Busan
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. 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.
- Country
- 🇰🇷 Corea del Sur
- Elevation
- 16 m
- Population
- 3,285,147
- Time zone
- Asia/Seoul
- Coordinates
- 35.10, 129.03
How far Busan is from other cities in Corea del Sur
- Kimhae20 km✈ 46 min · 🚗 20 min
- Changwon35 km✈ 48 min · 🚗 35 min
- Ulsan55 km✈ 49 min · 🚗 55 min
- Daegu94 km✈ 52 min · 🚗 1 h 34 min
- Pohang107 km✈ 53 min · 🚗 1 h 47 min
- Jeonju188 km✈ 59 min · 🚗 3 h 8 min
- Gwangju192 km✈ 59 min · 🚗 3 h 12 min
- Daejeon203 km✈ 60 min · 🚗 3 h 23 min
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