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Key Knowledge Capital city: Beijing River

rd. China is known as the People’s Republic Largest city: • Longest river in China (3 longest of China. in the world) Population: 1.3 billion people – • Stretches for 6,300km from the the largest in the world It is in the . in West China to Shanghai on the east coast • There are 14 countries that border China Population density = the amount of Flows into people living in an area • Famous for 3 Gorges Dam The capital city is Beijing. • China is densely populated Himalayas Shanghai is the largest city (South East on its east coast where a lot  The Himalayan mountain range in of China). of cities are. • China is sparsely populated found in Asia and separates India and Pakistan from the Tibetan Main language spoken is Mandarin in the west, particularly around the Tibetan Plateau plateau of China.  The Himalayas are more than just a mountain range: together, they Megacities make up a gigantic mountain system, which includes many  A city with a population of Import peaks – fourteen of which rise over more than 10 million people. To bring (goods or 8,000 meters above sea level. Desertification services) into a country Port city Mount Everest Is the process of land turning into desert as the quality of the from abroad for sale. soil declines over time. The main causes of desertification  A place on a waterway with  Mount Everest is one of the include: Population growth - the population in some desert Export facilities for loading and Mountain ranges in the Himalayas.  Everest is 29,035 feet or 8848 areas is increasing. To send (goods or services) unloading ships to another country for sale. meters high The Great Wall of China  The summit is the border of Nepal to the south and China or on  The earliest fortifications date the north Key Words back as far as the seventh Chinas Top Trading Links  It is over 60 million years old century B.C Trade Links, Asia, Yangtze River, 8 Compass Points,  Ming Dynasty is the best  USA preserved (1368-1644 Border, Port, Import, Export, Land Use, Mongolia, Nepal,  Hong Kong Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, , , East  China Sea, Sea, Qinling, Nanling  South  Germany