#Beijing in 3 minutes - Travel documentary in the The City of Forbidden City A time lapse travel documentary featuring some views from Beijing. Beijing, sometimes romanized as Peking, is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world. The population as of 2013 was 21,150,000. The city proper is the 3rd largest in the world. The metropolis, located in northern China, is governed as a direct-controlled municipality under the national government, with 14 urban and suburban districts and two rural counties. Beijing Municipality is surrounded by Hebei Province with the exception of neighboring Tianjin Municipality to the southeast. Beijing is the second largest Chinese city by urban population after Shanghai and is the nation's political, cultural, and educational center. It is home to the headquarters of most of China's largest state-owned companies, and is a major hub for the national highway, expressway, railway, and high-speed rail networks. The Beijing Capital International Airport is the second busiest in the world by passenger traffic. The city's history dates back three millennia. As the last of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China, Beijing has been the political center of the country for much of the past eight centuries. The city is renowned for its opulent palaces, temples, parks and gardens, tombs, walls and gates,and its art treasures and universities have made it a center of culture and art in China. Encyclopædia Britannica notes that "few cities in the world have served for so long as the political headquarters and cultural centre of an area as immense as China."Beijing has seven UNESCO World Heritage Sites – the Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Summer Palace, Ming Tombs, Zhoukoudian, Great Wall, and the Grand Canal. ----- New York City on fast forward http://youtu.be/0vW2cLzdK7Y Cuban Cars - Real vintage cars as seen in Cuba 's streets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tulZkeDjcgI Horror of nuclear explosion - What you don't see from INSIDE a nuclear bomb explosion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvg9EKx9OAc Cuba for Americans Documentary - USA next travel destination - Movie of a Cuban holiday http://youtu.be/GK7vq1_-joA Text credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing Please subscribe to my channel for forbidden movies https://www.youtube.com/c/Glowjira Cuba scuba diving - Sunken Army and underwater tombs - The thrill of diving in communist waters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrZnzUQ1kAY&list;=PLn_JEgQpcGrVfBG0NYED4F83ZFoMi-Reo&index;=2 This is my channel “ Cats and funny movies” (I really don’t need to explain what this is about) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC51GV7FZ_GaGKYpJWcc1bng For amazing black holes, stars and other celestial bodies http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiDNxVQL9pMCFagyeYArmhw A good website with some useful parenting advice (and not only that) : www.bewellportal.com This channel is brought by www.glowjira.com I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor)

• published: 14 Feb 2015
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