Let me take you to the world's most populous country, China. It is located in East Asia. With numbers more than 1,4 billion population, which means they are seven times than Indonesia's population number. China is the world's third or fourth largest country. It's total area is 9.596.961 km2, which id decided into 23 provinces, five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing), and two special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau. (Source: wikipedia).
Their official language is standard Chinese, but they also have their regional language just like us Indonesians, such as Mongolian, Uyghur, Tibetan, etc. Their ethnic majority is Han Chinese. 74,5% people have no religions only 18,3% Buddhism, 5,2% Christianity, 1.6% Moslem, and 0,4% others.
Their current president's name is Xi Jinping.
Timezone; UTC+8 (China's standard-time)
National Flag Currency: Yuan ¥ / Renminbi President Xi Jinping
China's landscape is vast and diverse, ranging from the Gobi and Taklamakan Deserts in the arid north to the subtropicalforests in the wetter south. The Himalaya, Karakoram, Pamir and Tian Shan mountain ranges separate China from much of South and Central Asia. The Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, the third- and sixth-longest in the world, respectively, run from the Tibetan Plateau to the densely populated eastern seaboard. China's coastline along the Pacific Ocean is 14,500 km (9,000 mi) long and is bounded by the Bohai, Yellow, East China and South China seas. China connects through the Kazakh border to the Eurasian Steppe which has been an artery of communication between East and West since the Neolithic through the Steppe route – the ancestor of the terrestrial Silk Road.
Yangtze/ Yangzi river as we known as Sungai Panjang. It is the longest river in Asia and third-longest in the world.
Now, let's take a look at some of China's tourist attraction;
Of course all of you must have seen one of the cutest animal in the world, panda.
Giant panda, is the most famous endangered and endemic animal species in China, they are known as national treasure in China. They are the most powerful symbol in the world when it comes to species conservation, it has been the symbol of WWF since its formation in 1961.
The Great Wall Of China. It was constructed from the 7th Century BC by the Chu State and lasted until 1878 in the Qing Dynasty. The most remaining we see today was built in the Ming Dynasty about 600 years ago(1368 - 1644), they are mostly preserved in Beijing. The length is 21,196km, it is a huge construction which starts from Hushan, Liaoning in the east and ends at Jiayuguan Pass, Gansu in the west, across Liaoning, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Gansu, and Qinghai Provinces.
As you can see the Great Wall is very big, long time ago they used this to defend themselves when they're in a war and also to control their border.
The Great Wall of China was listed as world cultural heritage in 1987 by UNESCO World Heritage Centre.
Well, there are more lots of things we can talk about China, let's continue about the culture and cuisine in other times. Zai jian!
Source: Google, Wikipedia
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