Country guide
China
Capital, flag, borders and quick geography facts for China.
Key facts
- Capital
- Beijing
- Region
- Asia
- Area
- 9,706,961 km²
- Population
- 1,408,280,000
Neighboring countries
China has 16 land neighbors in the country data.
Learn China
China's capital is Beijing, and the country uses a single official time zone nationwide.
China covers 9,706,961 square kilometers and shares borders with 16 countries and territories, the largest of which is Russia.
The Great Wall of China spans more than 21,000 kilometers, the longest human-made structure on Earth.
Trivia
- China uses one official time zone across the whole country.
- The Great Wall of China spans a total length of more than 21,000 kilometers, making it the longest man-made structure on Earth.
- The giant panda is endemic to China, surviving in the wild only in a handful of mountainous bamboo forests in Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu.
- In 1974, farmers digging a well near Xi'an accidentally unearthed the Terracotta Army, an underground force of more than 8,000 life-size clay soldiers guarding the tomb of China's first emperor.
- The Yangtze River stretches about 6,300 kilometers across China, making it the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world.
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