North Korea at night
North Korea at night
Total light seen from space each year. It doubled from 2022 to 2025, while Seoul and rural South Korea stayed level in the same data.
About this data
- Latest
- 53,368 sum of lights (2025)
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- CC BY 4.0
- How to cite
- Free North Korea (2026). “North Korea at night”. Data from Annual VIIRS Night-time Lights (VNL V2.1 2013-2021, V2.2 from 2022), Earth Observation Group, Payne Institute, Colorado School of Mines, summed per county in Google Earth Engine. https://liberatenorthkorea.org/data/night-lights