statistics/grp/ |archive-date=17 February 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|553.3}}
|-
| [[Multan]]
|{{PAK}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|17.425}} (2016)
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|24.15}}
|-
| [[Mumbai]]
|{{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|{{nts|368}}<ref name="Haritas" />
|-
| [[Munich Metropolitan Region|Munich]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{DEU}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|190.0}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|219.9}}
|-
| [[Chūkyō Metropolitan Area|Nagoya]]
|{{JPN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|368}} (2013)<ref>[http://www.esri.cao.go.jp/jp/sna/sonota/kenmin/kenmin_top.html '''Approx., 2013 est.''' / GDP of Aichi Prefecture is 37.8 trillion yen (approximately US$368 billion).] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171017202328/http://www.esri.cao.go.jp/jp/sna/sonota/kenmin/kenmin_top.html |date=17 October 2017 }} Cabinet Office, Government of Japan. Retrieved 14 August 2016.</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|363.8}}
|-
| [[Nagpur]]
|{{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|15.1}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=15 Richest (by GDP) Cities in India|url=https://www.worldlistmania.com/15-richest-gdp-cities-india/|access-date=2020-06-18|language=en-US}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Nairobi]]
|{{KEN}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Nanchang]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|74.1}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|96.0}}
|-
| [[Nanjing]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|173.5}} (2017)
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|202.7}}
|-
| [[Nanning]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|61.0}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|70.3}}
|-
| [[Nantes]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{FRA}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|51.0}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|32.0}}
|-
| [[Nantong]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|114.6}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|128.3}}
|-
| [[Naples]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{ITA}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|62.8}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|85.5}}
|-
| [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|132.202}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|95.0}}
|-
| [[New Haven]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|53.613}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|53.3}}
|-
| [[New Orleans]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|80.287}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|74.2}}
|-
| [[New York metropolitan area|New York]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|1732}} (2019)<ref name="NYCMetroGMP">{{cite web|url=https://apps.bea.gov/regional/bearfacts/action.cfm#tabs-2|title=U.S. metro areas – ranked by Gross Metropolitan Product (GMP) 2019 {{!}} Statistic|website=Statista|accessdate=31 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181022232802/https://apps.bea.gov/regional/bearfacts/action.cfm#tabs-2|archive-date=22 October 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|1403}}
|-
| [[Newcastle upon Tyne|Newcastle]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|36.0}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|44.6}}
|-
| [[Nice]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{FRA}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|36.1}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|46.0}}
|-
| [[Niigata, Niigata|Niigata]]
|{{JPN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|50.3}}
|-
| [[Ningbo]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|145.8}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|179.0}}
|-
| [[Noida]]
|{{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Nottingham]]-[[Derby]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|51.0}}
|-
| [[Nuremberg Metropolitan Region|Nürnberg-Fürth]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{DEU}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|164.6}} (2014)<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/603802/umfrage/bruttoinlandsprodukt-in-den-metropolregionen-in-deutschland/|title=Bruttoinlandsprodukt in den Metropolregionen in Deutschland 2014 {{!}} Statistik|website=Statista|language=de|access-date=2018-06-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616204005/https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/603802/umfrage/bruttoinlandsprodukt-in-den-metropolregionen-in-deutschland/|archive-date=16 June 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|74.5}}
|-
| [[Okayama]]
|{{JPN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|56.8}}
|-
| [[Oklahoma City metropolitan area|Oklahoma City]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|81.016}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|70.010}}
|-
| [[Omaha]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|62.760}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|51.2}}
|-
| [[Orlando]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|138.947}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|116.2}}
|-
| [[Keihanshin|Osaka–Kobe]]
|{{JPN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|681}} (2015)
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|671.3}}<ref group="Note">This includes [[Kyoto]].</ref>
|-
| [[Oslo]]
