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Gyerim

Alain Seguin from Ottawa, Canada · CC BY-SA 3.0

40% trees around it and 113 species recorded.

  • trees within 3 km40%
  • wild within 10 km69%
  • species recorded113

The forest around

40% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 28%Grassland 2%Bare ground 0%Cropland 1%Built-up 68%Trees 42%Grassland 8%Water 3%Bare ground 1%Cropland 11%Built-up 35%Trees 50%Grassland 8%Water 2%Bare ground 0%Cropland 28%Built-up 12%Trees 68%Grassland 6%Water 2%Bare ground 1%Cropland 18%Built-up 7%40%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km28%
  • 1–3 km42%
  • 3–6 km50%
  • 6–10 km68%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees42%
  • Grassland8%
  • Water3%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland11%
  • Built-up35%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

113 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Elongate dropseed
Elongate dropseedSporobolus elongatus21 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Largebracted plantain
Largebracted plantainPlantago aristata19 recordsJim Pisarowicz · Public domain
Crapemyrtle
CrapemyrtleLagerstroemia indica3 recordsGabriel Collares · CC BY 4.0
Chinese-quince
Chinese-quincePseudocydonia sinensis2 recordsTusbra · Public domain
Japanese Persimmon
Japanese PersimmonDiospyros kaki2 recordsCoentor · CC BY-SA 3.0
Euphorbia maculata
Euphorbia maculataEuphorbia maculata2 recordsHardyplants at English Wikipedia · Public domain
Garden cosmos
Garden cosmosCosmos bipinnatus2 recordsGeorge Chernilevsky · CC BY 4.0
Groundsel
GroundselSenecio vulgaris2 recordsStefan.lefnaer · CC BY-SA 4.0

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

46out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 40%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 69%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 113Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km

When to walk

Best for walking in October.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan4°-2°36 mm
  2. Feb6°0°45 mm
  3. Mar11°3°61 mm
  4. Apr16°8°95 mm
  5. May21°13°95 mm
  6. Jun24°18°126 mm
  7. Jul27°22°226 mm
  8. Aug28°23°192 mm
  9. Sep24°19°158 mm
  10. Oct19°13°72 mm
  11. Nov13°6°46 mm
  12. Dec6°0°34 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Gyerim.

Small woodland in Gyeongju National Park, Gyeongju, South Korea

Gyerim is a forest in South Korea.

Seen from space, 40% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 69% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

113 species have been recorded around it: 8 plants, 0 fungi, 102 birds and 3 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Elongate dropseed, Largebracted plantain and Crapemyrtle.

The best time to walk is in October.

Korea-Gyeongju-Gyerim Forest-Shrine-01
Alain Seguin from Ottawa, Canada · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

  • 별빛마루글램핑펜션campsite · 8.8 km · 2 within 10 km
  • Tavo Houseplace to stay · 1.4 km · 113 within 10 km
  • Gyeongjunearest town · 2.9 km in a straight line
  • Pohang Airport (G-815/K-3) (KPO)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 22 km in a straight lineCar hire in BusanDiscover Cars · sponsored link

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Gyerim seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 1marked trails within 5 kmHomoNomad Guesthouse
  • 1picnic sites within 4 km
  • 12shelters and huts within 6 km화백정 and 11 more
  • 5viewpoints within 5 km서천끝지점, 진덕여왕릉, 소현리 팽나무 and 2 more
  • 7visitor centres within 6 km매표소, 교촌홍보관 and 5 more
  • 80car parks within 3 km
  • 2campsites within 10 km별빛마루글램핑펜션, 경주오아시스글램핑
  • 113places to stay within 10 kmTavo House, Gyeongju, 141 Mini Hotel and 110 more
  • 106restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Gyerim.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas30 mountains within 25 km
Mangsan406 m · 8.8 kmByeokdo Mountain436 m · 8.8 kmNamsan494 m · 11 kmUnjesan14 kmDanseoksan827 m · 15 kmTohamsan745 m · 18 kmDongaksan745 m · 24 kmMount Doeumsan383 m · 24 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Bomun Lake1.2 km² · 5.5 kmHagok-chi0.6 km² · 14 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
Hyeongsan River62 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Korea-Gyeongju-Gyerim Forest-Monument-01
by Julien Ambrosiano at Flickr · CC BY-SA 3.0
Gyerim 01
Abasaa · Public domain
Gyerim 02
Abasaa · Public domain

Other forests nearby.

Gyerim

South Korea

  • 46Forestyas Score
  • 40%Trees
  • 69%Wild
  • 113Species

Jeongipumsong Pine Tree

South Korea · 146 km

  • 54Forestyas Score
  • 92%Trees
  • 84%Wild
  • —Species

See the guide

Korea National Arboretum

South Korea · 278 km

  • 77Forestyas Score
  • 92%Trees
  • 73%Wild
  • 363Species

See the guide

Nijinomatsubara

Japan · 279 km

  • 53Forestyas Score
  • 42%Trees
  • 88%Wild
  • 76Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q491088) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species2,689 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Lakeyas, Riveryas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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