Beijing
City:
King Wu was the first
to declare Beijing the
capital city in 1057
BC. Subsequently, the
city has gone by the
names of Ji, Zhongdu,
Dadu, and finally Beijing
when the Ming Dynasty
Emperor ChengZu chose
the name in 1421. Beijing
was also known as Peking
by the Western world
before 1949.
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