Asia's Largest Country Beijing no The People's Republic of China is Asia's largest country and has more people than any other country in the world more than a billion and a quarter The capital city is Beijing Han or Mandarin is the most widely spoken language of China's several dozen languages The Chinese civilization is one of the world's oldest and has produced such famous thinkers as Confucius Parts of China are very mountainous as is the Qinghai Tibet Plateau in southwest China One part of the plateau is called the Roof of the World China is so big that some parts are scorching hot deserts while it rains almost every day in some southeastern regions Many boats and ships carry people and goods on China's major rivers the Huang He Yangtze and Pearl China also has many railroads as well as three of the world's longest highways China's enormous and varied land area supports many plants and animals Some Chinese animals have become extinct in the rest of the world including the giant salamander the giant panda and the great paddlefish Many of China's trees provide useful substances CH 1 The tung tree and the camphor tree produce valuable oils The A lacquer or varnish tree produces substances used in making wooden objects And from the star anise tree comes a food flavoring In addition Chinese farmers produce more rice than does any other country People around the world enjoy eating Chinese food But Find and China has many more traditional and regional dishes than corect the most non Chinese know about In addition to rice and error in the noodles Chinese dishes include delicacies such as steamed following sentence The People's Republic chicken feet and hundred year old eggs of China is the largest country in Asia LEARN MORE READ THESE ARTICLES and has the most THE GREAT WALL JAPAN KOREAN PENINSULA people more than a million and a quarter
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THE GREAT WALL Ancient China's Giant Guardian RCHIO he Great Wall of China is the largest structure humans have ever built Chinese emperors had the wall built to guard the country from raids or invasions It runs from east to west for more than 4 000 miles as it stretches across the mountains and valleys Why of northern China It is about 20 feet thick at its base and as tall did the as a house The entire wall is made of earth and stones The Chinese emperors have the wall also had watchtowers Great Wall placed along its length built Different parts of the wall were built at different times but all of it was finished long before there were machines to HD help with the building Thousands of men worked to build the wall Many of them died while working on it After the Great Wall was built the people Tourists visiting the Great Wall of China of China felt safer If an enemy approached O Dean Conger Corbis the wall smoke signals would be passed from watchtower to watchtower A signal fire would be lighted if an attack came at night An alarm would be sounded and the emperor's army would rush to defend the wall But the Great Wall didn't always provide protection Because the wall was so long some parts of it were guarded better than others Sometimes enemies broke through Finally the Chinese stopped depending on their wall Today the Great Wall is a great attraction for visitors to China In 1987 UNESCO the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization named the Great Wall a World Heritage site LEARN MORE READ THESE ARTICLES ANGKOR WATCHINA TAJ MAHAL The Great Wall of China is one of the most remarkable structures on Earth It is more than 4 000 miles long and is one of the largest construction projects ever carried out Work on parts of the wall began more than 2 500 years ago Keren Su Corbis 11 eunua Laupou Shupe aam OM adoad a no day or ungen auP pery sloadue at 2amsuny
