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Democratic People's Republic of Korea Flags

Flag Colors and Description

The flag of North Korea consists of three horizontal bands of blue, red (center, triple width), and blue. The red band, which is edged in white contains a white disk with a red five-pointed star on the hoist side.

People

Population: 23,113,019 (July 2006 estimate)

Population Growth Rate: 0.84% (2006 estimate)

Spoken Languages: Korean

Government

Abbreviation: DPRK

Government Type: Communist state one-man dictatorship

Capital: Pyongyang

Economics

GDP (Gross Domestic Product): $40 billion note: North Korea does not publish any reliable National Income Accounts data; the datum shown here is derived from purchasing power parity (PPP) GDP estimates for North Korea that were made by Angus Maddison in a study conducted for the OECD;

GDP per capita: $1,800 (2006 estimate)