Tongdaewon-guyok
Tongdaewŏn-guyŏk or Tongdaewon District is one of the 18 wards, and one of the six that constitute East Pyongyang, North Korea. It sits on the eastern bank of the Taedong River.- Type: guyok of North Korea with 144,000 residents
- Description: district of Pyongyang
- Also known as: “Dongdaewon”, “Dongdaewon-guyeok”, “Dongdaewonguyeok”, “Tongdaewon district”, and “Tongdaewŏn-kuyŏk”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Juche Tower and Kim Il Sung Square.
Juche Tower
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The Juche Tower, completed in 1982, is a 170-metre monument in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, and the tallest structure in the city. The monument is named after the ideology of Juche introduced by the country's first leader, Kim Il Sung.
Kim Il Sung Square
Square
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Kim Il Sung Square is a large city square in the Central District of Pyongyang, North Korea, and is named after the country's founding leader, Kim Il Sung.
Grand People’s Study House
Library
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The Grand People's Study House is the national library of North Korea, located in the capital city of Pyongyang. The library was built in 1982 in honour of the Supreme Leader Kim Il Sung's 70th birthday.
Tongdaewon-guyok
- Location: Pyongyang, Pyongan, North Korea, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Vietnamese—“Tongdaewon-guyok” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Tongdaewŏn-guyŏk”
- Chinese: “Tongdaewŏn Khu-he̍k”
- Chinese: “东大院区”
- Chinese: “东大院区域”
- Chinese: “東大院區域”
- Czech: “Tongdäwŏngujŏk”
- Dutch: “Tongdaewon-guyok”
- Esperanto: “Tongdaewŏn-guyŏk”
- French: “arrondissement de Tongdaewon”
- French: “arrondissement de Tongdaewŏn”
- French: “Arrondissement de Tongdaewŏn”
- French: “kuyok Tongdaewon”
- French: “Tongdaewon kuyok”
- French: “Tongdaewon”
- German: “Tongdaewon-guyok”
- German: “Tongdaewŏn-guyŏk”
- Greek: “Ντόνγκντεουον-γκούγιοκ”
- Hebrew: “טונגדוון”
- Japanese: “東大院区域”
- Korean: “동대원”
- Korean: “동대원구역”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tongdaewŏn Khu-he̍k”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tongdaewon”
- Norwegian: “Tongdaewon”
- Persian: “تونگدائوون-گویوک”
- Persian: “ناحیه تونگتهوون”
- Polish: “Tongdaewŏn”
- Portuguese: “Tongdaewŏn-guyŏk”
- Scots: “Tongdaewon-guyok”
- Swedish: “Tongdaewŏn-guyŏk”
- Thai: “เขตทงแดว็อน”
- Vietnamese: “Tongdaewon-guyok”
- Vietnamese: “Tongdaewŏn-guyok”
- Vietnamese: “Tongdaewŏn-guyŏk”
- Vietnamese: “Tongdaewon”
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