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title: "Wiwon (Jagang): North Korea County Demographics & Abuses | Save North Korea"
description: "Wiwon in Jagang: population 60,245, 0 documented human rights abuses, 0 detention facilities, and 1 official markets."
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[Counties](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties) · Jagang · KP0512

 County in Jagang 

# Wiwon

**60,245** people 2008 census, may be outdated 

**1,282** km² 47 people per km² 

**32%** live in towns 

**0** documented abuses NKDB 

**0** detention sites 

**1** official markets 

Wiwon · Jagang

[ Open on the intel map](https://savenorthkorea.org/map#county=KP0512)[ Satellite view](https://savenorthkorea.org/map#county=KP0512&b=sat)[ Compare all 179 counties](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties)

## Seen from space

**0.30%** of the county lit at night in 2025 

0.15% 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

**31,608** women (52%) **28,637** men 

## Elsewhere in Jagang

- [Chosan ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/chosan)
- [Huichon City 1 ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/huichon)
- [Hwaphyong ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/hwaphyong)
- [Janggang ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/janggang)
- [Jasong ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/jasong)
- [Jonchon ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/jonchon)
- [Junggang ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/junggang)
- [Kanggye City 9 ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/kanggye)
- [Kophung ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/kophung)
- [Manpho City 10 ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/manpho)
- [Rangrim 1 ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/rangrim)
- [Ryongrim ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/ryongrim)
- [Sijung ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/sijung)
- [Songgan 2 ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/songgan)
- [Songwon ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/songwon)
- [Tongsin ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/tongsin)
- [Usi ](https://savenorthkorea.org/counties/usi)

## 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)