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🇰🇷 South Korea 14 administrative divisions

14 first-level administrative divisions (states, provinces, regions or counties, depending on the country) and 3,505 cities and towns, each with latitude and longitude. Public domain, free to download, no API key.

The country

ISO 3166-1
KR · KOR · 410
Capital
Seoul
Continent
Asia
Currency
KRW, won
Calling code
+82
Internet domain
.kr
Divisions
14
Cities and towns
3,505

Divisions

The 14 divisions of South Korea

14 of them carry an ISO 3166-2 code. Counts are cities and towns inside each division.

Division ISO 3166-2 Cities and towns Population
Busan KR-26 154 3,453,198
Daegu KR-27 142 2,444,412
Daejeon KR-30 67 1,475,221
Gangwon Province KR-42 209 1,539,274
Gyeonggi Province KR-41 547 13,103,188
Incheon KR-28 131 3,049,315
Jeju Province KR-49 50 670,837
North Chungcheong KR-43 163 1,595,058
North Gyeongsang KR-47 337 2,546,960
North Jeolla KR-45 257 1,769,607
Sejong KR-50 6 391,984
Seoul KR-11 449 9,668,465
South Chungcheong KR-44 209 2,181,416
South Gyeongsang KR-48 381 3,350,350

A further 403 places could not be matched to a division and are listed separately in the API as "unassigned": true.

Get it

Both files, in one request each

# every division of South Korea
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/regions/KR.json

# the cities and towns of one division (id from the file above)
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/cities/KR/<id>.json

No key, no account, no rate limit. The endpoints · try it live.