The Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs said Wednesday that after wrapping up a nine-month project on island territories in February, the ministry found 923 unregistered islands.
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A ministry official said that following the project, the nation’s territory is expected to increase around 16-and-a-half square kilometers.
Jeollanam-do will get 281 of these, and will increase its territory by 482,295 square meters, the largest size increase of all the provinces. According to the Naver online encyclopedia there are 3,153 islands in South Korea, with Korean Wikipedia saying, using numbers from the Coast Guard, there are 1,688 uninhabited (무인도) islands in Jeollanam-do. Before this latest reckoning, presumably.
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