North Korea
Names and codes: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0 · Boundary: Natural Earth, public domain · Refresh date not recorded · Sources and licenses
Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- KP
- ISO alpha-3
- PRK
- ISO numeric
- 408
- FIPS 10-4
- KN
- GeoNames ID
- 1873107
Key facts
- Capital
- Pyongyang
- Area
- 120,540 km²
- Population
- 25,549,819
- Currency
- Won (KPW)
- Calling code
- +850
- Top-level domain
- .kp
- Official languages
- ko-KP
Continent
- Name
- Asia
- Code
- AS
- In this dataset
- 51 countries
Location
- Latitude
- 40
- Longitude
- 127
- Min latitude
- 37.67560455900008
- Min longitude
- 124.21131598900001
- Max latitude
- 43.010269878000074
- Max longitude
- 130.69996178500003
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/KP?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 120540,
"capital": "Pyongyang",
"continent_code": "AS",
"currency_code": "KPW",
"iso3_code": "PRK",
"iso_code": "KP",
"name": "North Korea",
"population": 25549819
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/KP/regions/v1/cities?country=KP/v1/postal-codes?country=KP/v1/timezones?country=KP
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- كوريا الشمالية
- Chinese
- 朝鲜
- English
- North Korea
- French
- Corée du Nord
- German
- Nordkorea
- Hindi
- उत्तर कोरिया
- Italian
- Corea del Nord
- Japanese
- 韓国、朝鮮民主主義人民共和国
- Korean
- 조선민주주의인민공화국
- Portuguese
- Coreia do Norte
- Russian
- КНДР
- Spanish
- Corea del Norte
- Total language variants
- 148
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Asia/Pyongyang | UTC+09:00 | UTC+09:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- ###-###
- Pattern
^(\d{6})$
First-level administrative regions
- South Pyongan
- South Hamgyong
- North Pyongan
- Pyongyang
- North Hamgyong Province
- Hwanghae-namdo
- Hwanghae-bukto
- Kangwŏn-do
- Chagang-do
- Ryanggang
- Nampo
- Rason
- Kaesong
13 of 13 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Pyongyang | 3,222,000 |
| Hamhŭng | 559,056 |
| Namp’o | 455,000 |
| Sunch’ŏn | 437,000 |
| Hŭngnam | 346,082 |
| Kaesŏng | 338,155 |
| Wŏnsan | 329,207 |
| Chongjin | 327,000 |
| Man’gyŏngdae-ri | 321,690 |
| Kaech’ŏn | 319,554 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 35,327
- First-level regions
- 13
- Postal codes
- 0
- Name languages
- 148
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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