China History
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Publicado: 22 de octubre de 2012
Geography
China stretches some 5,026 kilometres (3,123 mi) across the East Asian landmass. China is bordered by seas and waters eastward, with theEast China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, TaiwanStrait, and South China Sea, and bordered by landmasses on its 3 other sides, from North Koreato Vietnam.
Languages
The spoken languages of nationalities that are a part of the People's Republic ofChina belong to at least nine families:
* The Sino-Tibetan family: 28 nationalities (including the Han and Tibetans)
* The Tai–Kadai family: several languages spoken by the Zhuang, the Buyei,the Dai people, the Dong people, and the Hlai (Li people). Considered a branch of Sino-Tibetan in China.
* The Hmong–Mien family
* The Turkic family: Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Salars, etc.
*The Mongolic family: Mongols, Dongxiang, and related groups
* The Tungusic family: Manchus (formerly), Hezhe, etc.
* The Austroasiatic family: 4 (the De'ang, Blang, Gin (Vietnamese), and Wa)
*The Indo-European family: 2 (the Russians and Tajiks). There is also a heavily Persian-influenced Äynu language spoken by the Äynu people in southwestern Xinjiang who are officially considered Uyghurs.
*The Austronesian family: 1 official nationality (the Gaoshan, who speak many languages), 1 unofficial (the Utsuls, who speak the Tsat language but are considered Hui.)
Idioms
StadicticsChina's urban population set to surpass rural figure
China's urban population is to surpass its rural population for the first time by 2015, with the number of Chinese living in towns and cities set totop 700 million, Xinhua news agency reported.
Li Bin, director of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, said that the world's most populous country is projected to have 1.39 billioncitizens by 2015, up from 1.32 billion at the end of 2008, Xinhua quoted her as saying.
The number of people over 60 would pass 200 million, the first boom in the old-age population, she...
China stretches some 5,026 kilometres (3,123 mi) across the East Asian landmass. China is bordered by seas and waters eastward, with theEast China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, TaiwanStrait, and South China Sea, and bordered by landmasses on its 3 other sides, from North Koreato Vietnam.
Languages
The spoken languages of nationalities that are a part of the People's Republic ofChina belong to at least nine families:
* The Sino-Tibetan family: 28 nationalities (including the Han and Tibetans)
* The Tai–Kadai family: several languages spoken by the Zhuang, the Buyei,the Dai people, the Dong people, and the Hlai (Li people). Considered a branch of Sino-Tibetan in China.
* The Hmong–Mien family
* The Turkic family: Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Salars, etc.
*The Mongolic family: Mongols, Dongxiang, and related groups
* The Tungusic family: Manchus (formerly), Hezhe, etc.
* The Austroasiatic family: 4 (the De'ang, Blang, Gin (Vietnamese), and Wa)
*The Indo-European family: 2 (the Russians and Tajiks). There is also a heavily Persian-influenced Äynu language spoken by the Äynu people in southwestern Xinjiang who are officially considered Uyghurs.
*The Austronesian family: 1 official nationality (the Gaoshan, who speak many languages), 1 unofficial (the Utsuls, who speak the Tsat language but are considered Hui.)
Idioms
StadicticsChina's urban population set to surpass rural figure
China's urban population is to surpass its rural population for the first time by 2015, with the number of Chinese living in towns and cities set totop 700 million, Xinhua news agency reported.
Li Bin, director of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, said that the world's most populous country is projected to have 1.39 billioncitizens by 2015, up from 1.32 billion at the end of 2008, Xinhua quoted her as saying.
The number of people over 60 would pass 200 million, the first boom in the old-age population, she...
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