They built a whole ghost city on the border just to make South Korea jealous, which is commitment.
Fun fact: Pyongyang's Rungrado May Day Stadium seats 114,000, making it the largest stadium on Earth.
A teardrop-shaped island that produces tea so good you forgive it for the six-syllable capital city.
Fun fact: Sri Lanka elected the world's first female head of state, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, in 1960.