North Korea Area Code

+850 is the dialing code for North Korea.

North Korea is the world’s most closed country, a dictatorship ruled by Kim Jong-Un, son of the quirky Kim Jong-Il. Society is militarized and people are strictly monitored. North Korea has nuclear weapons and has long been implicated in a bitter conflict with the US and South Korea. Economic collapse has led to starvation and desperation. All opposition has been crushed with labor camps and executions.

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Geography and climate

North Korea Area Code

North Korea encompasses just over half of the Korean peninsula. To the surface, the country corresponds to about a quarter of Sweden. Along the 25-mile border to South Korea in the south, a buffer zone is barely half a mile wide. The demilitarized zone is, despite the name, one of the world’s most militarized areas.

In the north, the rivers Yalu (or Amnok) and Tumen together form a natural border with China. Both rivers flow into the region around Paektu, a extinguished volcano that is the country’s highest mountain. Yalu flows west and opens into the Yellow Sea. The Tumen flows east and forms a short boundary also towards Russia in the northeast, before the river flows into the Japanese sea.

Four-fifths of North Korea’s surface consists of mountain ranges and forested plateaus. In the west, low-lying plateaus and plains dominate.

North Korea has a temperate climate, which is influenced by monsoon winds. The summers are hot and rainy as the monsoon blows in from the southeast. Just over half of all precipitation falls between June and August. Winters are cold. Snow is abundant in the mountains but sparsely in the lowlands.

Country Facts

Geography

Cultivated land 21.8 %
Land area 120538 km 2

Population and health

Population development 0.53 ‰
Urban population (Urbanization) 60.9 %
Death rate 9.21 per 1000 residents
Life expectancy: Women 74.16 years
Life expectancy: Men 66.26 years
Birth rate 14.52 births per 1000 residents
HDI index
Population 24983205
Infant mortality 23.68 deaths / 1000 births

Population Graph Source: Countryaah.com

Energy

Electricity, production 18760 million kWh
Energy consumption per resident 568.7 kg. oil per resident
Natural gas, production million cubic meters
Crude oil, production million tons

Infrastructure

Internet users per 100 residents
Mobile subscriptions 11 per 100 residents
Passenger cars per 1000 residents

Business and economics

Unemployment 25.6% of the workforce
GDP 1800 per resident
Primary occupations 27 %
Secondary profession 18 %
Tertiary professions 55 %

FACTS – GEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE

Surface

120 538 km2 (2018)

Time

Swedish + 8 hours

Adjacent country (s)

South Korea, China, Russia

Capital with number of residents

Pyongyang 3,200,000

Other major cities

Hamhung 768,000, Nampo 367,000, Wonsan 363,000, Sinuiju 359,000 (Census 2008)

Highest mountain

Paektu (2744 m asl)

Important rivers

Yalu, Tumen, Taedong

Average Precipitation / year

Pyongyang 930 mm

Average / day

Pyongyang 24 °C (Aug), -6 °C (Jan)

2011

December

Kim Yong Un new leader

Kim Yong Il dies in the middle of the month. His son Kim Yong Un is named “the great successor” on December 29.

July

Meeting of Foreign Ministers

South Korea and North Korea’s foreign ministers meet for the first time in three years.

February

Kin Yong Un to another top post

Kim Yong Un is appointed to another high position, now in the National Defense Commission.