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| China is a country of superlatives. Its cultural roots date back to the year 2000 before Christ, the era of the Xia-dynasty, which was the beginning of a consecutive succession of feudal reign. China is vast and one of the biggest countries of the world in terms of area - it covers several thousand kilometres in each direction and many geographical peculiarities can be found there: huge deserts |
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| like the Gobi and Taklimakan stretch from the north-west to the east of the country, encompassed by mountain ranges in the north and west that are among the highest of the world, whereas the south and east are dominated by fertile mountainous regions following the shore of the Chinese Sea. China is also home for about 1.3 billion people - a third of Earth's entire population is at present living within its boundaries. |
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