South Hamgyong · North Korea
Hongwŏn population
70,923people · latest figure
Hongwŏn has a population of 70,923, making it the 41st largest place we list in North Korea. It is in South Hamgyong.
Hongwŏn holds 0.27% of North Korea's 26,633,691 people. Pyongyang, the largest place we list there, is 45 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 70,923, almost unchanged.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Sinwŏn-ŭp | South Hwanghae | 83,161 |
| Pongch’ŏn-ŭp | South Hwanghae | 79,740 |
| Yuktae-dong | South Hamgyong | 76,427 |
| Hwadae | North Hamgyong | 67,677 |
| Rajin | Rason | 66,224 |
| Namyang-nodongjagu | North Hamgyong | 65,956 |
Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.