Beijing
Beijing is China's capital, and its second largest city after Shanghai, with a population of more than 20 million. It had been the capital of Imperial China for much of its history, and became seat of the People's Republic of China after the Chinese revolutions, as well as the country's educational and cultural center.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Popular Destinations
Forbidden City
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The Forbidden City, located at the centre of Beijing, was the main palace of Imperial China for five centuries, until the early 20th century.
Chaoyang
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Chaoyang District is in Beijing. While Chaoyang district does not have that many tourist sites…
Xicheng
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Xicheng District is a district in central Beijing. Visitirs come here for the Houhai area to join the bar and restaurant cluster by the lake or to explore the remains of the wealthier part of historical Beijing nearby.
Destinations
Beijing Capital International Airport
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Beijing Capital International Airport is the primary airport of the Chinese capital city of Beijing.
Central Dongcheng
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Dongcheng District is in Beijing. It means "east city" and appropriately enough covers the eastern half of the old, imperial city.
Beijing Daxing International Airport
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Beijing Daxing International Airport is a major airport serving Beijing, the capital of China, and the surrounding area.
Haidian
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Haidian District is a district of the municipality of Beijing.
Shijingshan
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Shijingshan District is an urban district of the municipality of Beijing.
Yanqing
Yanqing District is a rural and urban district in the northwest corner of Beijing Municipality.Tongzhou
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Tongzhou is a district in Beijing. Tongzhou used to be a rather large old village of Tongzhou surrounded by a more modern area and then a large rural area with lots of small villages.
Mentougou
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Mentougou District is a rural district in western Beijing Municipality.
Huairou
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Huairou District is a district in the far north of Beijing Municipality.
Dongzhimen and Ditan
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Dongzhimen and Ditan are areas in Dongcheng District in Beijing, China.
Northern Suburbs
The Beijing Northern Suburbs consists of the suburbs and rural areas of Changping District and Shunyi District.Southern Suburbs
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The Southern Suburbs of Beijing consist of the administrative districts of Fangshan District and Daxing District.
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Notable Places in the Area
Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests
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The Temple of Heaven is a complex of imperial religious buildings situated in the southeastern part of central Beijing.
National Centre for the Performing Arts
