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South Hwanghae

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
2,425,378
people (GHSL 2025)
8,252 km²
area
9.8%
of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
20
units inside

01Map

Inside South Hwanghae

The 20 ADM2 units of South Hwanghae.

FIG 1 · 20 units inside South Hwanghae
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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

2,425,378

9.8% of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

People · WorldPop 2025

2,402,457

-1% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Indawo

8,252 km²

294 people per km².

Ikhowudi

KP09

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

419,620

people on land at or below 10 m, 17.3% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

South Hwanghae 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

2,224,443

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

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

70%

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

04Units

20 units inside South Hwanghae

Each unit has its own page.

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

Unit Ikhowudi People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Anak – 55,542 110,257 340.4 163 2.3% 21,525
Chongdan – 142,281 138,809 472.03 301 5.9% 44,450
Haeju City – 228,633 215,500 228.59 1,000 9.4% 23,409
Jaerong – 144,805 142,830 390.93 370 6% 48,561
Jangyon – 91,154 86,364 248.12 367 3.8% 7,896
Kangryong – 78,530 89,706 567.94 138 3.2% 7,363
Kwail – 81,442 79,967 311.46 261 3.4% 2,684
Ongjin – 171,027 174,701 571.61 299 7.1% 18,617
Paechon – 187,073 183,009 505.78 370 7.7% 62,365
Pongchon – 89,378 90,893 507.92 176 3.7% 1,431
Pyoksong – 96,234 109,160 554.01 174 4% 1,046
Ryongyon – 98,546 89,192 453.29 217 4.1% 15,708
Samchon – 98,249 92,113 263.57 373 4.1% 0
Sinchon – 170,381 171,009 372.08 458 7% 24,781
Sinwon – 97,546 93,886 523.86 186 4% 0
Songhwa – 70,601 75,133 184.34 383 2.9% 0
Thaethan – 31,155 40,510 292.64 106 1.3% 20,800
Unchon – 195,231 124,121 484.28 403 8% 15,599
Unryul – 113,353 115,183 494.58 229 4.7% 10,466
Yonan – 184,216 180,114 484.26 380 7.6% 92,307
05Ukuchaphazeleka

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
None at this resolution
Railways
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06Umngcipheko

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for South Hwanghae 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

08Imithombo

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.
Amazwe
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.