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Can you locate all 83 federal subjects of Russia?
Can you place all 229 cities, counties and districts of South Korea?
Can you place all 368 townships and districts of Taiwan?
Can you locate all 22 counties and cities of Taiwan?
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South Korea is nine provinces and eight cities that are provinces in their own right, and a round there is decided by which of them you are in. The capital region holds roughly half the country's people in three of them, and everything else is a wide ring of provinces around a few cities cut out of the middle.
The first tier of the country: nine provinces (do), Seoul as a special city, six metropolitan cities (Busan, Daegu, Incheon, Gwangju, Daejeon and Ulsan) and Sejong, a special self-governing city. A metropolitan city is not part of the province around it, so Daejeon sits inside South Chungcheong without belonging to it, and the same goes for Gwangju in South Jeolla and Daegu in North Gyeongsang. That is the trap in this map.
The groups are the regions Koreans use: the capital region (Seoul, Incheon and Gyeonggi), Chungcheong, Honam in the south west, Yeongnam in the south east, Gangwon and Jeju. Gangwon and Jeju are regions of one province each.
Gangwon and North Jeolla became special self-governing provinces in 2023 and 2024. The names and shapes are the same, so the map is unchanged. Provinces here are drawn from the 229 districts of South Korea Districts, which is why the borders of the two maps match exactly.
Every name can also be shown in Hangul: switch on the local name in the start dialog.
Jeju is a volcanic island south of the peninsula and a province of its own. Nothing else on the map is separated from the mainland by this much sea, so it is the easiest answer there is.
Sejong was built as an administrative capital and became its own province in 2012. It is a small shape just north of Daejeon, taken out of South Chungcheong.
Seoul is a special city, and it is smaller than the province around it. It sits inside Gyeonggi on the Han River, with Incheon to the west and the rest of Gyeonggi on every other side.
Nine provinces and eight cities with provincial status: Seoul, six metropolitan cities, and Sejong. Together they are the 17 first-level divisions.
No. They were separated from them and are governed on their own, even though a map shows each one surrounded by a province. Daejeon is not part of South Chungcheong, for instance.
Honam is the south west (the Jeolla provinces and Gwangju) and Yeongnam the south east (the Gyeongsang provinces, Busan, Daegu and Ulsan). They are regions people use in conversation rather than administrative units.
Both became special self-governing provinces, in 2024 and 2023, but the common English names are the same.
The tier below this one is South Korea Districts, which groups its 229 answers by these provinces. For another country at this level, see Japan Prefectures.
