PYONGYANG/PHENIAN - CAPITAL OF NORTH KOREA

[Bogdan Alexandru]

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Phenian or Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea. It may look ok, perhaps more than ok, but remember how the people of North Korea live and what harsh regime they have to endure. But we are here to talk about cities, so let's!









That is the world's largest stadium, with a capacity of 150.000 seats!



That tower is a hotel, I forgot it's name, I'll come back with that info!



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[robo_boss]

Are they ever going to finish that damn hotel? It's been 20 years already . I like Phenian anyway

[Boogie]

Ryugyong Hotel is the highest building of Phenian. It has 330 m. Bogdan Alexandru, I found interesting photos of Phenian. May I post them here?

[alitezar]

Very nice shots. Thank you. I love that hotel very cool looking

[Mussoda]

Originally Posted by Bogdan Alexandru

Google Earth is an endless suply of great photos!
Visit http://belitesti.myminicity.com or http://belitesti.myminicity.com/ind and help me develop my mini city!

Phenian or Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea. It may look ok, perhaps more than ok, but remember how the people of North Korea live and what harsh regime they have to endure. But we are here to talk about cities, so let's!

Remember http://belitesti.myminicity.com, thank you!

man, where are you from?
why/how you call it 'Phenian' rather than 'Pyongyang' ??

[Bogdan Alexandru]

Originally Posted by Boogie

Ryugyong Hotel is the highest building of Phenian. It has 330 m. Bogdan Alexandru, I found interesting photos of Phenian. May I post them here?

Yes of course, go ahead, but only with one condition! Visit http://belitesti.myminicity.com!

[Bogdan Alexandru]

Originally Posted by Mussoda

man, where are you from?
why/how you call it 'Phenian' rather than 'Pyongyang' ??

Well I don't know how korean people name their places but where I come from it's pretty much common knowledge (Romania by the way). I don't know if you know or in the 2 Koreas they know, but in Europe we have two names for many presidents and cities in Asia! For North Korea we know for instance Kim Ir Sen or Kim Il Sung for the father and Pyongyang or Phenian for the capital city. Maybe it's like Keops and Hufu, one name from the greeks one from the egyptians, you know what I mean?

Like Beijing and Pekin, Saigon and Ho Chi Minh, Stalingrad and Sankt Peteresburg. Maybe it's no longer called Phenian but Pyongyang! I know both names!

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10x!

[Mussoda]

Originally Posted by Bogdan Alexandru

Well I don't know how korean people name their places but where I come from it's pretty much common knowledge (Romania by the way). I don't know if you know or in the 2 Koreas they know, but in Europe we have two names for many presidents and cities in Asia! For North Korea we know for instance Kim Ir Sen or Kim Il Sung for the father and Pyongyang or Phenian for the capital city. Maybe it's like Keops and Hufu, one name from the greeks one from the egyptians, you know what I mean?

Like Beijing and Pekin, Saigon and Ho Chi Minh, Stalingrad and Sankt Peteresburg. Maybe it's no longer called Phenian but Pyongyang! I know both names!

Please visit http://belitesti.myminicity.com/ind. One click on the link and that's it!

10x!

oh, yah,.. i see.
I don't care its name doubled somewhere, but I just curious where r u from, I mean, where people call it Phenian. and yeah,, Romania,.. cool..

10x, too.

[uA_TAGA]

Amazing work u've done

[Boogie]

Older photo thread of Pyongyang on SkyscraperCity (Phenian, North Korea): http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=243010

[erbse]

You don't get to see many pictures of this shithole, so thanks for the thread.

The North Koreans must be coughing all day long, just look at those massive smog clouds...
It's a creepy city, especially the Ryugyong has some sorta apocalypse attitude to it.

[Bogdan Alexandru]

Originally Posted by erbsenzaehler

You don't get to see many pictures of this shithole, so thanks for the thread.

The North Koreans must be coughing all day long, just look at those massive smog clouds...
It's a creepy city, especially the Ryugyong has some sorta apocalypse attitude to it.

I don't know about coughing but I can tell you they go blind from malnutrition! There are more blind or blinding people in NK than anywhere else on Earth! That's a sad reality! Also NK has some of the poorest environmental laws in the World, so smog clowds are obvious to occur!

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[Boogie]

Satellite view of Pyongyang from Wikipedia.

[Boogie]

Render of Ryugyong Hotel.


And photos.




Juche Tower.




Trams in Pyongyang.






And station.


All photos from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.

[ovem]

beautiful!! i really like this city

[seth-underneath]

^ That wasn't funny at all

[Bogdan Alexandru]

10x 4 the add-ons guys! I'm trying to bring to SSC less known cities and your contribution really helps a lot!

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Just click the link of your choice once and you don't need to do anything else!

10x again!

[christos-greece]

Originally Posted by Bogdan Alexandru

The only good for Pyongyang its that skyline. Only

[Boogie]

Maybe we should send it to Jan for a banner?

[erbse]

Oh please, we don't want Korean riots here.