FIELD: physics, computer engineering.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to an apparatus and a method of estimating the number of terminals located in a defined region. The method of estimating the number of terminals comprises: a step of receiving information about a region, which contains identification information of a region where a terminal is located, and information about the range of the region, which indicates the geographic range of the region identified by the region identification information; a step of obtaining the number of terminals in the region, where the number of terminals located in the region identified by the region identification information is obtained; and a step of correcting the number of terminals obtained at the step of obtaining the number of terminals in the region based on conformity information, which contains region identification information and location information indicating the location of the terminal, and region information obtained at the step of obtaining region information.
EFFECT: providing accurate estimation of the number of terminals.
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