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Beijing is China's capital and its second-largest city after , with a population of around 22 million. With a rich history as the capital of Imperial China for much of its past, Beijing became the political and cultural heart of the People's Republic of China following the Chinese revolutions.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Forbidden City and Chaoyang.

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The , 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.

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District is in Beijing. While district does not have that many tourist sites, most visitors to Beijing will find themselves in at some point: especially for visiting the art districts, shopping, restaurants, and nightlife.

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District is a district in central Beijing. Visitors come here for the Houhai area to join the bar and restaurant cluster by the lake or to explore the remains of the wealthier part of historical Beijing nearby.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Beijing Capital International Airport and Central Dongcheng.

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is the primary airport of the Chinese capital city of Beijing.

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Dongcheng District is in Beijing. It means "east city" and appropriately enough covers the eastern half of the old, imperial city. Most visitors to the city will come here to visit both Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City, the former imperial palace.

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is a northwest urban district of Beijing, bordering and . It is 431 km2 in area, making it the second-largest district in urban Beijing area, and is home to 3,133,469 inhabitants as of November 2020.

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is a major airport serving Beijing, the capital of , and the surrounding area.

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, formerly District, is an area in Beijing. Its main attraction is the Temple of Heaven.

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is a part of Dongcheng District in Beijing, . The name "Gulou" translates to Drum Tower, which is one of the main attractions here. is considered the most charming area in Beijing.

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District is a district of the city of Beijing. It lies mostly to the southwest of the city center, extending into the city's southwestern suburbs beyond the Sixth Ring Road, but also to the south and, to a smaller extent, the southeast, where it has borders with and .

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District is an urban district of the city of Beijing. It lies to the west of the urban core of Beijing, and is part of the area, bordering the districts of Haidian to the northeast and east, Fengtai to the south, and Mentougou to the west.

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District is a rural district in western Beijing Municipality. The district has mountainous terrain and Mount Ling the tallest peak in Beijing is situated in the district.

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is a district in Beijing. used to be a rather large old village of surrounded by a more modern area and then a large rural area with lots of small villages.

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District is a rural and urban district in the northwest corner of Beijing Municipality. The most famous attraction is Badaling, a jam packed and classic tourist section of the Great Wall of China.

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District is a district in the far north of Beijing Municipality. It is a mix of rural and urban settlements. Mutianyu, one of the most popular sections of the Great Wall of China for international tourists, is located in the district.

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are areas in Dongcheng District in Beijing, . They form the northernmost part of Dongcheng, northeast of the Forbidden City. Dongzhimen is one of Beijing's major commercial precincts.

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The Beijing consists of the suburbs and rural areas of Changping District and Shunyi District.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests and National Centre for the Performing Arts.

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The Temple of Heaven is a complex of imperial religious Confucian buildings situated in the southeastern part of central Beijing. The complex was visited by the Emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties for annual ceremonies of prayer to Heaven for a good harvest.

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The , colloquially described as The Giant Egg, is an arts centre containing an opera house in Xicheng, Beijing, .

Park
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is an imperial park covering 23 hectares immediately north of the in the Imperial City area of Beijing, . The focal point is the artificial hill Jingshan.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dongsi and Dongzhimen District.

Suburb
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is the name of an intersection and surrounding neighborhood in Dongcheng District, Beijing. , at the intersection of what is now Avenues North, South and West and Inner Street, dates to the Yuan dynasty.

Neighborhood
Dongzhimen was a gate in the old Beijing city fortifications. It is now a commercial center and transportation node in Beijing.

Neighborhood
is an area of the Chaoyang District, Beijing containing many bars, restaurants, and stores. It is a popular destination for shopping, dining, and entertainment.

