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China is at best a culture shock. You may feel compelled to shop till you drop in its metropolises but balance your yin and yang by taking in the Silk Road, sail along the Yangzi River and making time to understand the Chinese mentality.

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Name: The Republic of China

Capital: Beijing

Nationality: Chinese

Location: Eastern Asia, bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam

Population: 1,306,313,812

Religions: Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Christian 3%-4%, Muslim 1%-2%
note: officially atheist (2002 est.)

Languages: Standard Chinese or Mandarin (Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghaiese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages

Currency: Yuan Renminbi

Climate: Diverse: tropical in the south to subarctic in the north

Terrain: mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas, and hills in east

Country Dialing Code: +86

Weights & Measures: Metric

Time Zones: GMT/UTC +8

Flying time: 10 hours from UK

10 October 2007

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