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North Korea
Pyongan

Pyongyang

Pyongyang is the capital city of , with about 2,750,000 inhabitants. It is on the Taedong River in the southwest of the country and is known as the Capital of the Revolution.
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  • Type: City with 3,870,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of North Korea
  • Also known as: “Capital of Revolution”, “Heijō”, “Heijō-fu”, “Heizyō”, “Heizyō Hu”, “P-hjöng-jang”, “P’yŏng-yang”, “P’yŏngyang”, “P’yŏngyang-si”, “Phyeng-yang”, “Phyong-yang”, “Pienyang”, “Pingyang”, “Pyeongyang”, “Pyongyang-si”, and “Ryugyong”
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Photo: Mark Scott Johnson, CC BY 2.0.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Juche Tower and Kim Il Sung Square.

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The , completed in 1982, is a monument in Pyongyang, the capital of , and is named after the ideology of Juche introduced by the country's first leader, Kim Il Sung.

Square
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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.

Library
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The Grand People's Study House is the central library located in Pyongyang, the capital of . The library was built in 1982 in honour of the Supreme Leader Kim Il Sung's 70th birthday.

Pyongyang

Latitude
39.0168° or 39° 1′ 1″ north
Longitude
125.7474° or 125° 44′ 51″ east
Population
3,870,000
Elevation
43 metres (141 feet)
IATA airport code
FNJ
United Nations Location Code
KP FNJ
Open location code
8QF72P8W+PW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 32013127
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1871859
Wiki­data ID
Q18808
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Pyongyang” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Pyeongyang”
  • Afrikaans: “Pjongjang”
  • Albanian: “Pjongian”
  • Albanian: “Pjonjangu”
  • Amharic: “ፕዮንግያንግ”
  • Arabic: “بيونغيانغ”
  • Aragonese: “Pyongyang”
  • Armenian: “Պխենյան”
  • Armenian: “Փխենյան”
  • Armenian: “Փհենյան”
  • Assamese: “পিয়ং ইয়াং”
  • Asturian: “Pyong Yang”
  • Asturian: “Pyongyang”
  • Awadhi: “प्योङ्गयाङ्ग”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pxenyan”
  • Balinese: “Pyongyang”
  • Bashkir: “Пхеньян”
  • Basque: “Piongiang”
  • Belarusian: “Пхеньян”
  • Belarusian: “Пхэньян”
  • Bengali: “পিয়ং ইয়াং”
  • Bengali: “পিয়ংইয়ং”
  • Bosnian: “Pjongjang”
  • Breton: “Pyongyang”
  • Bulgarian: “Пхенян”
  • Bulgarian: “столица на КНДР”
  • Burmese: “ပြုံယမ်းမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Pyongyang”
  • Cebuano: “Pyongyang (lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Pyongyang”
  • Central Bikol: “Pyongyang”
  • Central Kurdish: “پیۆنگیانگ”
  • Chechen: “Пхеньян”
  • Chinese: “P’yŏngyang Ti̍t-hat-chhī”
  • Chinese: “平壤”
  • Chinese: “平壤市”
  • Corsican: “Pyeongyang”
  • Corsican: “Pyongyang”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Пхеньян”
  • Croatian: “Pjongjang”
