Tiananmen Square is a large city square in the center of Beijing, China, named after the Tiananmen Gate located to its North, separating it from the Forbidden City. Tiananmen Square is the third largest city square in the world . It has great cultural significance as it was the site of several important events in Chinese history. Outside China, the square is best known in recent memory as the focal point of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, a pro-democracy movement which ended on 4 June 1989 with the declaration of martial law in Beijing by the government and the death of several... hundred civilians. The Tiananmen Gate to the Forbidden City was built in 1415 during the Ming Dynasty. Towards the demise of the Ming Dynasty, heavy fighting between Li Zicheng and the early Qing emperors damaged the gate. The Tian'anmen square was designed and built in 1651, and has since enlarged four times its original size in the 1950s.
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| City: | Beijing |
| Country: | China |
| Area: | 0.2 sq. mi. |
| Time Zone: | UTC+8 |
| Latitude: | 39.9033 |
| Longitude: | 116.3917 |