中国是什么 ? What is China?

Well….. It is….And it is also….

It is….. This…and also this…

Sometimes it is…. like thisand sometimes, like this…

It might sound…… Like this

Or maybe like this….

It is a huge country First you have to think big, and then think even bigger:

If you wanted to go from Harbin, in the north-east: To Kunming, in the south-west:

4,567 KILOMETRES You would have to travel

That is about the same distance as Londonto Mecca

It has 23 Provinces and 5 Autonomous Regions

The Main Regions are: Anhui Fujian Gansu Guangdong Guizhou Hainan Hebei Heilongjiang Henan Hubei Hunan Jiangsu Jiangxi Jilin Liaoning Qinghai Shaanxi Shandong Shanxi Sichuan Yunan Zhejiang (Taiwan) The Autonomous Regions are: Guangxi Inner Mongolia Ningxia Tibet (Xizang) Xinjiang Regions in China

Each one may still have its own special Food:History:

Some of them still have their own dialects But they are all part of The People’s Republic of China 中华人民共和国

And all 1.5 billion Chinese now should speak the same language The language that we are going to start learning together, which we call Mandarin And the Chinese call 国语 or 普通话