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Capital of the People's Republic of China, Beijing is a beautiful city in the northern part of China. Due it its strategic location, Beijing is an important international trading center of China. Located close to the Tianjin Municipality, Beijing has an excellent geography with an area of more than 16, 410 square kilometers and population of 14.93 million people. AsiaRooms offers to give you online information on Geography of Beijing, China. Characterized mainly by flat land, Beijing also has hills in the north, northwest and west of Beijing. Western part of Beijing is bordered by the Xishan Mountains. Yongding River and Chaobai River are the two major rivers flowing through the city thereby making the geography of Beijing more beautiful. This capital city of China is located between 116-20' east longitude and 39-56' north latitude and has Tianjin city on its eastern border and Hebei province on the north, south and the west. Four distinct seasons are a major highlighting feature of the Geography of Beijing. With late spring and autumn being the best seasons for tourists to visit the city, you can see large number of tourists during these times of the year. Autumn is regarded as the golden tourist season of the year. Average temperature of Beijing in January is at around -7 to -4 while average temperature in July are at 25 to 26 0C. With approximately 16, 410 square kilometer of area, around 10, 417.5 square kilometers is mountainous and 6, 390.3 accounting to plain area. Diverse climatic conditions, mountainous and plain terrain and a long coastline of around 14, 500 kilometer make the geography of Beijing interesting and the place to be. The city also suffers from heavy pollution and poor air quality due to increase in traffic and industrial pollution affecting the natural geography of Beijing. AsiaRooms offers to give you online information on Geography of Beijing, China.
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