China
Asia · Eastern Asia
Key facts
- Capital
- Beijing
- Region
- Asia
- Subregion
- Eastern Asia
- Population (2025)
- 1.41 billion (1,406,585,000) · rank 2 of 193
- Area (2023)
- 9,562,910 km² · rank 4 of 193
- People per km²
- 147 (calculated from the two figures above)
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (2025, 2023), CC BY 4.0. data.worldbank.org
Test yourself
The first question is always China, then four more countries of the same region.
Unfolding the map…
Neighbours on the map
Countries whose outline shares a border with China in the map data: 14.
- Afghanistan capitals 4,180 km apart
- Bhutan capitals 2,820 km apart
- India capitals 3,780 km apart
- Kazakhstan capitals 3,650 km apart
- Kyrgyzstan capitals 3,470 km apart
- Laos capitals 2,770 km apart
- Mongolia capitals 1,170 km apart
- Myanmar capitals 2,960 km apart
- Nepal capitals 3,160 km apart
- North Korea capitals 810 km apart
- Pakistan capitals 3,880 km apart
- Russia capitals 5,790 km apart
- Tajikistan capitals 4,060 km apart
- Vietnam capitals 2,330 km apart
Based on the Natural Earth 1:110m outlines. The 29 states drawn as dots are not counted as neighbours.
The flag
Flags with a similar colour layout, used as wrong options on Hard: Vietnam, Türkiye, Morocco, Tunisia.
In the quizzes
The levels on which China is asked in each selection:
| Selection | Map | Flag | Capital |
|---|---|---|---|
| World | Easy · Medium | Easy · Medium | Easy · Medium |
| Asia | Easy · Medium | Easy · Medium | Easy · Medium |
| Giants by area | Easy · Medium | Easy · Medium | Easy · Medium |
| Giants by population | Easy · Medium | Easy · Medium | Easy · Medium |
In four languages
| Country | Capital | |
|---|---|---|
| English | China | Beijing |
| Italiano | Cina | Pechino |
| Magyar | Kína | Peking |
| Suomi | Kiina | Peking |