The present disclosure relates to the technical field of communications, and provides a paging method, a locating information transmission method, a core network node, and a base station. The paging method is applied to a core network node in a satellite internet communication system, the method comprising: obtaining a configuration of a tracking area (TA) in the satellite internet communication system; determining, on the basis of the configuration, a base station for paging a terminal; and transmitting a paging message to the base station. The configuration comprises at least one of the following configurations: configuring the satellite internet communication system as one TA; configuring at least two fixed TAs; and configuring at least two non-fixed TAs.