|{{NOR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|74.0}} (2014)<ref>[https://www.ssb.no/en/nasjonalregnskap-og-konjunkturer/statistikker/fnr/aar/2016-10-20?fane=tabell&sort=nummer&tabell=281277 Regional Accounts, 2014] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922050534/https://www.ssb.no/en/nasjonalregnskap-og-konjunkturer/statistikker/fnr/aar/2016-10-20?fane=tabell&sort=nummer&tabell=281277 |date=22 September 2017 }} – ''Statistics Norway''. National GDP at 2,707.8 bn NOK, Oslo at 17.1% of the total = 463 bn NOK x 0.16 = 74 bn USD.</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|74.4}}
|-
| [[Ottawa]]
|{{CAN}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|58.2}}
|-
| [[Oxnard]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|59.631}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|46.3}}
|-
| [[Palembang]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{IDN}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|33.5}}
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[Paris]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{FRA}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|866}} (2018)<ref>[https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/10474907/1-05032020-AP-EN.pdf/81807e19-e4c8-2e53-c98a-933f5bf30f58&ved=2ahUKEwi-u5GHnujpAhUOuIsKHaOlDG0QFjACegQIBRAJ&usg=AOvVaw0NnWnyaFRad5NgG3NGcbJP&cshid=1591276979492 '''2018 est.''' / Eurostat] {{Webarchive|url=https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/10474907/1-05032020-AP-EN.pdf/81807e19-e4c8-2e53-c98a-933f5bf30f58&ved=2ahUKEwi-u5GHnujpAhUOuIsKHaOlDG0QFjACegQIBRAJ&usg=AOvVaw0NnWnyaFRad5NgG3NGcbJP&cshid=1591276979492 |date=3 March 2018 }} €734 billion according to Eurostat, i.e. US$866 using the 2018 euro/dollar exchange rate of 0.85</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|715.1}}
|-
| [[Patna]]
| {{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Perth]]
|{{AUS}}
| Oceania
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|112.2}} (2015–16)<ref>[http://www.sgsep.com.au/application/files/9914/8106/1313/GDP_by_major_capital_city_201516_-_high_res.pdf '''2015–16 est.''' / SGSEP] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180422113418/https://www.sgsep.com.au/application/files/9914/8106/1313/GDP_by_major_capital_city_201516_-_high_res.pdf |date=22 April 2018 }} AUD 148,674 million according to the SGS Economics and Planning table, i.e. US$112.2 billion at current exchange rates, using the 8 June 2017 AUD/USD exchange rate used by the IMF</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|134.0}}
|-
| [[Philadelphia]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|444.148}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|346.5}}
|-
| [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|255.211}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|207.1}}
|-
| [[Pittsburgh]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|152.840}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|138.4}}
|-
| [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|164.419}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|158.5}}
|-
| [[Porto]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{PRT}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|31.3}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|43.0}}
|-
| [[Porto Alegre]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|45.506}} (2011)<ref name="bra1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|62.1}}
|-
| [[Portsmouth]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|25.9}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|51.6}}<ref group="Note">This includes [[Southampton]].</ref>
|-
| [[Prague]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{CZE}}
| Central Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|64}} (2018)<ref>https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/10474907/1-05032020-AP-EN.pdf/81807e19-e4c8-2e53-c98a-933f5bf30f58&ved=2ahUKEwi-u5GHnujpAhUOuIsKHaOlDG0QFjACegQIBRAJ&usg=AOvVaw0NnWnyaFRad5NgG3NGcbJP&cshid=1591276979492</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|89.2}}
|-
| [[Pretoria]]
|{{ZAF}}
| Africa
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|49.9}}
|-
| [[Providence metropolitan area|Providence]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|87.414}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|78.114}}
|-
| [[Puebla, Puebla|Puebla]]
|{{MEX}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|38.1}}
|-
| [[Pune]]
|{{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|69}}<ref name="Haritas" />
|-
| [[Pyongyang]]
|{{PRK}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Qingdao]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|163.5}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|208.7}}
|-
| [[Quebec City]]
|{{CAN}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|33.4}}
|-
| [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|83.665}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|64.4}}
|-
| [[Rangoon]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{MMR}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Recife]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|36.448}} (2011)<ref name="bra1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|40.5}}
|-
| [[Rhine-Ruhr]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{DEU}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|350.30}} (2014)<ref name=":2" />
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|485.2}}
|-
| [[Greater Richmond Region|Richmond]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|85.792}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|71.589}}
|-
