An official atlas of North Korea
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- #Geopolitics
- #North Korea
- #Cartography
- A North Korean atlas from the Great Korean Encyclopaedia, published between 1995 and 2002, includes 672 maps.
- The atlas presents Korea as a unified country under the Korean Workers’ Party, ignoring South Korea.
- World maps in the atlas center on the Pacific Ocean, highlighting North Korea’s geopolitical stance.
- The United States and Japan are consistently marked in dark grey as enemies on political maps.
- Israel is not recognized; its territory is labeled as Palestine, noted as under Israeli occupation on some maps.
- The atlas includes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, a country with limited international recognition.
- Projections used in the atlas differ from Western cartography, focusing on balancing country shapes and sizes.
- The encyclopaedia also features maps of oceans, including ocean current patterns.
- Pedro Zurita provided the atlas copy, credited for enabling this exploration of North Korean cartography.