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Area: 16,808 km2
Population: 14,930,000 (2004)
Metropolitan area: approx. 7.5 million
Density: 888/km2
GDP: CNY 428.3 billion (2004)
Per capita: CNY 28,700
Major nationalities: Han-96%, Manchu-2%,
Hui-2%, Mongol-0.3% (2000)
Beijing, a city in northern China, is the capital of the
People's Republic of China (PRC). Beijing is one of the
four municipalities of the PRC, equivalent to a province
in China's administrative structure. Beijing Municipality
borders Hebei Province to the north, west, south, and
for a small section in the east, and Tianjin Municipality
to the southeast.
Beijing is China's second largest city in terms of population,
after Shanghai. It is a major transportation hub, with
dozens of railways, roads and expressways entering and
leaving it in all directions. It is also the focal point
of many international flights to China. Beijing is recognized
as the political, educational, and cultural center of
the PRC, while Shanghai and Hong Kong predominate in economic
fields.
Beijing is one of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of
China. It will also host the 2008 Summer Olympics. Beijing
literally means "northern capital", in line
with the common East Asian tradition whereby capital cities
are explicitly named as such. Other cities similarly named
include Nanjing, China, meaning "southern capital";
Tokyo, Japan, and Tonkin (now Hanoi), Vietnam, both meaning
"eastern capital"; as well as Kyoto, Japan,
and Gyeongseong (now Seoul), Korea, both meaning simply
"capital".
The traditional customary name for Beijing in English
is Peking. The term originated with French missionaries
four hundred years ago, and corresponds to an older pronunciation
predating a subsequent sound change in Mandarin from [k?]
to [t?]. ([t?] is represented in pinyin as j, as in Beijing.)
In China, the city has had many names. Between 1928 and
1949, it was known as Beiping ( Pinyin: Beiping, Wade-Giles:
Pei-p'ing), literally "Northern Peace". The name
was changed — with the removal of the element meaning
"capital" (jing or king,) — to reflect the
fact that, with the Kuomintang government having established
its capital in Nanking (pinyin: Nanjing), Peking was no longer
the capital of China, and that the warlord government based
in Peking was not legitimate.
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