China

China is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia.

Geography

Beichuan

China has one of the world's oldest and continuous civilizations, consisting of states and cultures dating back more than six millennia. It has the world's longest continuously used written language system, and is the source of many major inventions, such as what the British scholar and biochemist Joseph Needham called the "four great inventions of Ancient China": paper, the compass, gunpowder, and printing. Historically, China's cultural sphere has extended across East Asia as a whole, with Chinese religion, customs, and writing systems being adopted to varying degrees by neighbors such as Japan, Korea and Vietnam. The first evidence of human presence in the region was found at the Zhoukoudian cave and is one of the first known specimens of Homo erectus, now commonly known as the Peking Man, estimated to have lived approximately from 300,000 to 550,000 years ago. Noticeably, it is also known that the Peking Man was able to control and use fire.

• Provinces
• Cities
• Counties

External links

• The South China Sea on Google Earth - featured on Google Earth's Official Blog
• South China Sea Virtual Library - online resource for students, scholars and policy-makers interested in South China Sea regional development, environment, and security issues.
• Energy Information Administration - The South China Sea
• Tropical Research and Conservation Centre - The South China Sea
• Weekly Piracy Report
• Reversing Environmental Degradation Trends in the South China Sea and Gulf of Thailand
• UNEP/GEF South China Sea Knowledge Documents

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References

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