Country of the Day
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Today's Featured Country
China
East and Southeast Asia
sovereign
CN
Key Facts
Capital
Beijing
Population
1,416,043,270
Area
9,596,960 sq km
Climate
extremely diverse; tropical in south to subarctic in north
Languages
Standard Chinese or Mandarin (official; Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien...
Government type
communist party-led state
Life expectancy at birth
78.7 years (2024 est.)
Religions
folk religion 21.9%, Buddhist 18.2%, Christian 5.1%, Muslim 1.8%, Hindu < 0.1%, Jewish < 0.1%, other 0.7% (includes Daoist (Taoist)), unaffiliated 52....
Independence
1 October 1949 (People's Republic of China established); notable earlier dates: 221 B.C. (unification under the Qin Dynasty); 1 January 1912 (Qing Dyn...
Natural resources
coal, iron ore, helium, petroleum, natural gas, arsenic, bismuth, cobalt, cadmium, ferrosilicon, gallium, germanium, hafnium, indium, lithium, mercury...
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