有关世界城市的英语阅读

① 求助，全世界各国，各主要城市的英语

Angola 安哥拉
Afghanistan 阿富汗
Albania 阿尔巴尼亚
Algeria 阿尔及利亚
Andorra 安道尔共和国
Anguilla 安圭拉岛
Antigua and Barbuda 安提瓜和巴布达
Argentina 阿根廷
Armenia 亚美尼亚
Ascension 阿森松
Australia 澳大利亚
Austria 奥地利
Azerjan 阿塞拜疆
Bahamas 巴哈马
Bahrain 巴林
Bangladesh 孟加拉国
Barbados 巴巴多斯
Belarus 白俄罗斯
Belgium 比利时
Belize 伯利兹
Benin 贝宁
Bermuda Is. 百慕大群岛
Bolivia 玻利维亚
Botswana 博茨瓦纳
Brazil 巴西
Brunei 文莱
Bulgaria 保加利亚
Burkina-faso 布基纳法索
Burma 缅甸
Burundi 布隆迪
Cameroon 喀麦隆
Canada 加拿大
Cayman Is. 开曼群岛
Central African Republic 中非共和国
Chad 乍得
Chile 智利
China 中国
Colombia 哥伦比亚
Congo 刚果
Cook Is. 库克群岛
Costa Rica 哥斯达黎加
Cuba 古巴
Cyprus 塞浦路斯
Czech Republic 捷克
Denmark 丹麦
Djibouti 吉布提
Dominica Rep. 多米尼加共和国
Ecuador 厄瓜多尔
Egypt 埃及
EI Salvador 萨尔瓦多
Estonia 爱沙尼亚
Ethiopia 埃塞俄比亚
Fiji 斐济
Finland 芬兰

② 用英语介绍两个世界著名的城市

一、London 伦敦
Not much is known about the earliest London Bridge although it's location is thought to be near the present one. The second bridge a wooden one existing in Saxon times seems to have given rise to the nursery rhyme 'London Bridge is falling down' which it did in 1014. In 1176 the first stone bridge was constructed. Houses sprung up on both sides of the bridge and stood until it was pulled down in 1831, making way for a more elegant, classic structure. This bridge was replaced in 1967 as it could no longer cope with the amount of traffic. The present London Bridge is more 100 feet wide.The London Bridge preceding the current one was bought by the McCulloch Oil Corporation of California, which reconstructed it at Lake Havasu City, in a corner of America's Arizona Desert. Rumour has it that McCulloch's thought they were buying the much more spectacular Tower Bridge.The Construction of Tower Bridge began in 1885 and it was opened 9yrs later by Edward VII the then Prince of Wales, Amidst pomp and ceremony. It is the only bridge in London that can be raised to allow ships to pass. Since the Thames is no longer used much as a trade and shipping route, the complex lifting mechanism is only used 4 or 5 times a week. The Tower bridge is often mistaken for London Bridge which is ll in comparison.
二、Venice 威尼斯
What images come to mind when you think of a trip to Venice? No doubt you imagine yourselftaking a romantic gondola ride along narrow canals and under delicate bridges. Perhaps youpicture the beautiful old buildings and famous works of art that have made the city one ofEurope's leading tourist spots.
想到威尼斯一游，你的脑海中会浮现出什么画面？毫无疑问你一定会想象自己乘坐浪漫的平底船，沿着窄窄的运河航行，从一座座别致的桥下穿梭而过。也许你还会在脑海中勾勒出那些让威尼斯成为欧洲一流旅游胜地的美丽古老建筑和艺术名作。
Venice was built on more than 100 islands and has about 150 canals. The best-known of these, the Grand Canal,functions as the"main street"in the part of the city most popular with visitors. The canal winds through eachof the six districts that comprise this historic city center beforereaching Venice Lagoon.
威尼斯建在100多个小岛上，拥有大约150条运河。最有名的运河就是"大运河"，它位于市区游客最多的地方，并发挥"大街"的功能。这条运河在构成这个历史上的市中心的六个行政区间蜿蜒穿流，最后流入威尼斯湖。
One of these districts, San Marco, is home to many of Venice's main attractions, including St. Mark's Basilica. This spectacular church has five main arches and some extraordinary onion-shaped domes. It is decorated with priceless treasures, many of which were stolen from othercountries when medieval Venice was a leading seapower.
行政区之一的圣马可是许多威尼斯主要旅游景的中心，包括圣马可大教堂。这座雄伟的大教堂有五道大拱门和数座壮观的洋葱形圆顶。教堂用很贵重的珠宝装饰，其中许多是在中世纪威尼斯称霸海权时从其它国家掠夺来的。

