Beijing | |
Chinese | 北京 |
Hanyu Pinyin | Běijīng |
Postal | Peking Peiping (1368–1403; 1928–1937; 1945–1949) |
Literal meaning | "Northern Capital" |
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The city of Běijīng 北京 in northern China has been China's capital for centuries. However the name has not been consistently transcribed into Roman letters.
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Both Beijing and Peking actually refer to the same two characters in Chinese, that is, 北京. Their different spellings are a result of them being products of ...
Beijing, sometimes Romanized as Peking, is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world. The population as of ...