Region · North Korea

South Pyongan

North Korea

Cities listed

1.58M

combined population

Sunch’ŏn

largest city

11 listed cities in South Pyongan

Share of country

12.3%

Of North Korea's listed city population

Median city

102,436

People, half are smaller

Above 100,000

of 11 listed

Smallest listed

15,693

Sinanju

Cities in South Pyongan

All 96 in North Korea

Sortable and searchable. Ranks are within the whole country, not the region. This is not a complete list of settlements — only places GeoNames lists at 15,000 or more.

11 cities

cities table, sortable

4	Sunch’ŏn	437,000	1.6%
10	Kaech’ŏn	319,554	1.2%
13	Tŏkch’ŏn	237,133	0.9%
23	Paek'ak	125,924	0.5%
24	Chaeryŏng-ni	125,631	0.5%
28	Kangsŏn	102,436	0.4%
29	P’yŏngsŏng	100,000	0.4%
50	Anju	50,196	0.2%
56	Ch’ŏsal-li	43,614	0.2%
90	Sil-li	19,463	0.1%
96	Sinanju	15,693	0.1%

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