Pyongyang

Meaning

1. The capital city of North Korea.
2. The North Korean government.

Etymology / origin

Borrowed from Korean 평양(平壤) (Pyeong'yang, literally “flat land”), from the McCune–Reischauer (MR) romanisation P'yŏngyang, a Sino-Korean word from 平壤.

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