Beijing

  • Type: City with 21,900,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of China
  • Also known as: “Bākgīng”, “Beeijing”, “Bei Jing Shi”, “Beijing City”, “Beijing Shi”, “Beiping”, “BJ”, “Chi”, “Chi-ch’eng”, “Chi-ch’êng”, “Chi-cheng”, “Chung-tu”, “Chungtu”, “Ji”, “Jicheng”, “Khanbalik”, “Khanbaliq”, “Pak-kiann”, “Pe-king”, “Pei-ching”, “Pei-ching-shih”, “Pei-p’ing”, “Pei-p’ing Shih”, “Pei-p’ing-shih”, “Pei-ping”, “Peip’ing”, “Peiping”, “Peiping Municipal Administrative Area”, “Peiping Municipality”, “Pekin”, “Peking”, “Peking Municipality”, “Peking Shi”, “Peping”, “Poh-cin”, “Shun-t’ien”, “Shun-tien”, “Shuntian”, “Shuntian Fu”, “Shuntianfu”, “Yan-ching”, “Yanjing”, “Yanking”, and “Zhongdu”
  • Neighbors: , , , , and
  • Categories: direct-administered municipality, national central city, global city, megacity, former national capital, metropolis, big city, national capital, and locality
  • Location: , , ,
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Latitude
39.9032° or 39° 54′ 11″ north
Longitude
116.3914° or 116° 23′ 29″ east
Population
21,900,000
Elevation
49 metres (161 feet)
IATA airport code
BJS
United Nations Location Code
CN BJS
Open location code
8PFRW93R+7H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25248662
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1816670
Wiki­data ID
Q956
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Beijing” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Беиӡин”
  • Achinese: “Beijing”
  • Adyghe: “Пекин”
  • Afrikaans: “Beijing”
  • Albanian: “Pekini”
  • Amharic: “ቤዪጂንግ”
  • Angika: “बीजिंग”
  • Arabic: “بكين”
  • Aragonese: “Pequín”
  • Armenian: “Պեկին”
  • Arpitan: “Pèquin”
  • Assamese: “বেইজিং”
  • Asturian: “Beixín”
  • Asturian: “Pequín”
  • Awadhi: “बेइजिङ्”
  • Aymara: “Pekin‘”
  • Aymara: “Pekin”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pekin”
  • Balinese: “Béijing”
  • Bambara: “Beijing”
  • Banjar: “Péycing”
  • Banjar: “Picina, Cina”
  • Bashkir: “Пекин”
  • Basque: “Beijing”
  • Basque: “Pekin”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Beijing”
  • Bavarian: “Peking”
  • Belarusian: “Пекін”
  • Belarusian: “Пэкін”
  • Bengali: “পেকিং”
  • Bengali: “বেইজিং”
  • Betawi: “Pèking”
  • Bhojpuri: “बेइजिंग”
  • Bishnupriya: “বেইজিং”
  • Bislama: “Beijing”
  • Bosnian: “Peking”
  • Breton: “Beijing”
  • Bulgarian: “Пекин”
  • Burmese: “ပေကျင်းမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Pequín”
  • Cebuano: “Beijing”
  • Cebuano: “Pekin”
  • Central Bikol: “Beijing”
  • Central Bikol: “Pekin”
  • Central Kanuri: “Beijing”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەیجینگ”
  • Central Kurdish: “پەکین”
  • Central Kurdish: “پێکەن”
  • Chamorro: “Beijing”
  • Chavacano: “Pekín”
  • Chechen: “Пекин”
  • Cheyenne: “Beijing”
  • Chinese: “Běijīng shì”
  • Chinese: “Běijīng”
  • Chinese: “Běipíng shì”
  • Chinese: “Běipíng”
  • Chinese: “Jīng”
  • Chinese: “Jīngzhào dìfāng”
  • Chinese: “Pak-kiaⁿ-chhī”
  • Chinese: “Píng”
  • Chinese: “Yàn”
  • Chinese: “Yànjīng”
  • Chinese: “京”
  • Chinese: “京兆地方”
  • Chinese: “京城”
  • Chinese: “北京”
  • Chinese: “北京市”
  • Chinese: “北平”
  • Chinese: “北平市”
  • Chinese: “帝都”
  • Chinese: “平”
