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Kwangbok Street 1

Pyongyang, North Korea

The 822nd tallest building in the world

144.3 m · 473 ft

Kwangbok Street 1 (Korean: 1) is a high-rise residential skyscraper in Pyongyang, North Korea. Built in 1989 within the "Kwangbok Street Apartments" project, the tower stands at 144 m (472 ft) tall and is divided into 42 floors. The tower resembles the 1970s and 1980s totalitarian architecture style very widespread and common in North Korea.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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