Ryugyong Hotel

The Ryugyong Hotel, or Yu-Kyung Hotel, is a 330 m tall unfinished pyramid-shaped skyscraper in , . Its name is also one of the historical names for Pyongyang.
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  • Type: Building
  • Description: unfinished pyramid-shaped skyscraper in North Korea
  • Also known as: “Ryu-Gyong Hotel” and “Yu-Kyung Hotel”
  • Address: 대보동

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Kŏnsŏl and Ryugyong Jong Ju Yong Indoor Stadium.

Metro station
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Station is a station on Hyŏksin Line of the Pyongyang Metro. It is notable for being the only station in the Pyongyang Metro to use side platforms, as all other stations use an island platform configuration instead. is situated 350 metres southeast of Ryugyong Hotel.

Sports venue
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Ryugyong Chung Ju-yung Gymnasium is an indoor sporting arena located in , North Korea. The capacity of the arena is 12,309 and it was built in 2003. is situated 550 metres northeast of Ryugyong Hotel.

Hotel
The Pyongyang Information Center is a high-rise office skyscraper in , . Built in 1986, the tower stands at 139.9 meters tall and is divided into 42 floors. is situated 280 metres west of Ryugyong Hotel.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pyongyang.

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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.

Ryugyong Hotel

Latitude
39.03664° or 39° 2′ 12″ north
Longitude
125.73065° or 125° 43′ 50″ east
Open location code
8QF72PPJ+M7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 407995274
Open­Street­Map feature
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Wiki­data ID
Q29272
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Ryugyong Hotel” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فندق ريوغيونغ”
  • Asturian: “Hotel Ryugyong”
  • Basque: “Ryugyong Hotel”
  • Basque: “Ryugyong hotela”
  • Bengali: “রিয়্যুগিয়োং হোটেল”
  • Bulgarian: “Рюгьон”
  • Bulgarian: “Хотел Рюгьон”
  • Bulgarian: “Хотел Рюгьонг”
  • Bulgarian: “Хотел Рюйон”
  • Catalan: “Hotel Ryugyong”
  • Central Bikol: “Ryugyong Hotel”
  • Chinese: “Liú-kiaⁿ Pn̄g-tiàm”
  • Chinese: “柳京酒店”
  • Chinese: “柳京飯店”
  • Chinese: “柳京饭店”
  • Croatian: “Hotel Ryugyong”
  • Czech: “Hotel Rjugjong”
  • Czech: “Hotel Rugyong”
  • Czech: “Ryugyong Hotel”
  • Danish: “Ryugyong Hotel”
  • Dutch: “Ryugyong Hotel”
  • Dutch: “Ryugyonghotel”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فندق ريوجيونج”
  • Esperanto: “Hotelo Ryugyong”
  • Esperanto: “Ryugyong hotelo”
  • Finnish: “Ryugyong Hotel”
  • Finnish: “Ryugyong hotelli”
  • Finnish: “Ryugyong-hotelli”
  • Finnish: “Ryugyŏng-hotelli”
  • Finnish: “Ryugyong”
  • Finnish: “Ryugyŏng”
  • French: “Hotel Ryugyong”
  • French: “hôtel Ryugyong”
  • French: “Hôtel Ryugyong”
  • French: “Ryugyong Hotel”
  • French: “Sky City One”
  • Galician: “Hotel Ryugyong”
  • German: “105 Building”
  • German: “Ryugyeong Hotel”
  • German: “Ryugyŏng Hot’el”
  • German: “Ryugyong Hotel”
  • German: “Ryugyong-Hotel”
  • German: “Ryugyŏng-Hotel”
  • German: “Ryungyong Hotel”
  • German: “Yu-Kyung Hotel”
  • German: “류경 호텔”
  • Hebrew: “מלון ריוגיונג”
  • Hungarian: “Rjugjong Hotel”
  • Hungarian: “Ryugyong Hotel”
  • Hungarian: “Ryugyŏng Hotel”
  • Indonesian: “Hotel Ryugyong”
  • Indonesian: “Ryugyong Hotel”
  • Italian: “Albergo Ryugyong”
  • Italian: “Ryugyong Hotel”
  • Japanese: “ユギョンホテル”
  • Japanese: “リュギョンホテル”
  • Japanese: “柳京ホテル”
  • Kannada: “ರ್‍ಯುಗ್ಯಾಂಗ್ ಹೋಟೆಲ್”
  • Korean: “류경려관”
  • Korean: “류경호텔”
  • Korean: “유경호텔”
  • Lithuanian: “Ryugyong viešbutis”
  • Lithuanian: “Ryugyong”
  • Low German: “Ryugyong-Hotel”
  • Maithili: “र्युगयोङ्ग होटल”
  • Malay: “Hotel Ryugyong”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ryugyeong Hotel”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ryugyŏng Hot’el”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ryugyong Hotel”
  • Minangkabau: “Hotel Ryugyong”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ryugyeong Hotel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ryugyong Hotel”
  • Norwegian: “Ryugyong Hotel”
  • Persian: “ریوگیونگ”
  • Persian: “هتل ریوگیونگ”
  • Polish: “Hotel Ryugyŏng”
  • Portuguese: “Hotel Ryu-Gyong”
  • Portuguese: “Hotel Ryugyong”
  • Portuguese: “Hotel Yu-Kyung”
  • Pushto: “ريوگ يونگ هوټل”
  • Romanian: “Hotel Ryugyong”
  • Russian: “Ryugyong Hotel”
  • Russian: “гостиница «Рюгён»”
  • Russian: “Гостиница Рюген”
  • Russian: “Гостиница Рюгён”
  • Russian: “Гостиница Югён”
  • Russian: “Рюгён”
  • Scots: “Ryugyong Hotel”
  • Scots: “Ryugyong Hottle”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hotel Ryugyŏng”
  • Slovak: “Hotel Rjugjong”
  • Slovak: “Hotel Ryugyong”
  • Slovak: “Rjukjong Hotchel”
  • Slovak: “Rjukjong Hotel”
  • Slovenian: “Hotel Rjugjong”
  • Spanish: “Hotel Ryugyong”
  • Spanish: “Ryugyong Hotel”
  • Swedish: “Ryugyong Hotel”
  • Tamil: “ரியூகியோங் உணவகம்”
  • Thai: “โรงแรมรยูกย็อง”
  • Turkish: “Ryugyong Oteli”
  • Ukrainian: “Готель Рюгьон”
  • Ukrainian: “Рюгьон”
  • Urdu: “ریوگ یونگ ہوٹل”
  • Uzbek: “Ryungyong”
  • Vietnamese: “Khách sạn Ryugyong”
  • Vietnamese: “Khách sạn Ryugyŏng”
  • Vietnamese: “Ryugyong Hotel”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ryugyong Hotel”
  • Western Panjabi: “ریوگیونگ ھوٹل”
  • Wu Chinese: “柳京饭店”
  • Yue Chinese: “柳京飯店”

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