Beijing

People's Republic of China

Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 21.8 million residents, it is the world's most populous national capital city, as well as China's second-largest city by urban area, after Shanghai. It is located in Northern China and is governed as a provincial-level direct-administered municipality with 16 municipal districts.

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Country: People's Republic of China
Population: 11,106,000
Latitude: 39.93° N
Longitude: 116.39° E

Which way is Beijing from…

From Paris, Beijing lies at 47° to the north-east, 8,214 km as the crow flies.

Paris	47° north-east	8,214 km
London	46° north-east	8,138 km
New York	352° north	10,986 km
Madrid	42° north-east	9,219 km
Rome	51° north-east	8,122 km
Montreal	352° north	10,464 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	42° north-east	9,246 km

Bearings as the crow flies (great circle), measured from north. From somewhere else, the bearing changes: that’s the whole game.

Oùcécap’s take

Beijing shares Madrid’s latitude, but forget the flat map when you aim at it. From London, that map would have you aim east, at 98°; the compass says 46°, north-east, because the shortest route crosses Russia and Siberia. From New York it is even more baffling: the map says due west, 270°, the compass 352°, north, over the Arctic Ocean. And Beijing’s antipode lies 751 km from Buenos Aires.