As the seat of South Hamgyong Province, Hamhung is one of the major industrial cities as well as a port city.
It is 313 km away from Pyongyang.
Hamhung has large-scale chemical, machine and textile factories and Hungnam Port. It boasts a lot of places of historical interest and living monuments.
The average annual temperature is
9.4oC and the average annual precipitation is 934 mm.