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The county (gun) is the tier below North Korea's provinces, and the cities and city districts sit beside the counties at the same level. This quiz draws the whole country in them, from the large mountain counties of Ryanggang and Jagang to the tiny districts of the ports and the capital. There is no street-level coverage to train on, so it is a map quiz on its own terms.
The 179 counties, cities and districts of the boundary file. That is fewer than the country has: Pyongyang alone has 19 districts and counties, and the file folds them into three features, so the capital is answered by Pyongyang itself and the two features that sit beside it. Names follow the file, which spells them in the usual Latin transliteration, so a name may look different from the spelling in an atlas (Phyongsan for Pyongsan, Thongchon for Tongchon).
Two counties are named Unsan, one in North Pyongan and one in South Pyongan, so the quiz gives each its province in brackets. The counties are grouped by the eleven units the file draws, which keeps Rason with North Hamgyong and Kaesong with North Hwanghae; the North Korea Provinces quiz makes both cities of their own.
The counties are fairly even, none larger than about two thousand square kilometres, but the very small ones are in the ports and the cities: Kumho and Chongnam are only a few square kilometres, and zooming in is the way to reach them.
Samjiyon lies in Ryanggang on the Chinese border, near the volcano Paektu, the highest peak on the peninsula. It is a mountain county with a small population.
There are two Unsan counties, and the quiz asks for the one in North Pyongan, the larger of the pair. The other is in South Pyongan, a province to the south. Learn each with its province and the pair stops being confusing.
Rason is a single county here, in the far north east, where the borders of China and Russia meet the sea. In the provinces quiz it is a unit of its own.
The quiz has the 179 that the boundary file draws. The country has more than that, because the file folds the districts of the capital into three features.
Cities and city districts sit at the same level as counties, and the file draws them as features of their own. The quiz keeps them as the file has them.
The quiz groups them by province, so you can drill one province at a time. Each tier is its own quiz as well.
The tier above this one is North Korea Provinces. For the other half of the peninsula, see South Korea Districts.
