---
title: "Ryonggang (Nampo): North Korea County Demographics & Abuses | Save North Korea"
description: "Ryonggang in Nampo: population 58,930, 0 documented human rights abuses, 0 detention facilities, and 1 official markets."
url: "https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/ryonggang"
language: en
translations:
  en: https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/ryonggang
  ko: https://savenorthkorea.org/ko/counties/ryonggang
  ja: https://savenorthkorea.org/ja/counties/ryonggang
  zh-Hans: https://savenorthkorea.org/zh/counties/ryonggang
---

[Counties](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties) · Nampo · KP1104

 County in Nampo 

# Ryonggang

**58,930** people 2008 census, may be outdated 

**245** km² 241 people per km² 

**34%** live in towns 

**0** documented abuses NKDB 

**0** detention sites 

**1** official markets 

Ryonggang · Nampo

[ Open on the intel map](https://savenorthkorea.org/map#county=KP1104)[ Satellite view](https://savenorthkorea.org/map#county=KP1104&b=sat)[ Compare all 179 counties](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties)

## Seen from space

**18.3%** of the county lit at night in 2025 

8.8% 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

**31,113** women (53%) **27,817** men 

## Elsewhere in Nampo

- [Chollima 1 ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/chollima)
- [Kangso 3 ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/kangso)
- [Nampo City ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/nampo)
- [Onchon 3 ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/onchon)
- [Taean ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/taean)

## 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)