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Definitions of terms used throughout CountryReports.
This glossary contains 1,144 terms used throughout CountryReports — political, economic, cultural, historical, and geographic terminology referenced in country profiles and articles. Terms are drawn from authoritative sources including the Library of Congress.
- Demarcation Line
- Established under the Korean armistice agreement of 1953; marks the actual cease-fire line between North Korea and South Korea.
- Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
- The four-kilometer-wide buffer zone that runs east and west across the waist of the Korean Peninsula for 241 kilometers, dividing it into North Korea and South Korea. The DMZ was created by the Korean armistice in 1953.
- Green Line
- name given to the 1949 Armistice lines that constituted the de facto borders of pre-1967 Israel.
- Source: Library of Congress