Warzone Hajin Best Landing Spots: All 13 POIs Ranked by Playstyle

The quick answer: best drops by playstyle

Short on time? This table is the whole guide in one screen. Every pick gets a full explanation further down.

Playstyle	Land here	Why it works
Hot drop	The Grid	The densest loot area on the map, in the middle of Hajin City, with rooftop fights from the first minute.
Squad loot run	NuriGO Mall	A huge surface and underground shopping district in northeast Hajin City. Lots of loot, slightly less chaos than The Grid.
Safe drop	Deadtown	Edge-of-map streets on the North Korean side. Quiet in the first days of the season, with a clinic and gas stations in town.
Quiet coast	Songdo Wharf	The eastern edge of Hajin City. A pier, a market and a lighthouse, plus working train and monorail lines for a fast exit.
Solo drop	Mirae General Hospital	One big central complex you can loot floor by floor, then leave in any direction.
Rotation and height	Cheonwang Peak Array	A central summit with a helipad and long views in every direction.

All 13 Hajin POIs: official DMZ threat levels and our BR read

Read this table carefully, because its two danger columns mean different things. The DMZ threat column is official: Activision rates every Hajin POI in DMZ from Low to Extreme, and the rating measures the AI soldiers there. It does not count human players at all. The BR fight risk column is ours: our early-season read of how contested each drop is, based on map layout, loot density and rotation needs. Battle Royale loot placement also differs from DMZ, so treat loot comments here as early-season observation, not official promise.

POI	Where	Official DMZ threat	BR fight risk (our read)	Best for
The Grid	Central Hajin City (SK)	Critical, with the Nenshin Tech Complex at Extreme	Very high	Hot drops and rooftop fights
Chang-san Air Base	Western Hajin (NK)	Critical outside, Extreme in the bunker	High	Confident squads chasing military loot
14th Political Prison	Northwest Hajin (NK)	High, with the Citadel at Critical	High	Squads that like one big fortress fight
NuriGO Mall	Northeast Hajin City (SK)	High on the west side, Medium on the east	High	Long loot runs, above and below ground
Haneul Nuclear Reactor	Northeast Hajin (SK)	High, with radiation in DMZ	Medium	Edge drops near the city
Wolves Stadium	South Central Hajin City (SK)	Medium	Medium	City fights with an open bowl to cross
Hajin River Heights	Southeast Hajin (SK)	Medium	Medium	Late rotations along the river
Cheonwang Peak Array	Central Hajin (SK)	Medium	Medium	High ground, sniping and rotations
Mirae General Hospital	North Central Hajin (SK)	Low	Medium-low	Solo players and calm looting
Cheongun Village	Northern Hajin (SK)	Low, with the Heavenly Luck Casino at High	Low-medium	Quiet starts with one optional big fight
Imjin Farmland	South-Southwest Hajin (SK)	Low, with the Rice Mill at Medium	Low-medium	Vehicle play and long-range fights
Deadtown	Southwest Hajin (NK)	Low, with the Re-Education Center at Medium	Low	Safe drops and new players
Songdo Wharf	Eastern Hajin City (SK)	Low	Low	Safe drops with a fast way out

One pattern is worth learning early. The places Activision rates Critical and Extreme in DMZ are the same places that draw Battle Royale squads: big, dense, fortified areas with the most rooms to loot. Low-rated areas are spread out and quiet in both modes. The official numbers cannot tell you where enemy players will land, but they map where the action wants to happen.

Hot drops: land here when you want a fight

The Grid is the hottest drop on Hajin, and it is not close. This is the walled business district at the centre of Hajin City: barricaded streets, watchtowers, and the twin red-roofed towers of the Nenshin Tech Complex. The DBN TV tower here is the tallest building on the whole map, so every squad that wants early kills and fast loot comes to the same few blocks. Land on a rooftop, not a street. The streets have limited escape routes at ground level, and the first team to hold height usually wins the opening fight. If your squad wipes here, it will be in the first two minutes, and the new Gulag is your way back.

NuriGO Mall is the hot drop for squads that prefer a longer fight. The district sits in the northeast of Hajin City and works on two levels: shops, a police station, City Hall and a monorail station on the surface, and a sprawling underground mall below the courtyard. That underground half is dark, and Activision itself advises night vision gear for it in DMZ. In Battle Royale, split your squad between the surface and the light wells that lead down. You get a full loot run here without the instant rooftop crossfire of The Grid.

