The purpose of this study was to investigate children''s happiness recognition by gender, grade, and area from a sample of 3,608 children in six Korean provincial areas except Jeju-do. The data were analyzed by t-test and ANOVA using the SPSS/PC 14.0 compute program. The major resultes of this study were follows: First, there were significant differences in children''s happiness recognition by gender, grade, and area. The girls'' happiness score was higher than boys''. High grader''s happiness score was hihger than that low graders''. And children''s happiness score in Jeolla-do was the highest among six provincial areas. Second, there were significant differences in each sub-domain according to gender, grade, and area in the extra curricula activity and children''s happiness recognition. 핵심단어 : 초등학생, 행복감 인식, 학교 수업 외 활동