This article is about the name of the city Beijing that is currently the capital of the People's Republic of China. For other uses, see Beijing (disambiguation).
A 1584 map of China by Abraham Ortelius (based on a manuscript map by Luiz Jorge de Barbuda (Ludovicus Georgius), with Beijing marked as C[ivitas] Paquin (to the right which is north on the map)
"Beijing" is from pinyin Běijīng, which is romanized from 北京, the Chinese name for this city. The pinyin system of transliteration was approved by the Chinese government in 1958, but little used until 1979. It was gradually adopted by various news organizations, governments, and international agencies over the next decade.[1]
^Lost Laowai. "From Peking to Beijing: A Long and Bumpy Trip Archived 2022-02-18 at the Wayback Machine". Accessed 21 October 2012.
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university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project...
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