Forbidden City (disambiguation)

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The phrase Forbidden City can refer to:

• The Imperial palace in Beijing. The Forbidden City (Zijincheng) is also known as Gugong (Imperial Palace)
• The city of Lhasa in Tibet.
• The city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
• The city of Harar, an eastern city in Ethiopia.
• The city of Smara or Semara is a Sahrawi city in the Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara.
• The palace known as the Imperial City in Huế is known as the Purple Forbidden City in Vietnamese.
• The New York City World Trade Center site, which was given this name by photographer Joel Meyerowitz.
• A fictional place, featured in the book Tarzan and the Forbidden City by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
• A famous cabaret in San Francisco that the story Flower Drum Song was based on. It had an east asian theme and exotic hostesses and entertainment, now defunct but popular with military officers during World War II.
• A fictional place; the city that Malthazaard resides in Arthur and the Minimoys.

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