PYONGYANG/PHENIAN - CAPITAL OF NORTH KOREA

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Bogdan Alexandru

Discussion Starter · May 3, 2008

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!

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!

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

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robo_boss

· #2 · May 3, 2008

Are they ever going to finish that damn hotel? It's been 20 years already

. I like Phenian anyway:cheers:

Boogie

· #3 · May 3, 2008

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

· #4 · May 4, 2008

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

Mussoda

· #5 · May 4, 2008

Bogdan Alexandru said:
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

Discussion Starter · #6 · May 4, 2008

Boogie said:
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

Discussion Starter · #7 · May 4, 2008

Mussoda said:
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!

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

10x!

Mussoda

· #8 · May 4, 2008

Bogdan Alexandru said:
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

· #9 · May 4, 2008

Amazing work u've done

Boogie

· #10 · May 4, 2008

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

erbse

· #11 · May 4, 2008

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

Discussion Starter · #12 · May 4, 2008

erbsenzaehler said:
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!

In the meantime, please visit http://belitesti.myminicity.com and help me develop my online minicity! Just one click on the link and your job is done!

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Boogie

· #13 · May 4, 2008 (Edited)

Satellite view of Pyongyang from Wikipedia.

Boogie

· #14 · May 4, 2008

Render of Ryugyong Hotel.

And photos.

Juche Tower.

Trams in Pyongyang.

And station.

All photos from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.

ovem

· #15 · May 4, 2008

beautiful!! i really like this city

seth-underneath

· #16 · May 4, 2008

^ That wasn't funny at all :sly:

Bogdan Alexandru

Discussion Starter · #17 · May 4, 2008

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

http://belitesti.myminicity.com or http://belitesti.myminicity.com/ind or http://belitesti.myminicity.com/tra

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

10x again!

christos-greece

· #18 · May 4, 2008

Bogdan Alexandru said:

The only good for Pyongyang its that ^^ skyline. Only :lol:

Boogie

· #19 · May 4, 2008

Maybe we should send it to Jan for a banner?

erbse

· #20 · May 4, 2008

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

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