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Provinces: Shanghai Anhui Fujian Jiangsu Jiangxi Shandong Zhejiang
North China	1,556,061 km²	164,823,226	105/km²
Provinces: Beijing Henan Hebei Shanxi Tianjin
Northeast China	793,300 km²	109,520,844	138/km²
Provences: Heilongjiang
Northwest China	3,107,701 km²	96,644,038	60/km²
Provences: Gansu javascript:__doPostBack('Provence','Yunnan') Shaanxi Ningxia Xinjiang
South Central China	1,014,354 km²	383,559,808	378/km²
Provences: Guangdong Hainan Henan Hubei Hunan Guangxi Hong Kong Macau
Southwest China	2,365,900 km²	192,979,243	82/km²
Provinces:  Chongqing Guizhou Sichuan Yunnan

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Population: 1,397,790,000
Km2: 9,596,961 Religion: Budism
Capital of China: Beijing
Cityzens in Capital of China: 19,827,000
International Airport: Beijing Shanghai
Main language: Standard Chinese Countrycode: CN
Currency: CNY China belongs to the Continent: Asia

The history

The Yellow Rivers Northern China

The history of China goes back to the ancient civilization – one of the world´s earliest – that flourished in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. 

  The Himalaya, Karakoram, Pamir and Tian Shan mountain ranges separate China from South and Central Asia. 

The Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, the third- and sixth-longest in the world, run from the Tibetan Plateau to the densely populated eastern seaboard. China´s coastline along the Pacific Ocean is 14,500 kilometres (9,000 mi) long, and is bounded by the Bohai, Yellow, East and South China Seas. 

The PRC has been a United Nations member since 1971, when it replaced the ROC as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council. China is also a member of numerous formal and informal multilateral organizations, including the WTO, APEC, BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the BCIM and the G-20.

The Republic of China (ROC)

The Yangtze and Yellow Rivers

For millennia, China´s political system was based on hereditary monarchies, known as dynasties, beginning with the semi-mythological Xia of the Yellow River basin . Since 221 BCE, when the Qin Dynasty first conquered several states to form a Chinese empire, the country has expanded, fractured and been reformed numerous times. 

The Republic of China (ROC) overthrew the last dynasty in 1911, and ruled the Chinese mainland until 1949. After the defeat of the Empire of Japan in World War II, the Communist Party defeated the nationalist Kuomintang in mainland China and established the People´s Republic of China in Beijing on 1 October 1949, while the Kuomintang relocated the ROC government to its present capital of Taipei.

Since the introduction of economic reforms in 1978, China has become one of the world´s fastest-growing major economies. As of 2013, it is the world´s second-largest economy by both nominal total GDP and purchasing power parity (PPP), and is also the world´s largest exporter and importer of goods. China is a recognized nuclear weapons state and has the world´s largest standing army, with the second-largest defense budget.