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title: "Sindo (North Pyongan): North Korea County Demographics & Abuses | Save North Korea"
description: "Sindo in North Pyongan: population 11,810, 1 documented human rights abuses, 3 detention facilities, and 0 official markets."
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[Counties](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties) · North Pyongan · KP0625

 County in North Pyongan 

# Sindo

**11,810** people 2008 census, may be outdated 

**64** km² 185 people per km² 

**74%** live in towns 

**1** documented abuses NKDB 

**3** detention sites 

**0** official markets 

Sindo · North Pyongan

[ Open on the intel map](https://savenorthkorea.org/map#county=KP0625)[ Satellite view](https://savenorthkorea.org/map#county=KP0625&b=sat)[ Compare all 179 counties](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties)

## Seen from space

**36.1%** of the county lit at night in 2025 

18.7% 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

- Life **1**

## When they happened

1. **1** ’10s

## Women and men

**6,321** women (54%) **5,489** men 

## Elsewhere in North Pyongan

- [Changsong ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/changsong)
- [Cholsan 3 ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/cholsan)
- [Chonma ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/chonma)
- [Hyangsan ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/hyangsan)
- [Jongju City ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/jongju)
- [Kujang ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/kujang)
- [Kusong City ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/kusong)
- [Kwaksan ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/kwaksan)
- [Nyongbyon ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/nyongbyon)
- [Pakchon ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/pakchon)
- [Phihyon ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/phihyon)
- [Pyokdong ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/pyokdong)
- [Ryongchon ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/ryongchon)
- [Sakju 1 ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/sakju)
- [Sinuiju City 84 ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/sinuiju)
- [Sonchon ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/sonchon)
- [Taegwan ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/taegwan)
- [Thaechon ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/thaechon)
- [Tongchang ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/tongchang)
- [Tongrim 3 ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/tongrim)
- [Uiju 4 ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/uiju)
- [Unjon ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/unjon)
- [Unsan ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/unsan-north-pyongan)
- [Yomju 1 ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/yomju)

## 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)