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Encyclopedia > Xuanwu District, Beijing

Xuanwu District (Simplified Chinese: 宣武区, Hanyu Pinyin: Xuānwǔ Qū) is a district of the municipality of Beijing. It lies to the southwest of the old city. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Simplified Chinese characters (Simplified Chinese: 简体字; Traditional Chinese: 簡體字; pinyin: jiǎntǐzì; also called 简化字/簡化字, jiǎnhuàzì) are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ... Pinyin (拼音, Pīnyīn) literally means join (together) sounds (a less literal translation being phoneticize, spell or transcription) in Chinese and usually refers to Hànyǔ Pīnyīn (汉语拼音, literal meaning: Han language pinyin), which is a system of romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration to roman script) for Standard Mandarin used in the... Beijing  listen (Chinese: 北京; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Pei-ching; ; Postal System Pinyin: Peking), is the capital city of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ...


It is 17 square kilometres in area, making it the third-largest district in the old city part of Beijing, and is home to 410,000 inhabitants (2002). Its postal code is 100054. 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Postal code for the Peoples Republic of China is under a numeric 6-digit system for the whole country. ...



edit  (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Beijing&action=edit) County-level divisions of Beijing
Districts: Dongcheng | Xicheng | Chongwen | Xuanwu | Chaoyang | Haidian | Fengtai | Shijingshan
Mentougou | Fangshan | Tongzhou | Shunyi | Changping | Daxing | Huairou | Pinggu
Counties: Miyun | Yanqing
see also: Township-level divisions of Beijing

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Xuanwu District/Precinct (Simplified Chinese: 宣武区; pinyin: Xuānwǔ Qū) is a precinct of the municipality of Beijing.
It is 17 square kilometres in area, making it the third-largest district in the old city part of Beijing, and is home to 410,000 inhabitants (2002).
Although rich in history and one of the older districts of the once Imperial City, the Xuanwu is undergoing rapid changes.
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