In Disney’s 1998 animated film Mulan, what is the name of the imperial city where the Emperor lives?

In Disney’s 1998 animated film Mulan, the Emperor lives in the Imperial City.

The Imperial City is the capital setting where the Emperor receives military reports and where the film’s final confrontation with Shan Yu takes place. After Mulan exposes the surviving Hun threat, she and the soldiers race to the palace and fight to save the Emperor on the rooftops and palace structures.

The film uses the broad English label “Imperial City” rather than naming a specific historical capital such as Chang’an. It is also not identical to the Forbidden City, the Beijing palace complex built centuries later during the Ming dynasty. Disney’s setting blends historical Chinese imagery and architecture with a fictionalized story world inspired by the Ballad of Mulan. The Imperial City therefore serves as both the political center of the film’s China and the location of its climactic rescue.