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.
- »It uses its own calendar, counting years from the birth of Kim Il-sung.
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.
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.
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 red star on white disc marks the communist state; the blue bands stand for sovereignty and peace, the white for purity.