Location:
Eastern Asia, southern half of the Korean Peninsula bordering the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea
Geographic coordinates:
37 00 N, 127 30 E
Map references:
Asia
Area: Area - comparative:
NOTE: 1) The information regarding Korea, South on this page is re-published from the 2019 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Korea, South Geography 2019 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Korea, South Geography 2019 should be addressed to the CIA.
total: 99,720 sq km
[see also: Area - total country ranks ]
land: 96,920 sq km
[see also: Area - land country ranks ]
water: 2,800 sq km
[see also: Area - water country ranks ]
country comparison to the world:
110
slightly smaller than Pennsylvania; slightly larger than Indiana
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may habe the following issues:
a) They assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order
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