Etymology

Pyongyang

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Today it means: The capital city of North Korea. Full definition →

Korean 평양(平壤)
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  1. Korean · borrowed from평양(平壤)
  2. English todayPyongyang

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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