- ISO 3166
KP- Main language + region
ko-KP- Currency
- KPW · North Korean Won
- Region
- not grouped
North Korea
North Korea has 26.3M people. Korean is the most widely spoken language at 88%, one of 1 language CLDR lists here. Korean is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to ko-KP.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
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0%world median 81%100%
0% of 26.3M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2004 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
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GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
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No Findex survey covers this territory, so payment readiness is unknown.
Languages
1
Korean 88%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
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Not in the EF EPI 2025 table. Absent is not the same as low.
Adult literacy
100%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in North Korea
share of 26.3M people
- Koreanofficial88%23.1M
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR records Korean in 6 territories and 79.2M speakers in total; North Korea holds 29% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Korean profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (ko-KP).
Plural categories
1
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text. One form fits every count here.
Script family
Hangul
Bundle a Noto-class webfont that covers this script. OS defaults vary.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
2026년 4월 21일
Short: 26. 4. 21.
Time
PM 6:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
KPW 1,235
1,234.56 in KPW · North Korean Won
The engineering behind the flags: Font fallback: why the OS picks the wrong glyphs for this script