How Dense is Korea?

orea is a part of Asia, the largest of the world’s continents, and
is located between China and Japan.

Regions of Korea

• As of November 2022, 51,450,829 people are living in Korea.
• Korea has 17 administrative districts in a total area of 100,210km².
• The land can be a bit too small to handle +51 million people.

Population Map of Korea

“A gridded population cartogram can be seen as being an equal-population projection where each area is proportional to the number of people living there.”

Look how huge Seoul is! 

It shows that Korea is a “city” country. A large number of young men and women are moving to Seoul (or other big cities) to go to school or get a job.

Population : Cities

• Seoul 9,502,000
• Busan 3,327,000
• Incheon 2,941,000
• Daegu 2,388,000
• Daejeon 1,479,000
• Gwangju 1,469,000
• Ulsan 1,124,000

(person)

Population : Provinces

• Gyeonggi-do 13,612,000
• Gyeongsangnam-do 3,318,000
• Gyeongsangbuk-do 2,641,000
• Chungcheongnam-do 2,177,000
• Jeollabuk-do 1,794,000
• Jeollanam-do 1,783,000
• Chungcheongbuk-do 1,632,000
• Gangwon-do 1,520,000
• Jeju-do 673,000
• Sejong 366,000

(person)

Seoul, Incheon, and Gyeonggi-do takes up
50% of Korea’s total population.