EPSG systems

EPSG:4162 Korean 1985

Geographic system in latitude and longitude, in use: Korea, Republic of (South Korea) - onshore. Datum, ellipsoid and transformation to WGS 84 below.

EPSG publishes no simple transformation to WGS 84 for this datum: conversion works on the ellipsoid alone and can be off by tens of metres.

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System record
Code	EPSG:4162
Name	Korean 1985
Type	Geographic system
Area of use	Korea, Republic of (South Korea) - onshore Republic of Korea (South Korea) - onshore.
Bounds	W 124,53° · S 33,14° · E 131,01° · N 38,64°
Countries	South Korea
Datum	Korean Datum 1985
Ellipsoid	Bessel 1841 a = 6377397.155 m · 1/f = 299.1528128
Unit	degree (Lat north, Lon east)
Transformation to WGS 84	No simple transformation published (ellipsoid alone)
Scope	Geodesy.

proj4 definition

+proj=longlat +ellps=bessel +no_defs

Paste it into QGIS, proj4js, PostGIS (spatial_ref_sys) or GDAL. +towgs84 carries the EPSG transformation to WGS 84; the official code stays EPSG:4162.

WKT (ESRI format, the .prj content)

GEOGCS["GCS_Korean_Datum_1985",DATUM["D_Korean_Datum_1985",SPHEROID["Bessel_1841",6377397.155,299.1528128]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]]

All systems — South Korea

Source: EPSG registry v11.022 (IOGP), through the PROJ database. Always check a code on epsg.org before contractual work.

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WKT (ESRI format, the .prj content)

Other systems — South Korea