| [[Riga]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{LVA}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|16.0}} (2014)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sus.lv/en/21-gross-domestic-product|title=2.1. Gross Domestic Product | Stratēģijas Uzraudzības Sistēma|website=www.sus.lv|access-date=11 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128190448/http://www.sus.lv/en/21-gross-domestic-product|archive-date=28 January 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Rio de Janeiro]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|209.366}} (2011)<ref name="bra1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|176.6}}
|-
| [[Inland Empire|Riverside–San Bernardino]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|187.109}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|154.904}}
|-
| [[Riyadh]]
|{{SAU}}
| Western Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|163.5}}
|-
| [[Rochester, New York|Rochester]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|63.870}} (2018)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|67.8}}
|-
| [[Rome]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{ITA}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|166.8}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|163.2}}
|-
| [[Rotterdam]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{NLD}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|69.0}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|320.6}}<ref group="Note">This includes [[Amsterdam]].</ref>
|-
| [[Saarbrucken]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{DEU}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|41.7}}
|-
| [[Sacramento]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|145.479}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|127.4}}
|-
| [[Salt Lake City metropolitan area|Salt Lake City]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|94.306}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|73.836}}
|-
| [[St. Louis]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|169.839}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|140.6}}
|-
| [[Saint Petersburg]]
|{{RUS}}
| Eastern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|63}}<ref name="autogenerated1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|119.6}}
|-
| [[Salvador, Bahia|Salvador]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|38.819}} (2011)<ref name="bra1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|38.5}}
|-
| [[Greater San Antonio|San Antonio]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|133.633}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|102.771}}
|-
| [[San Diego]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|245.138}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|202.5}}
|-
| [[San Francisco–Oakland–Berkeley, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area|San Francisco]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|548.613}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|331.0}}
|-
| [[San Jose, California|San Jose]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|331.020}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|160.3}}
|-
| [[San Juan, Puerto Rico|San Juan]]
|{{Flag|Puerto Rico}}
| Caribbean
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|42.7}}
|-
| [[Santiago, Chile|Santiago]]
|{{CHL}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|171.4}}
|-
| [[Santos, São Paulo|Santos]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|28.609}} (2011)<ref name="bra1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[São José dos Campos]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|30.148}} (2011)<ref name="bra1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[São José dos Pinhais]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|14.726}} (2011)<ref name="bra1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[São Paulo]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|408.938}} (2013)<ref name="bra1">{{cite web|url=http://www.cidades.ibge.gov.br/comparamun/compara.php?lang=&coduf=35&idtema=152&codv=V07&order=dado&dir=desc&lista=uf&custom=|archive-url=https://archive.today/20160219214704/http://www.cidades.ibge.gov.br/comparamun/compara.php?lang=&coduf=35&idtema=152&codv=V07&order=dado&dir=desc&lista=uf&custom=|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-02-19|title=Posição ocupada pelos maiores municípios brasileiros em relação ao Produto Interno Bruto, Est. 2013|date=2013|publisher=IBGE}}</ref><ref name="bra9">{{cite web|url=https://www.exchange-rates.org/Rate/USD/BRL/12-31-2013|title=US DOLLAR RATES FOR 12/31/2013 / BRAZILIAN REAL|date=2013|publisher=EXCHANGE-RATES.ORG|access-date=22 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190922211524/https://www.exchange-rates.org/Rate/USD/BRL/12-31-2013|archive-date=22 September 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|430.5}}
|-
| [[Sapporo]]
|{{JPN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|80.5}}
|-
| [[Seattle]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|392.036}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|267.5}}
|-
| [[Semarang]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{IDN}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|41.1}}
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[Sendai]]
|{{JPN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|75.3}}
|-
| [[Seoul]]
|{{KOR}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|894.9}} (2018)<ref>[http://www.index.go.kr/potal/main/EachDtlPageDetail.do?idx_cd=1008 '''2018 est.''' Statistics Korea] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816080650/http://www.index.go.kr/potal/main/EachDtlPageDetail.do?idx_cd=1008 |date=16 August 2016 }} [[Seoul Capital Area]] includes Incheon and Gyeonggi-do, so metro GDP = 422,395+88,390+473,845 = 984,630 billion Won, at 2018 average exchange rate of 1100.30 KRW per USD.</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|845.9}}