Chang-san Air Base is the military pick. The base is built into a granite hillside on the North Korean side, with a runway, a helipad, barracks and supply depots on the surface, and a bunker complex underneath that Activision describes as bigger than the base above it. Military areas pull in squads that want strong early loot, so expect company. The cliffs on the eastern side limit your exits. Decide before you land whether you are fighting for the surface or dropping straight for the bunker doors in the southern hillside. Switching plans mid-fight here is how squads get pinned.

Safe drops: loot in peace, rotate late

Deadtown is our safest drop on the map. It is an emptied farming town in the southwest, on the North Korean side, far from the flight paths that favour Hajin City. The streets are low, single-family buildings, which makes looting simple and fast: clear one street, then the next. A clinic and a gas station sit at each end of town, so you can top up and take a vehicle for the long rotate in. The two Re-Education Centers in the middle of town are the busiest buildings here, so loot the edges first and treat the centre as optional.

Songdo Wharf is the safe drop with the best exit. This seaside district runs along the east coast of Hajin City, from the nuclear plant in the north down to the south fork of the Hajin River. It has a market, a pier with a lighthouse, a small island offshore, and a luxury tower called La Grande Vie at its north end. Best of all, the train and monorail services here still run, so when the circle pulls west you are not stuck on foot. Loot the wharf, ride the line into the city edge, and arrive geared while other squads are still running.

Imjin Farmland is the safe drop with a warning attached. The farmland in the south-southwest is flat rice fields and waterways with very little cover, and the big Rice Mill is the only real high ground. Quiet does not mean safe here: one enemy sniper on the mill can watch half the fields. Loot the farm buildings and the loading dock, keep to the waterways and rail lines when you move, and take a vehicle as soon as you find one. This is a great drop for squads that like long-range fights and a bad one for players who hate being seen first.

Best solo drops: one player, no problem

Mirae General Hospital is the best solo drop on Hajin. It sits close to the centre of the map, next to a train station, with Expressway No. 1 running along its north side. That central position is the point: wherever the first circle lands, your rotate is short. The hospital itself is one large complex of wards, waiting areas and stairwells, all colour-coded, so you can loot it in a clean order and hear other players coming. It is the only POI Activision rates as a flat Low threat in DMZ, and in Battle Royale it has stayed calmer than the city districts around it in the season’s first days. Land on the roof or the stepped grounds, work down floor by floor, and leave before the city squads rotate through.

Cheongun Village is the solo drop for players who want a choice. This border village is the most northerly South Korean area on the map, and most of it is rated Low threat in DMZ. Loot the houses and outskirts in peace, and then decide: the Heavenly Luck Casino, a big multi-floor complex with an underground car park, is the one dangerous building here, rated High. If you hear it is busy, walk away. If it is quiet, it is a full loot run in a single building. Expressway No. 1 runs along the south edge of the village, so your ride into the circle is one road away.

Rotation picks: land on the edge of the action

Cheonwang Peak Array is the rotation drop for players who think one circle ahead. The largest telecom array on the map sits on a flat summit in the centre of Hajin, with a helipad on the roof and long views in every direction. From the roof you can read the whole middle of the map: the Hospital and Mujin Pass to the north, the city to the east, open wilderness to the west. Land here, loot the station buildings, and then choose your next move with real information instead of a guess. Expect other smart squads to have the same idea, so clear the summit properly before you settle in.

Hajin River Heights wins games quietly. This damaged residential district in the southeast sits on ground that rises to the south, above the south fork of the Hajin River and its long green bridge. Apartment blocks and narrow store-lined streets give you cover without the chaos of the city centre, and one building here has been turned into a small military base called Compound Echo. Drop here when the circle looks like it will end in the south or east, hold the high streets, and let other squads cross the bridge to you.

Wolves Stadium is the in-between drop: close to the action, not inside it. The ruined baseball stadium in south central Hajin City has an open bowl, a deserted open-air theatre to its north, and mixed streets of shops and apartments around it. Its northern edge touches The Grid, and that edge is the dangerous part. Loot the stadium and the southern streets, use the monorail line that runs southwest when you need out, and only push north if you have already won a fight or two.

Two special cases: the Prison and the Reactor

The 14th Political Prison in the northwest is one big self-contained fight. A concrete-walled fortress on a plateau, with watchtowers on every corner, a main gate to the south, and a Y-shaped fortress called the Citadel in the yard. Squads that land here are signing up for a single long engagement, because the walls that protect you also trap you. It suits a full squad with a plan: one pair takes the towers, one pair works the yard. Solo players should stay away. Winning the Prison does leave you far from most circles, so grab a vehicle from the surrounding hamlets when you are done.

