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5. China
Official Name: People’s
Republic of China
“Middle Flowery Kingdom”
Capital: Beijing
Land Area: 3,600,927 sq mi
(9,326,411 sq km); total
area:3,705,407 sq mi (9,596,960
sq km)1
Population: (2011
est.): 1,336,718,015 (growth
rate: 0.493%); birth rate:
12.29/1000; infant mortality
rate: 16.06/1000; life
expectancy: 74.68

6. Largest cities: Shanghai, 16.575
million; Chungking (Chongqing)
9.401 million; Shenzhen 9.005
million; Guangzhou 8.884 million
(2009)
Currency/ Monetary Unit:
Yuan/Renminbi
National Name: Zhonghua Renmin
Gongheguo
National Anthem: “March of the
Volunteers”
Official Language: Standard
Chinese (Mandarin/Putonghua)

7. Ethnicity/Race: Han Chinese
91.5%, Zhuang, Uygur, Hui, Yi, Ti
betan, Miao, Manchu, Mongol, B
uyi, Korean, and other
nationalities 8.5%
Religion: traditionally Buddhist
and Confucianist, some
Christian and syncretic
Chondogyo (Religion of the
Heavenly Way)
National Holiday: Anniversary of
the Founding of the People's
Republic of China, October 1
Literacy rate: 92.2%
(2011 est.)

8. Economic
summary: GDP/PPP (2011
est.): $11.29 trillion; per capita
$8,400.
Real growth rate: 9.2% (official
data).
Inflation: 5.4%.
Unemployment:6.5% official
registered unemployment in
urban areas; substantial
unemployment and
underemployment in rural
areas.
Arable land: 14.86%.
Agriculture: rice, wheat, potatoes, cor
n, peanuts, tea, millet, barley, apple
s, cotton, oilseed; pork; fish.
Labor force: 795.5 million (2011);
agriculture 10.2%, industry
46.9%, services 43% (2010 est.).

9. Industries: mining and ore
processing, iron, steel, aluminu
m, and other metals, coal;
machine building; armaments;
textiles and apparel; petroleum;
cement; chemicals; fertilizers;
consumer products, including
footwear, toys, and electronics;
food processing; transportation
equipment, including
automobiles, rail cars and
locomotives, ships, and aircraft;
telecommunications equipment,
commercial space launch
vehicles, satellites.
Natural resources: coal, iron
ore, petroleum, natural
gas, mercury, tin, tungsten, antimo
ny, manganese, molybdenum, van
adium, magnetite, aluminum, lead,
zinc, uranium, hydropower
potential (world's largest).
Exports: $1.898 trillion (2011 est.):
machinery and
equipment, plastics, optical and
medical equipment, iron and steel.
Imports: $1.743 trillion (2011 est.):
machinery and equipment, oil and
mineral fuels, plastics, optical and
medical equipment, organic
chemicals, iron and steel.
Major trading partners: U.S., Hong
Kong, Japan, South
Korea, Germany, Australia (2010).

10. International disputes:
continuing talks and
confidence-building measures
work toward reducing tensions
over Kashmir that nonetheless
remains militarized with
portions under the de facto
administration of China (Aksai
Chin), India (Jammu and
Kashmir), and Pakistan (Azad
Kashmir and Northern Areas);
China and India continue their
security and foreign policy
dialogue started in 2005 related
to the dispute over most of their
rugged, militarized
boundary, regional nuclear
proliferation, and other matters;
China claims most of India's
Arunachal Pradesh to the base
of the Himalayas;
 China asserts
sovereignty over
Scarborough Reef along
with the Philippines and
Taiwan, and over the
Spratly Islands together
with Malaysia, the
Philippines, Taiwan, Viet
nam, and Brunei
 Vietnam and China
continue to expand
construction of facilities
in the Spratlys and in
March 2005, the national
oil companies of
China, the
Philippines, and
Vietnam signed a joint
accord on marine

11. Government: Communist State
• the legislative branch, the National
People’s Congress
• the executive branch, the State Council
• the judicial branch, the Supreme People’s
Court and the Supreme People’s
Procuratorate
• the military branch, People’s Liberation
Army (PLA) via the Central Military
Commission

