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Beijing, [a] previously romanized as Peking, [b] is the capital city of China.With more than 22 million residents, [11] it is the world's most populous national capital city as well as China's second largest city after Shanghai. [12]
China is the third-largest country in the world by land area after Russia, and the third- or fourth-largest country in the world by total area. [ s ] China's total area is generally stated as being approximately 9,600,000 km 2 (3,700,000 sq mi). [ 174 ]
Beijing is a municipality located in North China at the northern tip of the North China Plain, near the meeting point of the Xishan and Yanshan mountain ranges.The city itself lies on flat land (elevation 20 to 60 m (66 to 200 ft)) that opens to the east and south.
List of countries ranked by the number of times they hosted or will host the Olympic Games Total Country Region First Year Last Year Summer Olympics Winter Olympics 10 United States: North America 1904: 2034: 5 (1904, 1932, 1984, 1996, 2028) 5 (1932, 1960, 1980, 2002, 2034) 7 France: Europe 1900: 2030: 3 (1900, 1924, 2024) 4 (1924, 1968, 1992 ...
Geography of China; Continent: Asia: Region: East/Southeast Asia: Coordinates: 1]: Area: Ranked 3/4: • Total: 9,596,960 [1] km 2 (3,705,410 sq mi): • Land: 97.2 [1] %: • Water: 2.8 [1] %: Coastline: 14,500 [1] km (9,000 mi): Borders: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Myanmar, India, North Korea, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Laos, Mongolia, Nepal, Russia, Tajikistan, Vietnam: Highest point: Mount ...
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 ...
The region of all countries bordering China is sometimes referred to by scholars as the China Rim, [3] [4] [5] or simply as China's periphery (Chinese: 中国周边). [6] The China Rim plays a significant role in competition between other countries and China, as is the case with America's China Containment Policy. [7]
Beijing is attracting overseas-trained academics back home, in an attempt to internationalise its universities. However, some professors educated to the PhD level in the West have reported feeling "marginalised" when they return to China due in large part to the country's “lack of international academic peer review and tenure track mechanisms”.