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Central Botanical Garden

Radomil talk · CC BY-SA 3.0

42% trees around it and 10 species recorded.

33Forestyas Score

Arboretum

  • trees within 3 km42%
  • wild within 10 km43%
  • species recorded10

The forest around

42% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 38%Grassland 10%Bare ground 1%Cropland 28%Built-up 24%Trees 43%Grassland 6%Water 4%Bare ground 1%Cropland 35%Built-up 11%Trees 35%Grassland 5%Wetland 0%Water 9%Bare ground 1%Cropland 22%Built-up 28%Trees 27%Grassland 6%Water 4%Bare ground 1%Cropland 34%Built-up 28%42%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km38%
  • 1–3 km43%
  • 3–6 km35%
  • 6–10 km27%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees43%
  • Grassland6%
  • Water4%
  • Bare ground1%
  • Cropland35%
  • Built-up11%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

10 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Bicolor lespedeza
Bicolor lespedezaLespedeza bicolor4 recordsuser:Miya.m · CC BY-SA 3.0
Kirilow's indigo
Kirilow's indigoIndigofera kirilowii4 recordsDalgial · CC BY-SA 3.0
Korean clover
Korean cloverKummerowia stipulacea4 recordsBruce Ackley, The Ohio State University, Bugwood.org · CC BY 3.0
Chinese Dates
Chinese DatesZiziphus jujuba3 recordsRémi Tournebize · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sawtooth oak
Sawtooth oakQuercus acutissima2 recordsUnknown author · Public domain
Phyllanthus ussuriensis
Phyllanthus ussuriensisPhyllanthus ussuriensis2 recordsDalgial · CC BY-SA 4.0
Vincetoxicum mukdenense
Vincetoxicum mukdenenseVincetoxicum mukdenense2 recordsQwert1234 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Common tick cloverHylodesmum podocarpum4 records
Rhamnus rugulosaRhamnus rugulosa4 records
Amur silver grassMiscanthus sacchariflorus4 records

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

33out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 42%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 43%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 10Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km

When to walk

Best for walking in October.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan-2°-10°9 mm
  2. Feb2°-8°18 mm
  3. Mar8°-3°23 mm
  4. Apr16°3°54 mm
  5. May23°10°76 mm
  6. Jun28°16°98 mm
  7. Jul29°20°281 mm
  8. Aug28°20°236 mm
  9. Sep24°15°97 mm
  10. Oct18°7°46 mm
  11. Nov9°0°47 mm
  12. Dec0°-7°17 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Central Botanical Garden.

Botanical garden in Pyongyang, North Korea

Central Botanical Garden is an arboretum in North Korea.

Seen from space, 42% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 43% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

10 species have been recorded around it: 10 plants, 0 fungi, 0 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Bicolor lespedeza, Kirilow's indigo and Korean clover.

The best time to walk is in October.

Weigela praecox RB
Radomil talk · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Central Botanical Garden seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 1named and notable trees within 6 km김정은동지께서와 습근평동지께서 심으신 나무
  • 18picnic sites within 4 km
  • 12shelters and huts within 6 km
  • 1viewpoints within 5 km
  • 15car parks within 3 km
  • 20places to stay within 10 km과학자려관, 장산려관, 코방산 게스트하우스 and 17 more
  • 15restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • campsites within 10 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Central Botanical Garden.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas18 mountains within 25 km
Taesongsan2.7 kmMoran Hill92 m · 5.8 kmKŭmsu-san96 m · 5.9 kmTolbak-san140 m · 6.5 kmMansu Hill6.8 kmChae-bong60 m · 12 kmTaemun-san16 kmMudong-san22 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Imwŏn-jŏsuji0.7 km² · 15 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Central Botanical garden. N. In. Tsitsin
AlixSaz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Pyongyang Zoo, North Korea. (2604988678)
(stephan) · CC BY-SA 2.0
Pyongyang, North Korea. (2604159209)
(stephan) · CC BY-SA 2.0

Other forests nearby.

Central Botanical Garden

North Korea

  • 33Forestyas Score
  • 42%Trees
  • 43%Wild
  • 10Species

Korea National Arboretum

South Korea · 187 km

  • 77Forestyas Score
  • 92%Trees
  • 73%Wild
  • 363Species

See the guide

Jeongipumsong Pine Tree

South Korea · 334 km

  • 54Forestyas Score
  • 92%Trees
  • 84%Wild
  • —Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2878518) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species160 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Lakeyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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