Summer Palace

The Summer Palace or Yihe Garden was a pavilion built by the Chinese Empress Dowager Cixi for quiet retreat. It consists of a vast ensemble of lakes, gardens and palaces located in .
  • Tourist attraction
  • …lies at an elevation of around 80 metres (280 feet)
  • Description: Ensemble of lakes, gardens and palaces in Beijing, China
  • Also known as
    “New Summer Palace”
    “Yi He Yuan”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Shi Fang (Marble Boat) and University of International Relations.
The Marble Boat, also known as the Boat of Purity and… is situated 1 km west of Summer Palace.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Haidian and Yanyuan.
Town, sometimes referred to as Wanliu Area…
Subdistrict is a subdistrict of Haidian…
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Latitude
39.99672° or 39° 59′ 48″ north
Longitude
116.2758° or 116° 16′ 33″ east
Open location code
8PFRX7WG+M8
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Summer Palace” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “القصر الصيفي”
  • Armenian: “Ամառային կայսերական պալատ”
  • Asturian: “Palaciu de Branu”
  • Azerbaijani: “İxeyuan yay sarayı”
  • Balinese: “Yihe Yuan”
  • Basque: “Udako Jauregia”
  • Basque: “Yiheyuan”
  • Bulgarian: “Летен дворец”
  • Catalan: “Palau d’Estiu de Pequín”
  • Catalan: “Palau nou d’estiu”
  • Catalan: “Yiheyuan”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆشکی ھاوین”
  • Chinese: “清漪园”
  • Chinese: “清漪園”
  • Chinese: “頤和園”
  • Chinese: “颐和园”
  • Croatian: “Ljetna palača u Pekingu”
  • Croatian: “Yíhéyuán”
  • Czech: “Letní palác v Pekingu”
  • Dutch: “Zomerpaleis (Peking)”
  • Dutch: “Zomerpaleis”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “القصر الصيفى”
  • Esperanto: “La Somera Palaco”
  • Esperanto: “Somera Palaco”
  • Estonian: “Suveloss ja keisriaed”
  • Estonian: “Suveloss”
  • Estonian: “Suvepalee”
  • Finnish: “Kesäpalatsi”
  • French: “Palais d’été”
  • Georgian: “პეკინის ზაფხულის სასახლე”
  • German: “Neuer Sommerpalast”
  • German: “Sommerpalast”
  • German: “Yiheyuan”
  • Greek: “Θερινά Ανάκτορα του Πεκίνου”
  • Hausa: “Fadar Bazara”
  • Hebrew: “ארמון הקיץ”
  • Hindi: “ग्रीष्मकालीन महल”
  • Hungarian: “Nyári Palota”
  • Indonesian: “Istana Musim Panas”
  • Indonesian: “Yihe Yuan”
  • Italian: “Palazzo d’Estate”
  • Italian: “Palazzo dell’Estate”
  • Italian: “Yiheyuan”
  • Japanese: “頤和園”
  • Javanese: “Yihe Yuan”
  • Kannada: “ಇಹೆಯುವಾನ್ (ಬೇಸಿಗೆ ಅರಮನೆ)”
  • Kannada: “ಇಹೆಯುವಾನ್”
  • Korean: “이허위안”
  • Korean: “이화원”
  • Macedonian: “Летен дворец во Пекинг”
  • Malay: “Istana Musim Panas”
  • Maltese: “Palazz tas-Sajf”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Det nye sommerpalasset”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sommerpalasset i Beijing”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sommerpalasset”
  • Norwegian: “Sommerpalasset”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਮਰ ਪੈਲੇਸ”
  • Persian: “كاخ تابستاني پكن”
  • Persian: “کاخ تابستانی پکن”
  • Persian: “کاخ تابستانی”
  • Polish: “Letni Pałac Cesarski”
  • Polish: “Pałac Letni w Pekinie”
  • Polish: “Pałac Letni”
  • Polish: “Yiheyuan”
  • Portuguese: “Palácio de Verão”
  • Portuguese: “Yiheyuan”
  • Romanian: “Palatul de Vară din Beijing”
  • Romanian: “Palatul de vară”
  • Russian: “Ихэюань”
  • Russian: “Летний дворец”
  • Russian: “Летний императорский дворец”
  • Russian: “Парк Ихэюань”
  • Serbian: “Летња палата”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ljetna palača u Pekingu”
  • Slovak: “Letný palác a cisárska záhrada v Pekingu”
  • Slovak: “Letný palác”
  • Slovak: “Nový letný palác”
  • Slovenian: “Poletna palača, Peking”
  • Spanish: “Palacio de Verano”
  • Spanish: “Yiheyuan”
  • Swedish: “Nya Sommarpalatset”
  • Swedish: “Sommarpalatset”
  • Tamil: “கோடை அரண்மனை”
  • Thai: “พระราชวังฤดูร้อน”
  • Thai: “อี๋เหอหยวน”
  • Tulu: “ಯುವಾನ್ಮಿಂಗ್ಯುವಾನ್”
  • Turkish: “Yazlık Saray”
  • Ukrainian: “Літній палац”
  • Urdu: “گرمائی محل”
  • Uzbek: “Yozgi saroy”
  • Vietnamese: “Cung điện Mùa Hè”
  • Vietnamese: “Di Hoà Viên”
  • Wu Chinese: “颐和园”
  • Yue Chinese: “頤和園”

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