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Pyongyang

Pyongyang is the capital city of North Korea, with about 2,750,000 inhabitants. It is on the Taedong River in the southwest of the country and is known as the Capital of the Revolution. Wikivoyage

Population 2,863,000 (Wikidata)

Live guide From your hotel

Before you go

Visas and entry What your passport needs for North Korea

Getting there

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Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Through the year

  1. Pyongyang Marathon

    April

    Pyongyang International Marathon, previously known as Mangyongdae Prize International Marathon, is an annual marathon race contested each April in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea.

    Official site Wikipedia

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Pyongyang); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

Markets

  • 중구시장

    Covered hall

    No hours mapped

    2.2 km from the centre

  • 인흥시장

    Covered hall

    No hours mapped

    2.9 km from the centre

Markets mapped on OpenStreetMap, with their hours where someone has added them. Check locally before you go.

Eating nearby

All 7 places to eat

Somewhere to run

Getting around

Train stations: P'yŏngyang 1.6 km, Potonggang 2.8 km, Taedonggang 3.9 km, Sopyongyang 3.9 km, Songsin 5.3 km

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Places © OpenStreetMap contributors, as of 9 October 2026. Description from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA). Events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage, population from Wikidata.