The National Centre for the Performing Arts, and colloquially described as The Giant Egg, is an arts centre containing an opera house in the Xicheng District of Beijing, People's Republic of China.Zhengyangmen
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Qianmen is the colloquial name for Zhengyangmen, a gate in Beijing's historic city wall.
Localities in the Area
Dongsi
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Dongsi is the name of an intersection and surrounding neighborhood in Dongcheng District, Beijing.
Dongzhimen District
Dongzhimen was a gate in the old Beijing city fortifications.Sanlitun
Sanlitun is an area of the Chaoyang District, Beijing containing many bars, restaurants, and stores.Beijing
- Type: City with 21,900,000 residents
- Description: capital city of China
- Neighbors: Baoding, Chengde, Hebei, Tianjin and Zhangjiakou
- Categories: capital city, direct-administered municipality, national central city, million city, second largest city, global city, megacity, former capital, metropolis, big city and locality
- Location: North China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
39.9032° or 39° 54' 11" northLongitude
116.3914° or 116° 23' 29" eastPopulation
21,900,000Elevation
49 metres (161 feet)IATA airport code
BJSUnited Nations Location Code
CN BJSOpen Location Code
8PFRW93R+7HOpenStreetMap ID
node 25248662OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1816670Wikidata ID
Q956Beijing Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Pekin
- Abkhazian: Беиӡин
- Achinese: Beijing
- Adyghe: Пекин
- Afar: Pekin
- Afrikaans: Beijing
- Albanian: Pekini
- Amharic: ቤዪጂንግ
- Angika: बीजिंग
- Arabic: Beijing
- Arabic: بكين
- Aragonese: Pequín
- Armenian: Պեկին
- Armenian: Փեքին
- Arpitan: Pèquin
- Assamese: বেইজিং
- Asturian: Beixín
- Asturian: Pequín
- Awadhi: बेइजिङ्
- Aymara: Pekin'
- Aymara: Pekin
- Azerbaijani: Pekin
- Balinese: Béijing
- Bambara: Beijing
- Banjar: Péycing
- Bashkir: Пекин
- Basque: Beijing
- Basque: Pekin
- Bavarian: Peking
- Belarusian: Пекін
- Belarusian: Пэкін
- Bengali: পেকিং
- Bengali: বেইজিং
- Bhojpuri: बेइजिंग
- Bishnupriya: বেইজিং
- Bislama: Beijing
- Bosnian: Peking
- Breton: Beijing
- Bulgarian: Пекин
- Burmese: ပေကျင်းမြို့
- Catalan: Pequín
- Cebuano: Beijing
- Cebuano: Pekin
- Central Bikol: Beijing
- Central Bikol: Pekin
- Central Kurdish: بەیجینگ
- Central Kurdish: پێکەن
- Central Kurdish: پەکین
- Chamorro: Beijing
- Chavacano: Pekín
- Chechen: Пекин
- Cheyenne: Beijing
- Chinese: Běijīng
- Chinese: Běijīng shì
- Chinese: Běipíng
- Chinese: Běipíng shì
- Chinese: Jīng
- Chinese: Jīngzhào dìfāng
- Chinese: Pak-kiaⁿ-chhī
- Chinese: Píng
- Chinese: Yàn
- Chinese: Yànjīng
- Chinese: 京
- Chinese: 京兆地方
- Chinese: 北京
- Chinese: 北京市
- Chinese: 北平
- Chinese: 北平市
- Chinese: 帝都
- Chinese: 平
- Chinese: 燕
- Chinese: 燕京
- Chinese: 順天府
- Church Slavic: Бєи Ꙃинъ
- Chuvash: Пекин
- Cornish: Beijing
- Corsican: Pechinu
- Crimean Tatar: Pekin
- Croatian: Peking
- Czech: Pej-ťing
- Czech: Peking
- Dagbani: Beijing
- Danish: Beijing
- Dhivehi: ބީޖިންގ
- Dimli (individual language): Pekin
- Dotyali: बेइजिङ
- Dutch: Beijing
- Dutch: Bejing
- Dutch: Peking
- Eastern Mari: Пекин
- Egyptian Arabic: بيكين
- Egyptian Arabic: بيچينج
- English: BJ
- English: Beiping
- English: Chung-tu
- English: Chungtu
- English: Khanbalik
- English: Khanbaliq
- English: Pe-king
- English: Pei-ching