③ 如下英语阅读题---- 求解Three famous cities in the world

世界三个著名的城市，威尼斯
它是在意大利的东北部，它被建在120个小岛周围，这专座城市没有陆地，反而属人们使用船来穿过小河，平地曾经是主要的交通运输，但是现在摩托艇很受欢迎，你应该看见St.Mark's ，它有美丽文艺复兴建筑。

④ 关于国外的著名城市 用英语说

世界著名城市英文名

America:

纽约 New York

洛杉矶 Los Angeles

芝加哥 Chicago

休斯敦 Houston

费城 Philadelphia

菲尼斯 Phoneix

圣迭戈 San Diego

达拉斯 Dallas

圣安东尼奥 San Antonio

底特律 Detroit

圣约瑟 San Jose

印第安纳波利斯 Indianapolis

旧金山 San Francisco

哥伦布 Columbus

奥斯汀 Austin

巴尔的摩 Baltimore

波士顿 Boston

华盛顿 Washington D.C

帕索 Paso

西雅图 Seattle

丹佛 Denver

夏洛特 Charlotte

沃斯堡 Fort Worth

波特兰 Portland

新奥尔良 New Orleans

拉斯维加斯 Las Vegas

克利夫兰 Cleveland

奥克兰 Oakland

亚伯科基 Albuquerque

堪萨斯城 Kansas

弗吉尼亚 Virginia

亚特兰大 Argentina

萨加门多 Sacramento

奥马哈 Omaha

米尼亚波尼斯 Minneapolis

檀香山 Honolulu

惠科塔 Wichita

科罗拉多斯普林斯 Colorado Springs

圣路易斯 St. Louis

匹兹堡 Pittsburgh

圣塔安那 Santa Ana

阿灵顿 Arlington

辛辛那提 Cincinnati

Europe:

英国 England：

伦敦 London

多佛 Dover

剑桥 Cambridge

南安普敦 Southampton

利物浦 Liverpool

法国 France：

巴黎 Paris

里昂 Lyon

马赛 Marseille

尼斯 Nice

图卢兹 Toulouse

戛纳 Cannes

波尔多 Bordeaux

德国 German：

柏林 Berlin

慕尼黑 Munich

汉堡 Hamburg

汉诺威 Hanover

法兰克福 Frankfurt

瑞士Switzerland：

伯尔尼 Bern

苏黎世 Zurich

日内瓦 Geneva

比利时Belgium：

布鲁塞尔 Brussels

阿尔斯特 Aalst

哈塞尔特 Hasselt

保加利亚Bulgaria：

索非亚 Sofia

波兰 Poland：

华沙 Warsaw

捷克斯洛伐克Czech Republic:

布拉格 Prague

布拉迪斯拉发 Bratislava

瑞典Sweden：

斯德哥尔摩 Stockholm

兰德 Lund

哥德堡 Gothenburg

挪威Norway：

奥斯陆 Oslo

卑尔根 Bergen

芬兰Finland：

赫尔辛基 Helsinki

丹麦Denmark：

哥本哈根 Copenhagen

奥尔堡 Aalborg

荷兰Netherlands：

阿姆斯特丹 Amsterdam

鹿特丹 Rotterdam

意大利 Italy：

罗马 Rome

米兰 Milan

拿波里 Naples

都灵 Turin

威尼斯 Venice

佛洛伦萨 Florence

西班牙 Spain：

马德里 Madrid

巴塞罗那 Barcelona

瓦伦西亚 Valencia

葡萄牙Portugal：

里斯本 Lisbon

波尔图 Porto

希腊Greece：

雅典 Athens

Australia:

悉尼 Sydney

墨尔本 Melbourne

堪培拉Canberra

布里斯班Brisbane
http://www.dotrading.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=941&catid=2&Itemid=4

维基网络英文版里的介绍很多，再网络网页上输入“维基网络”就可以了，记得选择第一个英文版。

然后搜索城市名。信息全，也有很多照片。

⑤ 英语阅读,一个城市的起落是哪篇阅读

lucy 正确

⑥ 急需一篇有关 城市 的英语文章

A city is an urban area that is differentiated from a town, village, or hamlet by size, population density, importance, or legal status.

