China is located in the east of Asia. It’s surrounded by the Pacific Ocean in the east. China is the largest country in the world, after Canada and Russia. It has an area of 9.6 million square kilometres. China has 6,536 islands larger than 500 square metres. The largest one is Taiwan which has about 36,000 square kilometres.
The population of China is approximately 1.3 billion. There is only 10% of minorities, such as the Tibetans, xin jiang and the Yunnan. There are more 50 dialects. But the official language is Mandarin.
Chinese wildlife is one of the most diverse in the world. There are more than 4400 species of vertebrates which represents more than 10% of the world’s total. There are some animals peculiar to China only found including the panda, golden-haired monkey and the South China tiger.
The most famous is the giant panda.