|-
| [[Seville]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{ESP}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|44.665}} (2018)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|35.8}}
|-
| [[Shanghai]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|469}} (2017)<ref name=":0">{{cite web|title = Shanghai first Chinese city to top 3 trillion yuan GDP|url = http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201801/20/WS5a629e9ba3106e7dcc135729.html|website = China Daily|accessdate = 2018-01-20|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180120071431/http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201801/20/WS5a629e9ba3106e7dcc135729.html|archive-date = 20 January 2018|url-status = live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|594.0}}
|-
| [[Shantou]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|34.8}} (2017)<ref name=":0" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|38.7}}
|-
| [[Sheffield]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|17.4}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|39.8}}
|-
| [[Shenyang]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|86.9}} (2017)<ref name=":0" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|189.3}}
|-
| [[Shenzhen]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|338}} (2017)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2128310/shenzhen-88-cent-hi-tech-growth-roll-hit-y2tr-2017|title=Shenzhen economic expansion dwarfs growth in Hong Kong and Singapore|date=15 January 2018|website=South China Morning Post|access-date=28 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190826190148/https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2128310/shenzhen-88-cent-hi-tech-growth-roll-hit-y2tr-2017|archive-date=26 August 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|363.2}}
|-
| [[Shijiazhuang]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|95.7}} (2017)<ref name=":0" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|130.5}}
|-
| [[Shillong]]
| {{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Shimla]]
| {{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"|
|-
| [[Shizuoka, Shizuoka|Shizuoka]]
|{{JPN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|58.4}}
|-
| [[Singapore]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{SGP}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|349.5}} (2018)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.singstat.gov.sg/stats/keyind.html#econind |title='''2011 est.''' / Singapore: Economic Indicators |publisher=Statistics Singapore |accessdate=3 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221030353/http://www.singstat.gov.sg/stats/keyind.html |archivedate=21 February 2009}}</ref><ref>Singapore GDP in 2011 estimate is 326.8 Billion SGD, which is equivalent to 263.6 Billion USD using 3 February 2013 exchange rate</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|365.9}}
|-
| [[Sofia]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{BGR}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|24.0}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|43.8}}
|-
| [[Sorocaba]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|21.313}} (2011)<ref name="bra1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[Southampton]]
|{{GBR}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|9.6}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|51.6}}<ref group="Note">This includes [[Portsmouth]].</ref>
|-
| [[Springfield, Massachusetts|Springfield]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|34.706}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|32.8}}
|-
| [[Stockholm]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{SWE}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|180}}<ref name=":3">{{cite web|title=Contacts – City of Stockholm|url=http://international.stockholm.se/Press-and-media/Stockholm-facts/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130708150635/http://international.stockholm.se/Press-and-media/Stockholm-facts/|archive-date=8 July 2013|accessdate=2017-04-01|website=International.stockholm.se}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|143.0}}
|-
| [[Strasbourg]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{FRA}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|37.3}}
|-
| [[Stuttgart]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{GER}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|173.5}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|157.8}}
|-
| [[Surabaya]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{IDN}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|128.2}} <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jatim.bps.go.id/dynamictable/2018/01/16/223/pdrb-atas-dasar-harga-berlaku-menurut-kabupaten-kota-di-jawa-timur-2010-2016.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228135904/https://jatim.bps.go.id/dynamictable/2018/01/16/223/pdrb-atas-dasar-harga-berlaku-menurut-kabupaten-kota-di-jawa-timur-2010-2016.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2019-02-28|title=Surabaya Urban Area (Surabaya + Gresik + Sidoarjo)|last=East Java BPS|first=Statistics Indonesia|website=jatim.bps.go.id|language=id|access-date=2018-11-04}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[Suwon]]
|{{KOR}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"|
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|296.5}}
|-
| [[Suzhou]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|256.5}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|339.0}}
|-
| [[Sydney]]
|{{AUS}}
| Oceania
