Has the fastest average internet speeds in the world and one of the highest urbanisation rates.
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South Korea
Republic of Korea ยท ํ๊ตญ
Asia
ยท Eastern Asia
0Population
100.21Kkmยฒ of land
$31.85KGDP / person
SeoulCapital
- ISO codes
- KR ยท KOR
- Density
- 516 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Korean
- Currency
- South Korean won (KRW)
- Dial code
- +82
- Internet domain
- .kr
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 36.3850ยฐ N, 128.1300ยฐ E
- Demonym
- South Korean
- UN region
- Eastern Asia
- Economy
- Emerging region: MIKT
- Income group
- High income: OECD
- Total GDP
- $1.65T
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 1
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By the numbers
How South Korea stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
28th
of 242 ยท 0.67% of world population
Land area
110th
of 242 ยท 0.07% of world land
GDP per person
51st
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
22nd
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about South Korea
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 51,709,098 people, the 28th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.67 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 100,210 kmยฒ, making it the 110th largest country here - about 10.8 times the size of Cyprus.
Population density is about 516 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Seoul, at 37.57ยฐ N, 127.00ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 9,796,000.
Shares land borders with 1 country: North Korea.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Seoul.
The currency is the South Korean won (KRW, symbol โฉ).
The official language is Korean.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Seoul
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UTC+09:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Seoul
Seoul
37.5683ยฐ N, 126.9978ยฐ E
9.8M
2
Busan
Busan
35.0970ยฐ N, 129.0081ยฐ E
3.48M
3
Incheon
Inch'on-gwangyoksi
37.4781ยฐ N, 126.6403ยฐ E
2.55M
4
Daejeon
Daejeon
36.3375ยฐ N, 127.4231ยฐ E
1.47M
5
Gwangju
Kwangju-gwangyoksi
35.1729ยฐ N, 126.9085ยฐ E
1.44M
Land neighbours
1 country shares a border with South Korea.