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title: "Taean (Nampo): North Korea County Demographics & Abuses | Save North Korea"
description: "Taean in Nampo: population 77,219, 0 documented human rights abuses, 0 detention facilities, and 1 official markets."
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[Counties](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties) · Nampo · KP1105

 County in Nampo 

# Taean

**77,219** people 2008 census, may be outdated 

**21** km² 3677 people per km² 

**86%** live in towns 

**0** documented abuses NKDB 

**0** detention sites 

**1** official markets 

Taean · Nampo

[ Open on the intel map](https://savenorthkorea.org/map#county=KP1105)[ Satellite view](https://savenorthkorea.org/map#county=KP1105&b=sat)[ Compare all 179 counties](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties)

## Seen from space

**70.8%** of the county lit at night in 2025 

50.4% 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

**39,954** women (52%) **37,265** 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)
- [Ryonggang ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/ryonggang)

## 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)