Pyongyang

[ pyuhng-yahng, -yang, pyong- ]

noun

1. a city in and the capital of North Korea, in the SW part.

Pyongyang

/ ˈpjɒŋˈjæŋ /

noun

1. the capital of North Korea, in the southwest on the Taedong River: industrial centre; university (1946). Pop: 3 284 000 (2005 est)

Pyongyang

1. Capital of North Korea and largest city in the country, located in west-central North Korea.

Notes

Pyongyang is Korea's oldest city, but little remains from its three-thousand-year history, after successive devastations by Japan and in the Korean War .

Example Sentences

In the run-up to the first summit, he announced that Pyongyang would be halting missile and nuclear tests.

From BBC

But Moscow and Pyongyang have so far not responded directly to any of the allegations.

From BBC

China has been supportive of Russia in the course of the Ukraine war — though stopping short of providing it with offensive weaponry — but has reason to be wary of a warming between Moscow and Pyongyang.

From Los Angeles Times

And that was before Pyongyang fired a banned intercontinental missile on Thursday, on the longest flight recorded yet – after turning up the rhetoric against Seoul for weeks.

From BBC

The launch comes at a time of deteriorating relations between the two Koreas and Pyongyang's increasingly aggresive rhetoric towards Seoul.

From BBC