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The People's Republic of China (PRC) (中华人民共和国), commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the most populous in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population. It is a socialist republic ruled by the Communist Party of China which has jurisdiction over twenty-two provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two capitalist Special Administrative Regions. The capital of the PRC is Beijing.

At 9.6-million square kilometres, China is the world's third or fourth largest country by area. Its landscape is diverse. In the north near Mongolia and Russia's Siberia, the Gobi Desert and forest steppes dominate the dry expanse while lush subtropical forests grow in the south. The terrain in the west is rugged and high, with the Himalayas and the Tian Shan mountain ranges forming the China's natural borders with India and Central Asia. In contrast, China eastern seaboard is low-lying and has a 14,500-kilometre long coastline bounded on the southeast by the South China Sea and on the east by the East China Sea beyond which lies Korea and Japan. [Source: Wikipedia]