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Beijing (helpinfo) (pronounced /bed/ or /be/ in English; Chinese: Bijng, IPA: pit) (also formerly known in English as Peking (/pik/listen (info) or /pek/)) is a metropolis 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.6 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.7 Beijing is China's second largest city, after Shanghai.8 Beijing is a major transportation hub, with dozens of railways, roads and motorways passing through the city. It is also the focal point of many international flights to China. Beijing is recognised as the political, educational, and cultural center of the People's Republic of China,8 while Shanghai and Hong Kong predominate in economic fields.91011 The city hosted the 2008 Olympic Games. Few cities in the world besides Beijing have served as the political and cultural centre of an area as immense as China for so long.12 The Encyclopdia Britannica describes it as, "One of the world's great cities,"13 and declares, "The city has been an integral part of Chinas history over the past eight centuries, and nearly every major building of any age in Beijing has at least some national historical significance."12 Beijing is renowned for its opulent palaces, temples, and huge stone walls and gates.14 Its art treasures and universities have long made the city a centre of culture and art in China. Pequim (em chins ; em pinyin Bijng e Wade-Giles Peiching) capital da Repblica Popular da China e sua segunda cidade mais populosa. Pequim, cujo nome em mandarim significa capital do norte, durante sculos, foi a maior cidade do mundo; hoje tem cerca de 10,3 milhes de habitantes. Situada ao norte do pas, Pequim famosa pela Cidade Proibida, o palcio dos imperadores chineses desde o sculo XV. Foi capital do Imprio Chins de 1421 a 1911. Em 1912 a capital foi transferida para Nanquim e a cidade tomou o nome de Beiping (Wade-Giles: Peiping) (Paz do Norte); foi ocupada pelos japoneses entre 1937 e 1945. Tornou-se a capital da repblica em 1949 com o nome actual.Sabe-se da existncia de cidades na zona de Pequim no ano 1026 a.C., e a capital do Estado de Yan, um dos poderes do Perodo dos Estados Guerreiros foi erigida em Ji, perto da actual Pequim, embora a sua localizao exacta seja desconhecida. Foi abandonada no sculo VI.. Durante as dinastias Tang e Song, somente existiam pequenas aldeias na zona. A ltima dinastia Jin cedeu grande parte da sua rea fronteiria norte, incluindo Pequim, dinastia Liao no sculo X. A dinastia Liao fundou uma segunda capital numa cidade a que chamou Nanjing ("capital do Sul"). A dinastia Jin conquistou a Liao e o norte da China, fundando Zhongdu (), a "capital central". Os mongis, com Genghis Khan, arrasaram Zhongdu em 1215 e reconstruiram-na como Grande Capital (), a norte da capital Jin, sendo este o incio da Pequim contempornea. O explorador Marco Polo chama zona Cambaluc. Parece ser Kublai Khan, que desejava ser imperador da China, que estabeleceu a sua capital na zona norte por estar mais prxima sua origem mongol, o que realou a importncia da cidade apesar de estar j no limite norte da China.Beijing or Peking () means "northern capital", in line with the common East Asian tradition whereby capital cities are explicitly named as such. Other cities that are similarly named include Nanjing (), China, meaning "southern capital"; Tokyo (), Japan, and ng Kinh (Chinese: , now Hanoi), Vietnam, both meaning "eastern capital"; as well as Kyoto (), Japan, and (; now Seoul), Korea, both meaning simply "capital". Peking is the name of the city according to Chinese Postal Map Romanization, and the traditional customary name for Beijing in English (passports issued by the British Embassy are still printed as being issued by the "British Embassy, Peking"). The term Peking originated with French missionaries four hundred years ago and corresponds to an older pronunciation predating a subsequent sound change in Mandarin from k to t15 (t is represented in pinyin as j, as in Beijing). It is still used in many languages. The pronunciation "Peking" is also closer to the Fujianese dialect of Amoy or Min Nan spoken in the city of Xiamen, a port where European traders first landed in the 16th century, while "Beijing" more closely approximates the Mandarin dialect's pronunciation
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