Located in Eastern Asia, southern half of the Korean Peninsula bordering the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea.

South Korea is bordered by North Korea.

Domain Information

South Korea is located in ICANN's Asia/Australia/Pacific Region. Anyone located in this region is eligible for .asia domain registrations. If one of your contacts lives in South Korea you can register a .asia domain.

A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country or a dependent territory.

ccTLD identifiers are two letters long, all two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs. Creation and delegation of ccTLDs is performed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), and with certain exceptions corresponds to the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes maintained by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency.

South Korea ccTLD: .kr

Country Information

Population

49044790 (July 07 est)

Capital

Seoul

GDP

$897.4 billion (2005 est)

Currency

South Korean Won (KRW)

Internet Hosts

315537 (2007)

Internet Users

34.12 million (2006)