China
China is a socialist republic in eastern Asia. It has the World's largest population, well over a billion people. It has about 1.34 billion citizens.
China is the fourth largest country in the world, after Russia, Canada, and the United States. It has the longest land border in the world (22,143 km).
China has a rapidly growing economy and on some measures it has the second largest economy in the world, behind the United States, and it surpassed Japan in 2011.
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