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title: "Taegwan (North Pyongan): North Korea County Demographics & Abuses | Save North Korea"
description: "Taegwan in North Pyongan: population 69,565, 0 documented human rights abuses, 0 detention facilities, and 1 official markets."
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[Counties](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties) · North Pyongan · KP0622

 County in North Pyongan 

# Taegwan

**69,565** people 2008 census, may be outdated 

**837** km² 83 people per km² 

**55%** live in towns 

**0** documented abuses NKDB 

**0** detention sites 

**1** official markets 

Taegwan · North Pyongan

[ Open on the intel map](https://savenorthkorea.org/map#county=KP0622)[ Satellite view](https://savenorthkorea.org/map#county=KP0622&b=sat)[ Compare all 179 counties](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties)

## Seen from space

**2.9%** of the county lit at night in 2025 

2.4% 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

**36,191** women (52%) **33,374** men 

## Elsewhere in North Pyongan

- [Changsong ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/changsong)
- [Cholsan 3 ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/cholsan)
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- [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)
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- [Sindo 1 ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/sindo)
- [Sinuiju City 84 ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/sinuiju)
- [Sonchon ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/sonchon)
- [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)