In most parts of the world, cities are generally substantial and nearly always have an urban core, but in the United States many incorporated areas which have a very modest population, or a suburban or even mostly rural character, are designated as cities. City can also be a synonym for "downtown" or a "city centre".

A city usually consists of residential, instrial and business areas together with administrative functions which may relate to a wider geographical area. A large share of a city's area is primarily taken up by housing, which is then supported by infrastructure such as roads, streets and often public transport routes such as a subway or a metro rail system. Lakes and rivers may be the only undeveloped areas within the city. The study of cities is covered extensively in human geography.

"The city is a human habitat that allows people to form relations with others at various levels of intimacy while remaining entirely anonymous." (This definition was the subject of an exhibition at the Israeli pavilion at the 2000 Venice Biennale of architecture)

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The difference between towns and cities
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The difference between towns and cities is differently understood in different parts of the English speaking world. There is no one standard international definition of a city: the term may be used either for a town possessing city status; for an urban locality exceeding an arbitrary population size; for a town dominating other towns with particular regional economic or administrative significance. Although city can refer to an agglomeration including suburban and satellite areas, the term is not appropriate for a conurbation (cluster) of distinct urban places, nor for a wider metropolitan area including more than one city, each acting as a focus for parts of the area.

In the United Kingdom, a city is a town which has been known as a city since time immemorial, or which has received city status by letters patent — which is normally granted on the basis of size, importance or royal connection (traditional pointers have been whether the town has a cathedral or a university). Some cathedral cities, for example St. David's in Wales, are quite small, and may not be known as cities in common parlance. (See the City status in the United Kingdom.) Preston became England's newest city in the year 2002 to mark the Queen's jubilee.

A similar system existed in the medieval Low Countries where a landlord would grant settlements certain privileges (city rights) that settlements without city rights didn't have. This include the privilege to put up city walls, hold markets or set up a judicial court.

In Australia and New Zealand, city is used to refer both to units of local government, and as a synonym for urban area. For instance the City of South Perth is part of the urban area known as Perth, commonly described as a city. On the other hand, Gisborne in New Zealand is known as the first city to see the sun, despite being administered by a district council, not a city council.

An interesting phenomenon in American English is the generalisation of the term city to all settlements. Britons may be bemused by forms with fields headed, not Town and Postal code, but City and ZIP, even though the person needing to fill it in could be living in a city, a town without city status, or even a village or hamlet.

In turn, many Americans often talk of "City Halls" when referring to town halls in quite small European towns and villages.

Strangely, even though Americans are well aware that "village" means something smaller than a town, the word has often been co-opted by enterprising developers to make their projects sound welcoming and friendly. The result are so-called villages with 20 and 30-story high-rises, like Westwood Village in Los Angeles.
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Geography
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The geographies of cities, both physical and human, are diverse. Often cities will either be coastal and have a harbour or be situated near a river giving economic advantage. Water transports on rivers and oceans were (and in most cases still are) cheaper and more efficient than road transport over long distances.

Older European cities often have historically intact central areas where the streets are jumbled together, seemingly without a structural plan. This quality is a legacy of earlier unplanned or organic development, and is often perceived by today's tourists to be picturesque. In contrast, planned cities founded after the advent of the automobile tend to have expansive boulevards impractical to navigate on foot.

Modern city planning has seen many different schemes for how a city should look. The most commonly seen pattern is the grid, almost a rule in parts of the United States, and used for thousands of years in China. Derry was the first ever planned city in Ireland, begun in 1613, with the walls being completed 5 years later in 1618. The central diamond within a walled city with four gates was thought to be a good design for defence. The grid pattern chosen was widely copied in the colonies of British North America [1]. However, the grid has been used for a long time in history. The Greeks often gave their colonies around the Mediterranean a grid. One of the best examples around is the city of Priene. This city even had its different districts, much like modern city planning today. Also in Medieval times we see a preference for linear planning. Good examples are the cities established in the south of France by various rulers and city expansions in old Dutch and Flemish cities.

