North Korea Country Info - Asia

Description and Basic Information

North Korea with its capital Pyongyang is located in Asia (Eastern Asia, northern half of the Korean Peninsula bordering the Korea Bay and the Sea of Japan). It covers some 120,541 square kilometres (slightly smaller than Mississippi) with 22,912,177 citizens. Korean is the language spoken by people in North Korea. China, South Korea and Russia are bordering countries.

North Korea is a country in East Asia. North Korea can only be visited by an organized tour, but this can be a large group or a party of one. Prices start from around $1000/€700/£580 for a 5-day group tour including accommodation, meals and transport from Beijing, but can go up considerably if you want to travel around the country or independently (as your own one-person escorted group).

Pictures from Capital (Pyongyang)

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About North Korea

The terrain offers mostly hills and mountains separated by deep, narrow valleys having coastal plains wide in west, discontinuous in east. The average density of population is about 190 per km². The climate in North Korea can be described as temperate with rainfall concentrated in summer. Possible natural disasters include late spring droughts often followed by severe flooding or occasional typhoons during the early fall.

To reach someone in North Korea dial +850 prior to a number. There are 1,180,000 installed telephones. And there are 0 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of 900 Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".kp". If you want to bring electric appliances (e.g. battery charger), keep in mind the local 110/220V - 50/60Hz. The following list are the 11 regions/states in North Korea we know off.

Demographic Statistics

In the year 2010, the total Korean population grew at a rate of 0.39% (or by 88,526 citizens). With 241,227 deaths and 331,801 babies born, the natural increase rate lies at 0.4%. -2,048 persons more in total emmigrated from the country than immigrated.

An overview of age distribution in North Korea: Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.