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1 day ago · The history of China spans several millennia across a wide geographical area. Each region now considered part of the Chinese world has experienced periods of unity, fracture, prosperity, and strife. Chinese civilization first emerged in the Yellow River valley, which along with the Yangtze basin constitutes the geographic core of the Chinese ...
3 days ago · China officially has only one time zone, China Standard Time (CST), which is 8 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+8:00). Usually, time zones are aligned as much as possible with the position of the sun so that the sun is actually at its zenith at 12 noon. Only in the autonomous region of Xinjiang in the far northwest of the country ...
19 hours ago · Russia, country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia. Once the preeminent republic of the U.S.S.R., Russia became an independent country after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991. The capital of Russia is Moscow.
1 day ago · The U.S. has taken control of (and claimed rights on) many islands and atolls, especially in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, under this law; most have been abandoned. It also has acquired territories since 1856 under other circumstances, such as under the Treaty of Paris (1898) which ended the Spanish–American War.
5 days ago · Xi Jinping (born June 15, 1953, Fuping county, Shaanxi province, China) is a Chinese politician and government official who has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since 2012 and as the president of the People’s Republic of China since 2013. Previously he served as China’s vice president (2008–13). Early life
2 days ago · Beijing, city, province-level shi (municipality), and capital of the People’s Republic of China. Few cities in the world have served for so long as the political headquarters and cultural centre of an area as immense as China. The city has been an integral part of China’s history over the past eight centuries, and nearly every major ...
4 days ago · Does the UK have states? Since 1922, the United Kingdom has been made up of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales (which collectively make up Great Britain) and Northern Ireland (variously described as a country, province, jurisdiction or region). Which country has no provinces?
