Chaoyangmen
Sign in to savethumb|Chaoyangmen from the west|alt=A wide divided street, seen from above, flanked by trees and medium-height high rises. The one on the left is somewhat curvilinear Chaoyangmen (; Manchu:; Möllendorff:šun be aliha duka) was a gate in the former city wall of Beijing. It is now a transportation node and a district border in Beijing. It is located on the border of Chaoyang District and Dongcheng District, Beijing. Running from north to south is the eastern 2nd Ring Road. The Beijing Subway (Line 2 and Line 6) has a station at Chaoyangmen.
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- city gate
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- China
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- Dongcheng District
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thumb|Chaoyangmen from the west|alt=A wide divided street, seen from above, flanked by trees and medium-height high rises. The one on the left is somewhat curvilinear Chaoyangmen (; Manchu:; Möllendorff:šun be aliha duka) was a gate in the former city wall of Beijing. It is now a transportation node and a district border in Beijing. It is located on the border of Chaoyang District and Dongcheng District, Beijing. Running from north to south is the eastern 2nd Ring Road. The Beijing Subway (Line 2 and Line 6) has a station at Chaoyangmen.
==History== thumb|240px|Chaoyangmen in 1905 thumb|240px|Chaoyangmen and hanging bridge in 1917 The Chaoyang Gate (the Gate Facing the Sun) was the main gate of the East City. The gate was demolished, along with the walls and moat of the East City in the 1950s and replaced with the 2nd Ring Road (Beijing) where the moat and walls had been, and an elevated roundabout-bridge where the gate had been.