Peking is the old name of which city?
A. Burundi
B. Rwanda
C. Beijing
D. Tokyo
Answer
Correct Answer: C. Beijing
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Chinese words became spelled differently in English. After the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the government adopted the pinyin transliteration method and used it to write proper names using the Latin alphabet. In theory, that’s when Peking became known in the west as Beijing. However, western countries continued to use the old spelling long after that.