China

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China
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Information

• Capital Beijing is the capital of China. Size
  China covers about 9,596,960 square kilometers.
  China is the fourth largest country in the world
  (after Russia, Canada, and the USA).
• Population China has the largest population of
  any country in the world. The population of China
  is about 1,319,175,333 (as of May 13, 2008).
  China is divided into 23 provinces, 5 autonomous
  regions, and 4 municipalities.

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Chinas Flag

• China's national flag was adopted in September,
  1949. This flag was first flown in Tiananmen
  Square on October 1, 1949 - the day of the
  founding of the People's Republic of China. The
  rectangular flag has a red field with five
  golden-yellow stars (each with five points) in
  the upper left corner. The star on the left is
  larger than the other four.
• The red color of the flag symbolizes revolution.
  The large star symbolizes the Communist Party
  (which rules China) and the smaller stars
  represent the people of China.

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Chinese Flag
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Physical Geography

• Climate China's climate ranges from desert to
  tropical to subarctic.
• Major Rivers The major rivers in China are the
  Yangtse River, the Yellow River, and the Pearl
  River. Songhua River
• Mountain Ranges The highest mountain range in
  the world, the Himalayas, borders China. Other
  major mountain ranges in China are the Kunlun
  Mountains, the Tsinling Mountains, and the Nan
  range.

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Huang He (Yellow River) Second Longest in China,
The most heavily silt-laden river in the world
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Kunlun Mountains
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Chang Jiang (Yangtze) RiverLargest and Longest
in China
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Xi Jiang (West or Pearl) River
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Mount Everest

• The highest point in China is Mount Everest
  29,035 feet(8,850 m tall), in the Himalayas. The
  summit is located between Nepal and Tibet.
• Corpses remaining about 120
• Named after Sir George Everest in 1865 -the
  British surveyor-general of India.

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Why is Everest hard to climb?

• Frostbite is the temporary (superficial) or
  permanent (deep) skin tissue damage caused by
  prolonged skin-tissue temperature of 23 degrees F
  and below.
• Essential equipment Oxygen canisters five to
  seven 3l bottles a sack to collect ice and snow,
  for melting and wet wipes for washing your body.
  These freeze, so you need to sleep with them
  inside your tent if they're going to be of any
  use. You'll also need a satellite phone, a
  two-way radio and some foot powder.
• As altitude increases, the number of oxygen
  molecules per breath is reduced. At 12,000ft
  (3,658m), there are 40 per cent fewer per breath.
  To compensate, your breathing rate must increase
  a great deal, even at rest. The body can also
  overcompensate by allowing blood vessels to leak
  in the brain or lungs.

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Time

• GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time, measured on
  the Prime Meridian (zero degrees longitude) in
  Greenwich, England. now called UTC (Universal
  Coordinated Time
• China is UTC 8 hours
• Central Daylight (TX) Subtract Five hours from
  UTC/GMT
• What time is it right now in China?

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The Great Wall
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All About the Great Wall of China

• The Great Wall of China was built over 2,000
  years ago, by Qin Shi Huangdi, the first emperor
  of China during the Qin (Ch'in) Dynasty (221 B.C
  - 206 B.C.). In Chinese the wall is called
  "Wan-Li Qang-Qeng" which means 10,000-Li Long
  Wall (10,000 Li about 5,000 km).

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• After subjugating and uniting China from seven
  Warring States, the emperor connected and
  extended four old fortification walls along the
  north of China that originated about 700 B.C.
  (over 2500 years ago). Armies were stationed
  along the wall as a first line of defense against
  the invading nomadic Hsiung Nu tribes north of
  China (the Huns). Signal fires from the Wall
  provided early warning of an attack.

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• The Great Wall is one of the largest building
  construction projects ever completed. It
  stretches across the mountains of northern China,
  winding north and northwest of Beijing. It is
  constructed of masonry, rocks and packed-earth.
  It was over 5,000 km (10,000 Li) long. Its
  thickness ranged from about 4.5 to 9 meters (15
  to 30 feet) and was up to 7.5 meters (25 feet)
  tall.

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• During the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), the Great
  Wall was enlarged to 6,400 kilometers (4,000
  miles) and renovated over a 200 year period, with
  watch-towers and cannons added. The Great Wall
  can be seen from Earths orbit, but, contrary to
  legend, is not visible from the moon, according
  to astronauts Neil Armstrong, Jim Lovell, and Jim
  Irwin.

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Hmmm, thats interesting

• Paper was invented in China around 105 A.D., by
  the eunuch Ts'ai Lun. According to the official
  history of the Han dynasty (3rd century A.D.)
• The Chinese physician Hua T'o, born sometime
  between 140 and 150 A.D., was the first doctor
  known to perform surgery under general
  anaesthetic.
• It is not true that the early Chinese used
  gunpowder only for fireworks. They had forms of
  guns (invented in 1288), bombs, grenades,
  rockets, land mines, and other arms.
• How to manufacture porcelain, or "china", was a
  mystery known only to the Chinese until around
  1700.

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More useless crap

• The world's largest billboard is 300 meters long
  and 45 meters high. It is in southeast China,
  overlooking the Yangtze River at Chongqing.
  However, this area is so continually foggy that
  no-one has advertised on it since 1998, so China
  has decided to tear it down.
• Three of the world's ten longest rivers have
  their source in China, and a further three have
  their source in Mongolia.
• The art of printing from wooden blocks with the
  characters in reverse started in Buddhist
  monasteries in China. The oldest surviving
  printed book that can be reliably dated is a
  Buddhist text, the Diamond Sutra, which was made
  in China in 868.
• The story of Cinderella first appears in a
  Chinese book written between 850 and 860 A.D.

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The Grand Canal

• Grand Canal, a waterway 100 feet wide, lined with
  roads and trees, and stretching for 1,000 miles.
• Almost 5.5 million people were involved in the
  construction, and it has been estimated that 2.5
  million died due to the harshness of the working
  conditions. The canal, extending from Peking to
  Hangchow, is as navigable today as when it was
  built almost 1,400 years ago.

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• The Three Gorges Dam is a Chinese hydroelectric
  river dam that spans the Yangtze River in China.
  The total electric generating capacity of the dam
  will reach 22,500 megawatts, at which point it
  will be the largest hydro-electric power station
  in the world. This is the biggest project that
  has been undertaken in China since the Great Wall
  and the Grand Canal. Several generators are yet
  to be installed the dam is not expected to
  become fully operational until about 2011.

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The project was begun in 1993 at an official cost
of 200bn Yuan (25 billion), though unofficial
estimates are far higher.
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When the dam's reservoir reaches its final height
of 175m, the five-chamber ship lock will raise
boats by as much as 113m.