City Layout of Bejing

Neighbourhoods

Major neighbourhoods in urban Beijing include the following. Neighborhoods may overlap across multiple districts (see below):

* Andingmen 安定门
* Beiyuan 北苑
* Chaoyangmen 朝阳门
* Dongzhimen 东直门
* Fangzhuang 方庄
* Fuchengmen 阜成门
* Fuxingmen 复兴门
* Guomao 国贸
* Hepingli 和平里
* Wangjing 望京
* Wangfujing 王府井
* Wudaokou 五道口
* Xidan 西单
* Yayuncun 亚运村
* Zhongguancun 中关村
Several place names in Beijing end with men (门), meaning "gate", as they were the locations of gates in the former Beijing city wall. Other place names end in cun (村), meaning "village", as they were originally villages outside the city wall.

Towns

Towns within Beijing Municipality but outside the urban area include:

* Changping 昌平
* Huairou 怀柔
* Miyun 密云
* Liangxiang 良乡
* Liulimiao 琉璃庙
* Tongzhou 通州
* Yizhuang 亦庄

Subdivisions

Beijing Municipality currently comprises 18 administrative sub-divisions, county-level units governed directly by the municipality (second-level divisions). Of these, 16 are districts and 2 are counties.

The urban and suburban areas of the city are divided into eight (8) districts:

Dongcheng District (东城区,population 536,000)
Xicheng District (西城区,707,000)
Chongwen District (崇文区,346,000)
Xuanwu District (宣武区,526,000)
Chaoyang District (朝阳区,2,290,000)
Haidian District (海淀区,2,240,000)
Fengtai District (丰台区,1,369,000)
Shijingshan District (石景山区,489,000)
City proper + inner suburbs 8.50 million

The following six districts encompass the more distant suburbs and satellite towns, constituting part of the metropolitan area:

Mentougou District (门头沟区)
Fangshan District (房山区)
Tongzhou District (通州区)
Shunyi District (顺义区)
Changping District (昌平区)
Daxing District (大兴区)

The other two districts and the two counties located further out govern semirural and rural areas:

Pinggu District (平谷区)
Huairou District (怀柔区)
Miyun County (密云县)
Yanqing County (延庆县)

Beijing's 18 districts and counties are further subdivided into 273 lower (third)-level administrative units at the township level: 119 towns, 24 townships, 5 ethnic townships and 125 subdistricts.