Pyongyang

[ pyuhng-yahng, -yang, pyong- ]

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noun

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

Pyongyang

/ ˈpjɒŋˈjæŋ /

noun

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

Pyongyang

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

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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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