China
China (officially People's Republic of China) is a country in Eastern Asia, with its capital at Beijing, and is home to roughly 1.4B people.
Chinese is the official language; the currency in circulation is Chinese yuan (¥); people from here are called Chinese.
- »The whole country runs on a single time zone despite spanning five geographic ones.
- »China has more neighbours than almost any country, sharing land borders with fourteen.
China straddles the Tropic of Cancer.
China touches 14 neighbours: Afghanistan to the west, Bhutan to the southwest, India to the southwest, Kazakhstan to the northwest, Kyrgyzstan to the west, Laos to the south, Mongolia to the north, Myanmar to the southwest, Nepal to the west, North Korea to the east, Pakistan to the west, Russia to the north, Tajikistan to the west and Vietnam to the south. Directions run from one centre to the other. Neighbours in six different compass directions make this one of the better-connected outlines in the set.
Beijing has been an imperial capital on and off since the 13th century. The Forbidden City at its heart was the seat of 24 emperors and is the largest surviving palace complex in the world.
9,372,290 km² (3,618,660 sq mi), 4th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of the United States.
Population 1,408,975,000, 2nd of 198 on file. That averages 150 per km² (389 per sq mi).
The large star represents the Communist Party; the four smaller ones, each with a point aimed at it, were originally the four revolutionary classes. Designed in 1949 by Zeng Liansong, an economist, from among nearly 3,000 submissions.
Easily confused with Turkey, Montenegro and Morocco.
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