South Korea

Facts

What the numbers say about South Korea

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 172× the size of South Korea.
• South Korea ranks 28th of 237 by population but only 108th of 239 by area: it holds more people than its size suggests.
• At 522 people per km², South Korea is the 9th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 36°N is drawn about 1.5× too large in area, so South Korea looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, South Korea's main territory stretches about 602 km north to south and 554 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 100,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 98,500 km², to within 2%.

How South Korea measures up

South Korea holds 0.3% of the land area and 1.1% of the people of the 51 countries listed for Asia. In Eastern Asia it is the 5th largest of 8.

Where South Korea sits

• South Korea's centre lies at 36.4°N, 127.8°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 4,040 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 33°N to 39°N, about 600 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If South Korea had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², South Korea would have 123.4 million people. It has 51.5 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², South Korea would have 367,000 people. It has 51.5 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 7.1 million.

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