Pyongyang

[ pyuhng-yahng, -yang, pyong- ]

noun
  1. a city in and the capital of North Korea, in the SW part.

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Pyongyang

P'yng-yang

/ (ˈpjɒŋˈjæŋ) /


noun
  1. the capital of North Korea, in the southwest on the Taedong River: industrial centre; university (1946). Pop: 3 284 000 (2005 est)

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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.

Notes for Pyongyang

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.

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