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Geography
Eastern Asia, southern half of the Korean Peninsula bordering the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea
37 00 N, 127 30 E
Area: 
total: 99,720 sq km
country comparison to the world: 
108
land: 96,920 sq km
water: 2,800 sq km
slightly larger than Indiana
total: 238 km
border countries: North Korea 238 km
2,413 km
territorial sea: 12 nm; between 3 nm and 12 nm in the Korea Strait
contiguous zone: 24 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
continental shelf: not specified
Current Weather
temperate, with rainfall heavier in summer than winter
mostly hills and mountains; wide coastal plains in west and south
lowest point: Sea of Japan 0 m
highest point: Halla-san 1,950 m
coal, tungsten, graphite, molybdenum, lead, hydropower potential
arable land: 16.58%
permanent crops: 2.01%
other: 81.41% (2005)
8,780 sq km (2003)
69.7 cu km (1999)
total: 18.59 cu km/yr (36%/16%/48%)
per capita: 389 cu m/yr (2000)
occasional typhoons bring high winds and floods; low-level seismic activity common in southwest
volcanism: Halla (elev. 1,950 m, 6,398 ft) is considered historically active although it has not erupted in many centuries
air pollution in large cities; acid rain; water pollution from the discharge of sewage and industrial effluents; drift net fishing
party to: Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
strategic location on Korea Strait
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