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South 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
3,226,034
people (GHSL 2025)
11,295 km²
area
13%
of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
21
units inside

01Map

Inside South Pyongan

The 21 ADM2 units of South Pyongan.

FIG 1 · 21 units inside South Pyongan
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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.

People · GHSL 2025

3,226,034

13% of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

People · WorldPop 2025

3,446,895

+7% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

વિસ્તાર

11,295 km²

286 people per km².

કોડ

KP07

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

281,841

people on land at or below 10 m, 8.7% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

South 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

3,068,036

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

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

54%

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

04Units

21 units inside South Pyongan

Each unit has its own page.

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

Unit કોડ People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Anju City – 266,301 271,532 302.8 879 8.1% 57,042
Chongnam – 47,537 47,537 11.73 4,053 1.5% 0
Hoechang – 97,771 101,384 678.85 144 3% 0
Jungsan – 107,273 114,765 431.06 249 3.3% 13,033
Kaechon City – 322,201 330,132 607.99 530 9.8% 0
Maengsan – 47,927 49,674 692.63 69 1.5% 0
Mundok – 248,511 270,762 398.03 624 7.6% 143,270
Nyongwon – 32,587 34,689 1,090.91 30 1% 0
Pukchang – 154,503 166,290 625.25 247 4.7% 0
Pyongsong City – 239,807 288,230 333.77 718 7.3% 0
Pyongwon – 189,586 208,429 460.95 411 5.8% 32,614
Sinyang – 67,695 74,705 699.8 97 2.1% 0
Songchon – 161,959 177,704 834.04 194 4.9% 0
Sukchon – 188,515 190,968 432.04 436 5.8% 34,208
Sunchon City – 335,340 341,978 397.29 844 10.2% 0
Taedong – 147,802 178,983 219.26 674 4.5% 4,009
Taehung – 35,718 37,428 1,287.72 28 1.1% 0
Tokchon City – 258,274 270,607 588.8 439 7.9% 0
Tukjang – 53,943 57,459 85.81 629 1.6% 0
Unsan – 205,161 212,686 417.31 492 6.3% 0
Yangdok – 65,159 68,492 698.09 93 2% 0
05સંપર્કમાં આવવું

Open exposure layers

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

Urban areas
None at this resolution
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
659.9 H3 cells
Railways
311.9 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06જોખમ

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for South 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

08સ્ત્રોતો

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.
દેશો
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.