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Chin Culture And Customs

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China: Culture and customs.
SSG. Odom
13P SLC # 001-16

China also called the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is located in East Asia. China is the world’s third largest nation. With a land, area of over 3 million square miles and population estimated to be over 1.3 billion people. China has over one-fifth of the world’s population. It boarders thirteen countries, some of those countries include Russia and Mongolia to the north and to the south are Myanmar Laos and Vietnam. The climate is very diverse, with tropical climates in the south and subarctic in the north. The lands in the west mostly consist of mountains, high plateaus, and desert. The eastern areas have plains, deltas and hills. The highest point is Mount Everest. Mount Everest is on the border between Tibet and Nepal. Mount Everest is also the tallest mountain in the world. The longest river in China is the Yangtze. It forms the dividing line between north and south China. The country divided into two regions referred to Inner China and Outer China. The Great Wall, built in the fifteenth century to protect against a military invasion, has been the country is dividing characteristic. While the both areas are mostly equal, 95 percent of the population lives near inner China and many of the minority groups live in outer China. Of these people, around 92 percent are Han Chinese. The government has supported the Han Chinese migration to other territories to help spread the population more evenly

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