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Beijing, alternatively romanized as Peking, is the capital of China. With more than 22 million residents, Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city as well as China's second largest city after Shanghai.
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Tongzhou is a district of Beijing.It is located in southeast...
- China Central Television Headquarters Building
The CCTV Headquarters is a 51-floor skyscraper formed out of...
- List of Administrative Divisions of Beijing
County / City Present division Beiping City 北平市: Dongcheng,...
- Peking (Disambiguation)
Peking is an alternate and mostly obsolete romanization of...
- Jingjinji
Jing-Jin-Ji cluster is an expanded urban agglomeration...
- Temple of Heaven
The Temple of Heaven (simplified Chinese: 天坛; traditional...
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The Beijing dialect (simplified Chinese: 北京话; traditional...
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During the first millennia of imperial rule, Beijing was a...
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The Mandarin Chinese name of the city is Běijīng,[a] which means "The Northern Capital". It got this name when the Yongle Emperor of the Ming family of rulers moved most of his government from Nanjing ("The Southern Capital") in the early 1400s. In Chinese, Beijing's name is written Chinese: 北京. Today, people spell it "Beijing" because they use the...
The center of Beijing was settled in the 1st millennium BC. In those days, the Kingdom of Yan (燕, Yān) set up their capital where Beijing is today.They called it Ji (蓟, Jì). After the Kingdom of Yan was destroyed, the city became smaller, although it was still an important place. Beijing became more important again in the 10th century, when the Jin...
Important places in Beijing include: 1. The Great Wall of China (Chángchéng), in the mountains between Beijing and the grasslands of Mongolia 2. The Forbidden City (Gùgōng), the most important home of the emperorsof Ming and Qing China 3. Tian'anmen Square (Tiān'ānmén Guǎngchǎng), surrounded by China's most important government buildings and museum...
Beijing is the education center of People's Republic of China. More than 500 famous universities of China are in Beijing. They also include 5 of the top universities: Peking University, Tsinghua University, China People University, Beijing Normal University, and Beihang University. Beijing is also education center of China for teaching Chinese as a...
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1. Du Halde, Jean-Baptiste (1735), Description... de l'Empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie Chinoise, Paris: P.G. Lemercier. (in French) 2. Harris, Lane J. (November 2008), "A 'Lasting Boon to All': A Note on the Postal Romanization of Place Names, 1896–1949", Twentieth-Century China, vol. 34, No.1, Baltimore, pp. 96–109, doi:10.1353/tcc.0.0007, S2CID 68653154{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link).
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Beijing, alternatively romanized as Peking, is the capital of China. With more than 22 million residents, Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city as well as China's second largest city after Shanghai.
3 days ago · Beijing, city, province-level shi (municipality), and capital of the People’s Republic of China. The city has been an integral part of China’s history over the past eight centuries. Redolent with historical, cultural, and political significance, it is one of the world’s great cities.
Beijing’s capital status and its name were restored following the communist victory in 1949. It is China’s cultural and educational centre. The old Forbidden City contains the former imperial palace, designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1987.
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