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Old name of beijing _______

  1. Peking

  2. Nanjing

  3. Baking

  4. Taking
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Explanation

Beijing was known as Peking in English until the standardization of Chinese romanization to Pinyin. Nanjing is a different Chinese city. The options Baking and Taking appear to be distractors created by wordplay on the Peking name. Peking was the standard romanization used in Western languages for centuries before the adoption of Beijing.

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