Geography

__**Geography**__ **__South Korea__** is located in East Asia, on the southern half of the Korean P eninsula extending out from the far east of the Asian land mass. The only country with a land border to South Korea is North Korea , lying to the north with 238 km of border running along the DMZ. South Korea is mostly surrounded by water and has 2,413 km of coast line along three seas. To the west, is the Yellow Sea, to the south is the East China Sea, and to the east is the Ulleung-do, and Liancourt Rocks (Dokdo in Korean) in the Sea of Japan (also called East Sea). South Korea's land mass is approximately 100,032 square kilometers 290 square kilometers of South Korea are occupied by water. The approximate coordinates are 37° North, 127° 30 East. 


 * __North Korea__** is located in East Asia on the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. North Korea shares a border with three states, including China along the Amnok River, Russia along the Duman River, and South Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The Yellow Sea and the Korea Bay are off the west coast and the Sea of Japan (also called East Sea of Korea) is off the east coast.

The Korean Peninsula extends southward from the northeast part of the Asian continental landmass. The Japanese islands of Honshū and Kyūshū are located about 200 kilometers to the southeast across the Korea Strait; the Shandong Peninsula of China lies 190 kilometers to the west. The west coast of the peninsula is bordered by the Korea Bay to the north and the Yellow Sea to the south; the east coast is bordered by the Sea of Japan. The 8,640-kilometer coastline is highly indented. Some 3,579 islands lie adjacent to the peninsula. Most of them are found along the south and west coasts. The original border between two Korean states was the thirty-eighth parallel of latitude. After the Korean War, the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) formed the boundary between the two. The DMZ is a heavily guarded, 4,000-meter-wide strip of land that runs along the line of cease-fire, the Demarcation Line, from the east to the west coasts for a distance of 241 kilometers (238 kilometers of that line form the land boundary with North Korea). The total land area of the peninsula, including the islands, is 223,170 square kilometers. Some 44.6 percent (98,477 square kilometers) of this total, excluding the area within the DMZ, forms the territory of the Republic of Korea. The combined territories of North Korea and South Korea are about the same size as the state of Minnesota. South Korea alone is about the size of Portugal or Hungary.
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Geography influences human actions in many ways. Some influences are the environment, landforms, topography, and bodies of water. The environment used to shape the culture of many people. Very slowly, that is chaning. Construction workers and developers have been taken down trees and flatening land to build homes, buildings, or other luxories. Some places are better to live than others but some people are forced to live in the inferior land. These people are affected at first but than adapt to the land, climate, and other geographics. People trade and migrate to improve their lives. They trade the items they do not need for the items the need. The people migrate to better their lives. Some examples would be moving to get a job, to move away to get away from harsh rule, or to move to better land. One acception would be people migrating to another place from getting forced out by a loss of a war, imperialism, or communism.
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