🇰🇷 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.