Forbidden City
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Museum
- Description: Chinese imperial palace in Beijing
- Also known as: “Gugong”, “Gugong Bowuguan”, “Imperial Palace”, “Old Palace (Beijing)”, “Zijin Cheng”, and “Zijincheng”
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Jingshan Park and Imperial Ancestral Temple.
Jingshan Park
Park
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Jingshan Park is an imperial park covering 23 hectares immediately north of the Forbidden City in the Imperial City area of Beijing, China. The focal point is the artificial hill Jingshan.
Imperial Ancestral Temple
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The Imperial Ancestral Temple, or Taimiao of Beijing, is a historic site in the Imperial City, just outside the Forbidden City, where during both the Ming and Qing dynasties, sacrificial ceremonies were held on the most important festival occasions in honor of the imperial family's ancestors.
Forbidden City
Museum
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The Palace Museum, also known as the Beijing Palace Museum, is a large national museum complex housed in the Forbidden City at the core of Beijing, China.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Central Dongcheng and Gulou.
Central Dongcheng
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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.
Gulou
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Gulou is a part of Dongcheng District in Beijing, China. The name "Gulou" translates to Drum Tower, which is one of the main attractions here. Gulou is considered the most charming area in Beijing.
Forbidden City
- Categories: palace, tourist attraction, building complex, Chinese AAAAA-rated tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Beijing, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Forbidden City” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Verbode Stad”
- Albanian: “Qyteti i Ndaluar”
- Arabic: “المدينة المحخورة”
- Arabic: “المدينة المحرمة”
- Arabic: “المدينة المحرّمة”
- Arabic: “المدينه المحرمه”
- Arabic: “مدينة محرمة”
- Arabic: “مدينة محرّمة”
- Armenian: “Արգելված քաղաք”
- Asturian: “Ciudá Prohibida”
- Azerbaijani: “Yasaq şəhər”
- Balinese: “Kota Kalarang”
- Basque: “Hiri Debekatua”
- Bavarian: “Vabodane Stod”
- Belarusian: “Забаронены горад”
- Bengali: “নিষিদ্ধ নগরী”
- Bosnian: “Zabranjeni grad”
- Breton: “Keoded difennet”
- Bulgarian: “Забранен град”
- Bulgarian: “Забранения град”
- Bulgarian: “Забраненият град”
- Burmese: “တားမြစ်ထားသော မြို့တော်”
- Catalan: “Ciutat Prohibida”
- Catalan: “Museu del Palau de Beijing”
- Chinese: “Chí-kìm-siâⁿ”
- Chinese: “北京宫城”
- Chinese: “北京故宫”
- Chinese: “北京故宮”
- Chinese: “北京皇宫”
- Chinese: “北京紫禁城”
- Chinese: “北平故宮”
- Chinese: “故宫”
- Chinese: “故宫博物馆”
- Chinese: “故宮”
- Chinese: “明清故宫”
- Chinese: “紫禁城”
- Croatian: “Zabranjeni grad”
- Czech: “Gu Gong”
- Czech: “Zakázané město”
- Danish: “Den Forbudte By”
- Danish: “Forbudte By”
- Dutch: “Verboden Stad”
- Egyptian Arabic: “المدينه المحرمه”
- Esperanto: “Imperiestra Palaco”
- Esperanto: “Malpermesita Urbo”
- Estonian: “Keelatud linn”
- Finnish: “Kielletty kaupunki”
- French: “Cite interdite”
- French: “Cité interdite”
- Galician: “Cidade Prohibida”
- Gan Chinese: “紫禁城”
- Georgian: “აკრძალული სასახლე”
- Georgian: “აკრძალული ქალაქი”
- Georgian: “სასახლის მუზეუმი”
- German: “Gugong”
- German: “Pekinger Kaiserpalast”
- German: “Verbotene Stadt Chinas”
- German: “Verbotene Stadt”
- Greek: “Απαγορευμένη Πόλη”
- Hausa: “Haramtaccen Birni”
- Hebrew: “העיר האסורה”
- Hindi: “निषिद्ध नगर”
- Hindi: “निषिद्ध शहर”
- Hindi: “फॉरबिडन सिटी”
- Hungarian: “Tiltott Város”
- Icelandic: “Forboðna borgin”
- Indonesian: “Istana Kuno Dinasti Ming dan Qing”
- Indonesian: “Istana Terlarang”
- Indonesian: “Kota Terlarang”
- Irish: “An Chathair Thoirmiscthe”
