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Country (long form) Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Capital P'yongyang
Total Area 46,540.75 sq mi
120,540.00 sq km
(slightly smaller than Mississippi)
Population 21,968,228 (July 2001 est.)
Estimated Population in 2050 26,388,317
Languages Korean
Literacy 99.0% total, 99.0% male, 99% female (1990 est.)
Religions traditionally Buddhist and Confucianist, some Christian and syncretic Chondogyo (Religion of the Heavenly Way)
Life Expectancy 68.04 male, 74.15 female (2001 est.)
Government Type authoritarian socialist; one-man dictatorship
Currency 1 North Korean won (Wn) = 100 chon
GDP (per capita) $1,000 (2000 est.)
Industry military products; machine building, electric power, chemicals; mining (coal, iron ore, magnesite, graphite, copper, zinc, lead, and precious metals), metallurgy; textiles, food processing; tourism
Agriculture rice, corn, potatoes, soybeans, pulses; cattle, pigs, pork, eggs
Arable Land 14%
Natural Resources coal, lead, tungsten, zinc, graphite, magnesite, iron ore, copper, gold, pyrites, salt, fluorspar, hydropower

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