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Official Name: The People's Republic of China
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 Population: 1,321,851,888
Captial City: Beijing
Government: Socialist state
Major Languages: Standard Mandarin, Simplified Chinese
Monetary Unit: Yuan
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Overview:
The People's Republic of China, commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the most populous in the world with over 1.29 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population. It is a socialistrepublic ruled by the Communist Party of China under a single-party system and has jurisdiction over twenty-two provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two largely self-governing Special Administrative Regions. China's capital is Beijing.

 At 9.6 million square kilometres, the People's Republic of China is the world's third or fourth largest country by total area, and fourth largest by land area. Its landscape is diverse with forest steppes and deserts (the Gobi and Taklamakan) in the dry north near Mongolia and Russia's Siberia, and subtropical forests in the wet south close to Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar. The terrain in the west is rugged and high altitude, with the Himalayas and the Tian Shan mountain ranges forming China's natural borders with India and Central Asia. In contrast, China's eastern seaboard is low-lying and has a 14,500-kilometre long coastline bounded on the southeast by the South China Sea and on the east by the East China Sea beyond which lies Korea and Japan.
Ancient Chinese civilization—one of the world's earliest—flourished in the fertile basin of the Yellow River which flows through the North China Plain. For 4,000 years, China's political system was based on hereditary monarchies (also known as dynasties). The first of these dynasties was the Xia but it was later the Qin Dynasty who first unified China in 221 BC. The last dynasty, the Qing, ended in 1911 with the founding of the Republic of China (ROC) by the Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT). The first half of the 20th century saw China plunged into a period of disunity and civil wars that divided the country into two main political camps– the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Communists. Major hostilities ended in 1949, when the People's Republic of China (PRC) was established in mainland China by the victorious Communists. The KMT-led Republic of China government retreated to Taipei, its jurisdiction now limited to Taiwan and several outlying islands.


History:
  • 5,000 years ago: An advanced civilization in China sought to rule the world. However, a natural disaster almost destroyed them, and their high priestess used her powers to contain all of their souls in an urn, where they would remain until the time was right for them to return to the world and conquer it. (Deathblow and Wolverine #1)
  • Approx. 200 B.C.: Hark Ah Lien defends the Night Forest School of martial arts to preserve the secret heart of China. (Planetary #16, actual date is conjecture)

Alternate Versions:
  • Sliding Albion: The expansionist alien warlord known as Regis turned China into a rape camp in the summer of 1856.

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