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Gangwon

First-level unit, Republic of Korea: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Page GRX-KOR-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO KOR / KRStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
1,593,321
people (GHSL 2025)
19,160 km²
area
3.2%
of Republic of Korea
19
units inside

01Map

Inside Gangwon

The 19 ADM2 units of Gangwon.

FIG 1 · 19 units inside Gangwon
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

People · GHSL 2025

1,593,321

3.2% of Republic of Korea.

People · WorldPop 2025

1,572,189

-1% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

क्षेत्र

19,160 km²

83 people per km².

कोड

KR-42

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

52,636

people on land at or below 10 m, 3.3% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Units

19 units inside Gangwon

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Public Domain · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Unit कोड People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Cheorwon-gun – 43,282 42,099 759.68 57 2.9% 0
Chuncheon-si – 321,131 287,515 1,126.04 285 21.3% 0
Donghae-si – 49,598 37,920 194.14 255 3.3% 6,187
Gangneung-si – 215,027 203,912 1,080.26 199 14.3% 32,185
Goseong-gun – 55,763 50,623 703.44 79 3.7% 7,469
Hoengseong-gun – 38,857 48,629 992.67 39 2.6% 0
Hongcheon-gun – 65,446 70,287 1,833.62 36 4.4% 0
Hwacheon-gun – 22,805 24,550 1,034.58 22 1.5% 0
Inje-gun – 29,242 30,697 1,626.91 18 1.9% 0
Jeongseon-gun – 34,158 32,147 1,197.23 29 2.3% 0
Pyeongchang-gun – 37,619 39,830 1,443.81 26 2.5% 0
Samcheok-si – 59,622 52,413 1,195.77 50 4% 782
Sokcho-si – 39,496 42,088 110.2 358 2.6% 2,579
Taebaek-si – 50,050 30,768 311.44 161 3.3% 0
Uljin-gun – 26,488 26,797 998.47 27 1.8% 422
Wonju-si – 336,527 375,664 872.79 386 22.4% 0
Yanggu-gun – 19,487 22,981 719.39 27 1.3% 0
Yangyang-gun – 22,476 23,516 642.81 35 1.5% 1,502
Yeongwol-gun – 37,192 37,593 1,110.49 33 2.5% 0
04संपर्कात येणे

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
642.6 H3 cells
Ports
1 H3 cells
Airports
1 H3 cells
Major roads
380.5 H3 cells
Railways
6.6 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
05जोखीम

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Gangwon publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Republic of Korea.
06Neighbours

Neighbouring units

07स्रोत

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen KOR ADM1, source: Natural Earth, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2021
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen KOR ADM2, source: geoBoundaries, citypopulation.de, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License · source · represents 2020
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen KOR ADM3, source: Justin Meyers, KoStat, licence: Korea Open Government License Type 1 (Source Indication) · source · represents 2018
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
देश
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.