1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
North Korea
Compare this sourced profile of Pyongyang, North Korea before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Pyongyang—3,222,000, Asia/Pyongyang, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Pyongyang is GeoNames ID 1871859. Its recorded administrative path is Pyongyang → North Korea, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Pyongyang occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2024-06-19; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Pyongyang ranks 108 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected North Korea entries it ranks 1; inside the 632 entries in its broad region it ranks 70. Its 3,222,000 population value is 1.70 times the 1,890,528 median for the country cohort and 3.20 times the 1,008,426 regional median. Pyongyang is rank 1 among the 2 selected North Korea entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Pyongyang's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Pyongyang's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Dandong at 168.549 km with 631,973 recorded people; Goyang-si at 179.835 km with 1,061,752 recorded people; Hamhung at 181.84 km with 559,056 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 13.291 km. Compared with Dandong, Pyongyang's recorded population is 5.10 times as large. Against Pyongyang, Dandong follows Dandong Shi → Liaoning → China in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected China cohort rather than North Korea, uses Asia/Shanghai instead of Asia/Pyongyang, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Pyongyang's. Against Pyongyang, Goyang-si follows Goyang-si → Gyeonggi-do → South Korea in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected South Korea cohort rather than North Korea, uses Asia/Seoul instead of Asia/Pyongyang, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Pyongyang's. Against Pyongyang, Hamhung follows South Hamgyong → North Korea in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected North Korea cohort, uses the shared Asia/Pyongyang identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Pyongyang's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 926 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Pyongyang's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 1871859, the coordinate pair 39.0339 / 125.7543, country rank 1 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 2037886 at 168.549 km bind Pyongyang to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Pyongyang's reference point is 39.0339° north and 125.7543° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Pyongyang is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Pyongyang's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Pyongyang's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Pyongyang's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Pyongyang, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Pyongyang's closest other entries in this atlas are Dandong (168.549 km), Goyang-si (179.835 km), Hamhung (181.84 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2024-06-19; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.