Bird’s Nest
The National Stadium, a.k.a. the Bird's Nest, is a stadium at Olympic Green in Chaoyang, Beijing, China. The National Stadium, covering an area of 204,000 square meters with an 80,000 person capacity, broke ground in December 2003, officially started construction in March 2004, and was completed in June 2008.- Type: Stadium
- Description: stadium at Beijing, China
- Also known as: “2008년 올림픽 스타디움”, “Bắc Kinh quốc gia thể dục trường”, “Beijing nasjonale stadion”, “Beijing Nasjonalstadion”, “Beijing National Stadium”, “Beijing Olympic Stadium”, “El Nido”, “El Nido de Pajaro”, “El Nido de Pájaro”, “Estadi Olímpic de Pequín”, “Estadio del Nido”, “Estadio Nacional de Beijing”, “Estadio Nacional de Pekin”, “Estadio Nido de Pajaro”, “Estadio Nido de Pájaro”, “Fågelboet”, “Fugleredet”, “Fugleredet i Beijing”, “Fuglereiret”, “Het Vogelnest”, “Nationaal Stadion van Beijing”, “National Stadium”, “Nationale Stadion”, “Nationale Stadion van Peking”, “Nido de Pajaro”, “Nido de Pájaro”, “Ninho de Pássaro”, “Olimpika stadiono en Pekino”, “Pekingin kansallisstadion”, “Pekingin Olympiastadion”, “Pekings nationalarena”, “Pekinský národný štadión”, “Ptačí hnízdo”, “Sân vận động Tổ Chim”, “Sân vận động tổ chim Bắc Kinh”, “stade national de Beijing”, “stade national de Pekin”, “Stade national de pékin”, “Stadionul Naţional din Beijing”, “Vogelneststadion”, “Vtáčie hniezdo”, “Ολυμπιακό Στάδιο του Πεκίνου”, “Национален стадион на Пекин”, “Пекинский национальный стадион”, “Птичје гнездо”, “Птичје Гнездо”, “Птичье гнездо”, “קן הציפורים”, “آشیانه پرنده”, “آشیانهٔ پرنده”, “استاد عش الطيور”, “استادیوم ملی پکن”, “اشیانه پرنده”, “اشیانهٔ پرنده”, “ستاد بكين الوطني”, “ستاد عش الطائر”, “عش الطائر”, “बीजिंग राष्ट्रीय मैदान”, “ബെയ്ജിങ്ങ് നാഷനൽ സ്റ്റേഡിയം”, “สนามกีฬารังนก”, “สนามกีฬาแห่งชาติ”, “สนามกีฬาแห่งชาติกรุงปักกิ่ง”, “냐오차오”, “베이징 국가 체육장”, “베이징 국립 경기장”, “베이징 국립경기장”, “베이징 국립운동장”, “베이징 국립체육장”, “베이징 스타디움”, “베이징 올림픽 스타디움”, “베이징 올림픽 주 경기장”, “베이징올림픽 주경기장”, “북경 올림픽 경기장”, “북경 올림픽 스타디움”, “북경국가체육장”, “中国国家体育场”, “北京ナショナルスタジアム”, “北京国家スタジアム”, “北京国家体育场”, “北京奥林匹克体育场”, “北京鳥巢”, “国家スタジアム”, “国家体育場”, “鳥の巣”, “鳥の巣スタジアム”, “鳥巢”, and “鸟巢”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights: Water Cube and The Fan.
Water Cube
Stadium
The Water Cube, fully a.k.a. the National Aquatics… Water Cube is situated 520 metres west of Bird’s Nest.
The Fan
Stadium
The National Indoor Stadium, a.k.a. The Fan is situated 680 metres northwest of Bird’s Nest.
Olympic Sports Centre Stadium
Stadium
Olympic Sports Centre Stadium is situated 1 km south of Bird’s Nest.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yayuncun and Datun Subdistrict.
Datun Subdistrict
Suburb
Datun Subdistrict is a subdistrict on northwest of Chaoyang District, Beijing, China.
Xiaoguan
Suburb
Xiaoguan Subdistrict is a subdistrict on the northwest of Chaoyang District, Beijing, China.