  • Chinese: “燕”
  • Chinese: “燕京”
  • Chinese: “順天府”
  • Church Slavic: “Бєи Ꙃинъ”
  • Chuvash: “Пекин”
  • Cornish: “Beijing”
  • Corsican: “Pechinu”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Pekin”
  • Croatian: “Peking”
  • Czech: “Pej-ťing”
  • Czech: “Peking”
  • Dagbani: “Beijing”
  • Danish: “Beijing”
  • Dhivehi: “ބީޖިންގ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Pekin”
  • Dotyali: “बेइजिङ”
  • Dutch: “Beijing”
  • Dutch: “Bejing”
  • Dutch: “Peking”
  • Eastern Mari: “Пекин”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيچينج”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيكين”
  • Erzya: “Пекин ош”
  • Esperanto: “Beijing”
  • Esperanto: “Pekino”
  • Estonian: “Peking”
  • Ewe: “Beijing”
  • Extremaduran: “Pequín”
  • Faroese: “Beijing”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Beijing”
  • Fijian: “Beijigi”
  • Fijian: “Beijing”
  • Finnish: “Peking”
  • French: “Beijing”
  • French: “Pe-king”
  • French: “Pé-king”
  • French: “Pékin”
  • French: “Peking”
  • French: “Péking”
  • Friulian: “Pechin”
  • Galician: “Beijing”
  • Galician: “Pequín”
  • Gan Chinese: “北京”
  • Gan Chinese: “北京市”
  • Georgian: “პეიძინგი”
  • Georgian: “პეკინი”
  • German: “Beijing”
  • German: “Peking”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Beijing”
  • Greek: “Πεκίνο”
  • Guarani: “Pekĩ”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Péken”
  • Gujarati: “પેઇચિંગ”
  • Gujarati: “બેઇજિંગ”
  • Gujarati: “બેઈજિંગ”
  • Haitian: “Peken”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pet-kîn”
  • Hausa: “Beijing”
  • Hawaiian: “Beijing”
  • Hebrew: “בייג’ין”
  • Hebrew: “בייג’ינג”
  • Hebrew: “פקין”
  • Hindi: “बीजिंग”
  • Hungarian: “Peking”
  • Iban: “Beijing”
  • Icelandic: “Beijing”
  • Icelandic: “Peking”
  • Ido: “Beijing”
  • Iloko: “Beijing”
  • Inari Sami: “Peking”
  • Indonesian: “Beijing”
  • Ingush: “Пекин”
  • Interlingua: “Beijing”
  • Interlingue: “Beijing”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐲᔨᖕ”
  • Inupiaq: “Paiyiŋaq”
  • Irish: “Béising”
  • Italian: “Beijing”
  • Italian: “Běijīng”
  • Italian: “Pechino”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Biejing”
  • Japanese: “Pekin”
  • Japanese: “ぺきん”
  • Japanese: “中都”
  • Japanese: “北京”
  • Japanese: “北京市”
  • Japanese: “北平”
  • Japanese: “北平市”
  • Japanese: “大都”
  • Japanese: “燕京”
  • Japanese: “順天府”
  • Javanese: “Beijing”
  • Kabiyè: “Peekɛɛ”
  • Kabyle: “Pekin”
  • Kalaallisut: “Beijing”
  • Kalmyk: “Бәәҗң балһсн”
  • Kannada: “ಬೀಜಿಂಗ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Pekin”
  • Kashmiri: “بیٖجنٛگ”
  • Kazakh: “Beijıñ”
  • Kazakh: “Pekin”
  • Kazakh: “Бейжің”
  • Kazakh: “Пекин”
  • Kazakh: “Ханбалық”
  • Khmer: “ប៉េកាំង”
  • Kikuyu: “Beijing”
  • Kirghiz: “Бейжин”
  • Kirghiz: “Бээжин”
  • Kirghiz: “Пекин”
  • Komering: “Beijing”
  • Komi: “Пекин”
  • Kongo: “Beijing”
  • Korean: “베이징”
  • Korean: “베이징시”
  • Korean: “베이핑”
  • Korean: “북경”
  • Korean: “북경시”
  • Korean: “북평”
  • Korean: “북평시”
  • Korean: “연경”
  • Kurdish: “Beijing”
  • Kurdish: “Pekîn”
  • Ladin: “Beijing”
  • Ladino: “Peking”
  • Lao: “ປັກກິ່ງ”
  • Latin: “Pechinum”
  • Latin: “Pecinum”
  • Latvian: “Pekina”