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|302.7}} (2015–16)<ref>[http://www.sgsep.com.au/application/files/9914/8106/1313/GDP_by_major_capital_city_201516_-_high_res.pdf '''2015–16 est.''' / SGSEP] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180422113418/https://www.sgsep.com.au/application/files/9914/8106/1313/GDP_by_major_capital_city_201516_-_high_res.pdf |date=22 April 2018 }} AUD 400,900 million according to the SGS Economics and Planning table, i.e. US$302.7 billion at current exchange rates, using the 8 June 2017 AUD/USD exchange rate used by the IMF</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|223.4}}
|-
| [[Syracuse, New York|Syracuse]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|41.356}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|40.6}}
|-
| [[Taichung]]
|{{TWN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|114.7}}
|-
| [[Tainan]]
|{{TWN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|76.7}}
|-
| [[Taipei]]
|{{TWN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|327.3}}
|-
| [[Taiyuan]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|63.0}}
|-
| [[Tallinn]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{EST}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|20}} (2018)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pub.stat.ee/px-web.2001/Dialog/varval.asp?ma=NAA0050&lang=1|title=Harju County|website=issuu|access-date=28 August 2019}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[Tampa]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|159.002}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|130.3}}
|-
| [[Tangerang]]
|{{flagicon|ASEAN}}{{IDN}}
| South-East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|38.6}}
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[Tangshan]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|105.3}} (2017)<ref name=":0" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|162.3}}
|-
| [[Taoyuan, Taiwan|Taoyuan]]
|{{TWN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|86.8}}
|-
| [[Tbilisi]]
|{{GEO}}
| Eastern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|8.0}} (2017)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.geostat.ge/index.php/ka|title=საქართველოს სტატისტიკის ეროვნული სამსახური|website=www.geostat.ge|language=Georgian|access-date=28 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190913194536/https://www.geostat.ge/index.php/ka|archive-date=13 September 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[Tehran]]
|{{IRN}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[Tel Aviv]]
|{{ISR}} {{flagicon|Palestine}} [[State of Palestine|Palestine]]
| Western Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|153.3}}
|-
| [[Thessaloniki]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{GRC}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|19.8}} (2011)<ref>[http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/submitViewTableAction.do '''Approx., 2011 est.''' / Eurostat.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006122431/http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/submitViewTableAction.do |date=6 October 2014 }} Retrieved 11 May 2017.</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[Tianjin]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|204}} (2019)<ref name="data2018-2019">GDP-2019 is a preliminary data, and GDP-2018 is a revision based on the 2018 CASEN: {{cite press_release| url=http://data.stats.gov.cn/english/easyquery.htm?cn=E0102| title=Home - Regional - Quarterly by Province| publisher=China NBS| date=April 15, 2020| accessdate=April 15, 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200330081935/http://data.stats.gov.cn/english/easyquery.htm?cn=E0102| archive-date=30 March 2020| url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|372.0}}
|-
| [[Greater Tokyo Area|Tokyo]]
|{{JPN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|1893}} (2015)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.toukei.metro.tokyo.jp/tnenkan/tn-eindex.htm|title=TOKYO STATISTICAL YEARBOOK|website=www.toukei.metro.tokyo.jp|access-date=11 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330013345/http://www.toukei.metro.tokyo.jp/tnenkan/tn-eindex.htm|archive-date=30 March 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|1617}}
|-
| [[Toronto]]
|{{CAN}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|334}} (2014)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www1.toronto.ca/static_files/economic_development_and_culture/docs/Economic%20indicators/economic_indicators.pdf |title=Economic Indicators |website=www1.toronto.ca |accessdate=2017-04-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929112630/https://www1.toronto.ca/static_files/economic_development_and_culture/docs/Economic%20indicators/economic_indicators.pdf |archivedate=29 September 2017}} Toronto CMA GDP was 334.1B CAD, converted at the average CAD/USD exchange rate of 1.104 for 2014.</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|276.3}}
|-
| [[Toulouse]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{FRA}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|58.7}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|47.4}}
|-
| [[Tucson]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|44.876}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|41.2}}
|-
| [[Tulsa]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|57.232}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|48.6}}
|-
| [[Turin]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{ITA}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|76.9}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|78.8}}
|-
| [[Uberlandia]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|14.728}} (2011)<ref name="bra1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[Ulsan]]
