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I obtained this map from infoplease.com
- The area of China is 3,705,386 square miles (9,596,960 sq km)
- The population of China is 1,286,975,468.
- Density per square mile: 347
- The capital of China is Beijing
- Largest City (population wise): Shanghai
- Monetary Unit: Yuan/Renminbi
- Ethnicity: Han Chinese 91.9%
- Religion:Officially atheist but traditional religion contains elements of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism
- Geographic coordinates: 35 00 N, 105 00 E
- Coastline: 9010.3 miles, or 14500 km.
- Life expectancy: 71.86 years
- Government type: Communist state
- Population below poverty line: 10%
- Official language: Northern Chinese (Mandarin, or putonghua)
- Elevation: Highest-Mount Everest, 29,028 ft (8,848 m); Lowest-Turpan Depression, 505 ft. (150 m) below sea level.
- Greatest distances-- north-south, 2,500 mi. (4,023 km); east-west, 3,000 mi. (4,828 km)
- Their country looks like a chicken! A CHICKEN?! YES!
- Mount Everest on the border with Nepal, is the world's tallest peak
- soybean, one of the oldest of cultivated crops, is believed to have originated in China
- China is the world's fourth-largest country (after Russia, Canada, and US)
- China's many names:
conventional long form: People's Republic of China
conventional short form: China
local short form: Zhong Guo
abbreviation: PRC
local long form:Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo
- Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China, 1 October (1949)
- Internet country code: .cn
- The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
- Despite a population of over a billion, China has only about 200 family names
- The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
- If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
- China has more English speakers than the United States.
- When Coca-Cola began to be sold in China, they used characters that would sound like "Coca-Cola" when spoken. Unfortunately, what they turned out to mean was "Bite the wax tadpole". It did not sell well.
- That is all!
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