- English: Pei-p'ing
- English: Pei-p'ing Shih
- English: Pei-ping
- English: Peip'ing
- English: Peiping
- English: Peiping Municipal Administrative Area
- English: Peiping Municipality
- English: Pekin
- English: Peking
- English: Peking Municipality
- English: Shun-t'ien
- English: Shun-tien
- English: Shuntian
- English: Shuntian Fu
- English: Shuntianfu
- English: Yan-ching
- English: Yanjing
- English: Yanking
- English: Zhongdu
- Erzya: Пекин ош
- Esperanto: Pekino
- Estonian: Peking
- Ewe: Beijing
- Extremaduran: Pequín
- Faroese: Beijing
- Fiji Hindi: Beijing
- Fijian: Beijigi
- Fijian: Beijing
- Finnish: Peking
- French: Beijing
- French: Pe-king
- French: Peking
- French: Pé-king
- French: Pékin
- French: Péking
- Friulian: Pechin
- Galician: Beijing
- Galician: Pequín
- Gan Chinese: 北京
- Gan Chinese: 北京市
- Georgian: პეკინი
- German: Beijing
- German: Peking
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Beijing
- Greek: Πεκίνο
- Guarani: Pekĩ
- Guianese Creole French: Péken
- Gujarati: પેઇચિંગ
- Gujarati: બેઇજિંગ
- Gujarati: બેઈજિંગ
- Haitian: Peken
- Hakka Chinese: Pet-kîn
- Hausa: Beijing
- Hausa: Pet-kîn
- Hawaiian: Beijing
- Hebrew: בייג'ין
- Hebrew: בייג'ינג
- Hindi: बीजिंग
- Hungarian: Peking
- Icelandic: Beijing
- Icelandic: Peking
- Ido: Beijing
- Iloko: Beijing
- Inari Sami: Peking
- Indonesian: Beijing
- Ingush: Пекин
- Interlingua: Beijing
- Interlingue: Beijing
- Irish: Béising
- Italian: Beijing
- Italian: Běijīng
- Italian: Pechino
- Jamaican Creole English: Biejing
- Japanese: ペキン
- Japanese: 中都
- Japanese: 北京
- Japanese: 北京市
- Japanese: 北平
- Japanese: 北平市
- Japanese: 大都
- Japanese: 燕京
- Japanese: 順天府
- Javanese: Beijing
- Kabiyè: Peekɛɛ
- Kabyle: Pekin
- Kalaallisut: Beijing
- Kalmyk: Бәәҗң балһсн
- Kannada: ಬೀಜಿಂಗ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Pekin
- Kazakh: Бейжің
- Kazakh: Пекин
- Khmer: ប៉េកាំង
- Kikuyu: Beijing
- Kirghiz: Бейжин
- Kirghiz: Бээжин
- Komi: Пекин
- Kongo: Beijing
- Korean: 베이징
- Korean: 베이징 시
- Korean: 베이징시
- Korean: 베이핑
- Korean: 북경
- Korean: 북경시
- Korean: 북평
- Korean: 북평시
- Korean: 연경
- Kurdish: Beijing
- Kurdish: Pekîn
- Ladin: Beijing
- Ladino: Peking
- Lao: Beijing
- Lao: ປັກກິ່ງ
- Latin: Pechinum
- Latin: Pecinum
- Latvian: Pekina
- Lezghian: Пекин
- Ligurian: Pechin
- Limburgan: Peking
- Lingala: Beijíng
- Lingua Franca Nova: Beijing
- Literary Chinese: 京
- Literary Chinese: 京兆
- Literary Chinese: 京兆地方
- Literary Chinese: 北京
- Literary Chinese: 北京市
- Literary Chinese: 北平
- Literary Chinese: 北平市
- Literary Chinese: 平
- Literary Chinese: 燕
- Literary Chinese: 燕京
- Lithuanian: Pekinas
- Livvi: Pekin
- Lojban: beidjin
- Lombard: Pechin
- Low German: Peking
- Lower Sorbian: Peking
- Luxembourgish: Peking
- Macedo-Romanian: Beijing
- Macedonian: Пекинг
- Maithili: बेइजिङ
- Malagasy: Beijing
- Malay: Beijing
- Malayalam: ബെയ്ജിങ്ങ്
- Maltese: Beijing
- Maltese: Peking
- Manx: Beijing
- Maori: Beijing
- Maori: Peihinga
- Maori: Pīkini
- Marathi: बीजिंग
- Mazanderani: پکن
- Min Dong Chinese: Báe̤k-gĭng
- Min Nan Chinese: Pak-kiann
- Min Nan Chinese: Pak-kiaⁿ-chhī
- Min Nan Chinese: Pak-kiaⁿ
- Minangkabau: Beijing
- Mingrelian: პეკინი
- Mirandese: Pequin
- Moksha: Пэкин
- Mongolian: Бээжин
- Mongolian: ᠪᠡᠭᠡᠵᠢᠩ
- Moroccan Arabic: پيكين
- Narom: Péqùin
- Nauru: Beijing
- Nepali: बेइजिङ
- Newari: बेइजिङ
- Nias: Beijing
- Northern Frisian: Peking
