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China,
a land of beauty and fascination, tempts adventurous travelers all
over the world. She is a massive country, covering 6,000,000 square
miles and spanning 60 longitudinal degrees. She has so infinite
variety of people, enchanting natural landscape, brilliant history
and culture and fascinating destinations that a visitor tends to
be as bewildered as bewitched.
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Country Name:
The People's
Republic of China.
Area:
9,600,000 sq km
Population: 1.24 billion
Capital City: Beijing (pop 12 million)
People: Han Chinese (93%), plus Mongolian, Zhuang,
Manchu and Uighur minorities
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Language:
Mandarin
Chinese.
Religion: Officially
atheist; Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism (no stats available); Muslim
(14 million), Christian (7 million)
Government:
The
National People's Congress
Head of State:
Jiang Zemin 
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