Coordinates :36°N 128°E / 36°N 128°E /36; 128
Motto: "홍익인간 " (Korean ) (de facto "Benefit broadly in the human warld/Devotion tae the Welfare o Humanity" [ 1] Aurie controlled bi the Republic o Korea shawn in green
Caipitaland largest city
Seoul 37°33′N 126°58′E / 37.550°N 126.967°E /37.550; 126.967 Offeecial leids Korean ,Recognised regional leids English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Lao, Cornish, Tibetan, Khmer, Burmese, Mongolian, Cantonese, Gan Chinese, Hakka Chinese, Min Chinese, Vietnamese, Zhuang, Manchu, Mandarin Offeecial script Hangul Ethnic groups
Na offeecial stateestics[ 2] [ 3] Releegion
Demonym(s) Govrenment Unitary presidential constitutional republic Lee Jae-myung Legislatur Naitional Assembly Formation c. 7th century BC 18 BC 698 918 1392 29 August 1910 15 August 1945 15 August 1946, 15 August 1960, 15 August 1965 an 15 August 1975 15 August 1948 25 February 1988 Aurie • Total
100,210 km2 (38,690 sq mi) • Water (%)
0.3 (301 km2 / mi2 Population • 2017 estimate
51,446,201[ 5] [ 6] 27t ) • Density
507/km2 (1,313.1/sq mi)23rd ) GDP (PPP ) 2016 estimate • Total
$1.929 trillion[ 7] 13th ) • Per capita
$37,948[ 7] 28t ) GDP (nominal) 2016 estimate • Tot
$1.404 trillion [ 7] 11t )• Per capita
$29,730(2017)[ 7] 27t ) Gini (2013) 30.2[ 8] medium HDI (2015) 0.901[ 9] verra heich · 18th Currency South Korean won (₩)(KRW ) Time zone UTC +9Korea Standard Time )Date format yyyy년 m월 d일 yyyy. m. d. (CE ) Drivin side right Cawin code +82 ISO 3166 code KR Internet TLD
TheRepublic o Korea is a kintra inEast Asie , constitutin the soothren pairt o theKorean Peninsula an lyin east tae the Asie mainland.[ 10] Korea is derived fraeGoguryeo that wis ane o the great pouers inEast Asie in its time,[ 11] [ 12] [ 13] [ 14] Korean Peninsula ,Manchurie , pairts o theRoushie Far East [ 15] Inner Mongolie ,[ 16] Gwanggaeto the Great .[ 17] north temperate zone an haes a predominantly muntainous terrain. It comprises an estimatit 51.4 million residents distributit ower99,392 km 2 (38,375 sq mi) .[ 18] Seoul , wi a population o 10 million.
Airchaeology indicates that the Korean Peninsula wis inhabitit byearly humans stairtin frae theLawer Paleolithic period (2.6Ma –300Ka ).[ 19] [ 20] history o Korea begins wi the foondation oGojoseon in 2333 BC bi the leegendar kingDangun . Follaein the unification o theThree Kinricks o Korea unnerUnifee'd Silla in AD 668, Korea wis subsequently ruled bi the Goryeo dynasty (918–1392) an theJoseon dynasty (1392–1910). It wisannexed bi theEmpire o Japan in 1910. At the end oWarld War II , Korea wisdividit intae Soviet an U.S. zones o occupations. Aseparate election wis held in theU.S. zone in 1948 that led tae the creaution o the Republic o Korea (ROK), while theDemocratic Fowkrepublic o Korea (DPRK) wis established in theSoviet zone . TheUnitit Naitions at the time passed a resolution declarin the ROK tae be the anly lawfu govrenment in Korea.[ 21]
TheKorean War begoud in 1950 whan forces frae the North invadit the Sooth. The war lastit three year an involved the U.S., Cheenae, the Soviet Union anseveral ither naitions . Themairch atween the two naitions remeens the maist hivily fortifee'd in the warld.[ 22] Park Chung-hee , the Sooth Korean economy grew signeeficantly an the kintra wis transformed intae aG-20 major economy .[ 23] presidential republic conseestin o 17admeenistrative diveesions .
Sooth Korea is adevelopit kintra an aheich-income economy , wi a "verra heich"Human Development Index , rankin18t in the warld . The kintra is conseedert aregional pouer an is the warld's11t lairgest economy bi nominal GDP an the12t lairgest bi PPP as o 2010.[ 24] 5t lairgest exporter an8t lairgest importer . Its export-driveneconomy primarily focuses production onelectronics ,automobiles ,ships ,machinery ,petrochemicals anrobotics . Sooth Korea is a member of theASEAN Plus mechanism , theUnitit Naitions ,Unitin for Consensus ,G20 , theWTO anOECD an is a foondin member oAPEC an theEast Asie Summit .
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