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title: "Kosan (Kangwon): North Korea County Demographics & Abuses | Save North Korea"
description: "Kosan in Kangwon: population 103,579, 0 documented human rights abuses, 0 detention facilities, and 2 official markets."
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[Counties](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties) · Kangwon · KP0404

 County in Kangwon 

# Kosan

**103,579** people 2008 census, may be outdated 

**388** km² 267 people per km² 

**31%** live in towns 

**0** documented abuses NKDB 

**0** detention sites 

**2** official markets 

Kosan · Kangwon

[ Open on the intel map](https://savenorthkorea.org/map#county=KP0404)[ Satellite view](https://savenorthkorea.org/map#county=KP0404&b=sat)[ Compare all 179 counties](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties)

## Seen from space

**10.8%** of the county lit at night in 2025 

2.7% in 2013

The satellite product changed version in 2022 (dashed line). [Annual VIIRS night lights, Earth Observation Group](https://eogdata.mines.edu/products/vnl/)

## Abuses by right violated

None recorded yet. In a closed country that usually means no witnesses from here have escaped, not that nothing happened.

## Women and men

**55,098** women (53%) **48,481** men 

## Elsewhere in Kangwon

- [Anbyon ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/anbyon)
- [Changdo ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/changdo)
- [Cholwon ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/cholwon)
- [Chonnae 12 ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/chonnae)
- [Hoeyang ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/hoeyang)
- [Ichon ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/ichon)
- [Kimhwa ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/kimhwa)
- [Kosong ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/kosong)
- [Kumgang 1 ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/kumgang)
- [Munchon City 2 ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/munchon)
- [Phangyo ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/phangyo)
- [Phyonggang ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/phyonggang)
- [Popdong ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/popdong)
- [Sepho ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/sepho)
- [Thongchon ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/thongchon)
- [Wonsan City 16 ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/wonsan)

## Sources

- [**UN OCHA administrative boundaries** data.humdata.org ↗ ](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ab-prk)
- [**2008 census (UNFPA)** data.humdata.org ↗ ](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ps-prk)
- [**NKDB Visual Atlas** visualatlas.org ↗ ](https://www.visualatlas.org)