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North Korea has no street-level coverage for a GeoGuessr round to draw on, so this quiz stands on its own terms: the first tier of a country whose map is easy to read once you see the shape. A mountain spine runs down the east, the plains and the capital lie in the west, and thirteen units divide it up.
Nine provinces (do) and four cities that answer to the central government instead of to a province: Pyongyang, Nampo, Rason and Kaesong. The four cities are small, so they have tap areas, and zooming in is the way to reach them.
The names are the old halves of a few historical provinces. Pyongan, Hwanghae and Hamgyong were each split into a north and a south province, so the map has three pairs that share a name, and learning which is which is most of the game: north is the one on the Chinese border, south is the one on the coast or towards the capital. Ryanggang and Jagang are the two mountain provinces along the northern border, and Kangwon is the one on the east coast that reaches the border with the South.
The boundary file draws Rason inside North Hamgyong and Kaesong inside North Hwanghae, as they were before they became cities of their own. The quiz cuts each out as a unit, using the single county the file draws for it, so the provinces are the North Korea Counties grouped and the borders of the two maps match exactly. The groups are not an official classification: North Korea has no tier between the provinces and the country, so the quiz cuts the thirteen into the north west, the north east and the south to let you drill them a piece at a time.
Ryanggang lies on the Chinese border in the north, a high plateau around the volcano Paektu, and takes its name from the two rivers that meet there. It is the province to find first in the north east.
Rason is a small city at the far north east tip, where the borders of China and Russia meet the sea. It is small enough that a tap area is the way to reach it, and the boundary file draws it as part of North Hamgyong.
Kaesong is a city of its own on the border with South Korea, south of the Hwanghae provinces. It is known for its old capital buildings and for the industrial park that lay just north of the border.
Nine provinces and four directly governed cities (Pyongyang, Nampo, Rason and Kaesong), thirteen first-level units in all.
North Korea has no administrative tier between the provinces and the country, so the quiz groups them into three parts of the map by position.
The counties, which are their own quiz. The file draws 179 of them, fewer than the country has: the capital alone is folded into three.
The tier below this one is North Korea Counties. For the other half of the peninsula, see South Korea Provinces.
