Zhengyangmen
Qianmen is the colloquial name for Zhengyangmen, a gate in Beijing's historic city wall. The gate is situated to the south of Tiananmen Square and once guarded the southern entry into the Inner City.Photo: Eunice winG, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: WFan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Forbidden City
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Forbidden City, located at the centre of Beijing, was the main palace of Imperial China for five centuries, until the early 20th century.
Qianmen
Photo: N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Qianmen station is a station on Line 2 and Line 8 of the Beijing Subway located near Qianmen.
Beijing Planning Exhibition Hall
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The Beijing Planning Exhibition Hall is an urban planning museum located at 20 Qianmen E St in the old main railway station building from 1903, beside Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. Beijing Planning Exhibition Hall is situated 320 metres east of Zhengyangmen.
Localities in the Area
Xicheng
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Central Dongcheng
Photo: XtoF, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dongcheng District is in Beijing. It means "east city" and appropriately enough covers the eastern half of the old, imperial city.
Zhengyangmen
- Type: City gate
- Description: city gate
- Categories: building, historic site, tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Beijing, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.89918° or 39° 53' 57" northLongitude
116.39162° or 116° 23' 30" eastLevels
3Open Location Code
8PFRV9XR+MJOpenStreetMap ID
way 25109960OpenStreetMap Feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap Feature
historic=city_gateWikidata ID
Q197703Zhengyangmen Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Chinese: Chèng-iông-mn̂g
- Chinese: 正阳门
- Chinese: 正陽門
- Czech: Brána Správného světla
- Dutch: Zhengyangmen
- Egyptian Arabic: زيهنجيانج
- Esperanto: Qianmen
- French: Zhengyangmen
- German: Qianmen Tor Nord
- German: Zhengyangmen
- Indonesian: Zhengyangmen
- Italian: Zhengyangmen
- Japanese: 前門
- Japanese: 正陽門
- Korean: 정양문
- Min Nan Chinese: Chèng-iông-mn̂g
- Norwegian: Qianmen
- Norwegian Bokmål: Qianmen
- Persian: ژنگ یانگمن
- Polish: Brama Na Wprost Słońca
- Polish: Zhengyangmen
- Russian: Северные ворота Цяньмэнь
- Spanish: Zhengyangmen
- Swedish: Qianmen
- Thai: ประตูเจิ้งหยาง
- Thai: หอประตูเฉียนเหมิน
- Turkish: Zhengyangmen
- Urdu: ژینگیانگمین
- Wu Chinese: 正阳门
- Yue Chinese: 正陽門
Other Places Named Zhengyangmen
In the Area
Landmarks
- 中国铁道博物馆正阳门展馆Museum, 230 metres east
- 五牌楼280 metres south
- China Numismatic MuseumMuseum, 310 metres northwest
- 北京公安局地安门分局Police station, 330 metres northeast
- Madame Tussauds BeijingMuseum, 370 metres south
- 全国人大Government office, 370 metres west
Other Places
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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 Wikipdia page Zhengyangmen. Photo: Eunice winG, CC BY 2.0.