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Title: Cities and Towns - North Korea

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Dates

  • Coverage: 1998

Summary

Point location coverage for Administrative capitals ADM1 (Shi and Do or Municipalities and Provincial) capital cities, and the national capital of North Korea; administrative capitals of ADM2 shi and kun (Municipalities and Districts); and seats of administrative units below the ADM2 level, consisting of shi (cities), up (towns), nodongja-ku (communes), and myun (townships). ADM3 administrative centers are often connected by local roads contained in a separate coverage (Local Roads - North Korea) See sepatate North Korean coverages: Capital Cities, Level One; Capital Cities, Level Two; Administrative Seats layers.

Subjects

  • Location
  • North Korea
  • Democratic People's Republic of Korea
  • Cities
  • Towns
  • Villages
  • Place names
  • Land use
  • Administrative divisions
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (124.239195, 130.635134, 42.969323, 37.702759)
  • Geometry: BBOX (124.239195, 130.635134, 42.969323, 37.702759)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Restricted

Citation

Asia Pacific Spatial Data Project (APSDP), formerly ACASIAN or Australian Centre of the Asian Spatial Information and Analysis Network. Cities and Towns - North Korea. Point data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-nk-ctvpt

Format

Shapefile