80 percent of North Korea's land area is composed of mountains and uplands. The remainder consists of small coastal plains, the largest covering only 500 square kilometers. The uplands are covered by trees such as fir, oak, larch and birch. The plains have around 1.5 million hectares of fertile land, out of that 1.4 million are farmland.
The winters are long and bitterly cold with clear weather interspersed with snow storms as a result of northern winds from Siberia. The high and low temperatures in January are -3°/+13° C. Snowfall averages 37 days in winter. The winters during the Korean war are recorded as one of the worst problems and caused many deaths.
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