What is capital of China?

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gilbert

beijing

itristan

As the capital of the People's Republic of China Beijing (Its former English name is Peking) is the national political and cultural center. It's both an old and a new city--old in its cultural heritage and new as the capital of the country. The history of Beijing dates way back centuries.. The fragments of the bones of "Peking Man" discovered in a village south west of present day city and they predicted the period about 300 000----500 000 years ago. In the same area the fossils of the "Upper Cave Man" dating back 18 000 years were also found.

In the later 1 000 years it had been China's political and cultural center. Beijing was formed as the secondary capital of the Liao Kingdom (916-1125) in 938. In the Jin Kingdom (1115-1234) Beijing began to serve as the central capital in 1151.

In 1263 just before the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) was founded, Beijing was made by Kublai Khan, the Great Capital and a grand metropolitan city which became the center of international cultural exchanges in the Orient. When the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) decided to move the capital from Nanjing to Beijing, the foundation of the layout of present Beijing was laid in 1404 and started a large-scale construction. Many of the ancient palace buildings, temple structures and gardens that are still visible today can be traced back to this period or later.

WickedGenius

It's called Beijing but it was formerly known as Peking.
Prior to 1958, the Chinese government used the Wade-Giles system to transliterate Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet. After 1958 the government switched, and the rest of the world followed, to the pinyin system of transliteration so now we call the capital city Beijing (pinyin) instead of Peking (Wade-Giles).(about.com)

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Beijing.

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beijing

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Beijing

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Beijing.
Not sure of the purpose for this question.If you could have tried searching you could have got it instantly. Nevertheless thanks for 2 points.

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Beijing

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Bejjing!!

BEIJING

capital of the most populous nation on the earth and first city of a land that has fired the global imagination , beijing is the striking metropolitan core of a country with one of the world's oldest civilisations.
for decades at the fringes of world events , beijing now finds itself positioned in the spotlight as the dynamic nucleus of a country generating staggering GDP figures. pundits talk of the 21st century as belonging to China and China itself - as everyone knows - belong to BEIJING

-traveller gurl-