Uses the Juche calendar, counting years from 1912, the birth year of Kim Il-sung.
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North Korea
Democratic People's Republic of Korea ยท ์กฐ์
Asia
ยท Eastern Asia
0Population
120.54Kkmยฒ of land
$1.56KGDP / person
PyongyangCapital
- ISO codes
- KP ยท PRK
- Density
- 213 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Korean
- Currency
- North Korean won (KPW)
- Dial code
- +850
- Internet domain
- .kp
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 39.8850ยฐ N, 126.4450ยฐ E
- Demonym
- North Korean
- UN region
- Eastern Asia
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- $40B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 3
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By the numbers
How North Korea stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
54th
of 242 ยท 0.33% of world population
Land area
100th
of 242 ยท 0.08% of world land
GDP per person
197th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
63rd
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about North Korea
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 25,666,161 people, the 54th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.33 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 120,538 kmยฒ, making it the 100th largest country here - about 3.9 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 213 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Pyongyang, at 39.02ยฐ N, 125.75ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 3,300,000.
Shares land borders with 3 countries: China, South Korea and Russia.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Pyongyang.
The currency is the North Korean won (KPW, symbol โฉ).
The official language is Korean.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Pyongyang
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UTC+09:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Pyongyang
P'yongyang
39.0214ยฐ N, 125.7527ยฐ E
3.3M
2
Wonsan
Kangwon-do
39.1605ยฐ N, 127.4308ยฐ E
329.21K
3
Sinuiju
P'yongan-bukto
40.0859ยฐ N, 124.4213ยฐ E
288.11K
Land neighbours
3 countries share a border with North Korea.