Gubeikou Town () is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

Miyun District Miyun District () is situated in northeast Beijing. It has an area of and a population of 460,800 (2010 Census). Miyun District government seat is located in Gulou Subdistrict. History Miyun was one of the places where Warlord Feng Yuxiang s ...

in northeastern

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, traversed by , bordering with

Luanping County Luanping County () is a county of northeastern Hebei Province, with the Great Wall of China demarcating its border with Miyun District, Beijing to the southwest. It is under the administration of Chengde City, and as of 2017, has a population of ...

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to the north and the Beijing towns of Gaoling () to the west,

Xinchengzi Xinchengzi Town () is a town located in the Miyun District of Beijing, China. It borders Liangjianfang and Laowa Townships in the north, Wulingshan Town in the east and south, as well as Gubeikou and Taishitun Towns in the west. It had 6,528 resi ...

() to the east and

Taishitun Taishitun Town () is a town located in the Miyun District of Beijing, China. Chao River, Qingshui River and Andamu River converge here before flowing into Miyun Reservoir. The town is situated on the south of Gaoling and Gubeikou Towns, west of ...

(). The area is one of the important passes of the

Great Wall of China The Great Wall of China (, literally "ten thousand ''li'' wall") is a series of fortifications that were built across the historical northern borders of ancient Chinese states and Imperial China as protection against various nomadic grou ...

, serving as an ancient chokepoint for travelers between

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and Beijing. As of 2020, it had a total population of 7,170 under its administration. This town's name originated in 1736. During

Qianlong Emperor The Qianlong Emperor (25 September 17117 February 1799), also known by his temple name Emperor Gaozong of Qing, born Hongli, was the fifth Emperor of the Qing dynasty and the fourth Qing emperor to rule over China proper, reigning from 1735 t ...

's visit, he named this region by combining two inscrpted names, Guguan () and Beikou (), into Gubeikou () that is still being used to this day.

History

Administrative divisions

So far in 2021, Gubeikou Town is composed of 13 subdivisions, of which 4 are

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and 9 are

villages A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

. They are listed as followed:

Landmark

Simatai Simatai (), a section of the Great Wall of China located in the north of Miyun County, 120 km northeast of Beijing, holds the access to Gubeikou, a strategic pass in the eastern part of the Great Wall. It was closed in June 2010 but has be ...

Gallery

File:Gubeikou to Jingshanling 50 (4758181061).jpg, The Gubeikou Great Wall towards

Jinshanling Jinshanling () is a section of the Great Wall of China located in the mountainous area in Luanping County, Chengde, Hebei Province, 125 km (78 miles) northeast of Beijing. This section of the wall is connected with the Simatai section to ...

, 2010 File:Gubeikou Taoist Temple (20150215104155).JPG, Gubeikou Taoist Temple, 2015 File:Platform of Gubeikou Railway Station (20180430151740).jpg, Gubeikou Railway Station, 2018 File:Gubeikou-facing-west-2018-Luka-Peternel.jpg, Gubeikou section of the

(facing west), 2018

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