The population of North Korea only has extremely limited internet access; while a select group of people can access the internet for research purposes, almost everybody else can only access a countrywide intranet called Kwangmyong.

For a country that is closed to the internet, however, the quality of OSM data in North Korea is extraordinary: 324,415 data points drawn by 889 contributors since 2007.

It is particularly interesting to note that there are a number of street-level points of interests (POIs), as POIs are regarded as information that only the local people can contribute.