Beijing Maps

  • City Name:
    Beijing ("Northern Capital", Chinese: 北京, Pinyin: beijing)
  • Population :
    Municipality 17,430,000 , Metro: 11,940,000
  • Location :
    Situated at 40° north latitude and 116° east longitude. It is 43m above sea level and 183km from the sea.
  • Overview:
    As the center of 1000 years of imperial rule, Beijing was built to express the power of the emperor. Long, straight boulevards and avenues are crisscrossed by a network of lanes. Beijing features a vast number of "must-see" attractions.
Beijing Map
Beijing Map
Beijing Map
Beijing Map
Beijing Map
Beijing Map
Beijing Map
Beijing Map
badaling great wall
Badaling is a good introduction to the Great Wall. Authentically reconstructed, Badaling shows the Great Wall as it would have looked originally, and it does not look too new.
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beijing acrobats
In Beijing one can see breath-holding acrobatics, some of which can be so demanding in the timing and balancing skill as to verge on the impossible.
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Beijing Opera
Artists from Beijing's Peking Opera Theatre offer one of Chinese quintessence-Peking Opera.
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beijing University
The 150-hectare campus was once part of the imperial parklands. Shaoyuan, in the southwest corner of the campus, landscaped in the southern Chinese style, was built in late Ming Dynasty.
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Beijing Dajue Temple
Dajue Temple is best known for its Yulan trees, planted almost 300 years ago. The finest being the magnolias.
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Forbidden City
The Forbidden City Museum was established on the foundation of the palace that was the ritual center of two dynasties, the Ming and the Qing, and their collections of treasures.
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Prince Gong's Mansion
Prince Gong's Mansion is the sole prince's mansion open to the public and the most well preserved mansion in Beijing.
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Beijing Lhama Temple
The Lhama Temple, northeast of downtown Beijing, is the most famous Tibetan Buddhist temple outside of Tibet .
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Beijing Summer Palace
The Summer Palace, one of the finest examples garden architecture in China and dates back more than 800 years when the first emperor of the Jin Dynasty moved his capital to the vicinity of Beijing,
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Temple of Heaven
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the temple was the site of imperial sacrifices to Heaven. It was here that the emperor conducted the ceremonies to appease "the Supreme Ruler of the Universe."
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Yuanmingyuan
In a quiet section of the suburbs of Beijing to the northwest of Qinghua University, there once stood a complex of gardens known as the Yuanmingyuan.
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tanzhe temple
The Temple of the Poor and the Wild Mulberry was first built in the Western Jin and Eastern Jin dynasties (265-420), when it was known as the Temple of Excellent Blessings.
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