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| China Basics |
| China, (People's Republic
of China), is situated in eastern Asia, bounded by the Pacific
in the east. The third largest country in the world, next to
Canada and Russia, it has an area of 9.6 million square kilometers,
or one-fifteenth of the world's land mass. It begins from the
confluence of the Heilong and Wusuli rivers (135 degrees and
5 minutes east longitude) in the east to the Pamirs west of
Wuqia County in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (73 degrees
and 40 minutes east longitude) in the west, about 5,200 kilometers
apart; and from the midstream of the Heilong River north of
Mohe (53 degrees and 31 minutes north latitude) in the north
to the southernmost island Zengmu'ansha in the South China Sea
(4 degrees and 15 minutes north latitude), about 5,500 kilometers
apart.
The border stretches over 22,000 kilometers on land and
the coastline extends well over 18,000 kilometers, washed
by the waters of the Bohai, the Huanghai, the East China and
the South China seas. The Bohai Sea is the inland sea of China.
There are 6,536 islands larger than 500 square meters, the
largest is Taiwan, with a total area of about 36,000 square
kilometers, and the second, Hainan. The South China Sea Islands
are the southernmost island group of China.
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| China Discovery |
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| Language |
1. Chinese
As the most widely spoken language
on earth, Chinese is, strictly speaking, a series of
dialects spoken by the dominant ethnic group within
China, the Han. Indeed, the term most commonly used
by the Chinese themselves to refer to the language is
Hanyu, meaning "Han-language", though zhongyu,
zhongwen, and zhongguohua are frequently used as well.
However, non-Han peoples such as Uigurs and Tibetans
speak languages which have little or nothing to do with
Chinese.
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