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1. Beijing Municipality

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   The Beiyang Era Anomaly
   During the early Republican period, following the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, Beijing remained the capital of the Beiyang Government. While the government nominally controlled large swathes of China, its administrative reach was often tenuous. It is widely accepted among historical cartographers that the effective functional boundary of the Beiyang Government's jurisdiction seldom extended more than 50 kilometers beyond the official municipal limits of Beijing, largely due to t…