1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
South Korea
Compare this sourced profile of Kimhae, 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 Kimhae—531,966, 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: human settlement in South Korea.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kimhae is GeoNames ID 1842943. Its recorded administrative path is Gimhae-si → Gyeongsangnam-do → South Korea, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Kimhae 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 2025-04-01; 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, Kimhae ranks 1,060 by recorded population. Inside the 22 selected South Korea entries it ranks 19; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 561. Its 531,966 population value is 0.60 times the 883,490 median for the country cohort and 0.53 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Kimhae sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected South Korea entries. Kimhae'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.
Kimhae's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Changwon at 18.178 km with 1,025,702 recorded people; Busan at 20.008 km with 3,285,147 recorded people; Ulsan at 51.91 km with 1,098,421 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 33.732 km. Compared with Changwon, Kimhae's recorded population is 0.52 times as large. Against Kimhae, Changwon follows Changwon-si → Gyeongsangnam-do → South Korea in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected South Korea cohort, uses the shared Asia/Seoul identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Kimhae's. Against Kimhae, Busan follows Busan → South Korea in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected South Korea cohort, uses the shared Asia/Seoul identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Kimhae's. Against Kimhae, Ulsan follows Ulsan → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Kimhae's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 249 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kimhae's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. 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 1842943, the coordinate pair 35.2342 / 128.8811, country rank 19 of 22, and neighbor GeoNames 1846326 at 18.178 km bind Kimhae to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kimhae's reference point is 35.2342° north and 128.8811° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Seoul is shared by 22 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Kimhae's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Kimhae's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kimhae's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kimhae, 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
Kimhae's closest other entries in this atlas are Changwon (18.178 km), Busan (20.008 km), Ulsan (51.91 km).
04Verify before you book
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Read how City Atlas Club verifies changing travel facts →05Sources and freshness
GeoNames updated the row 2025-04-01; 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.