Pekin Explained

Pekin may refer to:

Places

• A historic spelling of a name of Beijing, China
• Pekin (hotel), a four star hotel in Moscow, Russia

United States

• Pekin, Illinois
• Pekin Township, Tazewell County, Illinois
• Pekin, Indiana
  • Old Pekin, Indiana
  • New Pekin, Indiana
• Pekin, Iowa
• Paducah, Kentucky, originally settled as Pekin
• Pekin, Maryland
• Pekin Township, Michigan
• Pekin, New York, hamlet in town of Cambria, New York
• Pekin, North Dakota
• Pekin, Carroll County, Ohio
• Pekin, Warren County, Ohio

Animals

• Red-billed leiothrix, or Pekin robin
• American Pekin, an American breed of duck
• German Pekin, a European breed of duck
• Pekin (chicken), a breed of chicken

People

• Tim Pekin (born 1965), former Australian rules footballer
• Vladimir Pekin (born 1986), Bulgarian footballer

Other uses

• HMS Mohawk, a 1856 British gunvessel renamed Pekin in 1863
• Salix babylonica, or Pekin willow

See also

• Pekin duck (disambiguation)
• Peking (disambiguation)
• Pekingese
• Peqin, a town in Albania
• Beijing (disambiguation)
• Beijingese (disambiguation)