Q 01/05

What do the initials DPRK stand for?

A) Dear People's Republic of Korea

B) Democratic People's Republic of Korea

C) Democratic Popular Republic of Korea

D) Democratic Peasants' Republic of Korea

Answer · why

B) Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Inside the country the name is usually shortened to 'the Republic', and North Koreans call the land Chosŏn rather than the South's Hanguk.

Q 02/05

Which two rivers form North Korea's northern border with China and Russia?

A) The Yalu (Amnok) and the Tumen

B) The Han and the Imjin

C) The Songhua and the Ussuri

D) The Taedong and the Chongchon

Answer · why

A) The Yalu (Amnok) and the Tumen

The Amnok is also the country's longest river at 790 km; the southern border with South Korea runs through the DMZ.

Q 03/05

What is the highest point in North Korea, a volcano considered sacred and woven into the Kim family cult?

A) Mount Kumgang

B) Mount Myohyang

C) Paektu Mountain

D) Mount Halla

Answer · why

C) Paektu Mountain

It rises 2,744 metres, and every peak on the Korean Peninsula above 2,000 metres is in the North.

Q 04/05

Roughly what proportion of North Korea's land is mountains and uplands?

A) About 65 percent

B) About 50 percent

C) About 30 percent

D) About 80 percent

Answer · why

D) About 80 percent

Early European visitors said the country looked like 'a sea in a heavy gale' because of its successive ranges.

Q 05/05

On which river does Pyongyang stand?

A) The Han

B) The Tumen

C) The Taedong

D) The Yalu

Answer · why

C) The Taedong

The city lies about 109 km upstream from the river's mouth on the Yellow Sea and had 3.26 million people at the 2008 census.