The country I picked to research was China.
There are many interesting facts about China. China is the fourth largest country in the world behind Russia, United States, and Canada. China has the largest population at an astounding 1.351 billion. The country closest to China in population is India. It has a population of 1.237 billion. Some important inventions of the Chinese are paper, the compass, gunpowder, and printing. China held the 2008 Olympics and spent the most ever setting up for them at 40 billion dollars. China's capital is Beijing. Beijing, China has a population of 11.5 million.
China has a Communist State; single party government. Communist State is where the means of production are collectively owned by the society. A Single Party State is a type of government in which a single political party forms the government and no other parties are permitted to run for election.
China produces a lot of items because a lot of countries ship industries over there because China has cheap laborers, and items are cheaper to make over there. As stated before, some of China's major inventions include the compass, gunpowder, paper, and printing. Some natural resources of china include wheat, corn, and rice. China has lots of fresh water lakes, which help produce lots of shrimp, fish, and other aquatic products. China is in the lead for producing certain minerals including tungsten, antimony, titanium, vanadium, zinc, rare earth, magnetite, pyrite, fluorite, barite, plaster stone and graphite.
Some interesting places to visit in China would be the Great Wall of China, the Terracotta Army, the Forbidden City, the mountain K2, and the very tall landmark skyscraper, Shanghai Tower.
My thoughts on China is that I would never want to live there because of how densely populated it is. It seems like the US has a large population, but China is smaller, and has a population of 4 times the US. It is also cool how long the Chinese civilization has been around. The people in China that work in factories also don't get paid enough for what they do, and are not treated well. One more fact that I found interesting is that China sits in only one time zone.
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"Forbidden City." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 13 Oct. 2013. Web. 16 Oct. 2013. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_City>;.
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