Which one is the capital city of China? Peking or Beijing?

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Jambo

Government China
Country name: conventional long form: People's Republic of China
conventional short form: China
local long form: Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo
local short form: Zhongguo
abbreviation: PRC
Government type: Communist state
Capital: name: Beijing
geographic coordinates: 39 55 N, 116 23 E
time difference: UTC+8 (13 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
note: despite its size, all of China falls within one time zone

Why was the capital of China once called Peking but is now called Beijing?
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).

Peter S

Both!!!!! Beijing is the chinese name and peking is the name that some europeans used to call as it was easier to pronounciate!!

why so serious!

They are both the same city, Peking is the cantonese pronunciation and Beijing is the Mandarin pronunciation, now China wants people to call it Beijing because Mandarin is the official language, they've done it to other places as well such as calling Canton Guangdong now.

dirk_hampstead

Beijing and Peking are the same place!
Peking is the traditional customary name for Beijing in English.

Alex

Peking is an older English transilteration of Beijing. Because our languages are so different it is difficult for us to create a definitive spelling or pronunciation in our language.

jasy

Both answers are not wrong. The chinese had standardised the name of their cities using Hanyu pinyin. Peking is an older term used. Just like Nanjing, its used to known as Nanking.

Ynot

They are both the same place, but the Chinese prefer us to us the English language spelling Beijing.

lotus

Beijing (also formerly known in English as Peking) The term Peking originated with French missionaries four hundreds ago. In 1949, the communist party of china restored the name Beijing after founding the People's Republic of China.

doodles

they both are
peking and beijing is the same place

David

NMS HKG

Beijing is the capital / so as Peking as they r just same meaning but in diff spelling. s'one called the city Beijing / n some called it Peking. actually it's the same place!! Peking is translated fr cantonese & Bejing fr mandarin.

Poison

They mean the same thing. Peking = Beijing

Emzii

beijing

Chrissi

Beijing.

One Deist

beijing

ISONUz

beijing!!!

DoodleFace

beijing...

twofourfunnlust

beijing

Snake

beijing

Melody Carol

It's both Peking and Beijing because they are just the same...

singh

beijing

Jolin J.

Everyone Knows. BEJING is it where they hosted the olympics!

chuuuu<33

beijing

laljose

Anything that ends with a ing

Prince of ROCK!

Introduction: Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China, is the nation's political and cultural center. It is an independently administered municipal district.

Area: 750 sq. km (290 sq. mi) province: 16,800 sq km (6552 sq mi)
Population:13.8 million
Country: People's Republic of China
Nationality: 95% Han Chinese
Main language: Mandarin (putonghua)
Time zone: GMT/UTC +8
Telephone area code: 010

http://www.beijingservice.com/beijingdiscover/beijingdintroduction.htm

2 cents

Peking is the capital of roasted Ducks

wormy

beijing

Worried Guy

ITs beijing thats why the olympics were there

its kindof obvious

Ć‡etin

hi,
please check out this link:
http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/infonation/index.asp?id=156

Martin the baby

San Francisco.

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