South Korea
Names and codes: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0 · Boundary: Natural Earth, public domain · Refresh date not recorded · Sources and licenses
Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- KR
- ISO alpha-3
- KOR
- ISO numeric
- 410
- FIPS 10-4
- KS
- GeoNames ID
- 1835841
Key facts
- Capital
- Seoul
- Area
- 98,480 km²
- Population
- 51,635,256
- Currency
- Won (KRW)
- Calling code
- +82
- Top-level domain
- .kr
- Official languages
- ko-KR,en
Continent
- Name
- Asia
- Code
- AS
- In this dataset
- 51 countries
Location
- Latitude
- 36.5
- Longitude
- 127.75
- Min latitude
- 33.19757721600007
- Min longitude
- 124.61361738400001
- Max latitude
- 38.624335028000075
- Max longitude
- 131.86252188600008
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/KR?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 98480,
"capital": "Seoul",
"continent_code": "AS",
"currency_code": "KRW",
"iso3_code": "KOR",
"iso_code": "KR",
"name": "South Korea",
"population": 51635256
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/KR/regions/v1/cities?country=KR/v1/postal-codes?country=KR/v1/timezones?country=KR
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- كوريا الجنوبية
- Chinese
- 韩国
- English
- South Korea
- French
- Corée du Sud
- German
- Südkorea
- Hindi
- दक्षिण कोरिया
- Italian
- Corea del Sud
- Japanese
- 大韓民国
- Korean
- 대한민국
- Portuguese
- Coreia do Sul
- Russian
- Республика Корея
- Spanish
- Corea del Sur
- Total language variants
- 144
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Asia/Seoul | UTC+09:00 | UTC+09:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- #####
- Pattern
^(\d{5})$
First-level administrative regions
- Gyeonggi-do
- Seoul
- Gyeongsangnam-do
- Busan
- Incheon
- Gyeongsangbuk-do
- Daegu
- Chungcheongnam-do
- Jeollanam-do
- Jeonbuk
- Chungcheongbuk-do
- Gangwon
- Daejeon
- Gwangju
- Ulsan
- Jeju-do
- Sejong-si
17 of 17 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Seoul | 10,349,312 |
| Busan | 3,285,147 |
| Incheon | 3,015,482 |
| Daegu | 2,365,523 |
| Daejeon | 1,441,203 |
| Gwangju | 1,401,235 |
| Suwon | 1,234,582 |
| Ulsan | 1,098,421 |
| Goyang-si | 1,061,752 |
| Changwon | 1,025,702 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 62,752
- First-level regions
- 17
- Postal codes
- 35,583
- Name languages
- 144
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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