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Definition of Pyongyang - 3 dictionary results

Pyong⋅yang

  [pyuhng-yahng, -yang, pyong-]
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–noun
a city in and the capital of North Korea, in the SW part. 1,500,000.
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Pyong·yang   (pyŭng'yäng', -yāng', pyông'-)   
The capital and largest city of North Korea, in the southwest-central part of the country. It was an important cultural center and Chinese colony after 108 B.C., later fell to the Japanese, and became capital of North Korea in 1948. Population: 2,780,000.
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Pyongyang [(pyung-yahng, pyawng-yahng)]

Capital of North Korea and largest city in the country, located in west-central North Korea.

Note: Pyongyang is Korea's oldest city, but little remains from its three-thousand-year history, after successive devastations by Japan and in the Korean War.
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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