Chongwen
Chongwen, formerly Chongwen District, is an area in Beijing. Its main attraction is the Temple of Heaven.Photo: Ronnie Macdonald, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: district of China with 358,000 residents
- Description: former district of Beijing, China
- Also known as: “Chongwen District” and “Chongwen, Beijing”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests and Beijing Railway Station.
Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests
Photo: ijsendoorn, CC BY 2.0.
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 then later restored by the Qing dynasties for annual ceremonies of prayer to Heaven for a good harvest and other seasonal rites.
Beijing Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: 颐园新居, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Ciqikou
Metro station
Photo: N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ciqi Kou Station is an interchange station between Line 5 and Line 7 of the Beijing Subway.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tiyuguanlu and Chongwenmenwai.
Tiyuguanlu
Suburb
Tiyuguanlu Subdistrict is a southeastern subdistrict of the Dongcheng District, Beijing, China. In 2020 the population here is 31,977. This subdistrict got its name from the Tiyuguan Road within the subdistrict, which in turn was named after the Beijing Gymnasium.
Chongwenmenwai
Suburb
Photo: N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chongwenmenwai Subdistrict is a subdistrict located in the southern part of Dongcheng District, Beijing, China. As of 2020, It has a population of 44,545.
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.
Chongwen
- Categories: former administrative territorial entity and neighborhood
- Location: Beijing, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.89088° or 39° 53′ 27″ northLongitude
116.41315° or 116° 24′ 47″ eastPopulation
358,000Open location code
8PFRVCR7+97Wikidata ID
Q393442
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Chongwen” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Chongwen barrutia”
- Cebuano: “Chongwen Qu”
- Chinese: “崇文区”
- Chinese: “崇文區”
- Czech: “Čchung-wen”
- Dutch: “Chongwen-district”
- Dutch: “Chongwen”
- French: “Chongwen”
- French: “District de Chongwen”
- German: “Chongwen”
- Hebrew: “מחוז צ’ונגוון”
- Hebrew: “רובע צ’ונג-ון”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Chongwen”
- Italian: “Distretto di Chongwen”
- Japanese: “崇文区”
- Korean: “충원 구”
- Korean: “충원구”
- Korean: “충웬 구”
- Mirandese: “Chongwen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chongwen”
- Norwegian: “Chongwen”
- Polish: “Chongwen”
- Russian: “Чунвэнь”
- Spanish: “Chongwen”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Chongwen”
- Swedish: “Chongwen Qu”
- Swedish: “Chongwen”
- Urdu: “ضلع چونگوین”
- Vietnamese: “Sùng Văn”
- Welsh: “Ardal Chongwen”
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