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Hermit kingdom is a pejorative term applied to any country or society which willfully walls itself off (metaphorically or physically) from the rest of the world. Words and phrases are pejorative if they imply disapproval or contempt In Political geography and International politics, a country is a Political division of a geographical entity A society is a Population of Humans characterized by patterns of relationships between individuals that share a distinctive Culture and Institutions Korea was frequently described as a hermit kingdom during the latter part of the Joseon Dynasty. Korea is a geographic area composed of two sovereign countries a civilization and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia.

Today, the term is often applied to North Korea in news media. North Korea is the commonly used short form name for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (or DPRK) a State located in East Asia, Other countries like Bhutan, the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen, and Tibet have also been described as hermit kingdoms due to their government's reluctance to engage in dialogue with the outside world . The Kingdom of Bhutan (buːˈtɑːn is a Landlocked nation in South Asia. The Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen ( Arabic: المملكة ‏المتوكلية اليمنية al-Mutawakkilīyah al-Yamanīyah}}'' sometimes spelled Mutawakelite Definitions of Tibet See also Definitions of Tibet Name In English The English word Tibet, like the word for Tibet in most European The early African civilization of Axum, modernly known as Ethiopia, was identified by the Europeans as the "hermit Kingdom". NOTE This intro is the result of careful NPOV work Please do not make potentially controversial edits to it without first discussing on the talk page


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