• Mesa
  • Miyun District

A mesa is an isolated, flat-topped elevation, ridge or hill, which is bounded from all sides by steep escarpments and stands distinctly above a surrounding plain. Mesas characteristically consist of flat-lying soft sedimentary rocks capped by a more resistant layer or layers of harder rock, e.g. shales overlain by sandstones. The resistant layer acts as a caprock that forms the flat summit of a mesa. The caprock can consist of either sedimentary rocks such as sandstone and limestone; dissected lava flows; or a deeply eroded duricrust. Unlike plateau, whose usage does not imply horizontal layers of bedrock, e.g. Tibetan Plateau, the term mesa applies exclusively to the landforms built of flat-lying strata. Instead, flat-topped plateaus are specifically known as tablelands.

Miyun District belongs to Beijing, with geographical coordinates from 116o 39'33 east longitude to 117o 30'25 & 69 km long from east to west, 40 °13'7 latitude from south to 40 °47'57 latitude from north to north, located in the northeast of Beijing and connected to Yanshan Mountain and North China Plain, and is an important gateway from North China to the Northeast and Inner Mongolia, so it is called "capital lock key". In 2014, with an area of 2229.45 square kilometers, it is the largest district in Beijing. In 2014, the registered population was 433000 (permanent population 478000), with 17 towns, 2 streets and 1 township (regional office).
Airport In Miyun District - Beijing Capital International Airport
Beijing Capital International Airport (Beijing Capital International Airport, IATA: PEK, ICAO: ZBAA), located in the northeast suburb of Beijing, China, 25 kilometers southwest of Beijing city center, 67 kilometers south of Beijing Daxing International Airport, is a 4F international airport   , is one of the three major portal complex hubs in China   , members of the international air cargo hub group in the Bohai Rim region   , the world's largest airport   .
Beijing Capital International Airport was built in 1958. On January 1, 1980, supporting projects such as the T1 terminal building, the apron, and the parking lot in front of the building were completed and officially put into use. On November 1, 1999, the T2 terminal was officially put into use, and at the same time, the T1 terminal was closed for renovation. On September 20, 2004, the T1 terminal was put into use again. In the spring of 2008, the airport expansion project (Terminal T3) was completed.  
As of July 2017, Beijing Capital International Airport has three terminal buildings with a total area of ​​1.41 million square meters; there are two 4F runways and one 4E runway   The length and width are 3800×60 meters, 3200×50 meters, 3800 meters×60 meters respectively; there are 314 seats in total; 252 domestic and foreign routes have been opened.    
From 1978 to 2018, the annual passenger throughput of Beijing Capital International Airport increased from 1.03 million to 101 million, ranking first in Asia and second in the world.   In 2019, the passenger throughput of Beijing Capital International Airport was 100.013 million passengers, a year-on-year decrease of 1.0%; the cargo and mail throughput was 1.9553 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 5.7%; , No. 2, No. 1.  
In 2021, Capital Airport will add three new domestic destinations, namely Huai'an, Tumusuk and Jingzhou   .
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