postgres Beijing is the capital of the People's Republic of China and a municipality directly under the central government (division code 110000); it is also a key site of the May Fourth Movement and modern scholarship. /en/places/beijing/relation/located_in-in.html place_beijing place beijing Peking 北京 北京市 Peiping

Beijing is the capital of the People's Republic of China and a municipality directly under the central government (division code 110000); it is also a key site of the May Fourth Movement and modern scholarship.

published category-history category-geography tag-modern-china tag-education tag-admin-division s1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing mca2023 https://www.mca.gov.cn/mzsj/xzqh/2023/202301xzqh.html 代码 110000 北京市 wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q956 zhwiki https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/北京市 信息框 baidu https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%8C%97%E4%BA%AC%E5%B8%82/126069 基本信息 2026-10-24T00:00:00+08:00 2026-10-25T00:00:00+08:00 user:admin 7 ## Administrative division Beijing is a provincial-level division (municipality) of the People's Republic of China[^mca2023]. It has 16 districts[^mca2023]: [[place_cn_110101|Dongcheng]], [[place_cn_110102|Xicheng]], [[place_cn_110105|Chaoyang]], [[place_cn_110106|Fengtai]], [[place_cn_110107|Shijingshan]], [[place_cn_110108|Haidian]], [[place_cn_110109|Mentougou]], [[place_cn_110111|Fangshan]], [[place_cn_110112|Tongzhou]], [[place_cn_110113|Shunyi]], [[place_cn_110114|Changping]], [[place_cn_110115|Daxing]], [[place_cn_110116|Huairou]], [[place_cn_110117|Pinggu]], [[place_cn_110118|Miyun]], [[place_cn_110119|Yanqing]]. ## Basic facts - Administrative division code: 110000[^mca2023] - Area: 16,410.54 km²[^zhwiki] - Resident population: 21.80 million (end of 2025)[^baidu] - GDP: CNY 5.20734 trillion (2025)[^baidu]; per capita about CNY 239,000 (2025)[^zhwiki] - Seat of government: No. 57 Yunhe East Street, Tongzhou District[^baidu] - Telephone area code: 010; postal code: 100000[^baidu] - ISO 3166-2: CN-BJ[^zhwiki] - Licence plate codes: 京A–京Q, 京Y[^baidu] - Climate: warm-temperate semi-humid to semi-arid monsoon climate[^baidu] - Time zone: China Standard Time (UTC+8)[^zhwiki] - City flowers: Chinese rose and chrysanthemum; city trees: Chinese arborvitae and Chinese scholar tree[^zhwiki] ## History - 1368: replaced Dadu (Khanbaliq) of the Yuan dynasty[^wikidata]. - From 1421: named Beijing, until 7 June 1928[^wikidata]. - 8 June 1928 – 28 July 1937: Peiping[^wikidata]. - 29 July 1937 – 2 September 1945: Beijing[^wikidata]. - 3 September 1945 – 30 September 1949: Peiping[^wikidata]. - From 1 October 1949: Beijing[^wikidata]. ## Academic and public life [[organization_pku|Peking University]] is in Beijing. 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