Beijing (English: Municipality of Beijing for the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet: Běijīng Shì). Referred to as Beijing, the old translation of Peking.

Beijing (Běijīng) is a metropolis in northern China and the capital of the People's Republic of China. North China Plain is located at the northern end of Beijing, Tianjin, southeast of the local region and connected to the rest surrounded by Hebei Province. Beijing is China's second largest city, but also China's total land and air transport hub and the most important domestic and international exchange center. Beijing has successfully hosted the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
Beijing has more than 3,000 years of history and the history of 850 years of capital, is the world's historical and cultural city and one of China's four major ancient capitals. Its strategic location, is the All-China where the political center of the ideal. As early as 70 years ago, the Beijing Zhoukoudian area on a primitive community, "Beijing", Beijing's name was first recorded in a "thistle."
Only a handful of global cities such as Beijing, as long as a country's political and cultural center. "Encyclopaedia Britannica" the Beijing described as "One of the world's great cities", and asserted that "the history of the city is China's most important component. In China over the past eight centuries, regardless of whether or not a long history, almost all the major buildings in Beijing have an indelible mark on the national and historical significance. " Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Summer Palace, Beihai numerous monuments, etc. The city also added a more gorgeous colors.
Today's Beijing, but has developed into a modern international metropolis: the world's top 500 enterprises, a total of 21, headquartered in Beijing, the world's fifth highest [8]; Financial Street, Beijing Central Business District and other business district is in Beijing opening up, and a symbol of economic strength. In addition, China National Grand Theater, Beijing Capital International Airport Terminal 3, China Central Television headquarters building, "Bird's Nest" and other construction has become a symbol of modern Beijing. Beijing is also the oldest of its stylish new look to welcome more than 100 million each year 47 million passengers.

Latitude and longitude
City Center is located at latitude 39 degrees 54 minutes 20 seconds east longitude 116 degrees 23 minutes 29 seconds. The city's north-south cross-latitude 1 degree 37 minutes east-west cross-2 degrees 05 minutes longitude.
State
The People's Republic of China
Area
18. Beijing City has jurisdiction over 16 districts, two counties.
Township
The city the number of township-level divisions 317, a total of 134 district offices and 183 townships (in 2007, the Beijing Civil Affairs Bureau).
Government
Dongcheng District, Beijing Municipal Government is located just on the 2nd Rd. Party Secretary Liu Qi, Mayor Guo Jinlong.
Area
The city area of 16,410.54 square kilometers (2007, China's provincial-level administrative section 29, the Beijing Municipal Land Resources Bureau). One urban area of 1,368.32 square kilometers, an area of 1,254.2 square kilometers of built-up area (No. 1 Chinese cities). Mountain area of 10,417.5 square kilometers, accounting for 62% of the city area; Plain area of 6,390.3 square kilometers, accounting for 38% of the city area.
Elevation
The city average of 43.5 meters above sea level. Beijing Plain in the altitude of 20-60 meters, 1,000-1,500 meters above sea level the mountain in general. Beijing East Mountain peak, 2,303 meters above sea level.
Population
The city's resident population of 1,695 million people (in 2008 over the previous year 62 million people, China's first provincial-level administrative region 26), the city's population density is 1,033 people / sq km (Chinese provincial-level administrative section 4, after Macau, Hong Kong, Shanghai). One person household population of 12,299,000, 4,651,000 foreign population, representing the proportion of the resident population to 27.4%. Urban population of 1,012.3 million (in 2007, China's No. 2 city, after Shanghai), population density 7,398 people / sq km. The city's birth rate 8.32 ‰, mortality rate 4.92 ‰, the natural growth rate of 3.4 ‰ (2007 years).
National
Beijing is China's first 56 nations gathered in the city, including ethnic minority population of 480,384, representing the city's total population of 3.84% (2007) [3]. 95.69% population of the city's Han, in addition to Han, the Hui, Manchu, Mongolian, Korean-Chinese population are more than 10,000 people. In addition, the population in more than a thousand people are Zhuang, Uygur, Miao, Tujia, Tibetan.
Religious
Beijing residents over 50 million religious believers, accounting for about 4 percent throughout the city. Religious faith is Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholicism, Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism and Islam on Beijing's history, culture, art had a greater impact. Beijing venues for religious activities of the existing more than 100.
Time
Beijing (China Standard Time) (UTC +8)
Postal Code
100000-102629 [4]
Telephone Code
010 (+86)
Vehicle license
Jing-A (1996 year), B (taxis), C (1996 years), E (1997 end), F (2002 years), G (the outer districts and counties of motor vehicles), H (2004 on 4 years), J (June 2005), K (2006 on 8 years), L (2007 on 8 years), M (2008 on 4 years), N (2008 on 10 years), O (the public security department administrative vehicles), P ( December 2008), Y (2008 years, the outer districts and counties of motor vehicles) [5]
Dialect
Beijing dialect (Beijing dialect) [6]
GDP
10,488 million yuan [7] (in 2008, an increase of 9% over the previous year; China's 10 provincial-level administrative section, except for Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan). Per capita GDP 63,029 yuan (5.2 percent increase over the previous year; Chinese provincial-level administrative section 2, after Shanghai, except for Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan).
Human Development Index
0.882 (high, 2005; China's provincial-level administrative section 5, second only to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Shanghai, Macau)
City trees
Sophora japonica, oriental arborvitae
Flower
Rose, chrysanthemum