Great Hall of the People
The Great Hall of the People is a state building situated to the west of Tiananmen Square in Beijing. It is used for legislative and ceremonial activities by the government of China.Photo: Zheng Zhou, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: Administrative facility
- Description: state building in Beijing, China
- Also known as: “Renmin Dahuitang”
Photo: A J Butler, CC BY 3.0.
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 Boiled Egg, is an arts centre containing an opera house in Xicheng, Beijing, China. National Centre for the Performing Arts is situated 340 metres west of Great Hall of the People.
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 southeast of Great Hall of the People.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Xichang’anjie and Dashilan.
Xichang’anjie
Suburb
Photo: 高晶, Public domain.
Xichang'anjie Subdistrict is a subdistrict on the eastern part of Xicheng District, Beijing. The subdistrict got its name from the Chang'an Avenue. As of 2020, it had 11 residential communities under its administration, containing a total population of 36,645…
Dashilan
Suburb
Photo: WiNG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dashilan Subdistrict is a subdistrict on eastern side of Xicheng District, in Beijing, China. Dashilan is also a famous business street outside Qianmen.
Qianmen
Suburb
Photo: calflier001, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Qianmen Subdistrict is a subdistrict in the western portion of Dongcheng District, Beijing, China. In 2020, there are 9,081 permanent residents in this subdistrict.
Great Hall of the People
- Category: government building
- Location: Beijing, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Great Hall of the People” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قاعة الشعب الكبرى”
- Asturian: “Gran Salón del Pueblu”
- Basque: “Herriaren Areto Handia”
- Catalan: “Gran Saló del Poble”
- Chinese: “Jîn-bîn tāi-hōe-tông”
- Chinese: “人民大会堂”
- Chinese: “人民大會堂”
- Chinese: “北京人民大会堂”
- Czech: “Velký sál lidu”
- Danish: “Folkets Store Hal”
- Dutch: “Grote Hal van het Volk”
- Dutch: “Grote Volkszaal”
- Esperanto: “Granda Popola Halo”
- Esperanto: “La popola halo”
- Finnish: “Mahtava kansan sali”
- French: “palais de l’Assemblée du Peuple”
- French: “Palais de l’Assemblée du peuple”
- French: “Palais de l’Assemblée du Peuple”
- German: “Grosse Halle des Volkes”
- German: “Große Halle des Volkes”
- Greek: “Μέγαρο του Λαού, Πεκίνο”
- Greek: “Μέγαρο του Λαού”
- Hebrew: “האולם הגדול של העם”
- Hindi: “लोगों का महान हाॅल”
- Indonesian: “Balai Agung Rakyat”
- Italian: “Grande Sala del Popolo”
- Japanese: “中華人民共和国の国会議事堂”
- Japanese: “人民大会堂”
- Japanese: “北京音楽庁”
- Korean: “인민대회당”
- Malay: “Dewan Besar Rakyat”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Jîn-bîn tāi-hōe-tông”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Folkets store hall”
- Norwegian: “Folkets store hall”
- Persian: “تالار بزرگ خلق”
- Polish: “Wielka Hala Ludowa”
- Portuguese: “Grande Salão do Povo”
- Russian: “Дом народных собраний”
- Serbian: “Велика сала народа”
- Slovenian: “Velika dvorana ljudstva”
- Spanish: “Gran Salon del Pueblo”
- Spanish: “Gran Salón del Pueblo”
- Swedish: “Folkets stora hall”
- Swedish: “Folkets stora sal”
- Tagalog: “Dakilang Bulwagan ng Sambayanan”
- Thai: “มหาศาลาประชาชน”
- Turkish: “Büyük Halk Salonu”
- Ukrainian: “Велика народна зала”
- Ukrainian: “Дім народних зборів”
- Urdu: “عوام کا تالار عظیم”
- Vietnamese: “Đại lễ đường Nhân dân Trung Quốc”
- Vietnamese: “Đại lễ đường Nhân dân”
- Western Panjabi: “عوام دا عظیم ہال”
- Wu Chinese: “人民大會堂”
- Yue Chinese: “人民大會堂”
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