Key facts
- Date opened
- 19 July 1907
- Location
- Xicheng District , Beijing , China
- Land area
- Beijing 89 ha (220 acres)
- Number span no of animals
- 14,500
- Memberships
- Chinese Association of Zoological Gardens [ zh ] (CAZG)
- Website
- www .beijingzoo .com
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Beijing Zoo is a zoological park in Xizhimen, Xicheng District, Beijing. Founded in 1906 during the late Qing dynasty, it is the oldest zoo in China and oldest public park in northern China. The zoo is also a center of zoological research that studies and breeds rare animals from various continents.
The zoo occupies an area of 89 hectares (220 acres), including 5.6 hectares (14 acres) of lakes and ponds in Xicheng District. It has one of the largest animal collections in the country. In 2015, the zoo and its aquarium had over 450 species of land animals and over 500 species of marine animals; in all, it is home to 14,500 animals.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Beijing Zoo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.