Tianjin - City of Colombia

Tianjin is the second largest city in northern coastal China. Administratively it is one of the four municipalities that have provincial-level status, reporting directly to the central government. Its urban area is the third largest in China, ranked only after Beijing and Shanghai.

Tianjin's urban area is located along the Hai He River. Its ports, some distance away, are located on Bohai Gulf in the Pacific Ocean. Tianjin was once home to foreign concessions in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republican era. The municipality now incorporates the coastal region of Tanggu, home to the Binhai New Area and the TEDA economic development zone. Tianjin Municipality borders Hebei province to the north, south, and west Chinese capital Beijing is to the northwest, and Bohai Gulf to the east.

The land where Tianjin lies today was created in historical times by sedimentation of various rivers entering the sea at Bohai Bay , including the Yellow River, which entered the sea in this area at one point.

Western nations were permitted to garrison the area to ensure open access to Peking. The British maintained a brigade of two battalions there, and the Italians, French, Japanese, Germans, Russians, and Austro-Hungarians maintained understrength regiments the United States did not initially participate. During World War I, the German and Austro-Hungarian garrisons were captured and held as Prisoners of War by Allied Forces while the Bolshevik government withdrew the Russian garrison in 1918.

Tianjin has seen rapid development, though it is now lagging behind other important cities like Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangzhou. Tianjin is now home to the Binhai New Area, a Pudong-like special economic zone that is supposed to balance out Shanghai's obvious commercial superiority.

Tianjin is a respected home base of Beijing opera, one of the most prestigious forms of Chinese opera.

Luzutang
Guwan Shichang
Guwenhua Jie
Wen Miao
Shuishang Gongyuan
TV Tower
Shijia Dayuan
Temple of Great Compassion
Tianhougong
Wanghailou Church
Xikai Church
Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall
Sights outside the Tianjin urban area, but within the municipality, include

Fort Dagukou, Qing Dynasty-era cannon battlement
Huangyaguan Great Wall
Mount Panshan

Tianjin University
Nankai University
Civil Aviation University of China
Hebei University of Technology


Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts
Tianjin Agricultural College
Tianjin Conservatory of Music
Tianjin Foreign Studies University
Tianjin Institute of Physical Education
Tianjin Medical University

Nankai High School
No. 1 High School
Tianjin No. 3 Middle School
Shiyan High School
Xinhua High School
Yaohua High School