Beijing, China - Former Imperial Palace (Forbidden City) - postcard c.1980s

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• Picture / Image:  Former Imperial Palace also called the Forbidden City, Beijing, China
• Publisher: Morning Glory Press, Beijing
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The Forbidden City (Chinese: 紫禁城; pinyin: Zǐjìnchéng) is a palace complex in Dongcheng District, Beijing, China, and with a total area of 720,000 square metres (7,800,000 sq ft), it is the largest palace in the world still in existence.[2][3][4] However, other Chinese imperial residences far exceed it in size, namely the 6.1 km2 (2.4 sq mi) Zhongnanhai which lies just west of the Forbidden City, the 2.9 km2 (1.1 sq mi) Summer Palace in Haidian District, Beijing, and the 5.6 km2 (2.2 sq mi) Chengde Mountain Resort in Chengde, Hebei Province. It lies at the center of the Imperial City of Beijing, and the city is built around the palace complex. It is surrounded by numerous opulent imperial gardens and temples including 54-acre Zhongshan Park, the sacrificial Imperial Ancestral Temple, the 171-acre Beihai Park and the 57-acre Jingshan Park.

Today, the Forbidden City houses the Palace Museum, and was the former Chinese imperial palace and winter residence of the Emperor of China from the Ming dynasty (since the Yongle Emperor) to the end of the Qing dynasty, between 1420 and 1924. The Forbidden City served as the home of Chinese emperors and their households and was the ceremonial and political center of the Chinese government for almost 500 years.

Constructed from 1406 to 1420, the complex consists of 980 buildings,[5] reportedly encompassing 9,999 rooms and covering 72 hectares (over 180 acres).[6][7] The palace exemplifies the opulence of the residences of the Chinese emperor and the traditional Chinese palatial architecture,[8] and has influenced cultural and architectural developments in East Asia and elsewhere. The Forbidden City was declared a World Heritage Site in 1987,[8] and is listed by UNESCO as the largest collection of preserved ancient wooden structures in the world.

Since 1925, the Forbidden City has been under the charge of the Palace Museum, whose extensive collection of artwork and artifacts were built upon the imperial collections of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Part of the museum's former collection is now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Both museums descend from the same institution but were split after the Chinese Civil War. Since 2012, the Forbidden City has seen an average of 14 million visitors annually, and received more than 19 million visitors in 2019.[9] The Forbidden City's market value has been estimated at more than $70 billion, making it both the world's most valuable palace and the most valuable piece of real estate anywhere in the world.[10]