Xicheng
Xicheng 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: 維基小霸王, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- Type: City with 1,230,000 residents
- Description: district of Beijing, China
- Also known as: “Xicheng District” and “Xicheng, Beijing”
Places of Interest
Highlights include China Geological Museum and Beijing Children’s Hospital, Capital Medical University.
China Geological Museum
Museum
Photo: Dquai, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Geological Museum of China, built in 1916, is a geological museum, boasting 200 thousand specimens. This museum is located in the Xisi area of Beijing and opened on October 1, 1959.
Xicheng
- Categories: district of China and locality
- Location: Beijing, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.91087° or 39° 54′ 39″ northLongitude
116.35992° or 116° 21′ 36″ eastPopulation
1,230,000Elevation
55 metres (180 feet)Open location code
8PFRW965+8XOpenStreetMap ID
node 244082109OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1789635Wikidata ID
Q30138
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zhuang—“Xicheng” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شيتشنغ”
- Basque: “Xicheng barrutia”
- Basque: “Xicheng Barrutia”
- Belarusian: “Січэн”
- Burmese: “ရှီးချန်ခရိုင်”
- Catalan: “Districte de Xicheng”
- Cebuano: “Xicheng Qu”
- Chinese: “Sai-siâⁿ-khu”
- Chinese: “西城”
- Chinese: “西城区”
- Chinese: “西城區”
- Czech: “Si-čcheng čchü”
- Czech: “Si-čcheng”
- Czech: “Xīchéng Qū”
- Czech: “西城区”
- Czech: “西城區”
- Danish: “Xicheng”
- Dutch: “Xicheng-district”
- Dutch: “Xicheng”
- Erzya: “Сичэн”
- Finnish: “Xicheng”
- French: “district de Xicheng”
- French: “District de Xicheng”
- French: “Xicheng”
- Gan Chinese: “西城区”
- German: “Xicheng”
- Hebrew: “רובע שיצ’נג”
- Hebrew: “שיצ’נג”
- Hungarian: “Hszicseng”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Xicheng”
- Italian: “distretto di Xicheng”
- Italian: “Distretto di Xicheng”
- Italian: “Xicheng”
- Japanese: “西城区”
- Korean: “시청구”
- Lezghian: “Сичэн”
- Literary Chinese: “西城區”
- Lithuanian: “Sičengas”
- Macedonian: “Сиченг”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Să̤-siàng-kṳ̆”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sai-siâⁿ-khu”
- Mirandese: “Xicheng”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Xicheng”
- Norwegian: “Xicheng”
- Persian: “شیچنگ”
- Persian: “منطقه شیچنگ”
- Pinyin: “Xīchéng Qū”
- Polish: “Xicheng”
- Portuguese: “Distrito de Xicheng”
- Russian: “Сичэн”
- Scots: “Xicheng”
- Slovenian: “četrt Šičeng”
- Slovenian: “četrt Xicheng”
- Slovenian: “Šičeng”
- Slovenian: “Xicheng”
- South Azerbaijani: “شیچنق منطقهسی”
- Spanish: “Xicheng”
- Swedish: “Xicheng”
- Thai: “เขตซีเฉิง”
- Turkish: “Xicheng”
- Urdu: “شیچینگ ضلع”
- Urdu: “ضلع شیچینگ”
- Vietnamese: “Tây Thành, Bắc Kinh”
- Vietnamese: “Tây Thành”
- Waray (Philippines): “Distrito han Xicheng”
- Welsh: “Ardal Xicheng”
- Wu Chinese: “西城区”
- Wu Chinese: “西城區”
- Yue Chinese: “西城”
- Yue Chinese: “西城區”
- Zhuang: “Sihcwngz Gih”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Xicheng”. Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.