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As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 45,165 and the density of 326.67 persons per kmē. The total area is 138.26 kmē.
The city was home to Choshu Domain during the Edo era. Hagi has renown for hagi-yaki , a form of Japanese pottery dating from 1604 when two Korean potters were brought to Hagi by Mori Terumoto.
Since 1968, Hagi has been a sister city to Ulsan (울산광역시, 蔚山廣域市) a fishing port and market centre in the south east of South KoreaThe Republic of Korea (ROK; Korean: Daehan Minguk ( Hangul: ; Hanja: )), commonly known as South Korea is a country in East Asia, covering the southern half of the Korean peninsula. To the north, the Republic of Korea borders North Korea, with which it fo on the Sea of JapanThe Sea of Japan (in South Korea called East Sea, in China called Japan Sea) is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, bound by the Japanese islands of Hokkaido, Honshu and Kyushu and Sakhalin island to the east, and the Korean peninsula and Russia and 70 kilometres north of BusanPusan is also a Vedic Hindu god. Busan Metropolitan City Korean Name Revised RomanizationBusan Gwangyeoksi McCune-ReischauerPusan Kwangyokshi Hangul Hanja Short NameBusan (Pusan;; ) Statistics Population 5. 5 million (approximate) Area? kmē GovernmentMetr.