Tham khảo tài liệu 'thiết kế bài giảng tiếng anh 11 nâng cao tập 1 part 7', tài liệu phổ thông, tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Land size China has a landmass of 9 600 000 sq km and is the third-largest country in the world next only to Russia and Canada. Cultivated land is million ha. Location In the east of the Asian continent on the western shore of the Pacific Ocean. Bordering countries Korea Mongolia Russia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tadzhikistan Afghanistan Pakistan India Nepal Bhutan Myanmar Laos and Viet Nam. Climate Extremely diverse tropical in the south to subarctic in the north. Geography Mountains high plateaus and deserts in the west plains deltas and hills in the east. The highest mountain in China is the highest mountain in the world Mount Qomolangma. The mountain towers above all others at 29 035feet or 8 848 m. Population China is the world s most populous country with billion at the end of 2002 one-fifth of the world s total. This figure does not include the Chinese living in the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and Taiwan Province. Population density The population density is 134 people per sq km roughly four times greater than that of the . Population ethnicity percent of Chinese people are Han. The non-Han population includes 55 ethnic minorities of which the major groups are the Zhuang Manchu Hui Miao Uygur Yi Tujia Mongolian and Tibetan. Population distribution Most of the population of China lives in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River Yangtze River and Pearl River valleys and the Northeast Plain. In 2000 a go-west campaign was launched by the government to help its relatively backward western and central areas catch up with more affluent eastern China. Religions The number of religious worshippers in China is estimated at well over 100 million most of whom follow Buddhism. Other major religions are Taoism Islam and Christianity in both its Catholic and Protestant forms. Languages Standard Chinese or Mandarin Putonghua based on the Beijing dialect Yue Cantonese Wu Shanghaiese Minbei Fuzhou Minnan 294 Hokkien-Tamanese
