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China,
a land of beauty and fascination, tempts adventurous travelers all over
the world. She is a massive country, covering 6,000,000 square miles and
spanning 60 longitudinal degrees. She has so infinite variety of people,
enchanting natural landscape, brilliant history and culture and
fascinating destinations that a visitor tends to be as bewildered as
bewitched.
Full
Country Name: The People's Republic of China
Area: 9,600,000 sq km
Population: 1.24 billion
Capital City: Beijing
People: Han Chinese (93%), plus Mongolian, Zhuang, Manchu and
Uighur minorities, total 56.
Language: Putonghua (Chinese Mandarin, basis of Beijing and
North-East dialects), and many local dialects and ethnic languages such
as Tibetan.
Religion: Officially atheist; Confucianism (China native), Buddhism, Taoism
( Chinese native); Muslim (14 million), Christian (7 million)
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