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Pyongyang
Pyongyang is the capital and largest city of North Korea, on the Taedong river. One of the oldest cities in Korea, it lay near the centre of late Gojoseon and of the Chinese commandery of Lelang, became the capital of Goguryeo in 427 and was later the Western Capital of Goryeo. It became the capital of North Korea in 1948.
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