PYONGYANG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pyongyang mean? 

• PYONGYANG (noun)
  The noun PYONGYANG has 1 sense:

1. capital of North Korea and an industrial center

  Familiarity information: PYONGYANG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PYONGYANG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capital of North Korea and an industrial center

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of North Korea; Pyongyang

Context example:

Pyongyang is Korea's oldest city but little of its history has been preserved

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Holonyms ("Pyongyang" is a part of...):

D.P.R.K.; Democratic People's Republic of Korea; DPRK; North Korea (a communist country in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948)