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

DPRK stands for Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the state proclaimed in Pyongyang on 9 September 1948; inside the country the name is usually s...

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 Yalu (Amnok) and the Tumen form the border with China, and the Tumen's last 17 km form the short border with Russia; the Yalu, about 790 km long, ...

Q 03/05

What is the highest point in North Korea?

A) Mount Kumgang

B) Mount Myohyang

C) Paektu Mountain

D) Mount Halla

Answer · why

C) Paektu Mountain

Paektu Mountain, a volcano on the Chinese border, rises 2,744 metres; no peak in South Korea reaches 2,000 metres, so every Korean summit above that h...

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

About 80 percent of North Korea is mountains and uplands, which is why early European visitors said the country looked like 'a sea in a heavy gale'.

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

Pyongyang stands on the Taedong River, about 109 km upstream from its mouth on the Yellow Sea; the city had 3.26 million people at the 2008 census.