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This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.

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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.

Locator map of China. China is filled; surrounding countries are drawn in a dimmer tone and nothing is hidden behind them. 13 contested areas are marked with hatching: Aksai Chin, Arunachal Pradesh, Bara Hotii Valleys (marked at minimum size, not to scale), Bhutan (Chumbi salient) (marked at minimum size, not to scale), Bhutan (northwest valleys) (marked at minimum size, not to scale), Demchok, Gilgit-Baltistan, Jammu and Kashmir, Paracel Is. (marked at minimum size, not to scale), Samdu Valleys (marked at minimum size, not to scale), Shaksam Valley, Siachen Glacier, Tirpani Valleys (marked at minimum size, not to scale). 67 parts of it are too small to draw at this scale and are not shown. View spans 68.0°E to 140.3°E and 12.4°N to 57.0°N. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m.Aksai Chin — status contested; see the list below.Arunachal Pradesh — status contested; see the list below.Bara Hotii Valleys — status contested; see the list below.Bhutan (Chumbi salient) — status contested; see the list below.Bhutan (northwest valleys) — status contested; see the list below.Demchok — status contested; see the list below.Gilgit-Baltistan — status contested; see the list below.Jammu and Kashmir — status contested; see the list below.Paracel Is. — status contested; see the list below.Samdu Valleys — status contested; see the list below.Shaksam Valley — status contested; see the list below.Siachen Glacier — status contested; see the list below.Tirpani Valleys — status contested; see the list below.

China is filled. The 23 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.

The 13 hatched areas are contested, and Aletheia takes no position on any of them. The hatching marks where the dispute lies — including where it falls inside the outline — and it is the same set the list below names. 6 of them are smaller than this map can draw and are marked with a fixed-size diamond: the diamond is their position, not their size or shape.

67 parts of China in this source are smaller than a pixel at this scale and are not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and they have not been enlarged to make them visible.

Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 34.7°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 68.0°E–140.3°E, 12.4°N–57.0°N.

Disputed areas involving China

13 areas whose status is contested. Aletheia takes no position on any of them. Each is described in the source’s own words.

Source: Natural Earth’s disputed-areas layer (public domain). The list is not exhaustive, and inclusion or omission is not a judgment about any claim’s merit. What has happened in these places is not described here — that needs a source Aletheia has not yet been able to read.

  1. News sources

    1 source from Chinain Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is thin.

    • CGTN

    sources not yet assessed · state-affiliated only

  2. Official alerts

    no source connectedNo official alerting source is connected for this country yet. Its own authorities may well publish warnings — Aletheia simply does not carry them.

  3. National legislature

    National People's Congress ↗

    Wikidata P856 · link checked and reachable

  4. Local time

    2 time zones.

    How many distinct clocks that is depends on the date. The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.

  5. Conditions at the capital

    Right now in Beijing

    25°C / 77°FMainly clearwind 5 km/h / 3 mph

    Checked 12 minutes ago

    Conditions at the capital, not across the country.

    Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

    Beijing, 2026-09-20Sunrise 5:59 AM · sunset 6:15 PM12h 16m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit

  6. At a glance

    ISO code
    CHNuncited
    Driving side
    rightuncited
    Mains voltage
    220 Vcited
    Capital
    Beijinguncited
    Official languages
    Chinese, Putonghua, Standard Chineseuncited
    Plug types
    Type A (NEMA 1-15), Type C (Europlug), Type I (AS/NZS 3112)cited · letters are the IEC classification
    Official websites
    english.www.gov.cn ↗gov.cn ↗From the source's "official website" statement, kept here because the site is a government portal. We have not tested whether it loads.uncited

  7. Population and economy

    Population

    Population of China: the UN's 2025 estimate is 1,406,585,000 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 4.5 fewer a minute. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.

    Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.

    Where this number comes from
    Base figure
    1,406,585,000 people
    For the year
    2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
    Compared with
    1,408,975,000 people in 2024
    Rate applied
    about 4.5 fewer a minute (-2,391,588 a year)
    How that rate was found
    The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
    Carried forward
    0 days beyond the base figure's date
    Source
    UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
    The source's own definition
    The values shown are midyear estimates.

    THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.

    Population
    1,406,585,0002025
    GDP
    19,498,039,388,0432025
    GDP per capita
    13,8622025
    Life expectancy at birth
    78.0 years2024
    Exports
    21.1%2025
    Imports
    16.9%2025

    Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source

  9. World Heritage Sites

    61 World Heritage Sitesshow all
    1. Mount Tai · inscribed 1987
    2. Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing and Shenyang · inscribed 1987
    3. Mogao Caves · inscribed 1987
    4. Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor · inscribed 1987
    5. Zhoukoudian site · inscribed 1987
    6. Huangshan · inscribed 1990
    7. Jiuzhaigou Valley · inscribed 1990
    8. Huanglong · inscribed 1992
    9. Wulingyuan · inscribed 1992
    10. Chengde Mountain Resort and its outlying temples · inscribed 1994
    11. Temple and Cemetery of Confucius and the Kong Family Mansion in Qufu · inscribed 1994
    12. Ancient Building Complex in the Wudang Mountains · inscribed 1994
    13. World Heritage Sites in Tibet · inscribed 1994
    14. Mount Emei Scenic Area, including Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area · inscribed 1996
    15. Ancient City of Ping Yao · inscribed 1997
    16. Classical Gardens of Suzhou · inscribed 1997
    17. Summer Palace · inscribed 1998
    18. Temple of Heaven · inscribed 1998
    19. Wuyi Mountains · inscribed 1999
    20. Dazu Rock Carvings · inscribed 1999
    21. Qingchengshan-Dujiangyan National Park · inscribed 2000
    22. Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui - Xidi and Hongcun · inscribed 2000
    23. Longmen Grottoes · inscribed 2000
    24. Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties · inscribed 2000
    25. Yungang Grottoes · inscribed 2001
    26. Three Parallel Rivers National Park · inscribed 2003
    27. Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo Kingdom · inscribed 2004
    28. Igreja da Sé · inscribed 2005

      The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.

    29. Yinxu · inscribed 2006
    30. Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries · inscribed 2006
    31. Kaiping Diaolou and Villages · inscribed 2007
    32. South China Karst · inscribed 2007
    33. Fujian Tulou sites · inscribed 2008
    34. Mount Sanqing · inscribed 2008
    35. Mount Wutai · inscribed 2009
    36. Historic Monuments of Dengfeng in “The Centre of Heaven and Earth” · inscribed 2010
    37. China Danxia · inscribed 2010
    38. West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou · inscribed 2011
    39. Chengjiang Fossil Site · inscribed 2012
    40. Xanadu · inscribed 2012
    41. Honghe Hani Rice Terraces · inscribed 2013
    42. Xinjiang Tianshan · inscribed 2013
    43. Cultural Landscape of Old Tea Forests of the Jingmai Mountain in Pu’er · inscribed 2013
    44. Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor · inscribed 2014 · shared with Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan
    45. Grand Canal · inscribed 2014
    46. Tusi Sites · inscribed 2015
    47. Rock Paintings of Hua Mountain · inscribed 2016
    48. Hubei Shennongjia · inscribed 2016
    49. Hoh Xil · inscribed 2017
    50. Gulangyu · inscribed 2017
    51. Fanjingshan · inscribed 2018
    52. Liangzhu site · inscribed 2019
    53. Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China (Phase I) · inscribed 2019
    54. Quanzhou: Emporium of the World in Song-Yuan China · inscribed 2021
    55. Badain Jaran Desert · inscribed 2024
    56. Central Axis of Beijing · inscribed 2024
    57. Western Xia Mausoleums · inscribed 2025
    58. Jingdezhen Handicraft Porcelain Industry Sites · inscribed 2026
    59. The Great Wall
    60. Lushan Quaternary Glaciation National Geopark
    61. Old Town of Lijiang

    Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO

  10. Emergency numbers

    • 110listed as: police
    • 119listed as: fire department
    • 120listed as: emergency medical services

    Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.

    Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.

  11. Explore this country

  12. Regions

    First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates

  13. Currency

    CNY

News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.

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