City
Beijing
Capital of China
What guided this image
- Landmarks
- The Forbidden City; The Palace of Heavenly Purity; The Hall of Supreme Harmony; The Meridian Gate, or Wumen; Preserve
- Viewpoint
- Use the conventional southward view from Jingshan Park over the Forbidden City, a representative view of the historic axis only when the surrounding modern metropolis remains visible and northern mountains are not falsely placed behind the south-facing scene.
- Palette
- Muted botanical green should predominate in Jingshan’s trees and the real planting around the palace margins, while slate-grey roofs and pale neutral renderings of glazed tiles maintain the large unplanted ceremonial spaces.
- Guarded against
- Avoid making Beijing look like a mountain-ringed Kyoto temple town, Xi’an dominated by an invented pagoda, or a city with the Great Wall running through the palace grounds.
Population18,960,744Wikidata: 19,612,368
Coordinates39.91°N, 116.40°E
Elevation43 m
Area16,411 km²
Time zoneAsia/ShanghaiUTC+8
Solar noon12:14clock runs 0.2 h ahead of the sun
Through the Earth
Dig straight through the Earth from Beijing and you surface nearest to General Conesa, Argentina — 76 km from the exact antipodal point.
Nearest cities in the atlas
| Tianjin | CN | 109 km |
| Baoding | CN | 141 km |
| Tangshan | CN | 155 km |
| Datong | CN | 266 km |
| Shijiazhuang | CN | 266 km |
| Jinan | CN | 364 km |
| Zibo | CN | 376 km |
| Liaocheng | CN | 386 km |
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