GeoPointe - China

Official Name: People's Republic of China
Location: Eastern Asia, bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam.
Capital: Beijing

Area:	total: 9,596,960 sq km
	land: 9,326,410 sq km
	water: 270,550 sq km

Lowest point: Turpan Pendi -154 m.
Highest point: Mount Everest 8,850 m.

China, the mountain sculptors of Yunnan

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Population: 1,321,851,888 (July 2007 est.)
Nationality: Chinese (singular and plural)
Ethnic groups: Han Chinese 91.9%, Zhuang, Uygur, Hui, Yi, Tibetan, Miao, Manchu, Mongol, Buyi, Korean, and other nationalities 8.1%.
Religions: Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Muslim 1%-2%, Christian 3%-4%. Officially atheist.
Languages: Standard Chinese or Mandarin (Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghaiese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages.

Extremely diverse. Tropical in the south to subarctic in the north.

Government type: Communist state.
Independence: 221 BC (unification under the Qin or Ch'in Dynasty 221 BC. Qing or Ch'ing Dynasty replaced by the Republic on 12 February 1912. People's Republic established 1 October 1949).
National holiday: Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China, 1 October (1949).