China

China, officially People’s Republic of China, is located in East Asia and is the third largest country in the world in terms of geographic size, with an area of 9,596,960 square kilometers (about 3.7 million square miles). It has the largest population of any country in the world at approximately 1.4 billion. Beijing, the capital city of China, is located in the northeastern part of the country.

China has 33 administrative units directly under the central government: China’s Communist Party, which consists of 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two special administrative regions (Hong Kong and Macau). China considers the island of Taiwan to be a province of China, but Taiwan has been under separate administration since 1949, and its leadership asserts that it ...