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 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.

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. Emphasis will be on the big monuments that should testify to the superiority of the Korean version of communism.