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South Jeolla

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
1,984,168
people (GHSL 2025)
11,470 km²
area
4%
of Republic of Korea
25
units inside

01Map

Inside South Jeolla

The 25 ADM2 units of South Jeolla.

FIG 1 · 25 units inside South Jeolla
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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

1,984,168

4% of Republic of Korea.

People · WorldPop 2025

2,285,863

+15% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Indawo

11,470 km²

173 people per km².

Ikhowudi

KR-46

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

132,499

people on land at or below 10 m, 6.7% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Units

25 units inside South Jeolla

Each unit has its own page.

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

Unit Ikhowudi People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Boseong-gun – 33,175 33,232 629.71 53 1.6% 3,079
Damyang-gun – 35,838 47,783 446.83 80 1.7% 0
Dong-gu [East District] – 546 451 48.67 11 0% 0
Gangjin-gun – 25,598 29,012 475.17 54 1.2% 6,169
Goheung-gun – 36,912 40,272 763.37 48 1.8% 3,465
Gokseong-gun – 22,308 27,077 538.52 41 1.1% 0
Gurye-gun – 19,696 26,434 434.57 45 0.9% 0
Gwangsan-gu – 376,752 348,314 230.59 1,634 18.1% 6,052
Gwangyang-si – 104,864 146,153 459.41 228 5% 24,101
Haenam-gun – 49,674 52,106 965.46 51 2.4% 7,392
Hampyeong-gun – 25,249 28,419 385.11 66 1.2% 3,467
Hwasun-gun – 51,595 57,297 783.74 66 2.5% 0
Jangheung-gun – 26,261 32,231 580.44 45 1.3% 1,689
Jangseong-gun – 112,148 139,530 518.49 216 5.4% 0
Jindo-gun – 18,568 24,823 448.27 41 0.9% 1,587
Mokpo-si – 90,006 78,602 49.79 1,808 4.3% 24,355
Muan-gun – 55,721 84,007 458.26 122 2.7% 15,014
Naju-si – 62,114 125,453 603.28 103 3% 9,876
Nam-gu [South District] – 191,596 174,668 55.2 3,471 9.2% 0
Seo-gu [West District] – 252,011 240,485 51.1 4,932 12.1% 391
Sinan-gun – 17,914 24,276 790.81 23 0.9% 4,297
Suncheon-si – 220,346 270,296 919.6 240 10.6% 29,762
Wando-gun – 18,425 22,975 357.4 52 0.9% 1,287
Yeongam-gun – 61,337 43,147 592.88 103 2.9% 16,831
Yeosu-si – 176,497 191,992 509.59 346 8.5% 10,808
04Ukuchaphazeleka

Open exposure layers

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

Urban areas
903.4 H3 cells
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
1 H3 cells
Major roads
353.4 H3 cells
Railways
177.4 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
05Umngcipheko

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

07Imithombo

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.
Amazwe
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.