North Korea
North Korea (officially Democratic People's Republic of Korea) is a country in Eastern Asia, with its capital at Pyongyang, and is home to roughly 26.5M people.
Korean is the official language; the currency in circulation is North Korean won (₩); people from here are called North Korean.
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> NOTABLE_
- »It uses its own calendar, counting years from the birth of Kim Il-sung.
> BORDERS_
North Korea touches three neighbours: China to the west, Russia to the northwest and South Korea to the south. Directions run from one centre to the other.
> THE CAPITAL_
Pyongyang was almost entirely flattened by bombing in the Korean War and rebuilt to a monumental plan, with wide avenues and a tightly controlled resident population.
> SCALE_
122,324 km² (47,230 sq mi), 98th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Eritrea.
Population 26,498,823, 56th of 198 on file. That averages 217 per km² (561 per sq mi).
> THE FLAG_
The red star on white disc marks the communist state; the blue bands stand for sovereignty and peace, the white for purity.