Potonggang-guyok

Potonggang-guyok is one of the 19 districts, or guyok, and an artificial island of , . It is best known as the location of the .
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  • Type: guyok of North Korea with 105,000 residents
  • Description: district of Pyongyang
  • Also known as: “Botonggang”, “Pot’onggang-guyok”, “Pothonggang District”, and “Potonggang district”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kim Il Sung Square and Arch of Triumph.

Square
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is a large city square in the Central District of , North Korea, and is named after the country's founding leader, Kim Il Sung.

Photo: Uwe Brodrecht, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is a triumphal arch in , North Korea. It was built to commemorate the Korean resistance to Japan from 1925 to 1945. It is the second tallest memorial arch in the world, after in , standing 60 m high and 50 m wide.

Public building
Photo: Nicor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Pyongyang Assembly Hall, formerly known as the , is the seat of the Supreme People's Assembly, the unicameral supreme state organ of power of .

Potonggang-guyok

Latitude
39.0312° or 39° 1′ 53″ north
Longitude
125.7267° or 125° 43′ 36″ east
Population
105,000
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
Open location code
8QF72PJG+FM
Geo­Names ID
1872260
Wiki­data ID
Q700584
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Vietnamese—“Potonggang-guyok” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Pot’onggang-guyŏk”
  • Chinese: “Pot’onggang Khu-he̍k”
  • Chinese: “普通江区”
  • Chinese: “普通江区域”
  • Chinese: “普通江區域”
  • Czech: “Potchonggang gujŏk”
  • Czech: “Potchonggang-gujŏk”
  • Czech: “Potchonggang”
  • Czech: “Potchongganggujŏk”
  • Dutch: “Potonggang-guyok”
  • Esperanto: “Pot’onggang-guyŏk”
  • French: “arrondissement de la Rivière Pot’ong”
  • French: “Arrondissement de la Rivière Pot’ong”
  • French: “arrondissement Pot’ong”
  • French: “arrondissement Pothonggang”
  • French: “kuyok Pot’ong”
  • French: “kuyok Pothonggang”
  • French: “Pot’ong kuyok”
  • French: “Pothonggang kuyok”
  • French: “Pothonggang”
  • German: “Botonggang-guyeok”
  • German: “Pot’onggang-guyŏk”
  • German: “Potonggang-guyok”
  • Greek: “Μπότονγκανγκ-γκούγιοκ”
  • Hebrew: “פוטונגאנג”
  • Japanese: “普通江区域”
  • Korean: “보통강”
  • Korean: “보통강구역”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pot’onggang Khu-he̍k”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Potonggang”
  • Norwegian: “Potonggang”
  • Persian: “پوتونگانگ-گویوک”
  • Polish: “Pot’onggang”
  • Portuguese: “Pot’onggang-guyŏk”
  • Russian: “Потхонган-гуёк”
  • Russian: “Потхонган”
  • Scots: “Potonggang-guyok”
  • Spanish: “Potonggang-guyok”
  • Swedish: “Pot’onggang-guyŏk”
  • Thai: “เขตโพทงกัง”
  • Urdu: “پوتونگ گانگ-گویوک”
  • Vietnamese: “Pot’onggang-guyŏk”
  • Vietnamese: “Potonggang-guyok”
  • Vietnamese: “Potonggang”

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