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North Chungcheong Province covers 7,406.7 km² (2,860 sq mi) of land and had a population of 1.6 million in 2025, about 216 people per km² (558 per sq mi). In more familiar terms, it is about 1.47 times the size of Delaware.
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North Chungcheong Province's full administrative territory in the centre of South Korea — the country's only province with no coastline. Population is resident registration population (주민등록인구) at 2025-12-31 and area is the official administrative-area figure at the same date, both from the Ministry of the Interior and Safety annual report already used for Busan, Incheon, Daegu, Daejeon, Ulsan and Sejong — a different population series from the Statistics Korea register-based census (등록센서스) behind the South Korea and Seoul pages, though the two are usually close. The outline is GADM 4.1's Chungcheongbuk-do polygon, which measures about 7,414 km² against the official 7,406.69 km² (+0.1%). GADM is licensed for non-commercial use only; Atlas is not commercialised. See docs/island-data-sources.md.
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Place guide
North Chungcheong Province covers 7,406.69 km² and had 1,596,502 registered residents at year-end 2025, about 216 people per km². Cheongju, its capital, holds more than half of that population.
With no coast and no offshore islands, North Chungcheong's outline is a single piece of land, and the official area and the drawn outline measure almost exactly the same.
Sejong Special Self-Governing City, created in 2012 partly from former North and South Chungcheong land, is a separate top-level government with its own page and is not included here.
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North Chungcheong Province covers 7,406.7 km², or 2,860 sq mi (reference date 2025-12-31). In US terms: ≈ 1.47 × Delaware.
1.6 million — 1,596,502 as of 2025-12-31. The scope of that count is set out under “Scope and definitions” on this page.
About 215.5 people per km² (558 per sq mi), derived from the area and population above, whose reference dates may differ. An administrative average does not describe how crowded any particular neighbourhood is.
North Chungcheong Province's full administrative territory in the centre of South Korea — the country's only province with no coastline. Population is resident registration population (주민등록인구) at 2025-12-31 and area is the official administrative-area figure at the same date, both from the Ministry of the Interior and Safety annual report already used for Busan, Incheon, Daegu, Daejeon, Ulsan and Sejong — a different population series from the Statistics Korea register-based census (등록센서스) behind the South Korea and Seoul pages, though the two are usually close. The outline is GADM 4.1's Chungcheongbuk-do polygon, which measures about 7,414 km² against the official 7,406.69 km² (+0.1%). GADM is licensed for non-commercial use only; Atlas is not commercialised. See docs/island-data-sources.md.
Outline source: GADM 4.1 · Free for academic and other non-commercial use; redistribution or commercial use requires permission
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