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GeographyLocation: Eastern Asia, southern half of the Korean peninsula bordering the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea, south of North Korea
Area: Land boundaries: total 238 km, North Korea 238 km Coastline: 2,413 km
PeoplePopulation: 45,553,882 (July 1995 est.)
Age structure:
Population growth rate: 1.04% (1995 est.) Birth rate: 15.63 births/1,000 population Death rate: 6.18 deaths/1,000 population Net migration rate: 0.9 migrant(s)/1,000 population Infant mortality rate: 20.9 deaths/1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth:
Total fertility rate: 1.66 children born/woman Ethnic divisions: homogeneous (except for about 20,000 Chinese) Religions: Christianity 48.6%, Buddhism 47.4%, Confucianism 3%, pervasive folk religion (shamanism), Chondogyo (Religion of the Heavenly Way) 0.2% Languages: Korean, English widely taught in high school
Literacy:
age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.)
Government
Names:
Type: republic Capital: Seoul Independence: 15 August 1948 Constitution: 25 February 1988
EconomyNational product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $508.3 billion National product real growth rate: 8.3% National product per capita: $11,270 Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5.6% Unemployment rate: 2%
Electricity:
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