Jianguomen | |
Native Name: | 建国门 |
Native Name Lang: | zh-cn |
Building Type: | city gate |
Status: | complete |
Coordinates: | 34.252°N 108.9669°W |
Location: | Beilin District |
Location City: | Xi'an |
Location Country: | China |
Jianguomen is a gate of the historic city wall of Xi'an, China.
See also: Second Sino-Japanese War. The gate was opened in 1939 as one of the temporarily openings for evacuation from Japanese air raid, thus the gate was known as a . Since the opening is near to an area known as, thus the opening was also known as .[1] After the wars and the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the gate was named Jianguomen.[2] The South Road of, was also named after Jianguo as Jianguo Road .
Jianguomen Bridge, completed in 1985, is right in front of the gate.[3]