Largest Cities

City

Population

Estimated

Shanghai

11,900,000

2002

Beijing

9,267,300

2002

Tianjin

6,746,500

2002

Key Data

Region:

Asia

Population:

1,306,668,400 September 2002

Area Total:

9,596,960 km²

Area Land:

9,326,410 km²

Coast Line:

14,500 km km

Capital:

Beijing (Peking)

Climate:

Extremely diverse; tropical in south, desert in the northwest and subarctic in north, among other typologies.

Languages:

Standard Chinese or Mandarin
Yue (Cantonese)
Wu (Shanghaiese)
Minbei (Fuzhou)
Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese)
Various other dialects

Currency:

1 yuan (Y) = 10 jiao

Holiday:

National Day, 1 October (1949)

Boundaries

Mongolia:

4,673km

Russia:

3,645km

India:

3,380km

Myanmar:

2,185km

Kazakhstan:

1,533km

Korea, North:

1,416km

Vietnam:

1,281km

Nepal:

1,236km

Kyrgyzstan:

858km

Pakistan:

523km

Bhutan:

470km

Laos:

423km

Tajikistan:

414km

Afghanistan:

76km