Busan

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Busan

Total population

3,455,611

Air quality index

38Good

Elevation26 m

Coordinates35.18°, 129.08°

Demographic figures from Statistics Korea (KOSTAT). Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Busan, officially Busan Metropolitan City, is the second most populous city in South Korea, after Seoul; it has a population of over 3.3 million as of 2024. Alternatively romanized as Pusan, it is the economic, cultural and educational center of southeastern South Korea, with its port being South Korea's busiest and the sixth-busiest in the world. The surrounding "Southeastern Maritime Industrial Region" is South Korea's largest industrial area. The large volumes of port traffic and urban population in excess of 1 million makes Busan a Large-Port metropolis using the Southampton System of Port-City classification. As of 2025, Busan Port is the primary port in Korea and the world's sixth-largest container port.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Air quality

Current readings from Open-Meteo Air Quality API (Copernicus CAMS European reanalysis).

Wildlife & biodiversity

Citizen-science & research observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Earthquake history

Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).

Notable people from here

Jeong Yu-mi

South Korean actress (born 1984)

Son Eun-seo

South Korean actress

Lee Seung-hwan

South Korean singer

Ko Chang-seok

South Korean actor

A

Ahn Jae-mo

South Korean actor

Y

Yang Sung-tae

Chief Justice of South Korea

Y

Yoon Jong-bin

South Korean film director

Y

Yoon Ji-woong

South Korean baseball player

Y

Yoon Joon-soo

South Korean association football player (1986-)

Young-Tae Chang

South Korean chemistry professor

Y

Yoo Jung-nam

South Korean Olympic swimmer

Rex How

Taiwanese writer, has a career in publishing

Kim Sook

South Korean comedian

Yoon Hye-suk

South Korean volleyball player

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Lee Joo-hyung

South Korean Go player

H

Hwang Il-su

South Korean footballer

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Busan

• Nae-ri
  6.4 mi away
• Gochon-ri
  6.6 mi away
• Guchil-ri
  7.6 mi away
• Dangsa-ri
  7.7 mi away
• Cheolma-myeon
  7.8 mi away
• Seoksan-ri
  7.8 mi away
• Jangjeon-ri
  7.8 mi away
• Sirang-ri
  8.1 mi away
• Yeon-gu-ri
  8.2 mi away
• Cheonggang-ri
  8.2 mi away
• Wayeo-ri
  8.3 mi away
• Seobu-ri
  8.3 mi away

Browse all places in Busan →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Busan

APEC after Busan

Andrew Leslie Elek · 2005

Busan, South Korea

Frommer's ShortCuts · 2012

Pusanhak

Pon-ho Ku · 2016

Busan

Pŏm-gyu Kang · 2016

Analogue in Busan Vol 4 - the Time I Needed You

kaiwasoyokaze · 海和微風 · 2016

Analogue in Busan Vol. III

kaiwasoyokaze · 海和微風 · 2015

Analogue in Busan Vol. 3 - Re-Vision

kaiwasoyokaze · 海和微風 · 2015

Busan zensho

Kaiō Tanaka · 1937

Search results from Open Library.

Gallery

Geotagged photos within ~6 miles of Busan, from Wikimedia Commons contributors.

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