South Korea is divided into 8 provinces (do ), 1 special autonomous province (teukbyeol jachido ), 6 metropolitan cities (gwangyeoksi ), and 1 special city (teukbyeolsi ). These are further subdivided into a variety of smaller entities, including cities (si ), counties (gun ), districts (gu ), towns (eup ), townships (myeon ), neighborhoods (dong ) and villages (ri ), as explained below.