Capital City: Beijing
Language: Mandarin
Currency: Renminbi
Population: 1.379 billion
It took around 37 years to make the Terracotta Army, a set of around 8,000 clay soldiers built in Xi’an to guard an Emperor’s tomb.
The tallest mountain on Earth, Mount Everest, sits on the border between China and Nepal.
China is the world’s largest exporter and second-largest importer of goods.
Table tennis is China’s national sport.
China is one of the world’s oldest civilisations. The first empire was the Qin dynastiy and began in 221 B.C.