12. President Xi Jinping
Prime Minister Wen Jiabao

13. Climate in China
Cold-Temperate Zone: north part of Heilongjiang Province and Inner
Mongolia (Representative city: Harbin)
Mid-Temperate Zone: Jilin, northern Xinjiang, and most of
Heilongjiang, Liaoning, and Inner Mongolia (Representative cities:
Beijing, Shenyang, Dalian, Urumqi, Hohhot, Dunhuang, Lanzhou)
Warm-Temperate Zone: area of the middle and lower reaches of the
Yellow River, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Hebei Province
(Representative cities:
Xian, Taiyuan, Luoyang, Jinan, Qingdao, Zhengzhou)
Subtropical Zone: South of isotherm of Qinling Mountain-Huaihe
River, east of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (Representative cities:
Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong
Kong, Macau, Guilin, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Kunming, Dali, Lijiang, Che
ngdu)
Tropical Zone: Hainan province, southern Taiwan, Guangdong, and
Yunnan Province (Representative cities: Haikou, Sanya)

17. GREAT WALL OF CHINA
BUDDHIST TEMPLES
FORBIDDEN CITY

21. Animal
s

24. Rivers
Yangtze River
Yellow River

35. North Korea
Official Name:
Democratic People's
Republic of Korea
Capital: Pyongyang
Land Area: 46,490 sq mi
(120,409 sq km); total
area: 46,540 sq mi (120,540 sq
km)
Population(2012
est.): 24,589,122 (growth rate:
0.535%); birth rate: 14.51/1000;
infant mortality rate:
26.21/1000; life expectancy:
69.2

36. Largest city
(2003):Pyongyang, 3,222,000
(metro. area), 2,767,900
Currency/ Monetary Unit: won
National Name: Choson Minjujuui
Inmin Konghwaguk
National Anthem: Aegukka
Official Language: Korean

37. Ethnicity/Race: racially
homogeneous; small Chinese
community, a few ethnic
Japanese
Religion: traditionally Buddhist
and Confucianist, some
Christian and syncretic
Chondogyo (Religion of the
Heavenly Way)
National Holiday: Founding of
the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea, September 9
Literacy rate: 99% (1991 est.)

38. Economic summary:
GDP/PPP(2011 est.): $40 billion
note: North Korea does not
publish any reliable National
Income Accounts data; the
datum shown here is derived
from purchasing power parity
(PPP) GDP estimates for North
Korea that were made by Angus
MADDISON in a study
conducted for the OECD; his
figure for 1999 was extrapolated
to 2007 using estimated real
growth rates for North Korea's
GDP and an inflation factor
based on the US GDP deflator;
the result was rounded to the
nearest $10 billion; per capita
$1,800.
Real growth rate: 4%.
Inflation: n.a.
Unemployment: n.a. Arable
land: 22.4% (2005).
Agriculture: rice, corn, potatoes, so
ybeans, pulses;
cattle, pigs, pork, eggs.
Labor force: 12.2 million;
agricultural 36%, nonagricultural
64%.
Industries: military products;
machine building, electric
power, chemicals; mining
(coal, iron
ore, magnesite, graphite, copper
, zinc, lead, and precious
metals), metallurgy;

39. Imports:$3.529 billion (2010
Natural
est.): petroleum, coking
resources: coal, lead, tun
coal, machinery and
gsten, zinc, graphite, mag
equipment;
nesite, iron
textiles, grain.
ore, copper, gold, pyrites,
salt, fluorspar, hydropow
er.
Exports: $2.557 billion
(2010 est.):
minerals, metallurgical
products, manufactures
(including
armaments), textiles, fish
ery products.
Major trading
partners: China, South
Korea, Bangladesh, Russi
a (2010).

