Map of North Korea

Open North Korea on the map — framed on the country itself, not on every far-off island it holds — and look at it by population density, by the historical maps of its region, or with the open data below.

Facts

As the source states them, in the source’s own words.

CapitalPyongyang
Area120,538 km²
CurrencyKPW (North Korean won)
LanguagesKorean

Source: mledoze/countries, IANA Time Zone Database, Natural Earth admin-0. Licence: ODbL 1.0, public domain.

Historical maps

IntMap’s historical maps of the regions this outline lies in, on every date the map draws them. A region is a frame on the map, not a statement that North Korea existed then: the names on each map are the ones the historical records give.

Map of East Asia

Dated events in this outline

Events of IntMap’s war record dated to a place inside today’s outline of North Korea. Each links to the page of its calendar day, which opens the map on that day.

  1. 1950

    Sinchon massacre

    Korean War · IntMap’s war record

    17 October →
  2. 1950

    Battle of Unsan

    Korean War · IntMap’s war record

    1 November →
  3. 1950

    MiG Alley

    Korean War · IntMap’s war record

    1 November →
  4. 1950

    Battle of the Ch’ongch’on River

    Korean War · IntMap’s war record

    25 November →
  5. 1950

    Battle of Chosin Reservoir

    Korean War · IntMap’s war record

    27 November →
  6. 1950

    Hungnam evacuation

    Korean War · IntMap’s war record

    11 December →
  7. 1951

    Siege of Wonsan

    Korean War · IntMap’s war record

    16 February →
  8. 1951

    Armistice talks open at Kaesong

    Korean War · IntMap’s war record

    10 July →
  9. 1951

    The line of contact is agreed at Panmunjom

    Korean War · IntMap’s war record

    27 November →
  10. 1953

    Battle of Kumsong

    Korean War · IntMap’s war record

    13 July →
  11. 1953

    Korean Armistice Agreement

    Korean War · IntMap’s war record

    27 July →

Open data about North Korea

The datasets IntMap may share about North Korea, each under its own terms. The values are in one file: api/v1/countries/PRK.json

airports

Public domain, ODbL 1.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike

Credit: OurAirports, Country facts — mledoze/countries (capital, currency, languages, land borders, UN membership, demonym; ODbL 1.0, build time only)

country-facts

ODbL 1.0, public domain · Requires: credit · share-alike

Credit: mledoze/countries, IANA Time Zone Database, Natural Earth admin-0

health

CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike · non-commercial

Credit: WHO Global Health Observatory — UHC service coverage index & IHR SPAR (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO), World Bank Open Data

language

public domain, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit

Credit: CIA World Factbook, Language identity, genealogical classification and endangerment status — Glottolog (CC BY 4.0)

mobility

ODbL 1.0, public domain, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike

Credit: OpenFlights — airline route database (country-pair route counts for the pandemic simulator; snapshot of June 2014, no longer updated; ODbL 1.0), OurAirports, World Bank Open Data, Country facts — mledoze/countries (capital, currency, languages, land borders, UN membership, demonym; ODbL 1.0, build time only)

religion

public domain · Requires: nothing

What this page states

The outline, the name and the code are Natural Earth’s (admin-0, public domain), the set IntMap’s map draws countries from. The map opens on the frame the app’s country search uses for it: the country itself, not every far-off island it holds.

A historical map is listed when its region’s frame overlaps this outline. It is listed for the place, not for the country: the borders on it are what the historical records draw.

An event is listed when the point the war record gives it falls inside this outline — a fact about the point, not about which state held the place at the time.

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