The People's Republic of China, commonly known as China, is the most populous state in the world and its capital city is Beijing.
At about 9.6 million square kilometres (3.7 million square miles), the PRC is the world's third- or fourth-largest country by total area. Its landscape is diverse, with forest steppes and deserts (the Gobi and Taklamakan) in the dry north near Mongolia and Russia's Siberia, and subtropical forests in the wet south close to Vietnam, Laos, and Burma.
China is one of the world's oldest civilizations with nearly 4,000 years of continuous history.
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