Yanggak
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thumb|right|A 1946 map of Pyongyang by the U.S. Army Map Service, showing Yanggak Island and Yanggak Bridge Yanggakdo, or Yanggak Island is a small island in the Taedong River, located about two kilometers to the south-east of the centre of the North Korean capital city Pyongyang. It is connected to the northern and southern side of Pyongyang by the Yanggak Bridge, which spans the island and separates it into a northeastern and southwestern part. The name means "Rams horn island" and is said to be derived from its shape.
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It sits within the topics Geography of Pyongyang and Islands of North Korea.
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- Instance of
- island
- Country
- North Korea
- Located in
- Chung-guyok
- Area
- 1.2
- Body of water
- Taedong River
- Image
- Yanggakdo.jpg
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thumb|right|A 1946 map of Pyongyang by the U.S. Army Map Service, showing Yanggak Island and Yanggak Bridge Yanggakdo, or Yanggak Island is a small island in the Taedong River, located about two kilometers to the south-east of the centre of the North Korean capital city Pyongyang. It is connected to the northern and southern side of Pyongyang by the Yanggak Bridge, which spans the island and separates it into a northeastern and southwestern part. The name means "Rams horn island" and is said to be derived from its shape.
On its northeastern end is the tall Yanggakdo International Hotel, the second tallest building in North Korea. Adjacent to the hotel's southern side, there was originally a 9,000 square metre nine-hole golf course which as of 2011 had been demolished to make space for a new Chinese-funded health complex to be built.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yanggak” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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2 mapped locations