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agricultural land:54.7%(2011 est.)arable land:11.3%(2011 est.) / permanent crops:1.6%(2011 est.) / permanent pasture:41.8%(2011 est.)forest:22.3%(2011 est.)other:23%(2011 est.)

Eastern Asia, bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam

8.00

Standard Chinese or Mandarin (official; Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages (see Ethnic groups entry) note: Zhuang is official in Guangxi Zhuang, Yue is official in Guangdong, Mongolian is official in Nei Mongol, Uighur is official in Xinjiang Uygur, Kyrgyz is official in Xinjiang Uygur, and Tibetan is official in Xizang (Tibet)

75.80

25.582 million Shanghai, 19.618 million BEIJING (capital), 14.838 million Chongqing, 12.683 million Guangdong, 13.215 million Tianjin, 11.908 million Shenzhen (2018)

-0.4 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2018 est.)

overwhelming majority of the population is found in the eastern half of the country; the west, with its vast mountainous and desert areas, remains sparsely populated; though ranked first in the world in total population, overall density is less than that of many other countries in Asia and Europe; high population density is found along the Yangtze and Yellow River valleys, the Xi Jiang River delta, the Sichuan Basin (around Chengdu), in and around Beijing, and the industrial area around Shenyang

rate of urbanization: 2.42% annual rate of change (2015-20 est.)

NA

female: 14 years (2015)

6.90

45.80

$23,210,000,000,000

6.10

$16,700

806,700,000

3.90

806,700,000

3.3%(2016 est.) note: in 2011, China set a new poverty line at RMB 2300 (approximately US $400)

3.9%(2017 est.)4%(2016 est.) note: data are for registered urban unemployment, which excludes private enterprises and migrants

47.00

47.00

1.60

1.60

2.25

2.25

$2,216,000,000,000

$2,216,000,000,000

US 19%, Hong Kong 12.4%, Japan 6%, South Korea 4.5% (2017)

$1,740,000,000,000

$1,740,000,000,000

South Korea 9.7%, Japan 9.1%, US 8.5%, Germany 5.3%, Australia 5.1% (2017)

$1,523,000,000,000

$1,383,000,000,000

$1,523,000,000,000

5,883,000,000,000

5,564,000,000,000

18,910,000,000

6,185,000,000

3,838,000

57,310

6,710,000

145,900,000,000

3,370,000,000

97,630,000,000

193,762,000

1,474,097,000

730,723,960

378,540,000

507

131,000

4,773,500

110,000

507

57,310

5,564,000,000,000

18,910,000,000

6,185,000,000

5,883,000,000,000

total: 730,723,960 (July 2016 est.)

3,370,000,000

4,773,500

1,474,097,000

110,000

China and India continue their security and foreign policy dialogue started in 2005 related to a number of boundary disputes across the 2,000 mile shared border; India does not recognize Pakistan's 1964 ceding to China of the Aksai Chin, a territory designated as part of the princely state of Kashmir by the British Survey of India in 1865; China claims most of the Indian state Arunachal Pradesh to the base of the Himalayas, but The US recognizes the state of Arunachal Pradesh as Indian territory; Bhutan and China continue negotiations to establish a common boundary alignment to resolve territorial disputes arising from substantial cartographic discrepancies, the most contentious of which lie in Bhutan's west along China's Chumbi salient; Chinese maps show an international boundary symbol off the coasts of the littoral states of the South China Sea, where China has interrupted Vietnamese hydrocarbon exploration; China asserts sovereignty over Scarborough Reef along with the Philippines and Taiwan, and over the Spratly Islands together with Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Brunei; the 2002 Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea eased tensions in the Spratlys, and in 2017 China and ASEAN began confidential negotiations for an updated Code of Conduct for the South China Sea designed not to settle territorial disputes but establish rules and norms in the region; this still is not the legally binding code of conduct sought by some parties; Vietnam and China continue to expand construction of facilities in the Spratlys and in early 2018 China deployed advanced military systems to disputed Spratly outposts; China occupies some of the Paracel Islands also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan; the Japanese-administered Senkaku Islands are also claimed by China and Taiwan; certain islands in the Yalu and Tumen Rivers are in dispute with North Korea; North Korea and China seek to stem illegal migration to China by North Koreans, fleeing privation and oppression; China and Russia have demarcated the once disputed islands at the Amur and Ussuri confluence and in the Argun River in accordance with their 2004 Agreement; China and Tajikistan have begun demarcating the revised boundary agreed to in the delimitation of 2002; the decade-long demarcation of the China-Vietnam land boundary was completed in 2009; citing environmental, cultural, and social concerns, China has reconsidered construction of 13 dams on the Salween River, but energy-starved Burma, with backing from Thailand, continues to consider building five hydro-electric dams downstream despite regional and international protests