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China

People's Republic of China · 中国
Asia · Eastern Asia

0Population

9.71Mkm² of land

$10.26KGDP / person

BeijingCapital

ISO codes: CN · CHN
Density: 144 /km²
Languages: Chinese
Currency: Chinese yuan (CNY)
Dial code: +86
Internet domain: .cn
Time zones: 2
Coastline: Has a coast
Map centre: 32.4980° N, 106.3370° E
Demonym: Chinese
UN region: Eastern Asia
Economy: Emerging region: BRIC
Income group: Upper middle income
Total GDP: $14.34T
Sovereignty: Independent · UN member
Borders: 16

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By the numbers

How China stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.

Population

1st

of 242 · 18.21% of world population

Land area

4th

of 242 · 6.47% of world land

GDP per person

103rd

richest of 242 by output per person

Population density

77th

most crowded of 242

Ten facts about China

The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.

1

Spans five geographic time zones but officially keeps only one, so sunrise in Kashgar can come after 10 a.m.

2

Population is about 1,397,715,000 people, the 1st largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 18.21 per cent of everyone alive.

3

Covers 9,706,961 km², making it the 4th largest country here - about 9.7 times the size of Egypt.

4

Population density is about 144 people per km².

5

The capital is Beijing, at 39.93° N, 116.39° E, with a metropolitan population of about 11,106,000.

6

Shares land borders with 16 countries: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Myanmar, Hong Kong and India (and 11 more).

7

Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.

8

Spans 2 time zones, from Asia/Shanghai to Asia/Urumqi.

9

The currency is the Chinese yuan (CNY, symbol ¥).

10

The official language is Chinese.

Local time

Live, from PHP's IANA database.

Asia/Shanghai

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UTC+08:00

Asia/Urumqi

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UTC+06:00

Cities

The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.

1 Shanghai Shanghai 31.2184° N, 121.4346° E 14.99M

2 ★ Beijing Beijing 39.9308° N, 116.3863° E 11.11M

3 Guangzhou Guangdong 23.1469° N, 113.3231° E 8.83M

4 Shenzhen Guangdong 22.5543° N, 114.1202° E 7.58M

5 Wuhan Hubei 30.5820° N, 114.2681° E 7.24M

6 Tianjin Tianjin 39.1320° N, 117.1981° E 7.18M

7 Chongqing Chongqing 29.5669° N, 106.5930° E 6.46M

8 Shenyeng Liaoning 41.8069° N, 123.4480° E 4.79M

9 Dongguan Guangdong 23.0508° N, 113.7428° E 4.53M

10 Chengdu Sichuan 30.6719° N, 104.0681° E 4.12M

🏔 Peaks

Shishapangma 8,027 m

Mount Kailash 6,638 m

🧭 Worth the trip

Great Wall of China Ancient

Not one wall but many, layered over two millennia and running more than 21,000 km across ridgelines and desert.

Terracotta Army Ancient

Over 8,000 clay soldiers, each with a different face, buried to guard one emperor and found by farmers in 1974.

Zhangjiajie Pillars Nature

Thousands of quartz-sandstone spires that float above the cloud layer on humid mornings.

Land neighbours

16 countries share a border with China.