- Irish: “Cathair Thoirmiscthe”
- Italian: “Città Proibita”
- Japanese: “北京故宮”
- Japanese: “故宮”
- Japanese: “紫禁城”
- Kabiyè: “Tɛtʋ Kikizitu”
- Kazakh: “Тыйым салынған қала”
- Korean: “고궁 박물원”
- Korean: “고궁박물원”
- Korean: “북경고궁”
- Korean: “북경황궁”
- Korean: “자금성”
- Korean: “쯔진청”
- Kurdish: “Bajarê Qedexe”
- Ladin: “Zità Pruibida”
- Latin: “Urbs Vetita”
- Latvian: “Aizliegtā pilsēta”
- Latvian: “Forbidden City”
- Lithuanian: “Uždraustasis miestas”
- Macedonian: “Забранет Град”
- Macedonian: “Забранетиот град”
- Maithili: “फरबिडन सिटी”
- Malay: “Kota Larangan”
- Malayalam: “വിലക്കപ്പെട്ട നഗരം”
- Maltese: “Belt Ipprojbita”
- Maltese: “Belt Projbita”
- Manchu: “ᡩᠠᠪᡴᡡᡵᡳ ᡩᠣᡵᡤᡳ ᡥᠣᡨᠣᠨ”
- Marathi: “प्रतिबंधित शहर”
- Mazanderani: “ممنوعه شهر”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chí-kìm-siâⁿ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kò͘-kiong”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kòo-kiong”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tsí-kìm-siânn”
- Mingrelian: “გუგუნი”
- Mingrelian: “გუგუნიშ დოხორე”
- Mingrelian: “ვარებული ნოღა”
- Mingrelian: “საიმპერატორე დოხორე”
- Mongolian: “Хориотой хот”
- Narom: “Ville enterdite”
- Newari: “फरबिडन नगर”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Beijings forbudte by”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Beijings palassmuseum”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Den forbudte by”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gugong”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Palassmuseet i Beijing”
- Norwegian: “Den forbudte by”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ciutat Vedada”
- Panjabi: “ਫੋਰਬਿਡਨ ਸਿਟੀ”
- Persian: “شهر ممنوعه”
- Polish: “Zakazane Miasto”
- Portuguese: “Cidade Proibida”
- Portuguese: “Gugong”
- Portuguese: “Zijin Cheng”
- Pushto: “ممنوعه ښار”
- Romanian: “Oraşul interzis”
- Romanian: “Orașul interzis”
- Romanian: “Orașul Interzis”
- Romanian: “Palatul Imperial Chinez”
- Romanian: “Palatul Imperial Chinezesc”
- Romanian: “Palatul interzis”
- Russian: “Дворец Гугун”
- Russian: “Запретный город”
- Russian: “Императорский дворец Гугун”
- Russian: “Императорский дворец”
- Scots: “Forbidden Ceety”
- Scots: “Forbidden Ceity”
- Serbian: “Забрањени град”
- Serbian: “紫禁城”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zabranjeni grad”
- Slovak: “Zakázané mesto”
- Slovenian: “Prepovedano mesto”
- South Azerbaijani: “یاساق شهر”
- Spanish: “Ciudad Prohibida”
- Spanish: “Ciudad Purpura Prohibida”
- Spanish: “Ciudad Púrpura Prohibida”
- Spanish: “Gugong”
- Swahili: “Mji Haramu”
- Swedish: “Den förbjudna staden”
- Swedish: “Förbjudna staden”
- Tagalog: “Forbidden City”
- Tagalog: “Pinagbabawalang Lungsod”
- Tamil: “தடுக்கப்பட்ட நகர்”
- Tamil: “பர்பிட்டன் சிட்டி”
- Tamil: “பெய்ஜிங் அரண்மனை”
- Tamil: “பேரரண் நகரம்”
- Telugu: “ఫర్బిడెన్ సిటీ”
- Thai: “Forbidden City”
- Thai: “นครต้องห้าม”
- Thai: “พระราชวังต้องห้าม”
- Thai: “วังต้องห้าม”
- Turkish: “Yasak Şehir”
- Uighur: “چەكلەنگەن شەھەر”
- Ukrainian: “Заборонене місто”
- Urdu: “شہر ممنوع”
- Urdu: “شہر ممنوعہ”
- Uzbek: “Imperator saroyi”
- Vietnamese: “Cố Cung Bắc Kinh”
- Vietnamese: “Cố cung nhà Minh-nhà Thanh”
- Vietnamese: “Hoàng cung Bắc Kinh”
- Vietnamese: “Tử Cấm Thành Bắc Kinh”
- Vietnamese: “Tử Cấm Thành”
- Waray (Philippines): “Forbidden City”
- Waray (Philippines): “Forbidden Palace”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gindidiri nga syudad”
- Waray (Philippines): “Iglirikay nga dakonbungto”
- Welsh: “Y Ddinas Waharddedig”
- Western Armenian: “Արգիլուած Քաղաք”
- Western Panjabi: “شہر ممنوعہ”
- Wu Chinese: “故宫”
- Yue Chinese: “北京宮城”
- Yue Chinese: “北京故宮”
- Yue Chinese: “北京皇宮”
- Yue Chinese: “北京紫禁城”
- Yue Chinese: “北平故宮”
- Yue Chinese: “故宮”
- Yue Chinese: “明清故宮”
- Yue Chinese: “紫禁城”
- Zhuang: “Gugungh”
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