Beijing

Municipality of Beijing
	Municipality of Beijing; 北京市
	Forbidden CityForbidden City
	Location of the Municipality of Beijing within ChinaLocation of the Municipality of Beijing within China
Coordinates:
Settled	473 BC
	Government
- Type	Municipality
- CPC Ctte Secretary	Liu Qi
- Mayor	Guo Jinlong
	Area (ranked 29th)
- City	16,801.25 km² (6,487 sq mi)
Elevation	43.5 m (ft143 foot)
	Population (2017)
- City	21,707,000
- Density	1,292/km² (Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character ","./sq mi)
- Metro	24,000,000
- Density rank	(4th)
Time zone	China Standard Time (UTC+8)
Postal code	100000 - 102629
Area code(s)	10
	Website: www.beijing.gov.cn

Beijing (Chinese: 北京 /Běijīng/), People's Republic of China ke capital city hai. Iske pahile naam Peking rahaa. Ii China ke north eastern part me hai. Iske population lag bhag 21 million hai. 2008 me hian pe Olympic Games bhais rahaa.

Jin dynasty ke time se ii ek capital city rahaa. Ii city ke dher historic site hai jaise ki Summer Palace, the Temple of Heaven, aur Great Wall of China.

Beijing ke naam ke matlab Chinese bhasa me "the northern capital" hai. Iske counterpart Nanjing rahaa, "the southern capital", Ming Dynasty ke time.

Beijing ke 14 urban aur suburban districts aur dui rural counties me baata gais hae.^[1] Beijing ek khaas transportation hub hae, aur dher railway, rasta aur motorway city me se pass hoe hae. Dher international flights bhi hian pe teminate hoe hae. Beijing, china ke political, educational aur |cultural center hae. ^[2] while Hong Kong and Shanghai predominate in economic fields.^[3]^[4]^[5] The city hosted the 2008 Olympic Games.

Itihaas

Purana itihaas

Beijing me insaan ke sab se pahile rahe ke sabuut Dragon Bone Hill ke gufa, jon ki Zhoukoudian gaon, Fangshan District ke lage hae, jahan pe Peking Man rahat rahaa. Ii gufaa ke Homo erectus fossils 230,000 se 250,000 saal purana hae. Paleolithic homo sapiens 27,000 saal pahile talak jinda rahin.^[6] 1st millennium BC talak Beijing ke lage her siti rahaa, aur Ji (薊/蓟), jon ki Yan ke capital rahaa, Warring States Period (473–221 BC), ek taagatwar des rahaa.^[7]

Yan dynasty ke khalaas hoe ke baad, Qin, Han, aur Jin dynasties ii jagha pe rahaa.^[8] Han dynasty ke gire ke time, ispe warlord Gongsun Zan raj karat raha. Tang Dynasty ke time, ii Fanyang jiedushi ke heaquarters rahaa, jon ki northern Hebei ilaka ke military governor rahaa. An Shi Rebellion AD 755 me suruu bhais rahaa.