Also known as
  • Peking,
  • Beijing,
  • Beijing Shi,
  • Peiping Municipality,
  • Peiping Municipal Administrative Area,
  • Pei-P’Ing Shih,
  • Pei-P'Ing Shih,
  • Peipingshih,
  • Peking Municipality,
  • 北京
Beijing (Chinese: ) is a city in northern China and the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the four municipalities of the PRC, which are equivalent to provinces in China's administrative structure. Beijing is one of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China, and has also been known in English as Peking . The municipality of Beijing borders Hebei Province to the north, west, south, and for a small section in the east, and Tianjin Municipality to the southeast. Beijing is... full article at wikipedia

  Location

ISO 3166-2 Code
  • CN-11
FIPS 10-4 Region Code
  • CH22
Official symbols
Population
number
date
  • 17,430,000
  • 2007
GDP (nominal)
GDP (nominal per capita)
CO2 emissions - total
CO2 emissions - residential
CO2 emissions - commercial
CO2 emissions - industrial
CO2 emissions - mobile
Automobiles per capita
Places exported to
Places imported from
Major exports
Major imports

  Government

Body this is a component of
Component bodies
Offices/Positions Within the Body
Members
office holder
office, position, or title
jurisdiction of office
from
to
  • 1988
  • 1991
Jurisdiction
Committees

  Time

Offset from UCT
  • 8.0h
Day DST begins
Day DST ends
Locations in this time zone