The Forbidden City - Interactive Map
The Forbidden City was the former imperial palace which was the home to twenty-four Chinese emperors over 491 years between 1420 and 1911. The Forbidden City
is now known as the Palace
Museum and is open to Beijing's visitors.
Wear comfortable walking shoes as the palace is 960 metres long and 750 metres wide. It has 9,999 rooms - a room being the space between four pillars.
The well guarded palace is surrounded by a moat 3,800 metres long and 52 metres wide. Intruders were discouraged by guards in watchtowers with bow and arrows.
Below is an interactive map. Once completely loaded you can roll your mouse down the centerline of the Forbidden City map to view pictures of that area. Pressing and holding the
mouse will return to the map for reference.
Learn to say Forbidden City in Chinese!
Send the above map as a greeting card
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The Odyssey Publications map below shows the same areas as the above map only in more detail (this map is not interactive):
Forbidden City Location Map:
Maps thanks to Odyssey Publications
Pause button freezes movement, + or - zooms view.
For Fullscreen mode press the lower right button with the out arrows.
