Songyo-guyok
Sŏn'gyo-guyŏk or Songyo District is one of the 18 guyŏk that constitute the city of Pyongyang, North Korea. It is on the eastern bank of the Taedong River at the center of East Pyongyang.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: guyok of North Korea with 148,000 residents
- Description: district of Pyongyang
- Also known as: “Seon-gyo”, “Seon-gyo-guyeok”, “Seongyo”, “Seongyo-guyeok”, “Son’gyo-guyok”, “Sŏn’gyo-kuyŏk”, “Songyo district”, “Sonkyo District”, and “Tong-kuyŏk”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Juche Tower and Kim Il Sung Square.
Juche Tower
Photo: Uspn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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
Photo: Nicor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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. Kim Il Sung Square is situated 3½ km northwest of Songyo-guyok.
Yanggak Island
Island
Photo: MarsmanRom, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Yanggakdo, or Yanggak Island is a small island in the Taedong River, located about two kilometers to the south-east of the centre of the North Korean capital city Pyongyang.
Songyo-guyok
- Location: Pyongyang, Pyongan, North Korea, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Vietnamese—“Songyo-guyok” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Sŏn’gyo-guyŏk”
- Chinese: “Sŏn’gyo Khu-he̍k”
- Chinese: “船桥区”
- Chinese: “船桥区域”
- Chinese: “船橋區域”
- Czech: “Sŏngjogujŏk”
- Dutch: “Songyo-guyok”
- Esperanto: “Sŏn’gyo-guyŏk”
- French: “Arrondissement de Sŏn’gyo”
- French: “arrondissement de Songyo”
- French: “kuyok Songyo”
- French: “Songyo kuyok”
- French: “Songyo”
- German: “Songyo-guyok”
- German: “Sŏngyo-guyŏk”
- Greek: “Σόνγκιο-γκούγιοκ”
- Hebrew: “סונגיו”
- Japanese: “船橋区域”
- Korean: “선교”
- Korean: “선교구역”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sŏn’gyo Khu-he̍k”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Songyo”
- Norwegian: “Songyo”
- Persian: “سونگیو-گویوک”
- Polish: “Sŏn’gyo”
- Portuguese: “Sŏn’gyo-guyŏk”
- Scots: “Songyo-guyok”
- Slovak: “Sŏngjogujŏk”
- Swedish: “Sŏn’gyo-guyŏk”
- Thai: “เขตซ็องโย”
- Vietnamese: “Sŏn’gyo-guyŏk”
- Vietnamese: “Songyo-guyok”
- Vietnamese: “Songyo”
- “Sŏn’gyo-guyŏk”
- “선교구역”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Songsin station and Taedonggang.
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