Discovering China

Volume I Issue I

China Informational Newsletter

China (i/tan/; Chinese:

; pinyin: Zhnggu), officially the People's Republic of China, is a sovereign state located in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population of over 1.35 billion. The PRC is a single -party state governed by the Communist Party, with its seat of government in the

Covering approximately
9.6 million square kilometres, China is the world's secondlargest country by land area, [17] but only the third or fourth-largest by total area, dependent on whether the surface areas of various inland bodies of water such as the Great Lakes are included in the total area of a country. [g] China's landscape is vast and diverse, ranging from forest steppes and the Gobi and Taklamakan dese rts in the arid north to subtropicalforests in the wetter south. The Himalaya, Karakoram, Pam ir and Tian Shan mountain ranges separate China from South and Central Asia. TheYangtze and Yellow Rivers, the third- and sixth-longest in the

Five Facts About China

1. China is officially known as the People's Republic of China. China has the largest population in the world, with over 1.3 billion people (1,343,239,923) as of July 2012. China is the 3rd largest country by area at 9,706,961 sq km (3,747,879 sq miles). China belongs to the continent of Asia. Bordering countries include Afghanistan, Bhutan, Burma, India, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Vietnam. The summit of Mt Everest marks the border between China and Nepal.

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capital city of Beijing.[14] It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing), and two mostly self-governing special administrative regions (Hong Kong and Macau).[15]The PRC also claims Taiwan which is controlled by the Republic of China (ROC), a separate political entity as its 23rd province, a claim controversial due to the complex political status of Taiwan and the unresolved Chinese Civil War.

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world, run from the Tibetan Plateau to the densely populated eastern seaboard. China's coastline along the Pacific Ocean is 14,500 kilometres (9,000 mi) long, and is bounded by the Bohai, Yellow, East and So uth China Seas.

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