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Ten handy facts about China
The 2,000 year-old Great Wall of China stretches for more than 6,700 km.
China has more than 5,000 islands within its coastal waters.
Over 40% of China's 1.33 billion people live in urban areas.
The population is made up of more than 50 distinct ethnic groups.
China is the cradle of some of humanities' oldest organised societies with evidence of agrarian communities living in the Yellow River valley as far back as 6,000 years ago.
The first centralised and unified Chinese state was formed in 221BC under the rule of Ying Zheng, the First Emperor.
As well as gunpowder, the Chinese also invented paper manufacture, the compass, the wheelbarrow, spaghetti, kites, printing and the world's first planetarium.
China has 33 UNESCO World Heritage sites.
The Yangtze, which flows for its entire length in Chinese territory, is the third longest river in the world and the longest in Asia.
The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze is the largest in the world.
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