Map of North Korea

North Korea is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 40.0° N, 127.0° E. It shares land borders with 3 countries — China, Russia and South Korea — and also has its own coastline. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, North Korea is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

North Korea shares land frontiers with the following 3 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

North Korea covers about 120,538 km² (46,540 sq mi). That makes it the 97th-largest country in the world by area and the 29th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 20 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 25,950,000, the 56th-largest in the world and the 21st-largest in Asia, accounting for about 0.6% of the continent’s people. With that land area, North Korea has an average population density of about 215 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 21st by population and 29th by area.

The seat of government is Pyongyang, and the official currency is the North Korean won (KPW, ₩), and the main official language is Korean. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+09:00.

North Korea carries the ISO country codes KP and PRK, dials on the international calling code +850 and uses the .kp internet domain.

North Korea shares its land borders with 3 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are China (capital Beijing, about 1,408,280,000 people), Russia (capital Moscow, about 146,028,325 people) and South Korea (capital Seoul, about 51,159,889 people).

By area, North Korea is larger than 1 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 40.0° N, 127.0° E and opens at zoom level 6, framing North Korea within Asia. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Pyongyang. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

North Korea lies about 4,440 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

North Korea keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+09:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +09:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the North Korean won (KPW, ₩).

The official language is Korean, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +850 and websites commonly use the .kp internet domain.

In short, North Korea is a coastal country in Asia, sharing land borders with 3 countries. Its capital is Pyongyang. North Korea has a population of about 25,950,000 and covers around 120,538 km² (46,540 sq mi), ranking it 56th in the world by population and 97th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for North Korea.

The flag of North Korea is composed of three horizontal bands — a large central white-edged red band, and a blue band above and beneath the red band. On the hoist side of the red band is a red five-pointed star within a white circle.

The flag of North Korea is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.