Some basic facts about China
- People's Republic of China
- Eastern Asia; borders with the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam
- slightly smaller than the USA (9,596,960 sq km), world's fourth largest country
- very diverse climate (from tropical to subarctic)
- natural disasters occur: frequent typhoons (about five per year along southern and eastern coasts); damaging floods; tsunamis; earthquakes; droughts; land subsidence
- over a million people (1,313,973,713)
- negative migration ratio
- officialy atheist country, but tradidtionally Daoist (Taoist) and Buddhist, Christian 3%-4%, Muslim 1%-2%
- communist state
- Beijing - capital city
- yuan (CNY) - currency, ~8.2 yuan per dollar
- economy eveolved during last 25 years from a centrally planned system to a more market-oriented economy
- the second-largest economy in the world after the US (measured by purchasing power parity)
- rapid economic growth (GDP real growth rate 9.3%)
- very little unemployment rate
- all sorts of industries
- 111 million Internet users
- 489 airports
- millitary obligation 18-22 years of age
- one of the most rapidly aging countries in the world
- environmental problems
Click for more: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ch.html
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