Map of South Korea

South Korea is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 37.0° N, 127.5° E. It shares land borders with 1 country — North Korea — and also has its own coastline. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, South Korea is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

South Korea shares land frontiers with the following 1 country. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

South Korea covers about 100,210 km² (38,691 sq mi). That makes it the 107th-largest country in the world by area and the 30th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 19 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 51,159,889, the 30th-largest in the world and the 13th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 1.1% of the continent’s people. With that land area, South Korea has an average population density of about 511 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 13th by population and 30th by area.

The seat of government is Seoul, and the official currency is the South Korean won (KRW, ₩), and the main official language is Korean. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+09:00.

South Korea carries the ISO country codes KR and KOR, dials on the international calling code +82 and uses the .kr, .한국 internet domain.

South Korea shares its land borders with 1 country, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are North Korea (capital Pyongyang, about 25,950,000 people).

By area, South Korea is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 37.0° N, 127.5° E and opens at zoom level 6, framing South Korea within Asia. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Seoul. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

South Korea lies about 4,107 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

South Korea keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+09:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +09:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the South Korean won (KRW, ₩).

The official language is Korean, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +82 and websites commonly use the .kr, .한국 internet domain.

In short, South Korea is a coastal country in Asia, sharing land borders with 1 country. Its capital is Seoul. South Korea has a population of about 51,159,889 and covers around 100,210 km² (38,691 sq mi), ranking it 30th in the world by population and 107th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for South Korea.

The flag of South Korea has a white field, at the center of which is a red and blue Taegeuk circle surrounded by four black trigrams, one in each corner.

The flag of South Korea is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.