Beijing (chn)

Beijing

Beijing ranks 105th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Zürich, Split, Croatia, and Yokohama. Memorable people born in Beijing include Xi Jinping, Empress Dowager Cixi, and Jet Li. Memorable people who died in Beijing include Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Kangxi Emperor. Beijing has been the birth place of many politicians, and actors and the death place of many politicians, and writers. Beijing is located in China.

Beijing, alternatively romanized as Peking, is the capital of China. With about 22 million residents, Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city as well as China's second largest city after Shanghai. It is located in Northern China, and is governed as a municipality under the direct administration of the State Council with 16 urban, suburban, and rural districts. Beijing is mostly surrounded by Hebei Province with the exception of neighboring Tianjin to the southeast; together, the three divisions form the Jingjinji megalopolis and the national capital region of China. Read more on Wikipedia