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Bird’s Nest

The National Stadium, a.k.a. the Bird's Nest, is a at Olympic Green in , , . 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.
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  • Type: Stadium
  • Description: stadium at Beijing, China
  • Also known as: “Beijing National Stadium”, “Beijing Olympic Stadium”, and “National Stadium”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Water Cube and The Fan.

Stadium
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The , fully a.k.a. the National Aquatics Centre, is a swimming center at the Olympic Green in , , . The was originally constructed to host the aquatics competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. is situated 520 metres west of Bird’s Nest.

Stadium
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The National Indoor Stadium, a.k.a. Folding Fan, is an arena located at Olympic Green in , , . The has a capacity of 20,000 people, and was constructed for the 2008 Summer Olympics. is situated 680 metres northwest of Bird’s Nest.

Stadium
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is situated 1 km south of Bird’s Nest.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Anzhen and Taiyanggong.

Suburb
Subdistrict is a subdistrict on the northwest portion of Chaoyang District, , . As of 2020, it has a total population of 57,016. The subdistrict got its name from Anzhenmen, a former city gate of Khanbaliq. is situated 3 km south of Bird’s Nest.

Town
Township is a township on the north of Chaoyang District, , . It borders and Datun Subdistricts to the north, to the east, Maizidian, and Xiangheyuan Subdistricts to the south, Heping Street and Xiaoguan Subdistrict to the west. is situated 4½ km southeast of Bird’s Nest.

Neighborhood
, whose name is a literal reference to the fifth level crossing of the Jingbao Railway, is a neighborhood in the Haidian District of North West , famous for its close distances to universities including Tsinghua University and Peking University. is situated 5 km west of Bird’s Nest.