  • Lezghian: “Пекин”
  • Ligurian: “Pechin”
  • Limburgan: “Peking”
  • Lingala: “Beijíng”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Beijing”
  • Literary Chinese: “京”
  • Literary Chinese: “京兆”
  • Literary Chinese: “京兆地方”
  • Literary Chinese: “北京”
  • Literary Chinese: “北京市”
  • Literary Chinese: “北平”
  • Literary Chinese: “北平市”
  • Literary Chinese: “平”
  • Literary Chinese: “燕”
  • Literary Chinese: “燕京”
  • Lithuanian: “Pekinas”
  • Livvi: “Pekin”
  • Lojban: “beidjin”
  • Lombard: “Pechin”
  • Low German: “Beijing”
  • Low German: “Peking”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Peking”
  • Luxembourgish: “Peking”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Beijing”
  • Macedonian: “Пекинг”
  • Maithili: “बेइजिङ”
  • Malagasy: “Beijing”
  • Malay: “Beijing”
  • Malayalam: “ബെയ്‌ജിങ്ങ്‌”
  • Maltese: “Beijing”
  • Maltese: “Peking”
  • Manchu: “ᠪᡝᡤᡳᠩ”
  • Manchu: “ᡤᡝᠮᡠᠨ ᡥᡝᠴᡝᠨ”
  • Manchu: “ᡤᡳᠩ ᡥᡝᠴᡝᠨ”
  • Manx: “Beijing”
  • Maori: “Beijing”
  • Maori: “Peihinga”
  • Maori: “Pīkini”
  • Marathi: “बीजिंग”
  • Mazanderani: “پکن”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Báe̤k-gĭng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pak-kiaⁿ-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pak-kiaⁿ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pak-kiann”
  • Minangkabau: “Beijing”
  • Mingrelian: “პეკინი”
  • Mirandese: “Pequin”
  • Moksha: “Пэкин”
  • Mongolian: “Бээжин”
  • Mongolian: “ᠪᠡᠭᠡᠵᠢᠩ”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پيكين”
  • Narom: “Péqùin”
  • Nauru: “Beijing”
  • Nepali: “बेइजिङ”
  • Newari: “बेइजिङ”
  • Nias: “Beijing”
  • Northern Frisian: “Peking”
  • Northern Luri: “پکن”
  • Northern Sami: “Peking”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Beijing”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Peking”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Beijing”
  • Norwegian: “Beijing”
  • Novial: “Beyjing”
  • Nyanja: “Beijing”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pequin”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Beȝcinȝ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Pecing”
  • Oriya: “ବେଜିଂ”
  • Oromo: “Beejiingi”
  • Ossetian: “Пекин”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻပေစဉ်း”
  • Pampanga: “Beijing”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੀਜਿੰਗ”
  • Papiamento: “Bejing”
  • Pedi: “Beijing”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Beijing”
  • Persian: “پکن”
  • Picard: “Pékin”
  • Piemontese: “Pechin”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Beijing”
  • Polish: “Pekin”
  • Portuguese: “Categoria:Pequim”
  • Portuguese: “Pequim”
  • Pushto: “بیجنګ”
  • Pushto: “بېجنګ”
  • Pushto: “بېجینګ”
  • Quechua: “Pikkin”
  • Romanian: “Beijing”
  • Romanian: “Beiping”
  • Romanian: “BJ”
  • Romanian: “Khanbaliq”
  • Romanian: “Peiping”
  • Romanian: “Pekin”
  • Romanian: “Yanjing”
  • Romanian: “Zhongdu”
  • Russia Buriat: “Бээжин”
  • Russia Buriat: “Бээжэн”
  • Russian: “Бэйпин”
  • Russian: “Бэйцзин”
  • Russian: “Пекин”
  • Rusyn: “Пекінґ”
  • Sakizaya: “Beijing”
  • Samogitian: “Pekėns”
  • Sanskrit: “बीजिङ्ग्”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱮᱡᱤᱝ”
