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Definition: Pyongyang |
PyongyangNoun1. Capital of North Korea and an industrial center; "Pyongyang is Korea's oldest city but little of its history has been preserved". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | Capital of North Korea. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: PyongyangSynonym: capital of North Korea (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Pyongyang |
| Non-English Usage: "Pyongyang" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (Pyongyang). |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A North Korean railroad train is attacked just south of Pyongyang by planes from the joint U.S.-British Task Force 77, 4 July 1950. The carriers involved were USS Valley Forge (CV-45) and HMS Triumph. Credit: NAVY. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | Korea | Apart from veterans with disabilities, persons with disabilities almost never are seen within the city limits of Pyongyang, and several defectors and other former residents report that persons with disabilities are assigned to the rural areas routinely. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Korea | CNN television broadcasts are available in a Pyongyang hotel frequented by foreigners. (references) |
Korea | A fourth reunion was scheduled for October; however, the Government cancelled the meetings citing South Korea's nation-wide security alert issued following the September 11 terrorism attacks in the U.S.. Many foreign visitors to the 1995 International Pyongyang Sports Festival reported that they were denied permission to visit or otherwise contact their relatives, even those who lived only a few miles from Pyongyang. (references) | |
Economic History | South Korea | And, then-Secretary Albright visited Pyongyang later that month for discussions regarding missiles, weapons of mass destruction, and other issues. (references) |
Japan | Japan strongly supports the U.S. in its efforts to encourage Pyongyang to abide by the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and its agreements with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). (references) | |
North Korea | The Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang is not authorized to issue U.S. visas. (references) | |
Human Rights | Korea | However, the Government routinely uses forced resettlement and has relocated many tens of thousands of persons from Pyongyang to the countryside. (references) |
Korea | Following a high-level EU delegation visit to Pyongyang in May, government officials discussed human rights with EU representatives in June; no significant progress resulted. (references) | |
Korea | In August 16 members of a group who went to Pyongyang as a delegation to an inter-Korean Independence Day Festival allegedly broke a pledge not to engage in political activities. (references) | |
Political Economy | Korea | Cable News Network (CNN) television is available in one Pyongyang hotel frequented by foreigners. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Pyongyang" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pyongyang" is used about 70 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 70 | 39,981 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
korea north pyongyang | 151 |
pyongyang | 108 |
night pyongyang | 4 |
pyongyang radio | 3 |
picture pyongyang | 3 |
map pyongyang | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Pyongyang"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 平壤. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 平壌 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | へいじょう (armed soldier, arms, closing of a place, normal, usual). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 평양. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yongyangpay Пхеньян. (various references) pjonjang. (various references) Pyongyang. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Pyongyang" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pyonggang, Pyonyang. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-g-n-n-o-p-y-y" | |
-3 letters: nongay. | |
-4 letters: agony, annoy, naggy, yapon. | |
-5 letters: agog, agon, anon, gang, gapy, gong, nogg, nona, pang, pogy, pong, pony, yang, yoga. | |
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