The Haneul Nuclear Reactor in the northeast needs one clear warning. In DMZ, this site sits under a radioactive cloud, and you need protective gear and a gas mask to survive inside it. Battle Royale is a different mode, and early Season 1 coverage of the BR version reports that the radioactive cloud is not part of the Battle Royale map. Treat the Reactor as a normal, busy POI in Warzone: a big industrial site on the road between the city and the wharf, worth looting when the flight path favours the northeast, and worth skipping when it does not.

Hajin weather: all six scenarios and what they change

Hajin rolls one of six weather scenarios at the start of every match. These odds are official, from Raven Software’s Season 1 patch notes. Nearly half of all matches have strong wind or rain at some point, and wind changes how long shots feel across open ground like Imjin Farmland.

Scenario	Chance	What happens
Clear	30%	Clear weather for the whole match. Normal visibility everywhere.
Wind	20%	Windy conditions for the whole match.
Heavy Wind	15%	Stronger wind for the whole match. Open-ground fights feel the worst of it.
Sun Showers	15%	Three bursts of rain during otherwise clear weather, in Circles 1, 2 and 4.
Passing Rain	10%	One brief spell of rain between Circles 3 and 4.
Growing Storm	10%	A rainstorm that builds all match and peaks during the final gas circles.

Two practical notes. First, Hajin has a night vision toggle. One key press switches it on, which helps in dark areas like the underground mall at NuriGO and the unpowered floors of the Heavenly Luck Casino. Second, weather reaches the Gulag too. Local weather conditions affect the Gulag arena, so a rainy match can mean a rainy 1v1 with worse visibility than you practised in.

The new Gulag: two arenas, mantling and weather

Lose your first fight on Hajin and you go to a brand-new Gulag with two distinct arena variants. Three changes matter. You can mantle over a wide range of obstacles inside the arena, so movement and repositioning play a bigger part than in the old single-layout Gulag. You can spectate from ground level at certain angles before your fight, so you can study the arena layout while you wait. And as noted above, the match weather follows you in. Learn both arena variants early, because on a hot-drop map like this one, half your matches will pass through here.

Five drop tips for your first week on Hajin

1. Pick your drop before the flight path loads. Decide hot, safe, solo or rotation with your squad in the lobby, and commit. Changing your mind mid-flight lands you between two POIs with neither looted.
2. Land on roofs in the city and on edges at the coast. In Hajin City, height is the whole fight. At Deadtown and Songdo Wharf, the quiet outer buildings loot just as well as the famous ones.
3. Respect the wind. In Heavy Wind matches, avoid long open crossings at Imjin Farmland and the Reactor flats, and take the rail lines and waterways instead.
4. Use the transport network. Hajin has working trains, a city monorail and a main freeway, Expressway No. 1. A safe drop plus a fast ride beats a medium drop on foot.
5. Do not chase DMZ habits in Battle Royale. The threat levels in this guide come from DMZ, where they rate AI soldiers. In Warzone the danger is other players, and the quiet DMZ areas can still hold a full enemy squad.

Before your next drop, it is worth five minutes on your setup. A new, bigger map punishes low frame rates and muddy visibility settings more than the old ones did. Our guide to the best Warzone settings covers the graphics and controller options that help most, and every change there carries straight over to Hajin.

Hajin landing spot questions

What is the safest landing spot on Hajin?

Deadtown, in the southwest of the map on the North Korean side. It sits far from Hajin City, its streets are simple to loot, and it has stayed one of the quietest drops in the first days of Season 1. Songdo Wharf on the east coast is the other safe pick, and it has trains and a monorail for a faster rotate.

What is the best hot drop on Hajin?

The Grid, in central Hajin City. It is the densest and most contested area on the map, with rooftop fights around the Nenshin Tech Complex and the DBN TV tower from the first minute. Land on a roof, take height early, and expect to fight at least two other squads.

Do DMZ threat levels apply in Warzone Battle Royale?

Not directly. The threat levels are a DMZ system: they rate the AI soldiers at each POI, from Low to Extreme, and Activision is clear that they do not count human players. Battle Royale has no threat meter. We list them because they still show which areas are dense, fortified and loot-rich, which is useful when you choose a drop, but the danger in Warzone comes from other squads, not from the rating.