More than a dozen palaces with private rail stations, racetracks, beaches and bunkers - plus a fleet of luxury cars, an armoured train, a jet, a yacht and a private island. Tap a pin on the map to see what's at each palace, then look at it yourself from space.
Kim Jong Un and Ri Sol Ju's official residence. A 12 km² complex with an underground wartime headquarters, a private underground rail station, a 50 m pool with a waterslide, horse stables and racetrack, shooting range, electric fences and minefields.
See it from space on Google Maps →His second residence, about 30 km from central Pyongyang. A 4 km² compound with lakes, guest houses, a banquet hall, bowling, a shooting centre, roller-skating slope, stables, a racetrack and a football pitch. Used for holidays and parties.
See it from space on Google Maps →The family's beach compound: villas, a private port and water-sports facilities, a horse-racing track and its own rail station. Next to the new Kalma beach resort he championed.
See it from space on Google Maps →Originally Kim Il Sung's. Connected to Ryongsong by an underground road.
See it from space on Google Maps →Built 1997-98 - believed to be the last residence built for Kim Jong Il. Several villas, three large palaces, tunnels and its own dam.
See it from space on Google Maps →A winter palace used by Kim Jong Il and then Kim Jong Un - main villa, lakeside pavilion, banquet hall. Satellite images showed it torn down in 2024.
See it from space on Google Maps →Two palaces, a lake with its own dam and a private rail station, on the border with China. Taken over from his father.
See it from space on Google Maps →Identified by satellite analysts; little else is known.
See it from space on Google Maps →Main palace, villas, a dining hall, at least five checkpoints and a dammed lake.
See it from space on Google Maps →Villas and palaces by Lake Samji at the foot of Mount Paektu - the mountain where he rode a white horse in 2019. Its own rail station and power plant.
See it from space on Google Maps →Built 1981-84 in traditional Korean style. Kim Il Sung died here in 1994. Mostly demolished in 2008.
See it from space on Google Maps →Numerous villas, a helipad and a small dock on Lake Yonpung.
See it from space on Google Maps →A leadership complex near the Chinese border on the Yalu River reservoir.
See it from space on Google Maps →Identified by satellite analysts; little else is known.
See it from space on Google Maps →Locations from satellite analysis compiled on Wikipedia and On the Pyongyang Hill (North Korea Uncovered project). North Korea keeps all of them secret; details come from defectors and satellite images. Last seen dates link with Kim Watch.
Reported by intelligence services, defectors and visitors. Much of it was smuggled in breaking UN sanctions.
Sources: our Kim Jong Un profile, Wikipedia and the reporting it cites; AP (2025).
Days since he was last seen, and every appearance mapped.