China

China

China ranks 14th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Poland, India, and Netherlands. Memorable people born in present day China include Confucius, Mao Zedong, and Huang Xianfan. Memorable people who died in China include Genghis Khan, Confucius, and Mao Zedong. China has been the birth place of many politicians and writers and the death place of many politicians and writers.

China, officially the People's Republic of China, is a country in East Asia and unitary one-party socialist republic led by the Communist Party of China (CPC). It is the world's most populous country, with a population of more than 1.4 billion. China follows a single standard time offset of UTC+08:00 even though spanning five geographical time zones and borders 14 countries, the second most of any country in the world, after Russia. Covering an area of approximately 9.6 million square kilometers, it is the world's third or fourth largest country. The country is officially divided into 23 provinces, five autonomous regions, and four direct-controlled municipalities of Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing, as well as two special administrative regions: Hong Kong and Macau. Read more on Wikipedia