China Country in Asia

China, a communist nation in East Asia, is the world’s most populous country. Its astronomical landscape encompasses grassland, desert, mountain ranges, lakes, rivers and 14,500km of coastline. Beijing, the archaic capital, commixes modern architecture with historic sites including sprawling Tiananmen Square. Its most sizably voluminous city, Shanghai, is a skyscraper-studded ecumenical financial center. The iconic Great Wall of China fortification runs east-west across the country's north.

China officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a sovereign state located in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population of over 1.35 billion. The PRC is a single-party state governed by the Chinese Communist Party, with its seat of regime in the capital city of Beijing. It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Chongqing), and two mostly self-governing special administrative regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The PRC additionally claims the territories governed by the Republic of China (ROC), a separate political entity commonly kenned as Taiwan, as a component of its territory, which includes the island of Taiwan as Taiwan Province, Kinmen and Matsu as a component of Fujian Province and islands the ROC controls in the South China Sea as a component of Hainan Province. These claims are controversial due to the intricate political status of Taiwan.

Shanghai is the most immensely colossal Chinese city by population and the most immensely colossal city felicitous by population in the world. It is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of the People's Republic of China, with a population of more than 24 million as of 2013. It is an ecumenical financial center, and a convey hub with the world's most diligent container port. Located in the Yangtze River Delta in East China, Shanghai sits on the south edge of the mouth of the Yangtze in the middle portion of the Chinese coast. The municipality borders the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the north, south and west, and is bounded to the east by the East China Sea.