Beijing

Beijing 北京 Municipality Municipality o Beijing • 北京市 Clockwise frae top: Tiananmen, Temple o Heaven, National Grand Theatre, an Beijing National Stadium Location o Beijing Municipality athin Cheenae Coordinates: 39°54′50″N 116°23′30″E Kintra Fowkrepublic o Cheenae Diveesions  - Coonty-level  - Tounship-level 16 destricts, 2 counties 289 touns an veelages Government  • Type Municipality  • CPC Ctte Secretary Guo Jinlong  • Mayor Wang Anshun Area  • Municipality 16,801.25 km2 (6,487.00 sq mi) Elevation 43.5 m (142.7 ft) Population (2010)  • Municipality 19,612,368  • Density 1,200/km2 (3,000/sq mi)  • Ranks in Cheenae Population: 26t; Density: 4t Demonym Beijinger Major ethnic groups  • Han 96%  • Manchu 2%  • Hui 2%  • Mongol 0.3% Time zone Cheenae Staundart time (UTC+8) Postal code 100000 – 102629 Area code(s) 10 GDP 2011  - Total CNY 1.6 trillion US$ 247.7 billion (13t)  - Per caipita CNY 80,394 US$ 12,447 (3rd)  - Growt 8.1% HDI (2008) 0.891 (2nt) – vera heich License plate prefixes 京A, C, E, F, H, J, K, L, M, N, P 京B (taxis) 京G, Y (ootside urban aurie) 京O (poliw an authorities) 京V (in red color) (militar heidquairters, central govrenment) Ceety trees Cheenese arborvitae (Platycladus orientalis)   Pagoda tree (Sophora japonica) City flowers Cheenae rose (Rosa chinensis)   Chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum morifolium) Website www.ebeijing.gov.cn Beijing Cheenese 北京 Hanyu Pinyin Běijīng  [Listen]  Literal meanin Northren capital Transcriptions Hakka - Romanisation Pet-kîn Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Běijīng  [Listen]  - Wade–Giles Pei3ching1 or Pei3-ching1 - Postal Map Peking Min - Hokkien POJ Pak-kiaⁿ - Min-dong BUC Báe̤k-gĭng Wu - Romanisation poh入cin平 Cantonese (Yue) - Jyutping bak1ging1

Beijing is the caipital o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae. The ceety is kent as Peking an aw. It's locatit in the nor'east o the kintra.

The Forbidden Ceety, hames tae the Emperors o the Ming an Qing Deenasties.

The ceity o Beijing haes played a gey important pairt in the oncome o Cheenae. Mony fowk fae ither ceeties an kintras haes flittit tae Beijing tae leuk for wark. Near-haund 15 meellion fowk bides thare. In 2008 Beijing hostit the Olympic Gemmes.

Beijing haes a kenspeckle history. Syne the Jin deenasty, Beijing's been the caipital for mony deenasties, sic as the Yuan, Ming, Qing, an ithers forby. Thare's mony places o historic interest in Beijing. Thir places includes the Summer Pailace, the Temple o Heiven, an the Great Waw o Cheenae.

Name

Beijing means "the northren caipital" in the Cheenae leid. It wis ance a coonterpairt tae Nanjing, "the soothren caipital", durin the Ming Deenasty. This deenasty gied Beijing its name.

History

The middle o Beijing wis settelt in the 1st millennium BC. In thae days, the Kinrick o Yan (?) set up their caipital whaur Beijing is the day. They cried it Ji (?). Efter the Kinrick o Yan wis malafoustert, the ceity becam wee-er, awtho it wis still an important place.

Beijing becam mair important again in the 10t century, whan the Jin deenasty set its caipital thare. This ceity wis malafoustert bi Mongol arimies in 1215. Then in 1267, Mongols biggit a new ceity on the north lip o the Jin caipital, an cried it "Great Caipital" (??). That wis the beginnin o modren Beijing. Whan Kublai Khan, the Mongolian monarch, set up the Yuan deenasty, this ceity becam his caipital.

The Yuan, Ming, an Qing deenasties aw uised Beijing as their caipitals. Whan the Qing deenasty tint pouer an the Republic o Cheenae wis establisht, the new Republic muived its caipital fae Beijing tae Nanjing. Whan the communists claucht pouer an estaiblisht the People's Republic, Beijing becam the caipital o Cheenae ance again.

Internaitional relations

See also: Leet o twin touns an sister ceeties in Cheenae

Twin touns — sister ceeties

Beijing haes numerous twin touns an sister ceeties aroond the warld, mony o them the caipitals o their respective kintras:

Tokyo, Japan (1979) Belgrade, Serbie (1980) New York Ceety, Unitit States (1980) Lima, Peru (1983) Washington D.C., Unitit States (1984) Madrid, Spain (1985) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1986) Île-de-France, Fraunce (1987) Cologne, Germany (1987) Algiers, Algerie (1989) Amman, Jordan (1990) Ankara, Turkey (1990) Cairo, Egyp (1990) Jakarta, Indonesie (1992) Riga, Latvie São Paulo, Brazil

Islamabad, Pakistan (1993) Bangkok, Thailand (1993) Buenos Aires, Argentinae (1993) Kiev, Ukraine (1993) Seoul, Sooth Korea (1993) Amsterdam, Netherlands (1994) Berlin, Germany (1994) Brussels, Belgium (1994) Hanoi, Vietnam (1994) Moscow, Roushie (1995) Gauteng (Johannesburg an Pretoria), Sooth Africae (1998) Ottawa, Canadae (1999) Canberra, Australie (2000) Athens, Greece (2005) Bucharest, Romanie (2005) Budapest, Hungary (2005)

Havana, Cuba (2005) Manila, Philippines (2005) Addis Ababa, Ethiopie (2006) Astana, Kazakhstan (2006) Helsinki, Finland (2006) Lunnon, Unitit Kinrick (2006) Tel Aviv, Israel (2006) Wellington, New Zealand (2006) Lisbon, Portugal (2007) Tirana, Albanie (2007) Doha, Qatar (2008) Santiago, Chile (2008) San José, Costa Rica (2009) Caracas, Venezuela (2010) Dublin, Ireland (2011)

Pairtner ceeties

Beijing haes twa pairtner ceeties, baith in Europe:

Paris, Fraunce (1997) Roum, Italy (1998)

References

Precedit bi Lin'an (Song Dynasty)	Caipital o Cheenae (as Dadu) 1264–1368	Succeedit bi Nanjing (Ming Dynasty)
Precedit bi Nanjing (Ming Dynasty)	Caipital o Cheenae 1420–1928	Succeedit bi Nanjing (ROC)
Precedit bi Nanjing (ROC)	Caipital o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae 1949–present	Succeedit bi present caipital