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Area : 46541  sq.mi - Population 23946000 hab.
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The local cuisine is based on cooked rice. The main dishes are cakes, mash, biscuits and jelly mixed with other ingredients. Rice cakes can be made in fifty different ways. The accompanying dishes include soup (djidjigai), tang and Kimtchi, a type of hot and fermented salad consisting of cabbage and turnips, seasoned with garlic. Pastries and sweets are based on cereals and mixtures of walnuts, soya, pine nuts, and peanuts, etc. The cold Pyongyang vermicelli, a local speciality, consists of Korean sarazin flour pastas and potato starch, served with a refreshing soup of pheasant, chicken, and mince. Another speciality: sinseunro, a type of "pot au feu" including more than 30 different ingredients.