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Which city is the Forbidden City in?

The Forbidden City in Beijing, formerly known as the Forbidden City, is located in the center of Beijing's central axis. It is the palace of Ming and Qing dynasties, and it is the largest and best-preserved wooden palace building in the world. The Forbidden City has been selected as a world cultural heritage, a national key cultural relic protection unit and a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction.

The construction of the Forbidden City in Beijing began in 1406 BC, was built by Judy, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, and was completed in the 18th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1420), where 24 emperors once lived.

Palace buildings in the Forbidden City are the largest and most complete ancient buildings in China, with a total area of over 720,000 square meters. It is said that 9,999 rooms have halls, which are called "the sea of halls". A central axis runs through the Forbidden City, which is on the central axis of Beijing. The three main halls, the last three palaces and the imperial garden are all located on this central axis. On both sides of the central axis palace, there are many temples symmetrically distributed.

The Forbidden City is divided into an outer court and an inner court. The outer court is centered on the three halls of Taihe, Zhonghe and Baohe, and the Wenhua Hall and Wuying Hall are two wings. The Forbidden City is centered on Gan Qing Palace, Jiaotai Palace and Kunning Palace, with six palaces in the east and west as its wings, and its layout is rigorous and orderly. There are exquisite turrets in all four corners of the Forbidden City, which are beautifully built and very beautiful. Miyagi is surrounded by palace walls, which are 10 meters high and 3400 meters long. There is a moat 52 meters wide outside the wall.

At present, some palaces in the Forbidden City have established comprehensive historical and artistic museums, painting museums, classified ceramics museum, bronze museums, Ming and Qing craft museums, sculpture museums, toy museums, Four Treasures of the Study museums, toy museums, treasures museums, clocks and watches museums and cultural relics exhibitions in the Qing Dynasty. According to statistics, * * * has reached 1052653, accounting for one-sixth of the total national cultural relics.

The Forbidden City is known as the first of the five largest palaces in the world (the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Palace of Versailles in France, Buckingham Palace in Britain, the White House in the United States and the Russian Kremlin).