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Facts About China

1.)21% of China's population live in urban areas and 79% live in rural areas.
2.)China's national anthem is the "The East is Red." 3.)The capital of China is
Beiming or else Peking. 4.)The name of the currency in China is Yuan. 5.)The life expectancy in China for males is 65.5 and for females is 69.5. 6.)The literacy rate in China is 80% 7.)The main religions in China are Atheistic,
Buddhism, and Daoism. 8.)In the 5fh century AD the Chinese had calculated the value of pi more than 10 decimal places. 9.)Gunpowder first blew up iun
Alchemist's furnace around 800Ad and was quickly put to military use.
10.)China's official name is People's Replubic of China (PRC). 11.)China's total population is more than 1,000,000,000 which makes up more than 1/5 of the world's population. 12.)China cover's 3.7 million square miles. 13.)China's three largest cities are Shanghai, Beijing, and Tianjin. They are not part of any province. 14.)The Chinese language has more than 50,000 different words.
15.)The Chinese have problem's making typewriters. 16.)The Chinese read their books from top to bottom, and from right to left. 17.)Pottery is one of China's most famous kinds of arts. 18.)The Forbidden City is inside Imperial City.
Imperial City is inside the Inner City. The Inner City is inside Peking.
19.)China is the third largest country in area after Russia and Canada. 20.)In
1949 communists took power of China. 21.)Ther are 3400 off shore islands.
22.)The earlist recorded history of China is 3500 years ago. 23.)The great paddlefish, giant panda, Chinese water deer and the salamander are in China, but extinct elsewhere. 24.)It is estimated that there are more than 35 cities in
China with a population of more than one million. 25.)Mount Everest is 29,028 feet high and is the highest point on Earth. 26.)About 3/4 of all people are farmers. 27.)China has the world's oldest civilization. 28.)The Chinese invented gunpowder, paper, porcelain, and silk cloth. 29.)About 94% of China's population belong to the Han nationality. 30.)China has the biggest army, but not the strongest. 31.)The Great Wall of China was built to keep enemies out of China.
It is about 4,000 miles long. 32.)The Peking Man lived in China about 500,000

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