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Old Summer Palace

The Old Summer Palace, also known as Yuanmingyuan or Yuanmingyuan Park, originally called the Imperial Gardens, and sometimes called the Winter Palace, was a complex of palaces and gardens in present-day Haidian District, , .
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  • Opening hours: 7:00 AM—7:30 PM
  • Email: ymyyzxx@163.com
  • Type: Park
  • Description: razed Qing-era complex of palaces and gardens in Beijing which were made up of three gardens
  • Also known as: “Imperial Gardens”, “Old Summer Palace Park”, “Ruins of Yuanmingyuan”, “Site of the Old Summer Palace”, “Yuan Ming Yuan”, “Yuanmingyuan”, and “Yuanmingyuan Palace”
  • Address: 清华西路 28, 海淀区, 北京市 100084

Places of Interest

Highlights include Yuanmingyuan Park and University of International Relations.

Metro station
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station is a station on Line 4 of the Beijing Subway. The station is located outside of the south entrance to the Old Summer Palace in Haidian District of , and immediately faces the Zhengjue Temple to the north; the main campus of Peking University is to the south.

University
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The is a public university in , , China. The Institute for International Relations, later translated into English as Institute of International Relations, was established in 1949 by the first premier of the People's Republic of China, Zhou Enlai, to train diplomats.

Photo: 颐园新居, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yanyuan and Haidian Town.

Suburb
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Subdistrict is a subdistrict of Haidian District, , It borders Qinghuayuan Subdistrict to its northeast, Zhongguancun Subdistrict to its southeast, Wanliu Area and Haidian Subdistrict to its south, and Qinglongqiao Subdistrict to its northwest.

Town
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, sometimes referred to as Wanliu Area, and formerly Haidian Township is a town of Haidian District, , located immediately to the east of .

Town
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Town is a town on the eastern side of Haidian District, , . Its population was 58,151 as of 2020. The name literally translates to "rising from the east“. is situated 3 km southeast of Old Summer Palace.

Old Summer Palace

Latitude
40.00508° or 40° 0′ 18″ north
Longitude
116.29715° or 116° 17′ 50″ east
Elevation
47 metres (154 feet)
Open location code
8PGR274W+2V
Open­Street­Map ID
way 24827108
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
6614403
Wiki­data ID
Q907894
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Old Summer Palace” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “حديقة يوانمينغيوان”
  • Bulgarian: “Юанмингюан”
  • Catalan: “Antic Palau d’Estiu”
  • Catalan: “Jardins de la Perfecta Lluentor”
  • Catalan: “Jardins Imperials”
  • Cebuano: “Yuanmingyuan”
  • Chinese: “Yuánmíngyuán”
  • Chinese: “北京圓明園”
  • Chinese: “圆明园”
  • Chinese: “圆明园遗址”
  • Chinese: “圆明园遗址公园”
  • Chinese: “圓明園”
  • Czech: “Starý letní palác”
  • Danish: “Det gamle kejserlige sommerpalads”
  • Dutch: “Old Summer Palace”
  • Dutch: “Oud Zomerpaleis”
  • Dutch: “Oude Zomerpaleis”
  • Esperanto: “Yuan Ming Yuan-Imperia Ĝardeno”
  • Esperanto: “Yuanming Palaco”
  • French: “Ancien palais d’ete”
  • French: “ancien palais d’été”
  • French: “Ancien palais d’été”
  • French: “Ancien Palais d’Été”
  • French: “Jardin Yuanming”
  • French: “L’ancien palais d’été”
  • French: “Vieux palais d’été”
  • French: “Yuanming yuan”
  • German: “Alter Sommerpalast”
  • German: “Yu Yuan”
  • German: “Yù Yuán”
  • German: “Yuanming Yuan”
  • Indonesian: “Istana Musim Panas Lama”
  • Indonesian: “Yuan Ming Yuan”
  • Italian: “Antico Palazzo d’Estate”
  • Italian: “Old Summer Palace”
  • Italian: “Vecchio Palazzo d’Estate”
  • Italian: “Vecchio Palazzo Estivo”
  • Italian: “Yuanmingyuan”
  • Japanese: “円明園”
  • Korean: “원명원”
  • Literary Chinese: “圓明園”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Beijings gamle keiserlige sommerpalass”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Det gamle sommerpalass i Beijing”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Det gamle sommerpalasset i Beijing”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Det gamle sommerpalasset”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yuang ming yuan”
  • Norwegian: “Beijings gamle keiserlige sommerpalass”
  • Persian: “کاخ تابستانی قدیمی”
  • Polish: “Yuanmingyuan”
  • Portuguese: “Antigo Palácio de Verão”
  • Portuguese: “Yuan Ming Yuan”
  • Portuguese: “Yuánmíng Yuán”
  • Russian: “Парк Юаньминъюань”
  • Russian: “Старый летний дворец”
  • Russian: “Старый Летний дворец”
  • Russian: “Юаньминъюань”
  • Russian: “Юаньминюань”
  • Slovenian: “Ju Juan”
  • Slovenian: “Stara poletna palača, Peking”
  • Slovenian: “Stara poletna palača”
  • Slovenian: “Yu Yuan”
  • Spanish: “Antiguo Palacio de Verano”
  • Swedish: “Gamla sommarpalatset”
  • Swedish: “Yuanmingyuan”
  • Tamil: “பழைய கோடைகால அரண்மனை”
  • Thai: “พระราชวังฤดูร้อนเดิม”
  • Thai: “พระราชวังฤดูร้อนแห่งเดิม”
  • Thai: “พระราชวังหยวนหมิงหยวน”
  • Thai: “หยวนหมิงหยวน”
  • Turkish: “Eski Yazlık Saray”
  • Ukrainian: “Старий Літній палац”
  • Urdu: “قدیم گرما محل”
  • Urdu: “قدیم گرمائی محل”
  • Vietnamese: “Viên Minh Viên”
  • Vietnamese: “Vườn Viên Minh”
  • Wu Chinese: “圆明园”
  • Yue Chinese: “圓明園”

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