Official Name: Democratic People's Republic of Korea Location: Eastern Asia, northern half of the Korean Peninsula bordering the Korea Bay and the Sea of Japan, between China and South Korea. Capital: P'yongyang Area: total: 120,540 sq km land: 120,410 sq km water: 130 sq km Lowest point: Sea of Japan 0 m. Highest point: Paektu-san 2,744 m.

City Skyline From 17 Yanggakdo Hotel, P'Yongyang, North Korea More pictures Purchase this poster

Population: 23,301,725 (July 2007 est.) Nationality: Korean(s) Ethnic groups: Racially homogeneous; there is a small Chinese community and a few ethnic Japanese. Religions: Traditionally Buddhist and Confucianist, some Christian and syncretic Chondogyo (Religion of the Heavenly Way). Autonomous religious activities now almost nonexistent; government-sponsored religious groups exist. Languages: Korean.

Temperate with rainfall concentrated in the summer.

Government type: Authoritarian Socialist; Dictatorship. Independence: 15 August 1945 (from Japan). National holiday: Founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), 9 September (1948).

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