40. International disputes:
risking
arrest, imprisonment, and
deportation, tens of
thousands of North
Koreans cross into China
to escape
famine, economic
privation, and political
oppression;
North Korea and China
dispute the sovereignty of
certain islands in Yalu and
Tumen rivers; Military
Demarcation Line within
the 4-km-wide
Demilitarized Zone has
periodic incidents in
the Yellow Sea with
South Korea which
claims the Northern
Limiting Line as a
maritime boundary;
North Korea
supports South
Korea in rejecting
Japan's claim to
Liancourt Rocks
(Tok-do/Take-shima)

41. Government: Authoritarian
socialist; one-man dictatorship
The Cabinet is the administrative
and Executive body of the highest organ
of State power and a general state
management organ, according to
the Constitution of North Korea .
The Supreme People’s Assembly is
its Unicameral parliament
the Central Court, with its judges
appointed by the Supreme People's
Assembly, is the highest court of
its Judiciary.

42. Chief of State Kim Jong Un Prime Minester Park Pong Ju

48. Lake Chonji

55. South Korea
Official Name:
Republic of Korea
Capital: Seoul
Land Area: 37,421 sq mi
(96,920 sq km)
Population(2012
est.): 48,860,500 (growth rate:
0.204%); birth rate: 8.42/1000;
infant mortality rate: 4.08/1000;
life expectancy: 79.3

56. Largest city Seoul, 9.778 million
Other large cities: Pusan, 3.439
million; Inchon, 2.572;
Taegu, 2.458 million; Taejon 1.497
million.
Currency/ Monetary Unit: won
National Name: Taehan Min'guk
National Anthem: Aegukga
Official Language: Korean, English
(widely taught)

57. Ethnicity/Race: homogeneous
(except for about 20,000
Chinese)
Religion: Christian 26.3%
(Protestant 19.7%, Roman
Catholic 6.6%), Buddhist
23.2%, other or unknown
1.3%, none 49.3% (1995 census)
National Holiday: Liberation
Day, August 15
Literacy rate: 98% (2003 est.)

58. Economic summary:
GDP/PPP(2011 est.): $1.574
trillion; per capita $32,100.
Real growth rate: 3.6%.
Inflation: 4.0%.
Unemployment:3.4%.
Agriculture: rice, root
crops, barley, vegetables, fruit;
cattle, pigs, chickens, milk, eggs;
fish. Labor force: 25.1 million;
agriculture 6.4%, industry
24.2%, services 69.4%.
Industries: electronics, telecommun
ications, automobile
production, chemicals, shipbuildi
ng, steel.
Arable land: 16.58%.
Natural
resources: coal, tungsten, graphi
te, molybdenum, lead, hydropow
er potential.

59. Exports:$556.5 billion (2011
est.): semiconductors, wireless
telecommunications
equipment, motor
vehicles, computers, steel, ship
s, petrochemicals.
International disputes:
 Military Demarcation Line
within the 4-km-wide
Demilitarized Zone has
separated North from
Imports:$524.4 billion (2011
South Korea since 1953
est.): machinery, electronics and
electronic
 periodic incidents with
equipment, oil, steel, transport
North Korea in the Yellow
equipment, organic
Sea over the Northern
chemicals, plastics.
Limit Line
Major trading
 which South Korea claims
partners: China, U.S., Japan, Au
as a maritime boundary;
stralia, Saudi Arabia (2011).
South Korea and Japan
claim Liancourt Rocks
(Tok-do/Take-

60. Government: Unitary
state, Presidential
system, Constitutional Republic
The Government of South Korea is
divided into executive, judicial, and
legislative branches.
The executive and judicial branches
operate primarily at the national
level, although various ministries in the
executive branch also carry out local
functions.
The South Korean government's
structure is determined by
the Constitution of the Republic of Korea.

61. President Park Geun
Hye
Prime Minister Chung Hong
Won

64. Spring
Yunjung-ro Cherry
Blossom
Tunnel_Seoul
Summer
Haeundae
Beach_Busan

65. Autumn
Mt.Naejangsan
_Jeongeupsi, Jeollabuk-do
Province
Winter
Yongpyong
Resort_Pyeongcha
ng-gun, Gangwondo Province

74. DMZ
Han River

75. Mt.
Mt. Namsan

76. Chongchon
Imjin River

80. Gyeongbokdo Palace
Seoul National Museum

81. Mugunghwa Flower
(Rose of Sharon)