Potonggang-guyok
Potonggang-guyok is one of the 18 districts, or guyok, of Pyongyang, North Korea. It is best known as the location of the Ryugyong Hotel. It takes its name from the Pothong River, which forms the district's boundary.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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 Grand People’s Study House.
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.
Grand People’s Study House
Library
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The Grand People's Study House is the central library located in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. The library was built in 1982 in honour of the Supreme Leader Kim Il Sung's 70th birthday.
Arch of Triumph
Photo: Uwe Brodrecht, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Arch of Triumph is a triumphal arch in Pyongyang, 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 Monumento a la Revolución in Mexico, standing 60 m high and 50 m wide.
Potonggang-guyok
- Location: Pyongyang, Pyongan, North Korea, East Asia, Asia
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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”
- Scots: “Potonggang-guyok”
- Spanish: “Potonggang-guyok”
- Swedish: “Pot’onggang-guyŏk”
- Thai: “เขตโพทงกัง”
- Vietnamese: “Pot’onggang-guyŏk”
- Vietnamese: “Potonggang-guyok”
- Vietnamese: “Potonggang”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Taebo-dong and Pot’onggang-dong.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Pot’ong-gyo and Tomŏri-san.
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