Beijing Ancient Observatory
The Beijing Ancient Observatory is a pretelescopic observatory located in Beijing, China. The observatory was built in 1442 during the Ming dynasty, and expanded during the Qing.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Opening hours: 9:00 AM—5:00 PM
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: observatory
- Also known as: “Beijing Guguanxiangtai”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Chinese Customs Museum and Beijing Railway Station.
Chinese Customs Museum
Museum
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Chinese Customs Museum is situated 130 metres west of Beijing Ancient Observatory.
Beijing Railway Station
Railway station
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Beijing railway station is a passenger railway station in Dongcheng District, Beijing. The station is located just southeast of the city centre inside the Second Ring Road with Beijing Station Street to the north and the remnants of the city wall between Chongwenmen and Dongbianmen to the south. Beijing Railway Station is situated 1 km southwest of Beijing Ancient Observatory.
Jianguomen
Metro station
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Jianguomen Station is an interchange station on Line 1 and Line 2 of the Beijing Subway at Jianguomen in Dongcheng District and Chaoyang District, Beijing. The station handles over 170,000 transfers between Lines 1 and 2 per day. Jianguomen is situated 130 metres northeast of Beijing Ancient Observatory.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chaoyang and Chongwen.
Chaoyang
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chaoyang District is in Beijing. While Chaoyang district does not have that many tourist sites, most visitors to Beijing will find themselves in Chaoyang at some point: especially for visiting the art districts, shopping, restaurants, and nightlife.
Chongwen
Chongwen, formerly Chongwen District, is an area in Beijing. Its main attraction is the Temple of Heaven.
Dongsi
Suburb
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Dongsi is the name of an intersection and surrounding neighborhood in Dongcheng District, Beijing. Dongsi, at the intersection of what is now Dongsi Avenues North, South and West and Chaoyangmen Inner Street, dates to the Yuan dynasty. Dongsi is situated 2½ km north of Beijing Ancient Observatory.
Beijing Ancient Observatory
- Categories: astronomical observatory and tourism
- Location: Beijing, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
39.90618° or 39° 54′ 22″ northLongitude
116.42835° or 116° 25′ 42″ eastElevation
50 metres (164 feet)Open location code
8PFRWC4H+F8OpenStreetMap ID
node 269693885OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Urdu—“Beijing Ancient Observatory” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Antic Observatori de Pequín”
- Chinese: “中央观象台”
- Chinese: “中央觀象台”
- Chinese: “北京古观象台”
- Chinese: “北京古觀象台”
- Chinese: “北京古觀象臺”
- Chinese: “古观象台”
- Chinese: “古觀象台”
- Czech: “Stará pekingská observatoř”
- Dutch: “Het oude observatorium te Bejing”
- Dutch: “Oude observatorium te Beijing”
- Dutch: “Oude observatorium te Bejing”
- Dutch: “Oude observatorium te Peking”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مرصد بكين القديم”
- Esperanto: “Antikva Observatorio de Pekino”
- Esperanto: “La Antikva Observatorio de Pekino”
- French: “Observatoire antique de Pekin”
- French: “Observatoire antique de pékin”
- French: “Observatoire antique de Pékin”
- German: “Altes Observatorium von Peking”
- German: “Beijing gu guanxiangtai”
- Indonesian: “Observatorium Kuno Beijing”
- Italian: “osservatorio imperiale di Pechino”
- Italian: “Osservatorio imperiale di Pechino”
- Japanese: “北京古視象台”
- Japanese: “北京古観象台”
- Japanese: “古観象台”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Beijings gamle observatorium”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Det gamle observatorium i Beijing”
- Norwegian: “Det gamle observatorium i Beijing”
- Polish: “Cesarskie Obserwatorium Astronomiczne w Pekinie”
- Polish: “Cesarskie Obserwatorium Astronomiczne”
- Romanian: “Observtorul Antic din Beijing”
- Romanian: “Observtorul Imperial din Beijing”
- Russian: “Старая пекинская обсерватория”
- Slovenian: “Antični observatorij Peking”
- Swedish: “Pekings antika observatorium”
- Turkish: “Pekin Antik Gözlemevi”
- Ukrainian: “Стара пекінська обсерваторія”
- Urdu: “بیجنگ قدیم رصد گاہ”
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