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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikivoyage or other free sources online. China (officially the People´s Republic of China or PRC) is one of the major nations of the world, with the largest population (one-and-a-third billion people or about one-fifth of the world´s population) and the fourth largest land area (after Russia, Canada and the United States), and one of the oldest histories of continuous cultural and political history. Antique yet up-to-the-minute, familiar yet unrecognisable, outwardly urban but quintessentially rural, conservative yet path-breaking, space-age but old-fashioned, China is a land of mesmerising and eye-opening contradictions. This book offers information on China and its notable places.

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