  • Czech: “Pchjongjang”
  • Danish: “Pyongyang”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Pyongyang”
  • Dutch: “Pyongyang”
  • Eastern Mari: “Пхеньян”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيونغيانغ”
  • Esperanto: “Pjongjango”
  • Estonian: “P’yŏngyang”
  • Estonian: “Pjöngjang”
  • Estonian: “Pyongyang”
  • Extremaduran: “Pyongyang”
  • Faroese: “Pyongyang”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Pyongyang”
  • Finnish: “Pjongjang”
  • French: “Hpyeng-yang”
  • French: “Hpyengyang”
  • French: “P’yŏngyang”
  • French: “Phyŏngyang”
  • French: “Pyeongyang”
  • French: “Pyongyang”
  • Gagauz: “Pyongyang”
  • Galician: “Pyongyang”
  • Georgian: “ფხენიანი”
  • German: “Phjöngjang”
  • German: “Phöngjang”
  • German: “Pjöngjang”
  • German: “Pyeongyang”
  • German: “Pyongyang”
  • Greek: “Πιονγιάνγκ”
  • Greek: “Πιονγκγιάνγκ”
  • Gujarati: “ફિયોંગયાંગ”
  • Haitian: “Pyongyang”
  • Hakka Chinese: “P’yŏngyang”
  • Hausa: “Pyongyang”
  • Hebrew: “פיונגיאנג”
  • Hindi: “प्योंगयांग”
  • Hungarian: “Phenjan”
  • Hungarian: “Phjongjang”
  • Hungarian: “Pyongyang”
  • Iban: “Pyongyang”
  • Icelandic: “Pjongjang”
  • Ido: “Pyongyang”
  • Iloko: “Pyongyang”
  • Indonesian: “Pyongyang”
  • Interlingua: “Pyongyang”
  • Interlingue: “Pyongyang”
  • Inupiaq: “Piauñaŋaaq”
  • Irish: “Pyongyang”
  • Italian: “Pyongyang”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Pyongyang”
  • Japanese: “平壌”
  • Japanese: “平壌市”
  • Japanese: “平壌直轄市”
  • Javanese: “Pyongyang”
  • Kalaallisut: “Pyongyang”
  • Kannada: “ಪ್ಯೊಂಗ್ಯಾಂಗ್”
  • Kannada: “ಪ್ಯೊನ್ಗ್ಯಾಂಗ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Pxenyan”
  • Kashubian: “P’yŏngyang”
  • Kazakh: “Пхеньян қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Пхеньян”
  • Khmer: “ព្យុងយ៉ាង”
  • Kirghiz: “Пхеньян”
  • Komering: “Pyongyang”
  • Kongo: “Pyongyang”
  • Korean: “P’yŏngyang”
  • Korean: “류경”
  • Korean: “평양”
  • Korean: “평양시”
  • Korean: “평양직할시”
  • Korean: “혁명의 수도”
  • Kurdish: “Pyongyang”
  • Lao: “ພຽງຢາງ”
  • Latin: “Pyeongyang”
  • Latvian: “Phenjana”
  • Lezghian: “Пхеньян”
  • Ligurian: “Pyòngyang”
  • Literary Chinese: “平壤”
  • Lithuanian: “Pchenjanas”
  • Livvi: “Phenjan”
  • Lombard: “Pyongyang”
  • Low German: “Pjöngjang”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Pchjongjang”
  • Luxembourgish: “Pjöngjang”
  • Macedonian: “Пјонгјанг”
  • Maithili: “प्योङयाङ”
  • Maithili: “प्योङ्गयाङ”
  • Malagasy: “Pyongyang”
  • Malay: “Pyongyang”
  • Malayalam: “പ്യോംങ്യാംഗ്”
  • Maltese: “Pyongyang”
  • Maori: “Pyongyang”
  • Marathi: “प्याँगयांग”
  • Mazanderani: “پيونگ يانگ”
  • Mazanderani: “پیونگ یانگ”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Bìng-iōng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pêng-jiáng Ti̍t-hat-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pêng-jiáng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pyongyang”
  • Minangkabau: “Pyongyang”
  • Moksha: “Пхэньян”
  • Mongolian: “Пёньян”
  • Mongolian: “Пхеньян”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پيونڭيانڭ”
  • Neapolitan: “Pyongyang”
