China

By Emmah

About China

Population 1,367,485,388 people live in China.

Life expectancy Male 73.38 years

BEIJING

Female 77.73 years

Capital City Beijing

National Flag Money Yuan
President Xi Jinping

5 stars and red.

Location

Chinas absolute location is

Where is China?
The longitude is 103.0000 E, and

35.0000 N

China is a very large

nation which is a huge
latitude
part of South-East Asia.
China has a massive area
of 3,705,407 square
miles. China is the fourth
largest country in the
world, and is one of the
oldest. Chinas capital is
Beijing.

What is longitude and latitude?

The lines running up, down and sideways on maps and globes
are the lines of longitude and latitude. The lines of longitude
and latitude are lines to help pin- point the exact point where
a country is.

Relative Location
China is located both
in the Eastern and
Northern
hemisphere. China is
a huge part of
eastern Asia, and is
boarded by the
Yellow Sea, South
China Sea, Pacific
Ocean, Bohai Sea
and fourteen other
countries.

Region
China has five independent regions, they are
Guangxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Tibet
(Xizang) and Xinjiang.
Here is a picture to see the different
regions with different climates!
Subarctic - Very short, cool Summers with freezing cold
Winters and brief Autumns and Springs.

Humid Continental, Cool Summer short, brief

Summers cold long Winters rain is greatest in Summer,
snow in Winter.
Semiarid
short, hot Summers with long cold Winters
and little rain and snow.
Humid Continental Long, warm Summers, bitter
cold Winters snow in Winter and most of rain in
Summer.
Arid
(desert) Long and boiling Summers short
cool Winters and little rain.
Highlands - Local climates vary with altitude
(highness) and exposure.
Humid Subtropical Long, warn Summers with
heavy rain, short, mild Winters with lighter rainfall.
Tropical Wet, Rainforest - No Winters, heavy rainfall
all throughout the year.

Region

Here are
the
different
regions
and the
different
languages
in china.

Place

Some of Chinas physical characteristics are

Landforms! What are landforms?
A landform is a natural feature on the Earths surface, like mountains, valleys,
rivers, forests, canyons, reefs, plains and more.

Landforms China has lots of beautiful natural landforms.

Here are 8 most beautiful landforms of China. ( see pictures next
slide.) They are: The Land Of The Red Flame, Li River ( scenic
area ), Zhangye Danxia Landform ( Colourful Rock Formation.) The
Red Wave Of China, The Colourful Bank, Kanbula National Forest
Park, The Soil Forest in Yuanmou, and the Red Flute Cave.

Place - Landforms

The Land of
the Red
Flame

The Red Wave

Of China

Li River

The Colorful
Bank

Zhangye Danxia
Landform

Kanbula
National

The Soil
Forest In
Yuanmou

Red Flute
Cave

Place
Soil in China is pretty polluted, overworked and is artificially fertilized. If it stays
like this it would get hard to grow crops and food.
China has quite a large variety of natural resources. One of the main resource
China has is minerals. China has around about 12% of the worlds mineral
resources, with only Russia and United States having more.

Place
Here are some of Chinas characteristics and human
characteristics
Chinas great size means a diversity of different climates.
The northeast area experiences hot dry summers with bitter
freezing cold winters. The north and central region
experiences nearly continuous rainfall, hot summers, and
cold winters. The southeast region has some rainfall, and
semi tropical summers and cool winters.
Most of Chinas population doesnt have a religion at all,
52.2% of people dont have any religion. Other then no
religion, the main religion in China is Folk religion is which is
21.9%. China has many different religions, some are: Muslim,
Christianity, Hinduism, Jewish, Hindu and Buddhism.

Place
Chinas language is standard Mandarin or Chinese. Other
languages are Cantonese, Shanghainese, Fuzhou, Hokkien,
and more minority languages.
Some of Chinas political issues is the air in Beijing, lost
territories (fighting over which territory is theirs) and other
ones.

Movement
How do people get transported around the
country?
The people in China get transported just the way that we do. They
get transported by trams, cars, trains, planes, helicopters, bikes
etc. The main transport the Chinese use is cars and trains. In the
outer regions of China they use rickshaws which are a seat you sit
in and you have someone to push you in front.

Movement
How are goods transported in and out of China?
If toys were getting transported to China they would probably get transported to China by
Boat. Also if goods and things were getting transported from China they would probably be getting
transported by boat.

What goods did the Chinese trade?

The thing that the Chinese traded the most was silk, there was even a Silk Road! Silk Road was called Silk
Road because silk was one of the major products that was traded in China. People all through Asia and
Europe loved silk for its softness and luxury. The Chinese sold silk for thousands of years that even the
Romans called China The Land Of Silk!
The Chinese also sold sugars, salts, teas, porcelain and spices.

Why do people migrate from China?

It is said that in the past 100 years, that China has the most movement of people that has migrated. Most
people move for a better lifestyle, but more people migrate then the government wants. Some other ways
that Chinese have migrated are from the early days, the Chinese migrated to go to the Gold Rush, 1851.
Now, people migrate from China for different reasons, here are just few of the ways! War, political
reasons and just to get away or to see family!

Human-Environment Interaction

Pollution
The Chinese find it hard to cope with the polluted air, it seems that the polluted
air is so bad that people of Beijing sometimes have to wear masks! The Chinese
lawmakers have finally made a plan to try and lessen the amount of pollution in
the air. The pollution in the air is mostly caused by all the amount of people that
drive their own separate cars which brings the fumes up into the air.

How have people changed the environment?

In China people have been changing the environment for three thousand years!
Some for the better and some for the bad. People have been blaming some
disasters on mother nature, when overtime it has been the people themselves
that have created it.

What's
thelots
economy
like?
China
has had
of economic
challenges , like reducing high saving rates,
reducing corruption and other crimes, and containing environmental damage.

Human-Environment
interaction
5

Where do most
Most populated cities in Chinapeople live in
China?
Shanghai
Beijing
Tianjin

Cities
of
China

Guangzhou
11
million

Shenzhen

10 million

14%

22
millio
n

30%

15%

11
million

15%

Most people in China live in

one of the main cities,
Shanghai. You would think the
most amount of people would
live in Beijing, but three
million more people live in
Shanghai, which is
understandable since it is the
largest and wealthiest city in
the whole of China.

19
million

26%

How much
people by
percentag
e and
number

Picture of Shanghai

Interesting Facts
GREAT WALL OF CHINA

The Great Wall Of China

stretches 3915 miles in
length!
A huge amount of
people lost there lives
while building the wall.
The first parts of the
wall were built over
2000 years ago!
The Great Wall Of China
is the only structure
that can be seen from

WEIRD
FACTS

Half of all pigs on

Earth live in China!
Many children keep
crickets as pets.
The early emperors in
China used to keep
pandas to scare a
way evil spirits.
Geese are used as
police animals
instead of dogs
because of there
vision and aggressive

FLAG FACTS

Chinas first national flag was

yellow with a blue dragon on it.
The Chinese flag now was
revealed in Beijing Tiananmen
Square on October 1st 1949.
The redness on the Chinese
Flag is to symbolize the people
who have died in the Civil War
and Japanese Invasion.

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