1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
South Korea
Compare this sourced profile of Pohang, 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 Pohang—492,041, 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 North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Pohang is GeoNames ID 1839071. Its recorded administrative path is Pohang-si → Gyeongsangbuk-do → South Korea, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Pohang 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 2025-09-30; 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, Pohang ranks 1,163 by recorded population. Inside the 22 selected South Korea entries it ranks 20; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 617. Its 492,041 population value is 0.56 times the 883,490 median for the country cohort and 0.49 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Pohang sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected South Korea entries. Pohang'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.
Pohang's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ulsan at 54.874 km with 1,098,421 recorded people; Daegu at 71.851 km with 2,365,523 recorded people; Kimhae at 98.618 km with 531,966 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 43.744 km. Compared with Ulsan, Pohang's recorded population is 0.45 times as large. Against Pohang, Ulsan follows Ulsan → 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 second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Pohang's. Against Pohang, Daegu follows Daegu → 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 second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Pohang's. Against Pohang, Kimhae follows Gimhae-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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Pohang's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 479 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Pohang'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 1839071, the coordinate pair 36.0292 / 129.3648, country rank 20 of 22, and neighbor GeoNames 1833747 at 54.874 km bind Pohang to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Pohang's reference point is 36.0292° north and 129.3648° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Seoul is shared by 22 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Pohang's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Pohang's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Pohang's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Pohang, 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
Pohang's closest other entries in this atlas are Ulsan (54.874 km), Daegu (71.851 km), Kimhae (98.618 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-09-30; 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.