Create Your Seoul Map Poster

Seoul: mountains, river and mega-city energy

Seoul's map tells the story of a city built between mountains and a river. The Han cuts horizontally through the centre, wide and bridged dozens of times, with the islands of Yeouido and Nodeul midstream. To the north, Bukhansan makes a mountainous edge where the city simply stops; to the south, Gangnam's grid stretches endlessly.

The contrast between the two halves is fascinating: north of the Han, older, organic streets cluster around Gyeongbokgung and the hanok lanes of Bukchon and Insadong; south of the river, the wide boulevards and apartment complexes built from the 1970s on create a completely different texture.

Use a 7 km radius centred on Yongsan to capture both banks of the Han, the mountains to the north and the full breadth of the bridges; the horizontal river gives the poster a balanced, cinematic split.