GEOG215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Special Administrative Regions Of China, Amur River, Mao Zedong

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Geography and Environmental Management
• Course: GEOG215
• Professor: Jonathan Li

Document Summary

Mainland china ruled by the communist party of china. Taiwan government claims to be part of chinese republic, the people of taiwan do not. Taiwanese and chinese government fighting over who is the ruling party of the region. People"s republic of china, not republic of china. China borders afghanistan, bhutan, india, kazakhstan, laos , mongolia, myanmar, nepal, north korea, pakistan, russia, tajikistan, vietnam. Since 1949, china has had a single standard time zone, beijing time, +08:00. Also uses timezone +6 for people living in tibet and xinjiang (unofficially) 98% of the land is located between 20n and 50n. Makes china the biggest country in the mid-latitude region. Climate very diverse, tropical in the south, subarctic in the north. Northernmost point along the heilongjiang river in helongjiang province. Russia 11. 4% of world area, china 6. 5, canada 6. 7, usa 6. 3. Chinas east coast similar to that of the united states. Not including taiwan, hong kong and macao.