1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE

South Korea

Jeju City

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01What the data says — and does not say

What the data says — and does not say

This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Jeju City—488,844, 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: city in South Korea.

02This city's dataset fingerprint

This city's dataset fingerprint

Record signatureJeju CityGeoNames 18462661,176 / 1,206Asia/Seoul

01

Source identity and administrative path

The source row behind Jeju City is GeoNames ID 1846266. Its recorded administrative path is Jeju-si → Jeju-do → South Korea, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat.

Jeju City 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.

02

Population position inside fixed cohorts

Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Jeju City ranks 1,176 by recorded population. Inside the 22 selected South Korea entries it ranks 21; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 621.

Its 488,844 population value is 0.55 times the 883,490 median for the country cohort and 0.48 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Jeju City sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected South Korea entries.

Jeju City's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.

03

Nearest-reference pattern

Jeju City's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Gwangju at 186.452 km with 1,401,235 recorded people; Jeonju at 263.421 km with 638,421 recorded people; Changwon at 275.268 km with 1,025,702 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 88.816 km. Compared with Gwangju, Jeju City's recorded population is 0.35 times as large. Against Jeju City, Gwangju follows Gwangju → 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 Jeju City's. Against Jeju City, 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 above Jeju City's. Against Jeju City, 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 above Jeju City's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 960 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Jeju City's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half 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 1846266, the coordinate pair 33.5097 / 126.5219, country rank 21 of 22, and neighbor GeoNames 1841811 at 186.452 km bind Jeju City to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.

04

Coordinate, time-zone and class cohorts

Jeju City's reference point is 33.5097° north and 126.5219° 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. Jeju City's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels.

Jeju City's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Jeju City's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Jeju City, 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.

Full field record

Fixed GeoNames snapshot · not live travel data
Record keys
Jeju CityGeoNames 1846266Q27289020
Name scope
Jeju City1 atlas row share this source labelqualifier not required
Administrative chain
Jeju-siJeju-doSouth Korea
Coordinate signature
33.5097° N126.5219° E
Population snapshot
488,844atlas rank 1,176 of 1,206
Country comparison
South Korea rank 21 of 22median 883,490ratio 0.55×
Regional comparison
Asia rank 621 of 632median 1,008,426ratio 0.48×
Time-zone cohort
Asia/Seoul22 of 1,206 atlas rows
Place-class cohort
PPLA first-order administrative seat429 of 1,206 rows
Elevation field
Jeju Citymissing in GeoNames
Nearest reference
Gwangju186.452 kmpopulation 1,401,235atlas rank 356
Second reference
Jeonju263.421 kmpopulation 638,421atlas rank 870
Third reference
Changwon275.268 kmpopulation 1,025,702atlas rank 531
Neighbour geometry
Jeju Citynearest-distance rank 960 of 1,206three-reference spread 88.816 km
Source dates
Jeju City row updated 2026-04-14atlas dataset checked 2026-08-04