Almost all Koreans live in cities, which occupy only a small portion of the nation's total area. The country divides its land by use urban areas, managed areas, natural preserves and farms and forests – in order to carry out its planning initiatives. Of the categories, urban areas take up 16.7 percent of the country, while farms and forests occupy 46.5 percent, followed by 25.6 percent for managed areas and 112 percent for preserves.
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South Korea, country in East Asia. It occupies the southern portion of the Korean peninsula. The country is bordered by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) to the north, the East Sea (Sea of Japan) to the east, the East China Sea to the south, and the Yellow Sea to the west; to the southeast it is separated from the Japanese island of Tsushima by the Korea Strait. South Korea makes up about 45 percent of the peninsula’s land area. The capital is Seoul (Sŏul).