  • Sardinian: “Beijing”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Peking”
  • Scots: “Beijing”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Beijing”
  • Serbian: “Пекинг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Peking”
  • Shona: “Beijing”
  • Sicilian: “Pechinu”
  • Silesian: “Bejdżing”
  • Sindhi: “بيجنگ”
  • Sinhala: “බිජිං”
  • Sinhala: “බීජිං”
  • Sinhala: “බෙයිජිං”
  • Slovak: “Peking”
  • Slovenian: “Beijing”
  • Slovenian: “Peking”
  • Somali: “Beijing”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پئکن”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پکن”
  • Spanish: “Beijing”
  • Spanish: “Pekín”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Beijing”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴱⵉⴽⵉⵏ”
  • Sundanese: “Beijing”
  • Sundanese: “Béijing”
  • Swahili: “Beijing”
  • Swedish: “Beijing”
  • Swedish: “Peking”
  • Swiss German: “Peking”
  • Tagalog: “Beijing”
  • Tajik: “Пекин”
  • Talysh: “Pekin”
  • Tamil: “பெய்சிங்”
  • Tamil: “பெய்ஜிங்”
  • Tatar: “Бейҗиң”
  • Tatar: “Пекин”
  • Tatar: “Ханбалык”
  • Telugu: “బీజింగ్”
  • Thai: “ปักกิ่ง”
  • Thai: “เป่ย์จิง”
  • Tibetan: “པེ་ཅིང་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Beijing”
  • Tok Pisin: “Beising”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Beijing”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Peisingi”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Peking”
  • Tsonga: “Beyijingi”
  • Tswana: “Beijing”
  • Tumbuka: “Beijing”
  • Turkish: “Beijing”
  • Turkish: “Hanbalık”
  • Turkish: “Peiping”
  • Turkish: “Pekin”
  • Turkish: “Peking”
  • Turkmen: “Pekin”
  • Twi: “Beijing”
  • Udmurt: “Пекин”
  • Uighur: “بىيجڭ”
  • Uighur: “بېيجىڭ شەھىرى”
  • Uighur: “بېيجىڭ”
  • Ukrainian: “Бейджин”
  • Ukrainian: “Бейджін”
  • Ukrainian: “Пекін”
  • Ukrainian: “Пекінґ”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Peking”
  • Urdu: “بیجنگ”
  • Urdu: “پیکنگ”
  • Uzbek: “Pekin”
  • Venetian: “Pechin”
  • Veps: “Pekin”
  • Vietnamese: “Bắc Bình”
  • Vietnamese: “Bắc Kinh”
  • Vietnamese: “Kinh Triệu”
  • Vietnamese: “Yên Kinh”
  • Vlaams: “Peking”
  • Vlax Romani: “Pekenk”
  • Volapük: “Beycing”
  • Võro: “Peking”
  • Walloon: “Pekin”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Beijing”
  • Welsh: “Beijing”
  • Western Armenian: “Փեքին”
  • Western Frisian: “Bejing”
  • Western Frisian: “Peking”
  • Western Mari: “Пекин”
  • Western Panjabi: “بیجنگ”
  • Wolof: “Beijing”
  • Wu Chinese: “京”
  • Wu Chinese: “京兆地方”
  • Wu Chinese: “北京”
  • Wu Chinese: “北京市”
  • Wu Chinese: “北平”
  • Wu Chinese: “北平市”
  • Wu Chinese: “平”
  • Wu Chinese: “燕京”
  • Yakut: “Пекин”
  • Yiddish: “בייזשינג”
  • Yoruba: “Beijing”
  • Yue Chinese: “京”
  • Yue Chinese: “京兆”
  • Yue Chinese: “京兆地方”
  • Yue Chinese: “北京市”
  • Yue Chinese: “北平”
  • Yue Chinese: “北平市”
  • Yue Chinese: “平”
  • Yue Chinese: “燕”
  • Yue Chinese: “燕京”
  • Yue Chinese: “順天”
  • Yue Chinese: “順天府”
  • Zeeuws: “Peking”
  • Zhuang: “Baekging”
  • Zulu: “Beijing”
  • Zulu: “i-Beijing”
  • “ma tomo Pesin”
  • “Pechìn”
  • “Pechîṅ”
  • “Pechine”
  • “Pekėns”
  • “Peking”
  • “Pequin”
  • “बीजिंग”

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