Korea has the seventh largest number of Wi-Fi locations in the world with 12,814 hotspots as of the first half of this year, a report released on Sunday reveals.

Wi-Fi hotspots are public areas such as hotel lobbies, airports and cafes where a wireless Internet connection is available for wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) devices.

In the list compiled by JiWire, a U.S. mobile media company, the U.S. ranked first with 68,059 Wi-Fi hotspots, followed by China, the U.K., France, Russia and Germany.