- China is the third largest country in the World, just behind Russia and Canada.
- The population of China is over 1.2 billion people.
- Its about one-fifth of the world's population.
- China is a very diverse land including deserts, mountains and fertile river basins.
- Much of western China is mountains with the Himalaya, Tian and Pamir ranges.
- Western China also has a large desert.
- Central China consists of mountainous regions.
- Rivers also play a major role in China, both for transportation and for irrigation.
- Much of the northern wheat fields and southern rice fields are irrigated from rivers.
- The Yangtze, the longest in China and even in Asia, is the third-longest in the world.
- The Yellow River, 'Mother River of the Chinese People', is just behind the Yangtze, both flowing into the Pacific Ocean.
- The Yarlung Zangbo River belongs to the Indian Ocean water system, and the Irtysh River to the Arctic Ocean.