|Currency||Renminbi (RMB, ¥)| |Population||1,321,851,888 (July
2007 est.)| |Language|| national: Mandarin (Putonghua)|
regional: Wu (Shanghaiese), Cantonese (Yue), Mindong (Fuzhou),
Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority
languages |Religion||Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Christian 3%-4%,
Muslim 1%-2% (officially atheist)| |Electricity||220V/50Hz
(US/European plug for 2-pin, Australian plug for 3-pin)| |Time
Zone||UTC +8| China (中国; Zhōngguó) , officially known as the
People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国 Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó)
is a vast country in Eastern Asia (about the same size as the
United States of America) with the world's largest population.
With coasts on the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and
South China Sea, in total it borders 14 nations. It borders
Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Laos and
Vietnam to the south; Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan to
the west; Russia and Mongolia to the north and North Korea to
the east. Only Russia has more