Other forms may include a radial structure in which main roads converge on a central point, often the effect of successive growth over long time with concentric traces of town walls and citadels - recently supplemented by ring-roads that take traffic around the edge of a town. Many Dutch cities are structured that way: a central square surrounded by a concentric canals. Every city expansion would imply a new circle (canals + town walls). In cities like Amsterdam and Haarlem this pattern is still clearly visible.

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History of cities
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Towns and cities have a long history, although opinions vary on whether any particular ancient settlement can be considered to be a city. The first true towns are sometimes considered to be large settlements where the inhabitants were no longer simply farmers of the surrounding area, but began to take on specialized occupations, and where trade, food storage and power was centralized. Societies that live in cities are often called civilizations.

By this definition, the first towns we know of were located in Mesopotamia, such as Ur, and along the Nile, the Ins Valley Civilization and China. Before this time it was rare for settlements to reach significant size, although there were exceptions such as Jericho, Çatalhöyü and Mehrgarh. Harappa and Mohenjo-daro (in the Ins Valley Civilization) were the largest of these early cities, with a combined population of up to 150,000.

The growth of ancient and medieval empires led to ever greater capital cities and seats of provincial administration, with Pataliputra (in India), Changan (in China), ancient Rome, its eastern successor Constantinople (later Istanbul), and successive Chinese, Islamic, and Indian capitals approaching or exceeding the half-million population level. It is estimated that ancient Rome had a population of around 1 million people by the end of the last century BCE, which is widely considered the only city to reach that number until the Instrial Revolution. Alexandria's population was also close to Rome's population at around the same time (in a census dated from 32 CE, Alexandria had 180,000 alt male citizens). Similar large administrative, commercial, instrial and ceremonial centres emerged in other areas. Most notably Baghdad, which second to some estimates became the first city to exceed a population of one million instead of Rome.

During the European Middle Ages, a town was as much a political entity as a collection of houses. City residence brought freedom from customary rural obligations to lord and community: "Stadtluft macht frei" ("City air makes you free") was a saying in Germany. In Continental Europe cities with a legislature of their own weren't unheard of, the laws for towns as a rule other than for the countryside, the lord of a town often being another than for surrounding land. In the Holy Roman Empire (i.e. medieval Germany and Italy) some cities had no other lord than the emperor.

In exceptional cases like Venice, Genoa or Lübeck, cities themselves became powerful states, sometimes taking surrounding areas under their control or establishing extensive maritime empires. Similar phenomena existed elsewhere, as in the case of Sakai, which enjoyed a considerable autonomy in late medieval Japan.

Most towns remained far smaller places, so that in 1500 only some two dozen places in the world contained more than 100,000 inhabitants: as late as 1700 there were fewer than forty, a figure which would rise thereafter to 300 in 1900. A small city of the early modern period might contain as few as 10,000 inhabitants, a town far fewer still.

While the city-states, or poleis, of the Mediterranean and Baltic Sea languished from the 16th century, Europe's larger capitals benefited from the growth of commerce following the emergence of an Atlantic economy fuelled by the silver of Peru. By the late 18th century, London had become the largest city in the world with a population of nearly 1 million, while Paris rivalled the well-developed regionally-traditional capital cities of Baghdad, Beijing, Istanbul and Kyoto.

The growth of modern instry from the late 18th century onward led to massive urbanization and the rise of new great cities, first in Europe and then in other regions, as new opportunities brought huge numbers of migrants from rural communities into urban areas. In the Great Depression of the 1930s cities were hard hit by unemployment, especially those with a base in heavy instry. Today the world's population is about half urban, with millions still streaming annually into the growing cities of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

⑦ 英语短文:我最想去的几个城市(写一个也可以，在世界范围内)

The place where I want to go most is Beijing.

Beijing is the capital of China, as well as the political center of China.
Beijing is an old city, in Beijing, lots of historical attractions around there, you can feel the air of history and culture there.
There are lots of foreign friends in Beijing, so that you can make friends with lots of foreigners.

