About China
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China is not only the most populated country in the world (1.3 billion), but its also one of the biggest in land area and also total area, which covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres (3.7 million square miles). Needless to say, its huge and packed with people.
While teaching school in Xiangtan University our students would take us out to the countryside just outside of Xiangtan, what we would was that even their smaller cities and outling areas are still very populated, Xiangtan is not considered to be the huge city, but it even has 2.7 million people.
China (PRC, People's Republic of China) is broken down into one main single party state governed by the Communist Party of China. It has jurisdiction over 22 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, four directly controlled municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing), and two mostly self-governing[15] special administrative regions (SARs), Hong Kong and Macau.
It also claims Taiwan, which is controlled by a different government, Republic of China, in a rather complex controversial status. Beijing is the capital (population of almost 20 million).
While teaching school in Xiangtan University our students would take us out to the countryside just outside of Xiangtan, what we would was that even their smaller cities and outling areas are still very populated, Xiangtan is not considered to be the huge city, but it even has 2.7 million people.
China (PRC, People's Republic of China) is broken down into one main single party state governed by the Communist Party of China. It has jurisdiction over 22 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, four directly controlled municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing), and two mostly self-governing[15] special administrative regions (SARs), Hong Kong and Macau.
It also claims Taiwan, which is controlled by a different government, Republic of China, in a rather complex controversial status. Beijing is the capital (population of almost 20 million).
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China's has only one time zone, since 1949, and is called Beijing Time or China Standard Time. Click here to see the current time in China, or look below. This was very easy when making a few phone calls to Beijing when we were calling some friends, but for the most part you really don't even notice that they are all on the same time zone.
The weird part is coming from United States and having four different time zones, and then living in China, which is so big and only having it in one timezone. 
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