Bird’s Nest

Latitude
39.99142° or 39° 59′ 29″ north
Longitude
116.39029° or 116° 23′ 25″ east
Elevation
49 metres (161 feet)
Inception
2008
Open location code
8PFRX9RR+H4
Open­Street­Map ID
way 152301551
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­stadium
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
6695794
Wiki­data ID
Q133525
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Bird’s Nest” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Beijing Nasionale Stadion”
  • Arabic: “استاد عش الطيور”
  • Arabic: “ستاد بكين الوطني”
  • Arabic: “ستاد عش الطائر”
  • Arabic: “عش الطائر”
  • 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”
  • Bengali: “北京国家体育场”
  • Bengali: “北京國家體育場”
  • Bosnian: “Nacionalni stadion u Pekingu”
  • Bosnian: “Nacionalni stadion”
  • Bulgarian: “Национален стадион на Пекин”
  • Bulgarian: “Пекински национален стадион”
  • Catalan: “Estadi Nacional de Pequín”
  • Catalan: “Estadi Olímpic de Pequín”
  • Chinese: “中国国家体育场”
  • Chinese: “北京国家体育场”
  • Chinese: “北京國家體育場”
  • Chinese: “北京奥林匹克体育场”
  • Chinese: “北京鳥巢”
  • Chinese: “国家体育场”
  • Chinese: “國家體育場”
  • Chinese: “鳥巢”
  • Chinese: “鸟巢”
  • Croatian: “Nacionalni stadion u Pekingu”
  • Czech: “Beijing National Stadium”
  • Czech: “Pekingský národní stadion”
  • Czech: “Ptačí hnízdo”
  • Danish: “Beijing National Stadium”
  • Danish: “Beijing Nationalstadion”
  • Dutch: “Het Vogelnest”
  • Dutch: “Nationaal Stadion van Beijing”
  • Dutch: “Nationaal Stadion van Peking”
  • Dutch: “Nationale Stadion van Peking”
  • Dutch: “Nationale Stadion”
  • Dutch: “Vogelneststadion”
  • Esperanto: “Nacia stadiono de Pekino”
  • Esperanto: “Olimpika stadiono en Pekino”
  • Estonian: “Pekingi Rahvusstaadion”
  • Finnish: “Pekingin kansallinen stadion”
  • Finnish: “Pekingin kansallisstadion”
  • Finnish: “Pekingin Olympiastadion”
  • French: “Beijing National Stadium”
  • French: “stade national de Beijing”
  • French: “stade national de Pekin”
  • French: “stade national de Pékin”
  • French: “Stade national de Pékin”
  • French: “Stade national”
  • Galician: “Estadio Nacional de Beijing”
  • Galician: “Estadio Nacional de Pequín”
  • Georgian: “პეკინის ეროვნული სტადიონი”
  • German: “Beijing National Stadium”
  • German: “Nationalstadion Peking”
  • German: “Nationalstadion”
  • Greek: “Εθνικό Στάδιο του Πεκίνου”
  • Greek: “Ολυμπιακό Στάδιο του Πεκίνου”
  • Haitian: “Stade national de pékin”
  • Haitian: “Stade national”
  • Hebrew: “האצטדיון הלאומי בייג’ינג”
  • Hebrew: “קן הציפורים”
  • Hungarian: “Pekingi Nemzeti Stadion”
  • Indonesian: “Stadion Nasional Beijing”
  • Italian: “stadio nazionale di Pechino”
  • Italian: “Stadio nazionale di Pechino”
  • Japanese: “北京ナショナルスタジアム”
  • Japanese: “北京国家スタジアム”
  • Japanese: “北京国家体育場”
  • Japanese: “国家スタジアム”
  • Japanese: “国家体育場”
  • Japanese: “鳥の巣”
  • Japanese: “鳥の巣スタジアム”
  • Kazakh: “Ulttıq stadïon”
  • Kazakh: “Ұлттық стадион”
  • Kazakh: “ۇلتتىق ستادىيون”
  • Korean: “2008년 올림픽 스타디움”
  • Korean: “냐오차오”
  • Korean: “베이징 국가 체육장”
  • Korean: “베이징 국가체육장”
  • Korean: “베이징 국립 경기장”
  • Korean: “베이징 국립경기장”
  • Korean: “베이징 국립운동장”
  • Korean: “베이징 국립체육장”
  • Korean: “베이징 스타디움”
  • Korean: “베이징 올림픽 스타디움”
  • Korean: “베이징 올림픽 주 경기장”
  • Korean: “베이징올림픽 주경기장”
  • Korean: “북경 올림픽 경기장”
  • Korean: “북경 올림픽 스타디움”
  • Korean: “북경국가체육장”
  • Korean: “올림픽 스타디움(국가체육장)”
  • Latin: “Stadium Nationale Pecinense”
  • Latvian: “Pekinas nacionālais stadions”
  • Latvian: “Pekinas Nacionālais stadions”
  • Lithuanian: “Pekino nacionalinis stadionas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nationalstadion vu Peking”
  • Malay: “Stadium Nasional Beijing”
  • Malayalam: “Beijing National Stadium”
  • Malayalam: “ബെയ്‌ജിംഗ്‌ നാഷനൽ സ്റ്റേഡിയം”
  • Malayalam: “ബെയ്‌ജിങ്ങ്‌ നാഷനൽ സ്റ്റേഡിയം”
  • Maltese: “Grawnd Nazzjonali ta‘ Bejġing”
  • Maltese: “Grawnd Nazzjonali ta’ Bejġing”
  • Marathi: “बीजिंग नॅशनल स्टेडियम”
  • Marathi: “बीजिंग राष्ट्रीय मैदान”
  • Marathi: “बीजिंग राष्ट्रीय स्टेडियम”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Beijing nasjonale stadion”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Beijing Nasjonalstadion”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Beijing National Stadium”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Beijings nasjonalstadion”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fugleredet i Beijing”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fugleredet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fuglereiret”
  • Norwegian: “Beijings nasjonalstadion”
  • Persian: “آشیانه پرنده”
  • Persian: “آشیانهٔ پرنده”
  • Persian: “استادیوم ملی پکن”
  • Persian: “اشیانه پرنده”
  • Persian: “اشیانهٔ پرنده”
  • Persian: “ورزشگاه ملی پکن”
  • Polish: “Stadion Narodowy w Pekinie”
  • Portuguese: “Estádio Nacional de Pequim”
  • Portuguese: “Ninho de Pássaro”
  • Romanian: “Stadionul Naţional din Beijing”
  • Romanian: “Stadionul Național din Beijing”
  • Russian: “Национальный стадион”
  • Russian: “Пекинский национальный стадион”
  • Russian: “Птичье гнездо”
  • Scots: “Beijing Naitional Stadium”
  • Serbian: “Nacionalni stadion u Pekingu”
  • Serbian: “Национални стадион у Пекингу”
  • Serbian: “Птичје гнездо”
  • Serbian: “北京國家體育場”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nacionalni stadion u Pekingu”
  • Slovak: “Kuo-ťia tchi-jü-čchang”
  • Slovak: “Pekinský národný štadión”
  • Slovak: “Vtáčie hniezdo”
  • Slovenian: “Pekinški narodni stadion ’’Ptičje gnezdo’’”
  • Slovenian: “Pekinški narodni stadion ‘Ptičje gnezdo’”
  • Spanish: “El Nido de Pajaro”
  • Spanish: “El Nido de Pájaro”
  • Spanish: “El Nido”
  • Spanish: “Estadio del Nido”
  • Spanish: “Estadio Nacional de Beijing”
  • Spanish: “Estadio Nacional de Pekin”
  • Spanish: “Estadio Nacional de Pekín”
  • Spanish: “Estadio Nido de Pajaro”
  • Spanish: “Estadio Nido de Pájaro”
  • Spanish: “Estadio Nido”
  • Spanish: “Nido de Pajaro”
  • Spanish: “Nido de Pájaro”
  • Swedish: “Beijing National Stadium”
  • Swedish: “Fågelboet”
  • Swedish: “Pekings nationalarena”
  • Swedish: “Pekings Nationalstadion”
  • Tagalog: “Beijing National Stadium”
  • Tagalog: “Pambansang Istadyum ng Beijing”
  • Tamil: “பெய்ஜிங் தேசிய விளையாட்டு மைதானம்”
  • Thai: “สนามกีฬารังนก”
  • Thai: “สนามกีฬาแห่งชาติ”
  • Thai: “สนามกีฬาแห่งชาติกรุงปักกิ่ง”
  • Thai: “สนามกีฬาแห่งชาติปักกิ่ง”
  • Turkish: “Pekin Ulusal Stadyumu”
  • Ukrainian: “Пекінський національний стадіон”
  • Urdu: “بیجنگ نیشنل اسٹیڈیم”
  • Uzbek: “Milliy stadion (Pekin)”
  • Uzbek: “Milliy stadion”
  • Vietnamese: “Bắc Kinh quốc gia thể dục trường”
  • Vietnamese: “Sân vận động quốc gia Bắc Kinh”
  • Vietnamese: “Sân vận động Quốc gia Bắc Kinh”
  • Vietnamese: “Sân vận động tổ chim Bắc Kinh”
  • Vietnamese: “Sân vận động Tổ Chim”
  • 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”
  • Yue Chinese: “國家體育場”

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