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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
Capital City: Beijing
Form of government: Communist state
Total surface area in sq.km: 9,596,960 sq km
Population: 1,330,044,544 (July 2008 est.)
Literacy rate (of total population): 90.90%
Official language: Standard Chinese or Mandarin, Yue, Wu, Minbei, Minnan, Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages
Climate: Extremely diverse; tropical in south to subarctic in north
Currency: Yuan
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GDP (purchasing power parity): $7.8 trillion (2008 est.)
GDP per capita (PPP): $6,100 (2008 est.)
GDP Real growth rate: 9.8% (2008 est.)
GDP (official exchange rate): $4.222 trillion (2008 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 6% (2008 est.)
Exports: $1.465 trillion f.o.b. (2008 est.)
Export commodities: Electrical and other machinery, including data processing equipment, apparel, textile, iron and steel, optical and medical equipment
Export partners: US 19.1%, Hong Kong 15.1%, Japan 8.4%, South Korea 4.6%, Germany 4% (2007)
Imports: $1.156 trillion f.o.b. (2008 est.)
Import commodities: Electrical and other machinery, oil and mineral fuels, optical and medical equipment, metal ores, plastics, organic chemicals
Import partners: Japan 14%, South Korea 10.9%, Taiwan 10.5%, US 7.3%, Germany 4.7% (2007)
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Airports: 467 (2007)
Railways: 75,438 km
Roadways: 1,930,544 km
Waterways: 110,000 km navigable (2008)
Ports & terminals: Dalian, Guangzhou, Ningbo, Qingdao, Qinhuangdao, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Tianjin
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Telephones: 365.4 million (2007)
Internet users: 253 million (2008)
Internet country code: .cn |
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| Source: CIA World Factbook |
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