North Korea Uncovered is a comprehensive set of mappings of
North Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and T ...
. It includes in-depth coverage of thousands of buildings, monuments, missile-storage facilities, mass graves, secret labor camps, palaces, restaurants, tourist sites, and main roads of the country, and even includes the entrance to the country's subterranean
nuclear test base, the
Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center
The Nyongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center is North Korea's major nuclear facility, operating its first nuclear reactors. It is located in Nyongbyon County in North Pyongan Province, about 100 km north of Pyongyang. The center produ ...
.
The mapping was the result of a two-year effort by doctoral student Curtis Melvin and other volunteers, who pored over hundreds of news reports, images, accounts, books, and maps in order to identify the geographic and political sites. The result has been called one of the most detailed maps of North Korea available to the public in 2009. It is available as a small
KMZ file, viewable with
Google Earth. Between April 2007 and April 2012, the data file was downloaded more than 270,000 times.
See also
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North Korean leader's residences
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Sinuiju North Korean Leader's Residence
The Sinuiju North Korean Leader's Residence (), which may locally be known as the Central Luxury House or Central Luxury Residence, is one of the many official residences of North Korean leader and Workers' Party of Korea's general secretary K ...
References
External links
North Korea Uncovered (North Korea Google Earth), a comprehensive mapping of North Korea on
Google Earth
#AccessDPRKis a similar Google Earth project which was completed in 2017 and contains over 53,000 placemarks
Geography of North Korea
North Korean studies
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