South Korea’s total land area has been estimated to amount to 100-thousand-295 square kilometers as of the end of last year, 650 square kilometers larger than ten years ago.
 
According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport on Monday, forests made up nearly 64 percent of the total, while some 20 percent was farm land, and factory and other production-related lots made up some four percent. 

Around 52 percent of the total land was privately-owned, 33 percent was owned by the state or public sector and 15 percent by corporations or religious organizations.
 
The ministry said that foreigners owned 133 square kilometers of land as of the end of last year. That’s ten square kilometers bigger than in 2014.
 
The majority of land owned by foreigners was in Gyeonggi Province followed by the provinces of Gangwon, South Jeolla, North Gyeongsang and South Gyeongsang.
 
In Seoul, foreigners owned two-point-two square kilometers of land and in Jeju, seven-point-seven square kilometers.
 
The ministry also found that South Korea has a total of three-thousand-191 uninhabited islands, whose total size amounts to 69 square kilometers. The number of inhabited islands stood at 486 with their total size estimated at three-thousand-479 square kilometers.