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List of cities, states, and natural places in South Korea. This database can be cloned or connected to your Back4App app. All data can be fetched through REST APIs and GraphQL. Data source: GeoNames.

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ClassList_of_SouthKorea
List of provinces, cities and towns of South Korea
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The Dataset and API with all cities in South Korea

If you are looking to get the data for your applications for all the cities, towns, and South Korean villages, this is the right Database for you. It is because the record of every city present here is in the following format.

  • Name of the place in ASCII format
  • The total population of the place
  • The Geolocation of that place
  • Elevation
  • Time Zone used there

South Korea Overview

South Korea is a place that has a lot of cities, out of which Seoul is the largest city, and it is also the capital city. After the capital city, the next six cities, which are the largest among all, are known as the metropolitan cities.

The population in South Korea

The South Korean region has its rules for the cities and countries. The rules are for a specific limit of the population in an area. Here are some of the rules.

  • For gaining the status of a particular city, there must be at least 500,000 inhabitants.
  • If any city wants to gain a Metropolitan city's status, the city must have at least 1500,000 inhabitants, and the list goes on.

Ready to use API, making things easier for the developers

The ready to use APIs work for the benefit of the developers in the following ways.

  • The usage and retrieval process of data from the Database gets straightforward and simple with the APIs.
  • The Database can be easily cloned and downloaded in JSON format.
  • Developers can use the REST API and GraphQL API for getting the data from the Database.

Some examples of the APIs are here

The following are some examples of the APIs provided here.

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  • The cities of Croatia are in the sorted form concerning population.

The license for this Database

The license version for this Database is "Creative Commons 4.0."

The data sources used

The following are the data sources used here.

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Conclusion

Using the Database for getting all the data about the place can make things a lot easier for the developers. So, here we discussed all the Database that provides information about South Korea.

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