My China Blog

China is the largest country in East Asia. China is the most popular country in the world with 1.3 billion people. China is a country located in East Asia, bordered by the Yellow Sea, and the East China Sea, and the South China Sea on the East. China’s neighbors include: Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Bhutan, Burma, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Kirghistan, Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, North Korea, and last is South Korea.

China is made up of fertile lowlands, plains, mountains, and subtropical areas. One example of China's geography is the Gobi Desert. The Gobi is the largest desert region in Asia. It covers parts of Northern and Northwester China, and of Southern Mongolia. The Gobi is made up of several distinct ecological and geographic regions. Another example of a desert in china is the Taklamakan Desert. The Taklamakan Desert is a desert in Central Asia. It has subtropical forests; the terrain in the west is rugged and high altitude. It is bounded by the Kunlun Mountains to the South and Pamir Mountains andTian Shan to the West and North. Taklamakan is known for
one of the sandiest deserts in the world, ranking 15^tin size, in ranking of the worlds non-polar deserts.

Mainland China had 1,216,832,482 in 2000 estimated. But it has exceeded 1.3 billion since 2003. The goal is to stabilize the population by 2025 to 1.4 million to 1.6 million. There are 18 million Muslims, 4 million catholics, and 10 million protestants; unofficial estimates are much higher. The Republic of China has a population of 22.2 million. More than 18 million of the native Taiwanese are descendants of Chinese who migrated from Fuigan in the 17th and 19th centuries.