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Gyeongbokgung Palace Seoul, South Korea
South Korea flag
8,919,032
Records
12
Datasets
35
Tables
10
Sources
144
SEL Fields
52
CCL Fields
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📋 Most recent national census: 2025. Not yet carried in HERA — South Korea has held a national census; HERA simply doesn't carry it on this page yet (the source may be access-restricted, PDF-only, or not yet ingested). Its absence here does not mean no census was taken.
🗺 HERA does carry a modeled subnational estimate for South Korea: KOR-LANDSCAN (2024) — 17 subnational units across admin_1 (17). Modeled, not enumerated — it is an estimate built on census inputs, not the published tabulation.
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Datasets (12)
SEL — DGIWG Statistical Extent Location SEL+ — Platform extension (not in DGIWG core spec) CCL — DGIWG Cultural Context Location Extension — Preserved in extension tables (not in core SEL/CCL schema) Pending — Awaiting mapping

4 further sources (Ethnic Power Relations Dataset, GI-TOC / ENACT, Global Data Lab, World Values Survey) are held but not offered: their licences do not permit commercial redistribution. HERA cites their published findings with attribution and can supply the data to organisations holding their own licence — ask us.

KOR South Korea - High Resolution Population Density Maps: total population (2015 and 2020 estimates) KOR-HDX-South_Korea__High_Resolution_Popula Indicators
8,869,747 rows · 1 table · 2024 HDX 0 1 2 3 ▶
KOR Republic of Korea - Health Indicators KOR-HDX-Republic_of_Korea_-_Health_Indicato Indicators
19,977 rows · 1 table · 2024 HDX 0 1 2 3 ▶
KOR Democratic People's Republic of Korea - Health Ind KOR-HDX-Democratic_People's_Republic_of_Kor Indicators
18,733 rows · 1 table · 2024 HDX 0 1 2 3 ▶
KOR NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS) KOR-NGA_GNS Language
9,886 rows · 3 tables · 2026 NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS) 0 1 2 3 5 SEL 12 CCL 33 ext ▶
KOR World Bank Open Data KOR-WORLD_BANK Development Indicators
198 rows · 3 tables · 2024 World Bank Open Data 0 1 2 3 19 SEL 4 ext ▶
KOR UNHCR Refugee Data Finder KOR-UNHCR Migration
75 rows · 2 tables · 2025 UNHCR Refugee Data Finder 0 1 2 3 12 CCL 36 ext ▶
KOR LandScan Global (ORNL) KOR-LANDSCAN Modeled Population
67 rows · 3 tables · 2024 LandScan Global (ORNL) 0 1 2 3 Locality 21 SEL 2 ext ▶
KOR GHS Urban Centre Database (EU JRC) KOR-GHSL_UCDB Modeled Population
49 rows · 1 table · 2025 GHS Urban Centre Database (EU JRC) 0 1 2 3 Locality 3 SEL 7 ext ▶
KOR OpenFactBook KOR-OPENFACTBOOK Country Profile
16 rows · 16 tables · 2024 OpenFactBook 0 1 2 3 94 SEL 1 CCL 610 ext ▶
KOR Glottolog Language Catalog KOR-GLOTTOLOG Language
6 rows · 1 table · 2024 Glottolog Language Catalog 0 1 2 3 12 CCL 4 ext ▶
KOR D-PLACE KOR-DPLACE Ethnographic Societies
2 rows · 2 tables · 2024 D-PLACE 0 1 2 3 2 SEL 15 CCL 55 ext ▶
KOR INFORM Risk Index (EC-JRC) KOR-INFORM Risk Index
1 row · 1 table · 2026 INFORM Risk Index (EC-JRC) 0 1 2 3 ▶
Toponymic Footprint 346,736 place names from NGA GNS

Which languages name the landscape here, and in which writing systems. A language's toponymic footprint and its speaker population are different measures and often diverge. Counts include variant and foreign-language renderings of the same place, so a language can rank high because outside sources record names in it rather than because it is spoken locally — and a widely spoken language can be almost absent where official naming is in another language.

LanguagePlace names Share*Script
Korean (kor) 259,203 99.0% Hangul (Hangŭl, Hangeul) +2
Japanese (jpn) 1,623 0.6% Latin +1
English (eng) 813 0.3% Latin
+ 3 further languages (74 names, each under 0.05%)

141,571 distinct features · 6 languages · 3 scripts · 142,165 names in non-Roman script · 11 conventional English names
Source: NGA GEOnet Names Server (public domain) · rebuilt Thu, 24 Sep 2026.
* Shares are of the 261,713 names that carry a language code; the remaining 85,023 of 346,736 are unattributed, so these percentages do not divide into the headline count. Names follow the US/BGN convention.

Data Sources (10)

The data providers this country's datasets are sourced from — each links out to the provider.

SourceTypeAccess
HDX (Humanitarian Data Exchange) international_organization bulk_download
Glottolog Language Catalog academic bulk_download
INFORM Risk Index (EC-JRC) international_organization api
World Bank Open Data international_organization api
D-PLACE (Database of Places, Language, Culture & Environment) academic bulk_download
UNHCR Refugee Data Finder (UN High Commissioner for Refugees) international_organization api
NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS) official_government bulk_download
LandScan Global (ORNL — Oak Ridge National Laboratory) research_institution earth_engine
GHS Urban Centre Database (Global Human Settlement · EU Joint Research Centre) international_organization bulk_download
OpenFactBook community_compilation bulk_download

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