China
East Asia & Pacific · Data from the World Bank Open Data API · World Geography Learning Path
China is the world's second most populous country and covers a vast range of landscapes, from tropical coastline to Himalayan peaks to desert. It's a single country spanning five geographic time zones' worth of longitude, though it officially uses just one time zone nationwide.
Quick Facts
- Capital
- Beijing
- Region
- East Asia & Pacific
- Income level
- Upper middle income
- Population
- 1,406,585,000
- Land area
- 9,388,210 km²
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The Gobi Desert in northern China (and southern Mongolia) is one of the largest deserts in the world and can be bitterly cold in winter, unlike most deserts.