意思是：我最想去的地方是北京
北京是中国的首都，是中国的政治中心
北京是一座回历史古城。在北答京，有很多历史名迹，可以感受历史和文化的氛 围
在北京有很多外国朋友，因此可以交上认识很多朋友

⑧ 世界每个国家和主要城市的英语名称

Countries and Regions 国家或地区 国际域名缩写
Angola 安哥拉 AO
Afghanistan 阿富汗 AF
Albania 阿尔巴尼亚 AL
Algeria 阿尔及利亚 DZ
Andorra 安道尔共和国 AD
Anguilla 安圭拉岛 AI
Antigua and Barbuda 安提瓜和巴布达 AG
Argentina 阿根廷 AR
Armenia 亚美尼亚 AM
Ascension 阿森松
Australia 澳大利亚 AU
Austria 奥地利 AT
Azerjan 阿塞拜疆 AZ
Bahamas 巴哈马 BS
Bahrain 巴林 BH
Bangladesh 孟加拉国 BD
Barbados 巴巴多斯 BB
Belarus 白俄罗斯 BY
Belgium 比利时 BE
Belize 伯利兹 BZ
Benin 贝宁 BJ
Bermuda Is. 百慕大群岛 BM
Bolivia 玻利维亚 BO
Botswana 博茨瓦纳 BW
Brazil 巴西 BR
Brunei 文莱 BN
Bulgaria 保加利亚 BG
Burkina-faso 布基纳法索 BF
Burma 缅甸 MM
Burundi 布隆迪 BI
Cameroon 喀麦隆 CM
Canada 加拿大 CA
Cayman Is. 开曼群岛
Central African Republic 中非共和国 CF
Chad 乍得 TD
Chile 智利 CL
China 中国 CN
Colombia 哥伦比亚 CO
Congo 刚果 CG
Cook Is. 库克群岛 CK
Costa Rica 哥斯达黎加 CR
Cuba 古巴 CU
Cyprus 塞浦路斯 CY
Czech Republic 捷克 CZ
Denmark 丹麦 DK
Djibouti 吉布提 DJ
Dominica Rep. 多米尼加共和国 DO
Ecuador 厄瓜多尔 EC
Egypt 埃及 EG
EI Salvador 萨尔瓦多 SV
Estonia 爱沙尼亚 EE
Ethiopia 埃塞俄比亚 ET
Fiji 斐济 FJ
Finland 芬兰 FI
France 法国 FR
French Guiana 法属圭亚那 GF
Gabon 加蓬 GA
Gambia 冈比亚 GM
Georgia 格鲁吉亚 GE
Germany 德国 DE
Ghana 加纳 GH
Gibraltar 直布罗陀 GI
Greece 希腊 GR
Grenada 格林纳达 GD
Guam 关岛 GU
Guatemala 危地马拉 GT
Guinea 几内亚 GN
Guyana 圭亚那 GY
Haiti 海地 HT
Honras 洪都拉斯 HN
Hongkong 香港 HK
Hungary 匈牙利 HU
Iceland 冰岛 IS
India 印度 IN
Indonesia 印度尼西亚 ID
Iran 伊朗 IR
Iraq 伊拉克 IQ
Ireland 爱尔兰 IE
Israel 以色列 IL
Italy 意大利 IT
Ivory Coast 科特迪瓦
Jamaica 牙买加 JM
Japan 日本 JP
Jordan 约旦 JO
Kampuchea (Cambodia ) 柬埔寨 KH
Kazakstan 哈萨克斯坦 KZ
Kenya 肯尼亚 KE
Korea 韩国 KR
Kuwait 科威特 KW
Kyrgyzstan 吉尔吉斯坦 KG
Laos 老挝 LA
Latvia 拉脱维亚 LV
Lebanon 黎巴嫩 LB
Lesotho 莱索托 LS
Liberia 利比里亚 LR
Libya 利比亚 LY
Liechtenstein 列支敦士登 LI
Lithuania 立陶宛 LT
Luxembourg 卢森堡 LU
Macao 澳门 MO
Madagascar 马达加斯加 MG
Malawi 马拉维 MW
Malaysia 马来西亚 MY
Maldives 马尔代夫 MV
Mali 马里 ML
Malta 马耳他 MT
Mariana Is 马里亚那群岛
Martinique 马提尼克
Mauritius 毛里求斯 MU
Mexico 墨西哥 MX
Moldova, Republic of 摩尔多瓦 MD
Monaco 摩纳哥 MC
Mongolia 蒙古 MN
Montserrat Is 蒙特塞拉特岛 MS
Morocco 摩洛哥 MA
Mozambique 莫桑比克 MZ
Namibia 纳米比亚 NA
Nauru 瑙鲁 NR
Nepal 尼泊尔 NP
Netheriands Antilles 荷属安的列斯
Netherlands 荷兰 NL
New Zealand 新西兰 NZ
Nicaragua 尼加拉瓜 NI
Niger 尼日尔 NE
Nigeria 尼日利亚 NG
North Korea 朝鲜 KP
