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China , (The People's Republic of China ), is situated in eastern Asia, bounded by the Pacific in the east and China today includes Hong Kong (until 1997 leased to the British and Macau, leased to the Portugese). It's population is 1,313,973,713 (July 2006 est.). That's one trillion, 313 billion and 973 thousand, 713.

China covers an area of almost 9.6 million square kilometres and is the most populous country on earth having more than one billion people and it is the third largest country in the world, next to Canada and Russia.

The bordering countries include Mongolia, Kazakhstan, India, Nepal, Burma, Vietnam and Korea.

The People's Republic is led by Chinese Communist Party and governed by the State Council.

The main language spoken is the Mandarin dialect of Chinese but there are more than 150 languages and dialects spoken throughout the country.

China begins from the joining of the Heilong and Wusuli rivers to the Pamirs west of Wuqia County in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

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 (though Taiwan is not - yet - part of China.

Approximately 350 million people inhabit the region of the Yangtze. There is plenty of wildlife along the river as well which include the Tibetan antelopes, Mongolian gazelles, and snow leopards, just to name a few. 

This resource prepared from many Internet and own resources and updated in 2007 by Robert Mill.

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