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Beijing Travel Guide

Beijing is well known for its flatness and regular construction. There is only one hill to be found in the city limits.Like the configuration of the Forbidden City, Beijing has concentric "ring roads", which are actually rectangular, that go around the metropolis.

About Beijing

Beijing covers an area of 6,487 sq miles (16,801 square Km) and is estimated to have a population of 17.5 million people being the capital and second most populous city in China. It is a major transportation hub, with dozens of railways, roads and motorways passing through the city.

Chinese Ethnic Museum

In Chinese Ethnic Museum, one can appreciate the traditional national buildings and customs of various ethnic groups, watch the song and dance performance, purchase the national handicraft and can also taste the delicacies of different ethnic groups personally.

The whole museum is divided into North Garden and South Garden with an area of 450,000 square meters. There are 16 national villages in the North Garden including those of Qiang, Oroqen and Hezhe ethnic groups.

There is the biggest domestic casting iron sculpture, artificial tropical banyan forest, water-eroded cave, Panlong Waterfall, rock pictures and supernatural wood of Alishan in the North Garden. There is national museum, Sculpture Square and over 20 national villages in the South Garden. All buildings adopt the proportion of 1:1. 



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