North Korean Settlements and Residential Areas from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap data provides a free, volunteer-built map of North Korean populated places. The dataset includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land areas, exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. Completeness likely varies, with urban areas potentially better mapped than remote regions.

Use Cases

• Mapping settlement distribution based on named cities, towns, and villages.
• Analyzing residential land use patterns based on `landuse=residential` tags.
• Providing geographic context for demographic or humanitarian targeting based on populated places.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.
• Includes multiple export formats such as GEOPACKAGE, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• Covers a specific, often data-scarce geography: North Korea.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete according to the description.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap, exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping data, exported via the HDX platform.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 22:51:19.768354; freshness should be verified.

Geography

North Korea