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Beijing

(Older Spelling) Pe·king
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[bey-jing]

noun

Pinyin.
  1. a city in and the capital of the People's Republic of China, in the northeastern part, in central Hebei province: traditional capital of China.



Beijing

/ ˈbeɪˈdʒɪŋ /

noun

  1. Former English name: Pekingthe capital of the People's Republic of China, in the northeast in Beijing municipality (traditionally in Hebei province); the country's second largest city: dates back to the 12th century bc ; consists of two central walled cities, the Outer City (containing the commercial quarter) and the Inner City, which contains the Imperial City, within which is the Purple or Forbidden City; many universities. Pop: 10 849 000 (2005 est)

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Beijing

  1. Capital of the People's Republic of China, located in the northeast region of the country. It is the second-largest city of China (after Shanghai) and the political, cultural, financial, educational, and transportation center of the country. The West knew it for many years as Peking.

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Site of Tiananmen Square, where communist leaders suppressed a democratic protest in June 1989.
The Forbidden City, within the inner or Tatar City, was the residence of the emperor of China.
In 1949, the Chinese communists declared Beijing the capital of the People's Republic of China.
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Example Sentences

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Already since April, Beijing has required licences for certain exports of the materials, hitting global manufacturing sectors.

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He either doesn’t care or he lacks the cognitive capacity to understand that Riyadh and Beijing have a formal security partnership.

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Japan said Tuesday it scrambled aircraft after detecting a suspected Chinese drone off an island near Taiwan that has been drawn into a weeks-long diplomatic spat between Tokyo and Beijing.

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