The local space context of Pyongyang as this registry holds it — the catalogued
human footprint on the ground around it, the orbits that can pass overhead, and the geostationary belt
seen from here.
position
39.034° N, 125.754° E
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population
3,222,000 inhabitants
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On the ground within 1000 km
Launch sites — 58 within 1000 km
site
distance · bearing
position
source layer
Ryokpo County launch site, Pyongyang, CMIK
13 km SSE (150°)
38.930° N, 125.830° E
gcat-sites
Chunghwa (Junghwa) county
15 km SSE (165°)
38.900° N, 125.800° E
gcat-sites
Pukchang airfield, Sunchon, Pyongan-namdo
18 km E (83°)
39.054° N, 125.964° E
gcat-sites
Chong dong (Samsok) missile launch point
23 km ENE (68°)
39.112° N, 125.998° E
gcat-sites
Sunan Airport, Pyonyang
27 km NNW (345°)
39.267° N, 125.675° E
gcat-sites
Pyongsong region
27 km NNE (28°)
39.250° N, 125.900° E
gcat-sites
T'aesong-ho missile launch site
31 km WSW (243°)
38.907° N, 125.440° E
gcat-sites
Scud launch site near Nampo, South Pyongan Prov. (Pyong'annam-do)
38 km SW (215°)
38.750° N, 125.500° E
gcat-sites
Scud launch site near Hwangju, N Hwanghae Prov.
39 km S (187°)
38.687° N, 125.702° E
gcat-sites
Sukchon County launch site, South Pyongan Prov. (Pyong'annam-do), CMIK
43 km NNW (342°)
39.400° N, 125.600° E
gcat-sites
Kaechon, Pyongan Namdo
75 km N (10°)
39.700° N, 125.900° E
gcat-sites
Scud launch site near Eunyul, N Hwanghae Prov.
76 km SW (221°)
38.519° N, 125.183° E
gcat-sites
Chiha-ri, Ich'on, Kangwon do, Choson
93 km ESE (119°)
38.623° N, 126.685° E
gcat-sites
Kwail? Launch site in S Hwanghae Province
93 km SW (224°)
38.426° N, 125.019° E
gcat-sites
Yangdok, Pyongan Namdo
94 km ENE (73°)
39.275° N, 126.805° E
gcat-sites
… and 43 more within 1000 km
Ground stations and transmitting sites — 1 within 1000 km
site
distance · bearing
position
source layer
Punggye-ri
377 km NE (47°)
41.280° N, 129.080° E
nuclear-tests
Announced launches (their pads) — 3 within 1000 km
Distances are great-circle on a sphere of mean radius 6,371 km; bearings are initial true
bearings from the city. Each position is the source catalogue's own, read back from the registry.
What can pass overhead
Of the 23,251 artificial objects the registry places in Earth orbit
on 2026-10-18, 19,998 fly orbits whose ground
track reaches 39.034° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other
3,253 never reach this latitude.
Computed: an orbit's equatorial inclination bounds the latitudes its track reaches (inclination
i, or 180° − i when retrograde), from the orbital elements the registry holds. «Can pass overhead» is
geometry, not a schedule — when, and whether it is lit and visible, depends on the hour.
The geostationary belt from here
The geostationary belt arcs across the southern sky and stands
44.8° above the horizon due south — the
elevation to aim at for a satellite at this city's own longitude. Computed: spherical Earth
(equatorial radius 6,378.137 km), circular orbit of one sidereal day (42,164 km); good to a few tenths of a
degree.
What this page does not know
Tonight's sky and pass times. They depend on the hour, so a static page would print a
stale number. Open the live scene in a browser: /sim.html#sel=EARTH&tn=1,
then stand at Pyongyang in Stargazing — it computes which satellites are visible now, from this
registry, in your browser.
Anything not catalogued. A site absent from the source catalogues is absent here; an
empty list means «not in the registry», not «nothing there».
Precision beyond the sources. Positions carry the precision their catalogue published.