Beijing Municipality is located between 116-20' east longitude and 39-56' north latitude, with Tianjin City on its eastern border and Hebei Province on the other three sides.

Beijing occupies a total area of 16,807.8 square kilometers. Around 10,417.5 square kilometers are mountainous areas, which constitute 62 percent of the total space of Beijing . The plain area of Beijing covers 6,390.3 square kilometers, which accounts for 38 percent of the city's total area. Beijing municipality has 16 subordinate districts and 2 counties.

Districts
8 districts are close to the city centre:

• Dongcheng District
• Xicheng District
• Chongwen District
• Xuanwu District
• Chaoyang District
• Haidian District
• Fengtai District
• Shijingshan District

The other 8 districts are further afield:

• Mentougou District
• Fangshan District
• Tongzhou District
• Shunyi District
• Changping District
• Daxing District
• Pinggu District
• Huairou District

Except for Mentougou, all of these eight districts switched from being counties to districts from 1988 to 2001.

Counties
The two counties lie very far from central Beijing :

• Yanqing County
• Miyun County