Asia
South Korea
Everything you need to know about South Korea for geography games and satellite imagery — capital, population, time zone, and how to recognise it from above.
Quick facts
How to spot South Korea from satellite imagery
South Korea covers roughly 100,000 square kilometres — about the size of Iceland or Portugal — but contains over 51 million people, making it one of the most densely populated countries in the world. The country occupies the southern half of the Korean Peninsula, bounded by the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) to the north, the Sea of Japan (East Sea) to the east, the Korea Strait to the south, and the Yellow Sea to the west. Roughly 70 percent of South Korea is mountainous, which forces population, agriculture, and industry into the lowland valleys and coastal plains, producing one of the highest population-density-in-usable-land figures on Earth.
For geography games, South Korea is one of the easier Asian countries to identify because the aerial signature is so distinctive. This guide walks through the cues that lock it in fast and tell you where in the country you have landed.
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