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Beijing
39.9040°N 116.4075°E · Q956
2 English words in this atlas trace back to Beijing. It sits in People's Republic of China.
Peking ducknoun · 20th century
Well attestedThe dish carries the older English spelling of Beijing.
Peking was the standard English rendering before pinyin. The city changed how it is written; the dish did not.
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Beijing bikininoun · 2010s
Well attestedChinese cities have run official campaigns against it.
The habit is common across urban China in summer, and Chinese has its own term for the men who adopt it, bangye. Several cities, among them Jinan and Tianjin, ran campaigns against the habit in 2019 in the name of civilized behavior. The English name is a joke coined by foreign residents and journalists.
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