The older name was Peking.
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The capital city of China under the leadership of Kublai Khan was Beijing. That's why Beijing is the capital city of China now.
The "Great Capital" city of Daidu (which is now modern-day Beijing) was the capital city under the leadership of Kublai Khan.
The Forbidden City, which is located in the center of Beijing, China was used as an imperial palace. It was used by emperors as a home for almost 500 years.
Beijing was free after its 1928 liberation until the Second Sino-Japanese War, in which the city fell on July 29, 1937. It was made the seat of the Provisional Government of the Republic of China a puppet government of Japanese-occupied China.
Salt Lake City is known as the Crossroads of the West. Salt Lake City is the capital of Utah and has a population of 191,180 people.