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”, “Hpyeng-yang”, “Hpyengyang”, “P-hjöng-jang”, “P’yŏng-yang”, “P’yŏngyang”, “P’yŏngyang-si”, “Pêng-jiáng”, “Phjongjang”, “Phjöngjang”, “Phöngjang”, “Phyeng-yang”, “Phyong-yang”, “Phyŏngyang”, “Pienyang”, “Pingyang”, “Pyongyang-si”, “Ryugyong”, “Пхеньян қаласы”, “Столица КНДР”, “столица на КНДР”, “بيونگ يانگ”, “পিয়ংইয়ং”, “பியோங்கியங்”, “పియాంగ్యాంగ్”, “ಪ್ಯೊಂಗ್ಯಾಂಗ್”, “ප්යොන්ග්යැන්ග්‍”, “류경”, “혁명의 수도”, “ピョンヤン”, and “平壌特別市”
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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 170-metre monument in Pyongyang, the capital of . The monument is named after the ideology of Juche introduced by North Korea'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.

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The 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 in , standing 60 m high and 50 m wide.

Pyongyang

Latitude
39.0197° or 39° 1′ 11″ north
Longitude
125.7526° or 125° 45′ 9″ east
Population
3,870,000
Elevation
43 metres (141 feet)
IATA airport code
FNJ
United Nations Location Code
KP FNJ
Open location code
8QF72Q93+V2
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”
  • Bosnian: “Pjongjang”
  • Breton: “Pyongyang”
  • Bulgarian: “Пхенян”
  • Burmese: “ပြုံယမ်းမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Pyongyang”
  • Cebuano: “Pyongyang (lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Pyongyang”
  • Central Bikol: “Pyongyang”
  • Central Kurdish: “پیۆنگیانگ”
  • Chechen: “Пхеньян”
  • Chinese: “平壤”
  • Chinese: “平壤市”
  • Corsican: “Pyongyang”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Пхеньян”
  • Croatian: “Pjongjang”
  • Czech: “Pchjongjang”
  • Danish: “Pyongyang”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Pyongyang”
  • Dutch: “Pyongyang”
  • Eastern Mari: “Пхеньян”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيونغيانغ”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “پيونجيانج”
  • Esperanto: “Pjongjango”
  • Estonian: “P’yŏngyang”
  • Estonian: “Pyongyang”
  • Extremaduran: “Pyongyang”
  • Faroese: “Pyongyang”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Pyongyang”
  • Finnish: “Pjongjang”
  • French: “P’yŏngyang”
  • French: “Pyongyang”
  • Gagauz: “Pyongyang”
  • Galician: “Pyongyang”
  • Georgian: “ფხენიანი”
  • German: “Pjöngjang”
  • Greek: “Πιονγιάνγκ”
  • Greek: “Πιονγκγιάνγκ”
  • Gujarati: “ફિયોંગયાંગ”
  • Haitian: “Pyongyang”
  • Hakka Chinese: “P’yŏngyang”
  • Hausa: “Pyongyang”
  • Hebrew: “פיונגיאנג”
  • Hindi: “प्योंगयांग”
  • Hungarian: “Phenjan”
  • 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”
  • Javanese: “Pyongyang”
  • Kalaallisut: “Pyongyang”
  • Kannada: “ಪ್ಯೊನ್ಗ್ಯಾಂಗ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Pxenyan”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Пхеньян”
  • Karekare: “Pyongyang”
  • Kashubian: “P’yŏngyang”
  • Kazakh: “Пхеньян”
  • Khmer: “ព្យុងយ៉ាង”
  • Kirghiz: “Пхеньян”
  • Komering: “Pyongyang”
  • Komi: “Пхеньян”
  • Kongo: “Pyongyang”
  • Korean: “P’yŏngyang”
  • Korean: “평양”
  • Korean: “평양시”
  • Korean: “평양직할시”
  • Kurdish: “Pyongyang”
  • Lao: “ພຽງຢາງ”
  • Latin: “Pyeongyang”
  • Latvian: “Phenjana”
  • Lezghian: “Пхеньян”
  • Ligurian: “Pyòngyang”
  • Literary Chinese: “平壤”
  • Literary Chinese: “平壤市”
  • Lithuanian: “Pchenjanas”
  • Livvi: “Phenjan”
  • Lombard: “Pyongyang”
  • Low German: “Pjöngjang”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Pchjongjang”
  • Luxembourgish: “Pjöngjang”
  • Macedonian: “Пјонгјанг”
  • Magahi: “प्योङ्गयाङ्ग”
  • Maithili: “प्योङयाङ”
  • Maithili: “प्योङ्गयाङ”
  • Malagasy: “Pyongyang”
  • Malay: “Pyongyang”
  • Malayalam: “പ്യോംങ്യാംഗ്”
  • Maltese: “Pyongyang”
  • Maori: “Pyongyang”
  • Marathi: “प्याँगयांग”
  • Mazanderani: “پيونگ يانگ”
  • Mazanderani: “پیونگ یانگ”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “بيونگيانگ”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Bìng-iōng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “P’yŏngyang Ti̍t-hat-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pêng-jiáng Ti̍t-hat-chhī”
  • 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: “Pyongyang”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਿਓਂਗਯਾਂਗ”
  • Papiamento: “Pyongyang”
  • Persian: “پیونگ یانگ”
  • Persian: “پیونگ‌یانگ”
  • Piemontese: “Pyongyang”
  • Polish: “Pjongjang”
  • Portuguese: “Pionguiangue”
  • Portuguese: “Pyongyang”
  • Pushto: “پيونګيانګ”
  • Pushto: “پیونګیانګ”
  • Pushto: “پیونگیانگ”
  • Quechua: “Pyongyang”
  • Romanian: “Phenian”
  • Romanian: “Pyongyang”
  • Russia Buriat: “Пёнъян”
  • Russia Buriat: “Пхёнъян”
  • Russian: “Пхеньян”
  • Rusyn: “Пхеньян”
  • Rusyn: “Пхйонґянґ”
  • Samogitian: “Pchenjans”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱤᱭᱚᱝᱤᱭᱟᱝ”
  • Sardinian: “Pyongyang”
  • Scots: “Pyongyang”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Pyongyang”
  • Serbian: “Пјонгјанг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pjongjang”
  • Shona: “Pyongyang”
  • Sicilian: “Pyongyang”
  • Silesian: “Pjongjang”
  • Sindhi: “پيانگ يانگ”
  • Sinhala: “පියොන්යෑං”
  • Slovak: “Pchjongjang”
  • Slovenian: “Pjongjang”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پیونق‌یانق”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پیونگ‌یانگ”
  • Spanish: “Pionyang”
  • Swahili: “Pyongyang”
  • Swedish: “Pyongyang”
  • Swiss German: “Pjöngjang”
  • Tagalog: “Pionyang”
  • Tagalog: “Pyongyang”
  • Tajik: “Пхенян”
  • Talysh: “Pxenjan”
  • Talysh: “Pxenyan”
  • Tamil: “பியொங்யாங்”
  • Tatar: “Пхеньян”
  • Telugu: “ప్యోంగ్యాంగ్”
  • Thai: “เปียงยาง”
  • Tibetan: “ཕོང་ཡང་།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Pyongyang”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • “ma tomo Pijonjan”
  • “Pionyang”

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