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title: "Facts About the People's Republic of China"  
description: "China, officially the People's Republic of China, is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country with a population exceeding 1.4 billion."  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-10-27  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1423/facts-about-the-people-s-republic-of-china  
category: "education"  
tags: ["China", "facts", "people's republic", "China facts", "Chinese facts"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Facts About the People's Republic of China

![Facts About the People s Republic of China](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/ab6a5584-1cea-48dd-a899-1387ab14ae3c/images/90e9a534-262c-4f39-b409-e66b79d090da.jpeg) ![Facts About the People s Republic of China](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/ab6a5584-1cea-48dd-a899-1387ab14ae3c/images/8043b11f-5ab2-48a2-8a62-62d8b994aef8.jpeg) OFFICIAL NAME: People's Republic of China. ![Facts About the People s Republic of China](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/ab6a5584-1cea-48dd-a899-1387ab14ae3c/images/dc56bc8b-3bbb-4d6b-aad6-8437f1a39f8f.jpeg) FORM OF GOVERNMENT: Communist state ![Facts About the People s Republic of China](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/ab6a5584-1cea-48dd-a899-1387ab14ae3c/images/69f3d65d-4391-46a7-985a-c894089b70e7.jpeg) CAPITAL: Beijing (Peking) and MONEY: Yuan (or renminbi) ![Facts About the People s Republic of China](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/ab6a5584-1cea-48dd-a899-1387ab14ae3c/images/3e6b0e0a-983a-4623-8c93-c5c28826c33c.jpeg) POPULATION: 1,397,897,720 and AREA: 3,705,405 square miles (9,596,960 square kilometers) ![Facts About the People s Republic of China](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/ab6a5584-1cea-48dd-a899-1387ab14ae3c/images/b42e447d-2296-45b3-a8fe-26c2729c58f4.jpeg) OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Standard Chinese, Mandarin. ![Facts About the People s Republic of China](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/ab6a5584-1cea-48dd-a899-1387ab14ae3c/images/c60ec909-8816-4f59-bb1e-aeb882d4f9a4.jpeg) MAJOR MOUNTAIN RANGES: Himalaya

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