Capital: Peking - 5770 thousand (1990).
Area: 9571300 sq. km.
Population: About 1 221 462 thousand people (1995).
Admin. division: 23 provinces, 5 independent areas, 3 cities of the central submission and sp. adm. district Siangan.
Language: The official language is Chinese.
Currency: Yuan. 8,2 Yuan = 1 $ USA.
Time: Moscow time +5 hours.
Large cities: Shanghai - 7497 thousand (1990), Tianjin- 4575 thousand (1990), Shenyang(Mukden), Wuhan, Guangzhou (Canton), Taipei, Harbin, Chongqing, Nanjing, Xi'an, Dalian (Distant), Chengdu, Changchun, Taiyuan, Tsinan, Tsingtao, Kaohsiung, Fushun, Anshan, Lanchow, C
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- Geographical position:
It is the state in East Asia. In the north it borders by Mongolia and Russia, in north-east with Russia, in the south - with Vietnam, Burma, Laos, India, Bhutan and Nepal, in the west - with Pakistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, in northwest - Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. In the east it is washed by Yellow sea, in the south - by South China Sea.
- State system:
The highest Body of power in the Chinese People's Republic is Chinese Assembly of national representatives; the government is the State Council of Chinese People's Republic.
- Climate:
China is situated within three climatic zones: temperate, subtropical and tropical. Especially sudden distinctions of temperature are in the winter. So, in January in Harbin the temperature quite often falls up to-20 ?C, and at this time in Guangzhou is 15 ?C. In the summer difference of temperature is not so visible.
- Miscellaneous:
China is the country of contrasts. Here you are waited for magnificent boutiques and thin shops, elegant workers of offices and emaciated market women with kiddies that are always hungry, automobiles of last mark and rickshaw, huge villas and tiny apartments. The same variety is in the nature: high mountains, sand and barchans, green pastures, lakes, boundless rice fields. There are severe frosts and intolerable heat, flooding and drought. An inseparable part of culture of China is a well-known Imperial palace, the Great wall, a terracotta army of the first emperor, uncountable temples and tombs, classical painting and, at last, the Peking opera.
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