title: Pekin
text: # Pekin
  
  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
  