North Korea

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This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026.

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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.

Locator map of North Korea. North Korea is filled; surrounding countries are drawn in a dimmer tone and nothing is hidden behind them. 2 contested areas are marked with hatching: Korean Demilitarized Zone (north), Korean Demilitarized Zone (south). 5 parts of it are too small to draw at this scale and are not shown. View spans 123.6°E to 131.3°E and 37.2°N to 43.5°N. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m.Korean Demilitarized Zone (north) — status contested; see the list below.Korean Demilitarized Zone (south) — status contested; see the list below.

North Korea is filled. The 3 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.

The 2 hatched areas are contested, and Aletheia takes no position on any of them. The hatching marks where the dispute lies — including where it falls inside the outline — and it is the same set the list below names.

5 parts of North Korea in this source are smaller than a pixel at this scale and are not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and they have not been enlarged to make them visible.

Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 40.3°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 123.6°E–131.3°E, 37.2°N–43.5°N.

Disputed areas involving North Korea

2 areas whose status is contested. Aletheia takes no position on any of them. Each is described in the source’s own words.

Source: Natural Earth’s disputed-areas layer (public domain). The list is not exhaustive, and inclusion or omission is not a judgment about any claim’s merit. What has happened in these places is not described here — that needs a source Aletheia has not yet been able to read.

  1. News sources

    2 sources from North Koreain Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is thin.

    • Daily NK (English)
    • NK News

    sources not yet assessed

  2. Official alerts

    no source connectedNo official alerting source is connected for this country yet. Its own authorities may well publish warnings — Aletheia simply does not carry them.

  3. National legislature

    no source connectedNo official legislature website has been verified for this country. Absence here means no domain-verified authoritative source was found — never that no legislature exists.

  4. Local time

    One time zone.

    The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.

  5. Conditions at the capital

    Right now in Pyongyang

    20°C / 68°FClearwind 8 km/h / 5 mph

    Checked 12 minutes ago

    Conditions at the capital, not across the country.

    Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

    Pyongyang, 2026-09-20Sunrise 6:22 AM · sunset 6:38 PM12h 16m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit

  6. At a glance

    ISO code
    PRKuncited
    Driving side
    rightuncited
    Mains voltage
    110 V / 220 Vcited
    Capital
    Pyongyanguncited
    Official languages
    Korean, North Korean standard languageuncited
    Plug types
    Type A (NEMA 1-15), Type C (Europlug), Type F (Schuko)cited · letters are the IEC classification
    Official website
    No source assessed yet

  7. Population and economy

    Population

    Population of North Korea: the UN's 2025 estimate is 26,571,036 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 8.2 more an hour. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.

    Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.

    Where this number comes from
    Base figure
    26,571,036 people
    For the year
    2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
    Compared with
    26,498,823 people in 2024
    Rate applied
    about 8.2 more an hour (72,261 a year)
    How that rate was found
    The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
    Carried forward
    0 days beyond the base figure's date
    Source
    UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
    The source's own definition
    The values shown are midyear estimates.

    THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.

    Population
    26,571,0362025
    GDP
    Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
    GDP per capita
    Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
    Life expectancy at birth
    73.7 years2024
    Exports
    Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
    Imports
    Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.

    Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source

  9. World Heritage Sites

    3 World Heritage Sites

    1. Goguryeo tombs · inscribed 2004
    2. Historic Monuments and Sites in Kaesong · inscribed 2013
    3. Mount Kumgang · inscribed 2025

    Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO

  10. Emergency numbers

    No source assessed yet for emergency numbers in this country.

  11. Explore this country

  12. Regions

    First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates

  13. Currency

    KPW

News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.

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