9,572,900 km²

China is bordered by 14 countries: Afghanistan, Bhutan, India,

Kazakhstan, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar
(Burma), Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Vietnam.

China occupies almost the totality of Asia and it covers approximately one-
fourteenth of the land area of Earth.

China has 33 administrative units directly under the central government;

these consist of 22 provinces, 5 autonomous regions and 4 municipalities.

China has 2 special administrative regions: Hong Kong and Macau,

Within China’s boundaries exists a highly diverse and complex country.

Its topography varies from nearly impenetrable mountainous terrain to vast
coastal lowlands. Also its climate ranges from extremely dry and desert
like conditions in the northwest to tropical in the southeast, and China has
the greatest contrast in temperature between its northern and southern
borders of any country in the world.

1,397,364,000 (2019 est.)

Geographically China was isolated by the Himalayan mountains to the east
of the country, by the ocean to the west and by the deserts to the north.
There also was man made isolation by the creation of The Great Wall of
China. It was built to keep Mongol enemies away from their territory.

One of the main advantages of the isolation was the protection that they
had from their enemies and there was also an easier control of the
population from outside ideas due to inhability of communication because
citizens didn’t have access to information from other countries.

The disadvantages were that there was no trading with other countries for
economic grouth.

The People's Republic of China was founded in 1949 after the Communist
Party defeated the nationalist Kuomintang.

Many Chinese practice both Chinese folk-religion and Buddhism.

Male: (2015) 73.6 years

Female: (2015) 79.4 years

There is a single-party: people’s republic with one legislative house: The

National People’s Congress

Xi Jinping