What is the capital of North Korea? Check. It is located in the west-central part of the country, on the Taedong River about 30. So when someone asks you “what is the capital of North Korea”? Perhaps at a pub quiz! You cannot only now answer, but bore people with a myriad of new facts. Pyngyang, province-level municipality and capital of North Korea. Both of these cities are modern-day Seoul. During the Chosun Dynasty (Joseon) the city of Hanyang was the capital, and from the late 19th century the last unified Korean empire was ruled from Hanseong. Gaegyeong, modern-day Kaesong, was also the capital of the Koryo Dynasty (Goryeo) for most of the 10th to 14th centuries. Between the 7th and 9th centuries the city of Seorabeol, present-day Gyeongju, ruled most of the Korean peninsula. In the Koguryo Dynasty (Goguryeo) the city of Gungnae, located in present-day Ji’an – a city in China on the Korean border – was the capital. Other cities have also acted as capital cities of Korea. Are there other cities that have been capital of North Korea? In fact, it is only 195km from Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea to Seoul, capital of South Korea. In Korean, Seoul actually means “capital”, and before the division of the peninsula, Seoul had been the capital of Korea for 750 years or so. The capital city of South Korea is, of course, Seoul, and along with Pyongyang these two cities often jostled for prominence in the Korean peninsula, reflected of course in the post-Korean War division of Korea after 1953. It was then almost completely destroyed in the Sino-Japanese War, then completely deserted because of the plague, and then rebuilt with Soviet and Chinese help to become the industrial and administrative hub of the DPRK. At the end of the 19th century, it was known by Christian missionaries as the Jerusalem of the East. In the 16th century, it fell to the Japanese, before again being incorporated into the Chinese empire under the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the early 17th century. It was originally a trading station of the Chinese, and later became the capital of the Koguryo Dynasty in 407, falling again to the Chinese in 668. Pyongyang has gone through various lives in its long history. Population and administration of Pyongyang The grave of the Chinese sage Kija, who founded the city, lies in the northern suburbs of the city. Situated along the Taedong River and only 35 km from the Korean Bay, it was apparently built in 1122 BCE on the site of the old capital of the Chinese dynasty of heavenly King Dangun. Interestingly renaming Seoul Kim Il-Sung City has also been proposed. There was a proposal to rename the city as Kim-Il Sung city when the President passed away, but this proposition was dropped. Other names include Changan, Hwangsong, Rakrang and Hogyong. It’s most famous, Ryugyong, which gave name to the famous unfinished pyramid-shaped hotel dominating the city’s skyline, means the capital of Willows. What fewer people know, is that Pyongyang has had many other historic names.
NORTH KOREA CAPITAL FULL
North Korea is literally full of mountains, so flat land makes a lot of sense for a capital city! Pyongyang literally means ‘flat land’, and in a very mountainous country like North Korea, we can probably take a guess how they chose the location.
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