Pyongyang
Pyongyang (평양 직할시 in hangul, 平壤直轄市 in hanja) is the capital and biggest city in North Korea. Pyongyang is located on the Taedong River about…
Pyongyang (평양 직할시 in hangul, 平壤直轄市 in hanja) is the capital and biggest city in North Korea. Pyongyang is located on the Taedong River about 109 kilometers (68 miles) from its mouth on the Yellow Sea. Pyongyang is a directly administered city (직할시; 直轄市; chikhalsi) with a position equal to that of the North Korean provinces.
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Pyongyang is a closed city meaning that North Koreans can't just go there. They must apply for a permit or be high up in the military. It is the most advanced city in the country which allows tourists to go there. Pyongyang does not really show what North Korea is really like, because the government uses it to pretend to tourists that the country is not poor. The city is kept very clean and littering is strictly not allowed. Many shops there have plastic food on display in the windows to make tourists think that there is lots of food in the country when in fact, food is scarce.
Attractions
The city has lots of nice attractions like the statues of Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il at Mansudae hill. The Juche tower is one of the most recognisable landmarks in the country, towering over the Taedong River across from Kim Il-Sung square. It also has the world's deepest subway system, the Pyongyang Metro. Pyongyang has many large parks and wide avenues as well as the largest sports stadium in the world, the Rungrado May Day Stadium. The city is also the location of the embalmed bodies of the two leaders, Il-Sung and Jong-Il in the Kumsusan Palace of the sun.
Pyongyang is home to the 105-story hotel, Ryugyong Hotel. The construction started in 1987 and the exterior was completed twenty-four years later in 2011. It was originally intended as a propaganda device to make North Korea look wealthy when a South Korean recently built the world's then-tallest building. The hotel to this day remains empty and unopened.
The population of Pyongyang is 3,255,388.
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