Norway 挪威 NO
Oman 阿曼 OM
Pakistan 巴基斯坦 PK
Panama 巴拿马 PA
Papua New Cuinea 巴布亚新几内亚 PG
Paraguay 巴拉圭 PY
Peru 秘鲁 PE
Philippines 菲律宾 PH
Poland 波兰 PL
French Polynesia 法属玻利尼西亚 PF
Portugal 葡萄牙 PT
Puerto Rico 波多黎各 PR
Qatar 卡塔尔 QA
Reunion 留尼旺
Romania 罗马尼亚 RO
Russia 俄罗斯 RU
Saint Lueia 圣卢西亚 LC
Saint Vincent 圣文森特岛 VC
Samoa Eastern 东萨摩亚(美)
Samoa Western 西萨摩亚
San Marino 圣马力诺 SM
Sao Tome and Principe 圣多美和普林西比 ST
Saudi Arabia 沙特阿拉伯 SA
Senegal 塞内加尔 SN
Seychelles 塞舌尔 SC
Sierra Leone 塞拉利昂 SL
Singapore 新加坡 SG
Slovakia 斯洛伐克 SK
Slovenia 斯洛文尼亚 SI
Solomon Is 所罗门群岛 SB
Somali 索马里 SO
South Africa 南非 ZA
Spain 西班牙 ES
Sri Lanka 斯里兰卡 LK
St.Lucia 圣卢西亚 LC
St.Vincent 圣文森特 VC
Sudan 苏丹 SD
Suriname 苏里南 SR
Swaziland 斯威士兰 SZ
Sweden 瑞典 SE
Switzerland 瑞士 CH
Syria 叙利亚 SY
Taiwan 台湾省 TW
Tajikstan 塔吉克斯坦 TJ
Tanzania 坦桑尼亚 TZ
Thailand 泰国 TH
Togo 多哥 TG
Tonga 汤加 TO
Trinidad and Tobago 特立尼达和多巴哥 TT
Tunisia 突尼斯 TN
Turkey 土耳其 TR
Turkmenistan 土库曼斯坦 TM
Uganda 乌干达 UG
Ukraine 乌克兰 UA
United Arab Emirates 阿拉伯联合酋长国 AE
United Kiongdom 英国 GB
United States of America 美国 US
Uruguay 乌拉圭 UY
Uzbekistan 乌兹别克斯坦 UZ
Venezuela 委内瑞拉 VE
Vietnam 越南 VN
Yemen 也门 YE
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Zaire 扎伊尔 ZR
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⑨ 用英语写一篇关于城市的文章 ,~

Beijing, a city in northern China, is the capital of the People's Republic of China. Beijing is also one of the four municipalities of the PRC, which are equivalent to provinces in China's administrative structure. Beijing Municipality borders Hebei Province to the north, west, south, and for a small section in the east, and Tianjin Municipality to the southeast.

Beijing is China's second largest city in terms of population, after Shanghai. It is a major transportation hub, with dozens of railways, roads and expressways entering and leaving it in all directions. It is also the focal point of many international flights to China. Beijing is recognized as the political, ecational, and cultural center of the People's Republic of China, while Shanghai and Hong Kong predominate in economic fields.

Beijing is one of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China. It will also host the 2008 Summer Olympics.