Fortress
Dongbianmen
🇨🇳 China
Dongbianmen, one of the seven gates of Beijing's outer city, is located at the north-eastern corner of the outer city. The seven gates of the outer city are: Dongbianmen, Xibianmen, Zuo'anmen, You'anmen, Guang'anmen, Guangqumen and Yongdingmen.
In the Beijing dialect, of the twenty city gates of the "inner nine, outer seven, imperial city four", only Xibianmen and Dongbianmen may take the erhua suffix at the end.
Machine-translated from “东便门 (北京)” on the Chinese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dongbianmen ranks #7,289 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #87 of the 119 mapped in China. 15 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Beijing, 2 km away. See how China compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Dongbianmen?
Dongbianmen stands in China, at 39.9017°, 116.4353°.
How famous is Dongbianmen?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #7,289 of 8,134 worldwide, and #87 in China. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Dongbianmen?
Southeast Corner Tower of Beijing Outer City, about 3 km away.
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