Labels:text | map | screenshot | atlas | font | diagram | number OCR: CHINA Official Name: People's Republic of China Capital: Beijing Population: 1.2 billion Currency: Yuan Official Language: Mandarin RUSSIAN FEDERATION COVERING A VAST AREA of eastern Asia, China is bordered by 14 countries; to the east it Shanghai has a long Pacific coastline. Two-thirds of China is uplands. The low-lying east is home to two-thirds of the population. From the KAZAK. MONGOLIA Martehuria ;. founding of the Communist People's Republic in 1949, until his TAJIK. KYRG. death in 1976, China was G dominated by Mao Zedong. AFGH BEIJING O Under Mao, China became an PAK. (PEKINGY Tianjin YELLOW SEA industrial and nuclear power, but INDIA also experienced the disasters of Himala the 1950s Great Leap Forward and Shanghai the 1960s Cultural Revolution. Today, NEPAL China is rapidly moving toward a market-oriented economy. SEA BURMA EAST CHINA INDIA TAIWAN BHUTAN VIETNAM Li River LAOS SOUTH CHINA SEA