  • Nepali: “प्योङयाङ”
  • Nepali: “प्योङ्गयाङ्ग”
  • Northern Frisian: “Pjöngjang”
  • Northern Luri: “پیونگ یانگ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pyongyang”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pyongyang”
  • Norwegian: “Pyongyang”
  • Novial: “Pyongyang”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pyeongyang”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Pīonganc”
  • Ossetian: “Пхеньян”
  • Pampanga: “Pyeongyang”
  • Pampanga: “Pyongyang”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਿਓਂਗਯਾਂਗ”
  • Papiamento: “Pyongyang”
  • Persian: “پیونگ یانگ”
  • Persian: “پیونگ‌یانگ”
  • Piemontese: “Pyongyang”
  • Polish: “Phenian”
  • Polish: “Pjongjang”
  • Portuguese: “Pionguiangue”
  • Portuguese: “Pyongyang”
  • Pushto: “پيونګيانګ”
  • Pushto: “پیونګیانګ”
  • Pushto: “پیونگیانگ”
  • Quechua: “Pyongyang”
  • Romanian: “Phenian”
  • Russia Buriat: “Пёнъян”
  • Russia Buriat: “Пхёнъян”
  • Russian: “Пхеньян”
  • Russian: “Столица КНДР”
  • Rusyn: “Пхеньян”
  • Rusyn: “Пхйонґянґ”
  • Samogitian: “Pchenjans”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱤᱭᱚᱝᱤᱭᱟᱝ”
  • Sardinian: “Pyongyang”
  • Scots: “Pyongyang”
  • Scots: “Ryugyong”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Pyongyang”
  • Serbian: “Пјонгјанг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pjongjang”
  • Shona: “Pyongyang”
  • Sicilian: “Pyongyang”
  • Silesian: “Pjongjang”
  • Sindhi: “پيانگ يانگ”
  • Sinhala: “පියොන්යෑං”
  • Sinhala: “ප්යොන්ග්යැන්ග්‍”
  • Slovak: “Pchjongjang”
  • Slovenian: “Pjongjang”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پیونق‌یانق”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پیونگ‌یانگ”
  • Spanish: “P’yŏng-yang”
  • Spanish: “Pionyang”
  • Swahili: “Pyongyang”
  • Swedish: “Pjongjang”
  • Swedish: “Pyongyang”
  • Tagalog: “Pionyang”
  • Tagalog: “Pyongyang”
  • Tajik: “Пхенян”
  • Talysh: “Pxenjan”
  • Talysh: “Pxenyan”
  • Tamil: “பியொங்யாங்”
  • Tamil: “பியோங்கியங்”
  • Tatar: “Пхеньян”
  • Telugu: “పియాంగ్యాంగ్”
  • Telugu: “ప్యోంగ్యాంగ్”
  • Thai: “เปียงยาง”
  • Tibetan: “ཕོང་ཡང་།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Pyongyang”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Pjöngjang”
  • Turkish: “Pyongyang”
  • Turkmen: “Phenýan”
  • Udmurt: “Пхеньян”
  • Uighur: “Pyongyang”
  • Uighur: “پيوڭياڭ”
  • Ukrainian: “Пхеньян”
  • Urdu: “پھیانگ یانگ”
  • Urdu: “پیانگ یانگ”
  • Uzbek: “Pxenyan”
  • Venetian: “Pyongyang”
  • Veps: “Phen’jan”
  • Veps: “Phönjan”
  • Vietnamese: “Bình Nhưỡng”
  • Vietnamese: “Pyongyang”
  • Vlaams: “Pjongjang”
  • Volapük: “Pyöngyang”
  • Võro: “Pyongyang”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pyongyang”
  • Welsh: “P’yŏngyang”
  • Welsh: “Pyongyang”
  • Western Frisian: “Pyongyang”
  • Western Panjabi: “پیانگ یانگ”
  • Wu Chinese: “平壤市”
  • Yakut: “Пхеньян”
  • Yiddish: “פיאנגיאנג”
  • Yoruba: “Pyongyang”
  • Yue Chinese: “平壤”
  • Zeeuws: “Pyongyang”
  • Zulu: “i-Pyongyang”
  • “Pchenjans”
  • “Pionyang”
  • “Pyongyang”

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