Central Dongcheng
Dongcheng District is in Beijing. It means "east city" and appropriately enough covers the eastern half of the old, imperial city. Most visitors to the city will come here to visit both Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City, the former imperial palace.Photo: Bartokbe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: XtoF, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
DongSi Mosque
Photo: 用心阁, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Dongsi Mosque is a mosque in Dongsi Subdistrict, Dongcheng District, Beijing, China.Dongsi Mosque…
St. Joseph's Wangfujing Cathedral
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St. Joseph's Church, commonly known as Wangfujing Church or Dongtang, is an early 20th-century Romanesque Revival church that is one of the four historic Catholic churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Beijing.
Red Building of Peking University
Photo: N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Red Building of Peking University is a museum.
Localities in the Area
Dongzhimen and Ditan
Photo: Rewindat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dongzhimen and Ditan are areas in Dongcheng District in Beijing, China.
Chaoyang
Photo: FishOil, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chaoyang District is in Beijing. While Chaoyang district does not have that many tourist sites…
Central Dongcheng
- Type: City with 882,000 residents
- Description: district of Beijing, China
- Categories: district (China) and locality
- Location: Beijing, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.9269° or 39° 55' 37" northLongitude
116.41004° or 116° 24' 36" eastPopulation
882,000Elevation
49 metres (161 feet)Open Location Code
8PFRWCG6+Q2OpenStreetMap ID
node 244078601OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1812638Wikidata ID
Q394681Central Dongcheng Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Distrito han Dongcheng, Beijing
- Arabic: دونغتشنغ
- Armenian: Դունչեն
- Basque: Dongcheng barrutia
- Belarusian: Дунчэн
- Catalan: Districte de Dongcheng
- Cebuano: Dongcheng Qu
- Chinese: Tang-siâⁿ-khu
- Chinese: 东城
- Chinese: 东城区
- Chinese: 東城區
- Czech: Tung-čcheng
- Dutch: Dongcheng (district)
- Dutch: Dongcheng-district
- Dutch: Dongcheng
- Dutch: Dongcheng district
- English: Dongcheng, Beijing
- English: Dongcheng
- English: Dongcheng District
- Esperanto: Distrikto Dongcheng (Pekino)
- Esperanto: Distrikto Dongcheng
- French: District de Dongcheng
- French: Dongcheng
- French: district de Dongcheng
- Gan Chinese: 东城区
- German: Dongcheng
- Hebrew: דונגצ'נג
- Hebrew: רובע דונגצ'נג
- Indonesian: Distrik Dongcheng, Beijing
- Italian: Distretto di Dongcheng
- Japanese: 東城区
- Korean: 동성구
- Korean: 둥청 구
- Korean: 둥청구
- Lezghian: Дунчэн
- Literary Chinese: 東城區
- Lithuanian: Dongčengas
- Min Dong Chinese: Dĕ̤ng-siàng-kṳ̆
- Min Nan Chinese: Tang-siâⁿ-khu
- Mirandese: Dongcheng
- Norwegian: Dongcheng
- Norwegian Bokmål: Dongcheng
- Occitan (post 1500): districte de Dongcheng
- Persian: منطقه دونگچنگ
- Persian: ناحیه دونگچنگ، پکن
- Pinyin: Dōngchéng Qū
- Polish: Dongcheng
- Russian: Дунчэн
- Scots: Dongcheng Destrict, Beijing
- Scots: Dongcheng Destrict
- Slovenian: Dongčeng
- Spanish: Dongcheng
- Swedish: Dongcheng
- Turkish: Dongcheng
- Ukrainian: Дунчен
- Ukrainian: Округ Дунчен
- Urdu: ضلع ڈونگچینگ، بیجنگ
- Urdu: ڈونگچینگ ضلع، بیجنگ
- Vietnamese: Đông Thành, Bắc Kinh
- Vietnamese: Đông Thành
- Waray (Philippines): Distrito han Dongcheng
- Welsh: Ardal Dongcheng
- Western Panjabi: ضلع ڈونگچینگ، بیجنگ
- Wu Chinese: 东城区
- Wu Chinese: 東城區
- Yue Chinese: 東城
- Yue Chinese: 東城區
- 東城區(北京市)
Localities in the Area
- Jingshan SubdistrictSuburb
- 多福巷社区Village
- DongsiSuburb
- 东厂社区Village
- 史家社区Village
Popular Destinations in Beijing
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Central Dongcheng. Photo: XtoF, CC BY-SA 3.0.