China Travel Information
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Time Difference: time difference: UTC+8 (13 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
note: despite its size, all of China falls within...
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Capital City: Beijing
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Airports: 463
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Travel Climate: The country lies almost entirely in the temperate zone. Only Hainan Province and the southernmost portions of Yunnan and Guangdong...
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Area Comparative: slightly smaller than the US
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Travel Currency: 6.626
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Language Spoken: Standard Chinese (putonghua), based on the Mandarin dialect, is the national language and is spoken by more than 70 percent...
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Languages: Standard Chinese or Mandarin (Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan,...
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Ethnic Groups: Han Chinese 91.5%, Zhuang, Manchu, Hui, Miao, Uighur, Tujia, Yi, Mongol, Tibetan, Buyi, Dong, Yao, Korean, and other nationalities 8.5%
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National Holiday: National Day, the anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, 1 October (1949)
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Inflation Rate: 2.3%
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Geographic Coordinates: 35 00 N, 105 00 E
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Location: Eastern Asia, bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam
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Terrain: mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas, and hills in east