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National Centre for the Performing Arts

The National Centre for the Performing Arts, colloquially described as The Giant Egg, is an arts centre containing an opera house in Xicheng, , .
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  • Type: Theater building
  • Description: opera house in Beijing, China
  • Also known as: “NCPA”
  • Roof shape: dome
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Forbidden City and Zhengyangmen.

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The , located at the centre of , 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.

City gate
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Qianmen is the colloquial name for , a gate in 's historic . The gate is situated to the south of and once guarded the southern entry into the Inner City. is situated 1 km southeast of National Centre for the Performing Arts.

City gate
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Xinhuamen, also known as , is the main gate of Zhongnanhai, located on the north side of the middle section of West Chang'an Avenue in , . is situated 470 metres northwest of National Centre for the Performing Arts.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Xicheng and Chongwen.

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District is a district in central . 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.

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

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Dongcheng District is in . 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.

National Centre for the Performing Arts

Latitude
39.90334° or 39° 54′ 12″ north
Longitude
116.38355° or 116° 23′ 1″ east
Height
47 metres (153 feet)
Open location code
8PFRW93M+8C
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map attribute
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Wiki­data ID
Q860188
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“National Centre for the Performing Arts” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “المركز الوطني للفنون المسرحية”
  • Belarusian: “Нацыянальны цэнтр выканальніцкіх мастацтваў”
  • Chinese: “中国国家大剧院”
  • Chinese: “中國國家大劇院”
  • Chinese: “国家大剧院”
  • Chinese: “國家大劇院”
  • Czech: “Velké národní divadlo v Pekingu”
  • Danish: “Nationalcenter for udøvende kunst”
  • Dutch: “Nationaal Centrum voor Uitvoerende Kunsten”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “المركز الوطنى للفنون المسرحيه”
  • Esperanto: “Nacia Centro por Teatraj Artoj”
  • French: “centre national des arts du spectacle”
  • French: “Centre national des arts du spectacle”
  • French: “Grand Théâtre National de Beijing”
  • French: “Grand Théâtre national de Chine”
  • French: “Grand Théâtre National de Pékin”
  • French: “Grand Théâtre national”
  • French: “Nouvel opéra de Beijing”
  • French: “Nouvel opéra de Pékin”
  • German: “Chinesische Nationaloper”
  • German: “Chinesisches Nationaltheater”
  • German: “Guojia da juyuan”
  • German: “National Centre for the Performing Arts”
  • German: “Nationales Zentrum für Darstellende Künste”
  • Hausa: “Cibiyar Ayyuka ta Kasa (China)”
  • Hausa: “Cibiyar Ayyuka ta Kasa”
  • Hebrew: “המרכז הלאומי לאומנויות הבמה (סין)‎”
  • Indonesian: “Teater Agung Nasional”
  • Italian: “Centro Nazionale per le Arti dello Spettacolo”
  • Japanese: “中国国家大劇院”
  • Japanese: “国家大劇院”
  • Korean: “국가대극원”
  • Korean: “중국 국가대극원”
  • Korean: “중국국가대극원”
  • Kurdish: “National Centre for the Performing Arts (China)”
  • Kurdish: “National Centre for the Performing Arts”
  • Malayalam: “നാഷണൽ സെന്റർ ഫോർ ദ പെർഫോമിങ് ആർട്സ്”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Det nasjonale senter for de utøvende kunster”
  • Norwegian: “Det nasjonale senter for de utøvende kunster”
  • Persian: “مرکز ملی هنرهای نمایشی چین”
  • Polish: “Teatr Narodowy w Pekinie”
  • Portuguese: “Grande Teatro Nacional”
  • Russian: “Национальный центр исполнительских искусств”
  • Slovak: “Čínske národné divadlo”
  • Slovak: “Kuo-ťia ta ťü-jüan”
  • Slovak: “Národné veľké divadlo”
  • Slovenian: “Nacionalni center za uprizoritvene umetnosti”
  • Spanish: “Centro Nacional de Artes Escénicas de China”
  • Spanish: “National Centre for the Performing Arts”
  • Spanish: “NCPA”
  • Swedish: “National Centre for the Performing Arts”
  • Swedish: “National Grand Theatre”
  • Swedish: “Nationella centret för scenkonst”
  • Swedish: “NCPA”
  • Swedish: “国家大剧院”
  • Telugu: “నేషనల్ సెంటర్ ఫర్ ది పెర్ఫార్మింగ్ ఆర్ట్స్ (చైనా)”
  • Telugu: “నేషనల్ సెంటర్ ఫర్ ది పెర్ఫార్మింగ్ ఆర్ట్స్”
  • Thai: “โรงละครแห่งชาติ”
  • Turkish: “Ulusal Gösteri Sanatları Merkezi”
  • Ukrainian: “Національний центр виконавських мистецтв”
  • Urdu: “نیشنل سینٹر فار پرفارمنگ آرٹس (چین)”
  • Urdu: “نیشنل سینٹر فار پرفارمنگ آرٹس”
  • Vietnamese: “Nhà hát lớn quốc gia”
  • Vietnamese: “Quốc Gia Thái Kịch Viện”
  • Western Panjabi: “نیشنل سینٹر فار پرفارمنگ آرٹس (چین)”
  • Western Panjabi: “نیشنل سینٹر فار پرفارمنگ آرٹس”
  • Wu Chinese: “國家大劇院”
  • Yue Chinese: “國家大劇院”

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