East Asia & Pacific · KPWhere is North Korea?
North Korea is grouped in the World Bank's East Asia & Pacific region. Its listed capital is Pyongyang. The profile's representative coordinates are 39.03° N, 125.75° E; they are orientation points, not geometric centroids or boundary claims.
How large is North Korea?
EqualAtlas calculates a consistent spherical area from the same Natural Earth boundary geometry used for the map. For North Korea, that mapped area is approximately 122,496 square kilometres, ranking #100 among 238 mapped country and territory profiles. It may differ slightly from figures published by national statistical offices because coastlines, inland water and territorial definitions vary by dataset.
People and place
North Korea had a World Bank population value of 26,571,036 in 2025. Using the displayed mapped area, that is about 216.9 people per square kilometre. Area and population answer different questions, so EqualAtlas keeps their reference methods visible rather than combining them into an unexplained ranking.
The latest imported life expectancy at birth value is 73.7 years for 2024, ranking #117 among 215 profiles with data. It is a period estimate based on prevailing mortality rates, not a prediction for an individual person.
Population and economic data: World Bank Open Data. Boundary geometry: Natural Earth via world-atlas. Data and methods are explained on the data sources page.
Countries and territories closest in mapped area
These are the three profiles whose mapped areas are nearest to North Korea under the same geometry and spherical calculation.
Eritrea
Malawi
Benin