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China claims, but does not control Taiwan, which is governed by a rival administration (the Republic of China) that claims all of China as its territory. [q] China is not recognised by 12 UN member states and the Holy See, which, with the exception of Bhutan, all recognise Taiwan instead. [r] China, Republic of → See Taiwan listing
"Mainland China", also referred to as "the Chinese mainland", is a geopolitical term defined as the territory under direct administration of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the aftermath of the Chinese Civil War.
China accounted for 18.6% of the world's total wealth in 2022, second highest in the world after the U.S. [307] China brought more people out of extreme poverty than any other country in history [308] [309] —between 1978 and 2018, China reduced extreme poverty by 800 million.
The area of the People's Republic of China is 9,596,960 km 2 (3,705,410 sq mi) according to the CIA's The World Factbook. [1] The People's Republic of China is either the third or fourth-largest country in the world, being either slightly larger or slightly smaller than the United States, depending on how the area of the United States is measured.
This is the list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2024 revision of World Population Prospects. It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present.
Population density (people per km 2) by country. This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
Overseas Chinese people are people of Chinese origin who reside outside Greater China (mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan). [20] As of 2011, there were over 40.3 million overseas Chinese. [ 8 ]
This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in Asia. It includes fully recognized states, states with limited but substantial international recognition, de facto states with little or no international recognition, and dependencies of both Asian and non-Asian states. In particular, it lists (i) 49 generally recognized sovereign states, all of which are members of the United ...