Tiananmen Square
Tiananmen Square or Tian'anmen Square is a city square in the city center of Beijing, China, named after the Tiananmen located to its north, which separates it from the Forbidden City imperial palace complex.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Square
- Description: public square in Beijing, China
- Also known as: “Tian’anmen Guangchang”, “Tiān’ānmén Guǎngchǎng”, and “Tian’anmen Square”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Forbidden City and National Centre for the Performing Arts.
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. It today houses the Palace Museum, one of China's largest national museums, with an extensive collection based on the former imperial collection.
National Centre for the Performing Arts
Theater building
The National Centre for the Performing Arts, colloquially described as The Giant Egg, is an arts centre containing an opera house in Xicheng, Beijing, China. National Centre for the Performing Arts is situated 680 metres west of Tiananmen Square.
Zhengyangmen
City gate
Photo: Eunice winG, CC BY 2.0.
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. Zhengyangmen is situated 580 metres south of Tiananmen Square.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chongwen and Xicheng.
Chongwen
Chongwen, formerly Chongwen District, is an area in Beijing. Its main attraction is the Temple of Heaven.
Xicheng
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Xicheng District is a district in central Beijing. Visitors 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
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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. Most visitors to the city will come here to visit both Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City, the former imperial palace.
Tiananmen Square
- Location: Beijing, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Tiananmen Square” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Plein van die Hemelse Vrede”
- Afrikaans: “Tiananmen-plein”
- Albanian: “Sheshi Tiananmen”
- Amharic: “ቲያንማን አደባባይ”
- Arabic: “ساحة تيان آن من”
- Armenian: “Թիենանմեն հրապարակ”
- Armenian: “Տյանմենի հրապարակ”
- Asturian: “Plaza de Tiananmén”
- Azerbaijani: “Tyananmen meydanı”
- Basque: “Tiananmen plaza”
- Belarusian: “Плошча Цяньаньмэнь”
- Bengali: “তিয়েনআনমেন চত্বর”
- Bulgarian: “Тиенанмън”
- Burmese: “ထျန်းအန်းမင် ရင်ပြင်”
- Catalan: “Plaça de Tian’anmen”
- Catalan: “Plaça Tian’anmen”
- Chinese: “Thian-an-mn̂g Kóng-tiûⁿ”
- Chinese: “天安門廣場”
- Chinese: “天安门”
- Chinese: “天安门广场”
- Croatian: “Tiananmenski trg”
- Czech: “náměstí Nebeského klidu”
- Czech: “Náměstí Nebeského klidu”
- Danish: “Den Himmelske Freds Plads”
- Dutch: “Plein van de Hemelse Vrede”
- Dutch: “Tiananmenplein”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميدان تيان ان من”
- Esperanto: “Placo Tian An Men”
- Estonian: “Tian’anmeni väljak”
- Finnish: “Taivaallisen rauhan aukio”
- French: “place Tian’anmen”
- French: “Place Tian’anmen”
- Galician: “Praza Tian’anmen”
- Georgian: “ტიანანმენის მოედანი”
- German: “Platz des himmlischen Friedens”
- German: “Platz des Himmlischen Friedens”
- German: “Tiān’ānmén Guǎngchǎng”
- German: “Tian’anmen-Platz”
- German: “Tor des himmlischen Friedens”
- Greek: “Πλατεία Τιενανμέν”
- Hebrew: “כיכר טיין-אן-מן”
- Hindi: “चीन का चौक”
- Hindi: “चीनी चौक”
- Hindi: “तियनमेन चौक”
- Hindi: “तियानमेन चौक”
- Hindi: “तियानमेन स्क्वायर”
- Hindi: “तियानानमेन चौक”
- Hindi: “तियानानमेन स्क्वायर”
- Hungarian: “Mennyei béke tere”
- Icelandic: “Torg hins himneska friðar”
- Ido: “Placo Tiananmen”
- Ido: “Tianmen-placo”
- Indonesian: “Lapangan Tiananmen”
- Italian: “piazza Tienanmen”
- Italian: “Piazza Tienanmen”
- Japanese: “天安門広場”
- Kannada: “ಟಿಯನನ್ಮೆನ್ ಚೌಕ”
- Kazakh: “Тяньаньмэнь алаңы”
- Korean: “톈안먼 광장”
- Latin: “Forum Pacis Caelestis”
- Latin: “Quadratum Pacis Caelestis”
- Latvian: “Tiaņaņmeņa laukums”
- Latvian: “Tjanmeņas laukums”
- Lithuanian: “Tiananmenio aikštė”
- Lower Sorbian: “Naměstno njebjaskego měra”
- Luxembourgish: “Tiananmen-Plaz”
- Malay: “Dataran Tiananmen”
- Malayalam: “ടിയാനൻമെൻ ചത്വരം”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Thian-an-mn̂g Kóng-tiûⁿ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Thian-an-mn̂g-tiânn”
- Mongolian: “Тяньаньмэний талбай”
- Nepali: “तिएनआनमेन चोक”
- Nepali: “तियानमेन चोक”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Den himmelske freds plass”
- Norwegian: “Den himmelske freds plass”
- Norwegian: “Den himmelske freds port”
- Panjabi: “ਤੀਆਨਾਨਮੇਨ ਚੌਕ”
- Persian: “میدان تیانآنمن”
- Polish: “plac Niebiańskiego Spokoju”
- Polish: “Plac Niebiańskiego Spokoju”
- Polish: “plac Tian’anmen”
- Polish: “Tiān’ānmén Guǎngchǎng”
- Polish: “天安門廣場”
- Polish: “天安门广场”
- Portuguese: “Praça da Paz Celestial”
- Romanian: “Piața Tiananmen”
- Russia Buriat: “Тяньаньмэнь талмай”
- Russian: “Площадь Тяньаньмэнь”
- Scots: “Tiananmen Square”
- Serbian: “Трг Тјенанмен”
- Slovak: “Tchien-an-men kuang-čchang”
- Slovenian: “Trg nebeškega miru”
- Slovenian: “trg Tiananmen”
- Spanish: “Plaza de la Puerta de la Paz Celestial”
- Spanish: “Plaza de Tian’anmen”
- Spanish: “Plaza de Tiananmén”
- Swedish: “Himmelska fridens torg”
- Swiss German: “Platz vom Himmlische Fride”
- Swiss German: “Tiananmen-Platz”
- Tagalog: “Liwasang Tiananmen”
- Tagalog: “Tiananmen Square”
- Tamil: “தியனன்மென் சதுக்கம்”
- Thai: “จัตุรัสเทียนอันเหมิน”
- Turkish: “Tiananmen Meydanı”
- Ukrainian: “Площа Тяньаньмень”
- Ukrainian: “Тяньаньмень”
- Urdu: “تیانانمین چوک”
- Uzbek: “Tyananmen maydoni”
- Uzbek: “Tyananmen Maydoni”
- Vietnamese: “Quảng trường Thiên An Môn”
- Waray (Philippines): “Plaza Tiananmen”
- Welsh: “Sgwâr Tian’anmen”
- Wu Chinese: “天安門廣場”
- Yue Chinese: “天安門廣場”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Wangfujing and FengSheng.
Nearby Places
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