- Northern Luri: پکن
- Northern Sami: Peking
- Norwegian: Beijing
- Norwegian Bokmål: Beijing
- Norwegian Bokmål: Peking
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Beijing
- Novial: Beyjing
- Nyanja: Beijing
- Occitan (post 1500): Pequin
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Beȝcinȝ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Pecing
- Oriya: ବେଜିଂ
- Oromo: Beejiingi
- Ossetian: Пекин
- Pa'o Karen: ဝေင်ꩻပေစဉ်း
- Pampanga: Beijing
- Panjabi: ਬੀਜਿੰਗ
- Papiamento: Bejing
- Pedi: Beijing
- Pennsylvania German: Beijing
- Persian: پکن
- Picard: Pékin
- Piemontese: Pechin
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Beijing
- Polish: Pekin
- Portuguese: Pequim
- Pushto: بیجنګ
- Pushto: بېجنګ
- Pushto: بېجینګ
- Quechua: Pikkin
- Romanian: BJ
- Romanian: Beijing
- Romanian: Beiping
- Romanian: Khanbaliq
- Romanian: Peiping
- Romanian: Pekin
- Romanian: Yanjing
- Romanian: Zhongdu
- Russia Buriat: Бээжин
- Russia Buriat: Бээжэн
- Russian: Бэйпин
- Russian: Бэйцзин
- Russian: Пекин
- Rusyn: Пекінґ
- Samogitian: Pekėns
- Sanskrit: बीजिङ्ग्
- Santali: ᱵᱮᱡᱤᱝ
- Sardinian: Beijing
- Saterfriesisch: Peking
- Scots: Beijing
- Scottish Gaelic: Beijing
- Serbian: Пекинг
- Serbo-Croatian: Peking
- Shona: Beijing
- Sicilian: Pechinu
- Silesian: Bejdżing
- Sinhala: බිජිං
- Sinhala: බීජිං
- Sinhala: බෙයිජිං
- Slovak: Peking
- Slovenian: Peking
- Somali: Beijing
- South Azerbaijani: پئکن
- South Azerbaijani: پکن
- Spanish: Beijing
- Spanish: Pekín
- Sranan Tongo: Beijing
- Sundanese: Beijing
- Sundanese: Béijing
- Swahili: Beijing
- Swedish: Beijing
- Swedish: Peking
- Swiss German: Peking
- Tagalog: Beijing
- Tajik: Пекин
- Talysh: Pekin
- Tamil: பெய்ஜிங்
- Tatar: Бейҗиң
- Tatar: Пекин
- Tatar: Ханбалык
- Telugu: బీజింగ్
- Thai: ปักกิ่ง
- Tibetan: པེ་ཅིང་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
- Tok Pisin: Beijing
- Tok Pisin: Beising
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Beijing
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Peisingi
- Tosk Albanian: Peking
- Tsonga: Beyijingi
- Tswana: Beijing
- Tumbuka: Beijing
- Turkish: Beijing
- Turkish: Hanbalık
- Turkish: Peiping
- Turkish: Pekin
- Turkish: Peking
- Turkmen: Pekin
- Twi: Beijing
- Udmurt: Пекин
- Uighur: بىيجڭ
- Uighur: بېيجىڭ
- Uighur: بېيجىڭ شەھىرى
- Ukrainian: Пекін
- Upper Sorbian: Peking
- Urdu: بیجنگ
- Urdu: پیکنگ
- Uzbek: Pekin
- Venetian: Pechin
- Veps: Pekin
- Vietnamese: Bắc Bình
- Vietnamese: Bắc Kinh
- Vietnamese: Kinh Triệu
- Vietnamese: Yên Kinh
- Vlax Romani: Beijing
- Vlax Romani: Pekenk
- Volapük: Beycing
- Võro: Peking
- Walloon: Pekin
- Waray (Philippines): Beijing
- Welsh: Beijing
- Western Armenian: Փեքին
- Western Frisian: Bejing
- Western Frisian: Peking
- Western Mari: Пекин
- Western Panjabi: بیجنگ
- Wolof: Beijing
- Wu Chinese: 京
- Wu Chinese: 京兆地方
- Wu Chinese: 北京
- Wu Chinese: 北京市
- Wu Chinese: 北平
- Wu Chinese: 北平市
- Wu Chinese: 平
- Wu Chinese: 燕京
- Yakut: Пекин
- Yiddish: בייזשינג
- Yoruba: Beijing
- Yue Chinese: 京
- Yue Chinese: 京兆
- Yue Chinese: 京兆地方
- Yue Chinese: 北京市
- Yue Chinese: 北平
- Yue Chinese: 北平市
- Yue Chinese: 平
- Yue Chinese: 燕
- Yue Chinese: 燕京
- Yue Chinese: 順天
- Yue Chinese: 順天府
- Zeeuws: Peking
- Zhuang: Baekging
- Zulu: Beijing
- Beijing Shi
- Pechine
- Pei-ching-shih
- Pei-p'ing-shih
- Peping
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