Boundaries, Coastline, and Islands
40°00′N 127°00′E / 40°N 127°E / 40; 127
North Korea has an area of 120,540 km², of which 120,410 km² is land and 130 km² is water. It has 1673 km of land boundaries; of these, 1416 km are with China, 238 km are with South Korea, and 19 km are with Russia.
The Korean Peninsula extends about 1000 km southward from the northeast Asian continental landmass. The 8460-km coastline of Korea is highly irregular, and North Korea accounts for 2495 km of this, roughly half. Some 3579 islands lie adjacent to the Korean Peninsula, mostly along the south and west coasts.
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