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North Pyongan

First-level unit, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Page GRX-PRK-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO PRK / KPStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
3,180,955
people (GHSL 2025)
12,428 km²
area
12.8%
of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
25
units inside

01মানচিত্র

Inside North Pyongan

The 25 ADM2 units of North Pyongan.

FIG 1 · 25 units inside North Pyongan
মানচিত্র লোড হচ্ছে

Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

মানুষ · GHSL 2025

3,180,955

12.8% of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

মানুষ · WorldPop 2025

3,101,310

-3% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

12,428 km²

256 people per km².

Code

KP06

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

নিম্ন উপকূলীয় অঞ্চল

614,632

people on land at or below 10 m, 19.3% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

North Pyongan in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, matched to this unit by name, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Population · 2008-12-31

2,740,472

people. OCHA Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

69%

of the long-term average, latest dekad. WFP – World Food Programme · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).

04Units

25 units inside North Pyongan

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Changsong – 33,032 30,196 620.85 53 1% 0
Cholsan – 99,162 98,241 399.33 248 3.1% 13,600
Chonma – 62,961 57,824 553.32 114 2% 0
Hyangsan – 65,347 50,055 275.67 237 2.1% 0
Jongju City – 235,817 211,844 485.75 485 7.4% 64,990
Kujang – 194,943 193,964 697.09 280 6.1% 0
Kusong City – 216,362 213,681 530.07 408 6.8% 0
Kwaksan – 115,844 108,927 386.22 300 3.6% 49,449
Nyongbyon – 139,353 130,475 542.72 257 4.4% 0
Pakchon – 105,181 95,204 342.53 307 3.3% 8,176
Phihyon – 49,373 84,521 325 152 1.6% 1,473
Pyokdong – 43,758 40,292 765.96 57 1.4% 0
Ryongchon – 120,194 122,469 87.76 1,370 3.8% 72,918
Sakju – 186,300 170,626 774.65 240 5.9% 0
Sindo – 2,745 1,696 64.14 43 0.1% 935
Sinuiju City – 348,783 446,775 101.12 3,449 11% 277,143
Sonchon – 156,631 140,409 499.69 313 4.9% 2,962
Taegwan – 129,199 119,116 836.95 154 4.1% 0
Thaechon – 122,603 100,871 780.8 157 3.9% 0
Tongchang – 35,878 33,874 877.17 41 1.1% 0
Tongrim – 131,652 116,824 513.87 256 4.1% 1,635
Uiju – 138,948 137,863 357.93 388 4.4% 26,704
Unjon – 126,598 115,320 389.56 325 4% 52,014
Unsan – 125,874 113,342 872.21 144 4% 0
Yomju – 194,416 166,901 347.43 560 6.1% 41,889
05উন্মুক্ততা

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
47 H3 cells
বন্দর
None at this resolution
বিমানবন্দর
1 H3 cells
Major roads
880.8 H3 cells
রেলপথ
626.3 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
107.7 H3 cells
06ঝুঁকি

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for North Pyongan publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
07Neighbours

Neighbouring units

08উৎস

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen PRK ADM1, source: World Food Programme, OCHA ROAP, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2018
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen PRK ADM2, source: World Food Programme, OCHA ROAP, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2019
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
দেশ
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.