Provided herein may be a memory device and a method of operating the same. The memory device may include a page buffer group configured to include a plurality of page buffers respectively coupled to a plurality of memory areas through a plurality of bit lines, a row decoder configured to select a memory area, on which an operation corresponding to a command is to be performed, from among the plurality of memory areas, based on a row address included in an address, a column decoder configured to transfer data to a page buffer of the plurality of page buffers according to a column address included in the address and an address controller configured to control the row decoder and the column decoder so that the data is stored in another memory area other than the selected memory area.