|{{KOR}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;"| {{nts|67.9}} (2017)<ref name="usa1"/>
| style="background:#50f231;"| {{nts|296.5}}
|-
| [[Valencia]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{ESP}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|60.274}} (2016)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|52.7}}
|-
| [[Vancouver]]
|{{CAN}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|109.8}}
|-
| [[Venice]]-[[Padua]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{ITA}}
| Southern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|62.2}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|57.3}}
|-
| [[Vienna]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{AUT}}
| Central Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|131.9}} (2015)<ref name=":4" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|183.7}}<ref group="Note">This includes [[Bratislava]].</ref>
|-
| [[Vilnius]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{LTU}}
| Northern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|20.0}} (2016)<ref name="Indicators database" />
| style="background:#50f231;" |
|-
| [[Virginia Beach, Virginia|Virginia Beach]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|100.976}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|92.1}}
|-
| [[Visakhapatnam]]
|{{IND}}
| South Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|43.5}}<ref name="Haritas" />
|-
| [[Vitória, Espírito Santo|Vitória]]
|{{BRA}}
| South America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|28.357}} (2011)<ref name="bra1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|35.6}}
|-
| [[Warsaw]]
|{{flagicon|EU}}{{POL}}
| Central Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|100}} (2017)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/9618249/1-26022019-AP-EN.pdf/f765d183-c3d2-4e2f-9256-cc6665909c80 |title=Archived copy |access-date=28 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190902020336/https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/9618249/1-26022019-AP-EN.pdf/f765d183-c3d2-4e2f-9256-cc6665909c80 |archive-date=2 September 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|141.1}}
|-
| [[Washington, D.C.]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|540.684}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|442.2}}
|-
| [[Wenzhou]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|80.8}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|101.9}}
|-
| [[Winnipeg]]
|{{CAN}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|32.5}}
|-
| [[Worcester, Massachusetts|Worcester]]
|{{USA}}
| North America
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|50.934}} (2018)<ref name="usa1" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|44.7}}
|-
| [[Wuhan]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|198.6}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|231.6}}
|-
| [[Wulumuqi]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|59.6}}
|-
| [[Wuxi]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|155.7}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|211.5}}
|-
| [[Xiamen]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|64.4}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|76.1}}
|-
| [[Xian]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|110.6}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|124.2}}
|-
| [[Xuzhou]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|97.8}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|113.2}}
|-
| [[Yantai]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|108.7}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|149.0}}
|-
| [[Yerevan]]
|{{ARM}}
| Eastern Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|5.23}} (2018)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.yerevan.am/en/economy/|title=Archived copy|access-date=28 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190905085409/http://www.yerevan.am/en/economy/|archive-date=5 September 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|5.23}}
|-
| [[Zhengzhou]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|135.3}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|156.0}}
|-
| [[Zhongshan]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|51.1}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|68.7}}
|-
| [[Zhuhai]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|38.0}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|41.3}}
|-
| [[Zibo]]
|{{CHN}}
| East Asia
| style="background:#abd5f5;" | {{nts|70.8}} (2017)<ref name="data.stats.gov.cn" />
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|100.3}}
|-
| [[Zürich]]
|{{CHE}}
| Western Europe
| style="background:#abd5f5;" |
| style="background:#50f231;" | {{nts|109.1}}
|-
|Busan-Ulsan
|{{KOR}}
|East Asia
|241 (2018)<ref>{{Cite web|title=보도자료 전체 {{!}} 통계청|url=http://kostat.go.kr/portal/korea/kor_nw/1/1/index.board?bmode=read&bSeq=&aSeq=379534&pageNo=1&rowNum=10&navCount=10&currPg=&searchInfo=&sTarget=title&sTxt=|access-date=2020-08-14|website=kostat.go.kr}}</ref>
|
|}
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;Notes
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==See also==
* [[List of cheapest cities]]
* [[List of countries by GDP]]
* [[List of metropolitan areas in the European Union by GDP]]
* [[List of U.S. metropolitan areas by GDP]]
* [[List of most expensive cities for expatriate employees]]
* [[List of country subdivisions by GDP over 200 billion USD]]

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

{{Cities}}

[[Category:Lists of cities|GDP]]
[[Category:Economies by city|GDP]]
[[Category:Gross state product|*]]
[[Category:Lists of cities by GDP| ]]