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Pyongyang The name Pyongyang means "flat land" or "cozy place". The city has about 2 million inhabitants. Pyongyang is situated at the Taedong River. Northwest of the city are hills. The capital of the DPR Korea seems to have been built to impose. The enormous Juche Tower and buildings like the Koryo Hotel can be seen from far away. The city is the best-kept and most modern place in North Korea, and as such also a ‘showcase’. There are a lot of high-rise buildings, wide roads, many imposing monuments, al lot of them dedicated to the big leader Kim Il Sung. Although it is a big city, there is not much life to be seen. Even in some of the rather new apartment buildings there is no light to be seen at nighttime, as if nobody is living there. Also during the daytime there are not many people on the streets. There is hardly any streetlife. There are hardly any vendors, only a few foodstalls, to be seen. Even many of the shops are quiet. One immediately notices how clean the city is. Streets are being wiped constantly, mainly by small groups of women. There is only a little traffic and that also helps keeping the streets clean. There is hardly any pollution by traffic. One sees packed busses, many of them trolley busses, not many cars, but also not many bicycles. A lot of people go by foot. Submenu
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