Bird’s Nest
- Categories: tourism, recreation area, and tourist attraction
- Location: Beijing, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
39.99142° or 39° 59′ 29″ north
Longitude
116.39029° or 116° 23′ 25″ east
Elevation
49 metres (161 feet)
Established
2008
Open location code
8PFRX9RR+H4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=stadium
OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Bird’s Nest” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Beijing Nasionale Stadion”
- Arabic: “ملعب بكين الوطني”
- Armenian: “Ազգային մարզադաշտ (Պեկին)”
- Armenian: “Ազգային մարզադաշտ”
- Asturian: “Estadiu Nacional de Beixín”
- Azerbaijani: “Pekin Milli Stadionu”
- Basque: “Beijingo Nazio Estadioa”
- Basque: “Pekingo Nazio Estadioa”
- Bengali: “বেইজিং জাতীয় স্টেডিয়াম”
- Bosnian: “Nacionalni stadion u Pekingu”
- Bosnian: “Nacionalni stadion”
- Bulgarian: “Пекински национален стадион”
- Catalan: “Estadi Nacional de Pequín”
- Chinese: “国家体育场”
- Chinese: “國家體育場”
- Croatian: “Nacionalni stadion u Pekingu”
- Czech: “Pekingský národní stadion”
- Danish: “Beijing Nationalstadion”
- Dutch: “Nationaal Stadion van Peking”
- Esperanto: “Nacia stadiono de Pekino”
- Estonian: “Pekingi Rahvusstaadion”
- Finnish: “Pekingin kansallinen stadion”
- French: “stade national de Pékin”
- French: “Stade national de Pékin”
- French: “Stade national”
- Galician: “Estadio Nacional de Pequín”
- Georgian: “პეკინის ეროვნული სტადიონი”
- German: “Nationalstadion Peking”
- German: “Nationalstadion”
- Greek: “Εθνικό Στάδιο του Πεκίνου”
- Haitian: “Stade national”
- Hebrew: “האצטדיון הלאומי בייג’ינג”
- Hungarian: “Pekingi Nemzeti Stadion”
- Indonesian: “Stadion Nasional Beijing”
- Italian: “stadio nazionale di Pechino”
- Italian: “Stadio nazionale di Pechino”
- Japanese: “北京国家体育場”
- Kazakh: “Ulttıq stadïon”
- Kazakh: “Ұлттық стадион”
- Kazakh: “ۇلتتىق ستادىيون”
- Korean: “베이징 국가체육장”
- Korean: “올림픽 스타디움(국가체육장)”
- Latin: “Stadium Nationale Pecinense”
- Latvian: “Pekinas nacionālais stadions”
- Latvian: “Pekinas Nacionālais stadions”
- Lithuanian: “Pekino nacionalinis stadionas”
- Luxembourgish: “Nationalstadion vu Peking”
- Macedonian: “Национален стадион”
- Malay: “Stadium Nasional Beijing”
- Malayalam: “ബെയ്ജിംഗ് നാഷനൽ സ്റ്റേഡിയം”
- Maltese: “Grawnd Nazzjonali ta‘ Bejġing”
- Maltese: “Grawnd Nazzjonali ta’ Bejġing”
- Marathi: “बीजिंग नॅशनल स्टेडियम”
- Marathi: “बीजिंग राष्ट्रीय स्टेडियम”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Beijings nasjonalstadion”
- Norwegian: “Beijings nasjonalstadion”
- Persian: “ورزشگاه ملی پکن”
- Polish: “Stadion Narodowy w Pekinie”
- Portuguese: “Estádio Nacional de Pequim”
- Romanian: “Stadionul Național din Beijing”
- Russian: “Национальный стадион”
- Scots: “Beijing Naitional Stadium”
- Serbian: “Nacionalni stadion u Pekingu”
- Serbian: “Национални стадион у Пекингу”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Nacionalni stadion u Pekingu”
- Slovak: “Kuo-ťia tchi-jü-čchang”
- Slovenian: “Pekinški narodni stadion ’’Ptičje gnezdo’’”
- Slovenian: “Pekinški narodni stadion ‘Ptičje gnezdo’”
- Spanish: “Estadio Nacional de Pekín”
- Spanish: “Estadio Nido”
- Swedish: “Pekings Nationalstadion”
- Tagalog: “Pambansang Istadyum ng Beijing”
- Tamil: “பெய்ஜிங் தேசிய விளையாட்டு மைதானம்”
- Thai: “สนามกีฬาแห่งชาติปักกิ่ง”
- Turkish: “Pekin Ulusal Stadyumu”
- Ukrainian: “Пекінський національний стадіон”
- Urdu: “بیجنگ نیشنل اسٹیڈیم”
- Uzbek: “Milliy stadion (Pekin)”
- Uzbek: “Milliy stadion”
- Vietnamese: “Sân vận động quốc gia Bắc Kinh”
- Vietnamese: “Sân vận động Quốc gia Bắc Kinh”
- Welsh: “Stadiwm Cenedlaethol Beijing”
- Wu Chinese: “北京鸟巢”
- Wu Chinese: “国家体育场(北京)”
- Yue Chinese: “北京國家體育場”
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