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The odd side of North Korea.

Evidence-backed unusual places in North Korea, grouped with maps, original sources and useful geographic context.

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Evidence-backed unusual places in North Korea, grouped with maps, original sources and useful geographic context. These are crawlable research records, not an indiscriminate directory: reports without enough depth remain available for exploration but are excluded from search indexing.

UNESCO GLOBAL GEOPARK · UNESCO Global Geoparks

Mt Paektu UNESCO Global Geopark

Hike to Lake Chon, a vast caldera lake formed by a major eruption in 946 A.D., and explore volcanic features such as lava towers, hot springs, and mushroom-shaped rocks along Mt. Paektu’s su

Map, evidence and context →GHOST STATION · Expanded physical oddities

Kwangmyong Station

North Korea

abandoned metro station in Pyongyang, North Korea

Map, evidence and context →EXCLAVE · Expanded physical oddities

Panghyon-dong

North Korea

dong of Kusong, North Korea, former exclave of Pyongyang, North Korea

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