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China

Location

Eastern Asia, bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam

Area

Total: 9,596,960 sq km

Land: 9,326,410 sq km

Water: 270,550 sq km

Climate

Extremely diverse; ranges from tropical in the south to subarctic in the north

Terrain

Mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas, and hills in east

Elevation

Highest point: Mount Everest 8,849 m

Lowest point: Turpan Pendi -154 m

Population

1,397,897,720 (July 2021 est.)

Ethnic Groups

Han Chinese 91.6%, Zhuang 1.3%, other (includes Hui, Manchu, Uighur, Miao, Yi, Tujia, Tibetan, Mongol, Dong, Buyei, Yao, Bai, Korean, Hani, Li, Kazakh, Dai, and other nationalities) 7.1% (2010 est.)

Religions

Folk religion 21.9%, Buddhist 18.3%, Christian 5.2%, Muslim 2%, Hindu less than 0.1%, Jewish less than 0.1%, other 0.7% (includes Daoist (Taoist)), unaffiliated 51.8% (2020 est.)