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title: "Pongchon (South Hwanghae): North Korea County Demographics & Abuses | Save North Korea"
description: "Pongchon in South Hwanghae: population 79,740, 0 documented human rights abuses, 0 detention facilities, and 1 official markets."
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[Counties](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties) · South Hwanghae · KP0914

 County in South Hwanghae 

# Pongchon

**79,740** people 2008 census, may be outdated 

**508** km² 157 people per km² 

**23%** live in towns 

**0** documented abuses NKDB 

**0** detention sites 

**1** official markets 

Pongchon · South Hwanghae

[ Open on the intel map](https://savenorthkorea.org/map#county=KP0914)[ Satellite view](https://savenorthkorea.org/map#county=KP0914&b=sat)[ Compare all 179 counties](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties)

## Seen from space

**1.2%** of the county lit at night in 2025 

0.40% 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

**41,945** women (53%) **37,795** men 

## Elsewhere in South Hwanghae

- [Anak ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/anak)
- [Chongdan 1 ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/chongdan)
- [Haeju City 5 ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/haeju)
- [Jaerong ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/jaerong)
- [Jangyon ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/jangyon)
- [Kangryong 2 ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/kangryong)
- [Kwail ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/kwail)
- [Ongjin ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/ongjin)
- [Paechon 1 ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/paechon)
- [Pyoksong ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/pyoksong)
- [Ryongyon ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/ryongyon)
- [Samchon ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/samchon)
- [Sinchon 1 ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/sinchon)
- [Sinwon ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/sinwon)
- [Songhwa ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/songhwa)
- [Thaethan ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/thaethan)
- [Unchon ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/unchon)
- [Unryul ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/unryul)
- [Yonan ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/yonan)

## 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)