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Daedeok District

administrative division of Daejeon, South Korea

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ50371
Source-derived summary

Daedeok District (Korean: 대덕구) is a district of Daejeon, South Korea. Headquarters of KT&G, Korea Ginseng Corporation and Korea Water Resources, and Daejeon Logistics Terminal, Korea Express are located in this district.

As of the end of January 2023, the population was 172,266, accounting for 11.91% of the total population of Daejeon Metropolitan City, and when comparing the population by region, Songchon-dong has the largest population with 26,609 and Moksang-dong has the lowest with 6,323.

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The public source identifies “Daedeok District” as administrative division of Daejeon, South Korea. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Daedeok, District and administrative.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Daedeok, District and administrative providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q50371. Authority coordinates are 36.346, 127.416. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from Daedeok District” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.