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| mainland China - a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world | ||
| China, People's Republic of China, Communist China, Red China, PRC, Cathay | ||
| asia the nations of the Asian continent collectively | ||
| chinese wall, great wall, great wall of china a fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC; it averages 6 meters in width | ||
| manchuria a region in northeastern China | ||
| beijing, capital of red china, peiping, peking capital of the People's Republic of China in the Hebei province in northeastern China; 2nd largest Chinese city | ||
| chongqing, chungking a city in south-central China on the Chang Jiang; a commercial center for western China | ||
| guangzhou, kuangchou, kwangchow, canton a city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the capital of Guangdong province and a major deep-water port | ||
| gansu, gansu province, kansu a province in north-central China; formerly part of the Silk Road to Turkistan and India and Persia | ||
| hebei, hebei province, hopeh, hopei a populous province in northeastern China | ||
| hunan, hunan province a province in southeastern central China between the Nan Ling mountains and the Chang Jiang; noted for its timber and valuable mineral resources | ||
| sichuan, szechuan, szechwan, szechwan province a populous province of south central China | ||
| yunnan, yunnan province a province of southern China | ||
| luda, luta an industrial conurbation in northeastern China on the southern end of the Liaodong Peninsula; it now includes the cities of Dalian and Lushun | ||
| dairen, dalian, talien a port and shipbuilding center in northeastern China on the Liaodong Peninsula; now a part of Luda | ||
| loyang, luoyang a city in east central China; the capital of ancient China during several dynasties | ||
| lushun, port arthur a major port city in northeastern China on the Liaodong Peninsula; now a part of Luda | ||
| hangchow, hangzhou a city of eastern China on Hangzhou Bay; regarded by Marco Polo as the finest city in the world | ||
| nan-chang, nanchang a walled city in southeastern China on the Gan Jiang | ||
| nan-ning, nanning an industrial city in southern China | ||
| nanjing, nanking a city in eastern China on the Yangtze River; a former capital of China; the scene of a Japanese massacre in the 1930s | ||
| shanghai the largest city of China; located in the east on the Pacific; one of the largest ports in the world | ||
| fengtien, moukden, mukden, shenyang a city in northeastern China | ||
| taiyuan an ancient city in northeastern China noted for coal mining and steel production | ||
| tangshan an industrial city of northeastern China in Hebei province | ||
| t'ien-ching, tianjin, tientsin a major industrial center in northeastern China on the Grand Canal near the Yellow Sea; 3rd largest city in China | ||
| grand canal an inland waterway 1000 miles long in eastern China; extends from Tianjin in the north to Hangzhou in the south | ||
| wuhan a city of central China on the Chang Jiang; the commercial and industrial center of central China | ||
| changan, hsian, sian, singan, xian a city of central China; capital of ancient Chinese empire 221-206 BC | ||
| sinkiang, xinjiang, xinjiang uighur autonomous region an autonomous province in far northwestern China on the border with Mongolia and Kazakhstan; the largest province in the People's Republic of China and the homeland of the Uighur people | ||
| inner mongolia, nei monggol an autonomous region of northeastern China that was annexed by the Manchu rulers in 1635 and became an integral part of China in 1911 | ||
| hong kong formerly a Crown Colony on the coast of southern China in Guangdong province; leased by China to Britain in 1842 and returned in 1997; one of the world's leading commercial centers | ||
| gobi, gobi desert a desert in central China | ||
| taklamakan desert, taklimakan desert a desert in western China | ||
| amur, amur river, heilong, heilong jiang an Asian river between China and Russia; flows into the Sea of Okhotsk | ||
| bo hai, po hai an inlet of the Yellow Sea, on the coast of Eastern China | ||
| brahmaputra, brahmaputra river an Asian river; flows into the Bay of Bengal | ||
| gan jiang, kan river a river in southeastern China that flows generally north into the Chang Jiang to the north of Nanchang | ||
| huang he, hwang ho, yellow river a major river of Asia in northern China; flows generally eastward into the Yellow Sea; carries large quantities of yellow silt to its delta | ||
| kuenlun, kuenlun mountains, kunlan shan, kunlun, kunlun mountains a mountain range in western China that extends eastward from the Indian border for 1000 miles | ||
| liaodong bandao, liaodong peninsula a peninsula in northeastern China that extends into the Yellow Sea, between Bo Hai and Korea Bay | ||
| mekong, mekong river an Asian river; flows through a large delta in southern Vietnam into the South China Sea | ||
| nan ling a mountain range in southeastern China running generally east to west | ||
| pamir mountains, the pamirs a mountain range in central Asia that is centered in Tajikistan but extends into Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan and Pakistan and western China | ||
| poyang a lake in central China that is connected to the Chang Jiang by a canal | ||
| tien shan, tyan shan a major mountain range of central Asia; extends 1,500 miles | ||
| chang, chang jiang, changjiang, yangtze, yangtze kiang, yangtze river the longest river of Asia; flows eastward from Tibet into the East China Sea near Shanghai | ||
| canton river, chu kiang, zhu jiang, pearl river a river in southeast China that flows into the South China Sea | ||
| chinese any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system | ||