1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
South Korea
Compare this sourced profile of Gwangju, South Korea before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Gwangju—1,401,235, Asia/Seoul, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: metropolitan city in South Korea.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Gwangju is GeoNames ID 1841811. Its recorded administrative path is Gwangju → South Korea, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Gwangju occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-04-14; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Gwangju ranks 356 by recorded population. Inside the 22 selected South Korea entries it ranks 6; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 209. Its 1,401,235 population value is 1.59 times the 883,490 median for the country cohort and 1.39 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Gwangju falls between the leading tenth and quarter of this atlas's South Korea population cohort. Gwangju's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Gwangju's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Jeonju at 77.14 km with 638,421 recorded people; Daejeon at 139.402 km with 1,441,203 recorded people; Changwon at 160.644 km with 1,025,702 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 83.504 km. Compared with Jeonju, Gwangju's recorded population is 2.19 times as large. Against Gwangju, Jeonju follows Jeonju-si → Jeollabuk-do → South Korea in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected South Korea cohort, uses the shared Asia/Seoul identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Gwangju's. Against Gwangju, Daejeon follows Daejeon → South Korea in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected South Korea cohort, uses the shared Asia/Seoul identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Gwangju's. Against Gwangju, Changwon follows Changwon-si → Gyeongsangnam-do → South Korea in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected South Korea cohort, uses the shared Asia/Seoul identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Gwangju's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 596 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Gwangju's nearest-coordinate gap sits in the second quarter of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 1841811, the coordinate pair 35.1547 / 126.9156, country rank 6 of 22, and neighbor GeoNames 1845457 at 77.14 km bind Gwangju to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Gwangju's reference point is 35.1547° north and 126.9156° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Seoul is shared by 22 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Gwangju's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Gwangju's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Gwangju's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Gwangju, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Gwangju's closest other entries in this atlas are Jeonju (77.14 km), Daejeon (139.402 km), Changwon (160.644 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.