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  • and Szechuan) is a province in western China. It borders quite a few different ... Sichuan, the home of ancient civilizations and ethnic groups, sits ...
    21 KB (2,859 words) - 14:31, 27 January 2023
  • Wade-Giles: Ch'ung-ch'ing) is the largest and most populous ... Located on the edge of the Yungui Plateau, Chongqing is intersected ...
    30 KB (3,987 words) - 17:18, 10 December 2023
  • ; Postal map spelling: Kiangsu) is a province of the People's ... Jiangsu has a coastline that extends over a thousand kilometers along ...
    28 KB (3,971 words) - 20:38, 3 April 2024
  • known as Pusan (Pusan; 부산; 釜山), is the largest port city in the Republic ... Busan became Korea’s first international port in 1876. Busan was ...
    19 KB (2,764 words) - 03:33, 7 December 2022
  • ), is a province of the People's Republic of China located in ... With nearly 100 million people, Henan is the most populous province ...
    27 KB (3,852 words) - 17:21, 7 February 2022
  • Guangzhou is the capital and the sub-provincial city of Guangdong ... The site of Guangzhou has been continuously occupied since Panyu ...
    22 KB (2,966 words) - 03:09, 5 March 2023
  • ; Postal map spelling: Hopeh) is a province of the People's Republic ... It borders Liaoning to the northeast, Inner Mongolia to the north ...
    26 KB (3,622 words) - 15:13, 25 January 2023
  • ; literally "south of the clouds") is a province of the ... Yunnan has earned fame for the natural beauty of its setting from ...
    27 KB (3,822 words) - 10:26, 7 June 2023
  • Nan or Taiwanese Hok-kiàn) is a province of China located on the southeast ... as an education center and pristine nature. The ecology of the province has ...
    31 KB (4,438 words) - 07:14, 15 April 2024
  • ; also romanized as Nei Mongol) is a Mongol autonomous region of the ... The official languages of Inner Mongolia are Standard Mandarin and ...
    33 KB (4,665 words) - 19:29, 5 March 2024
  • Seoul, the capital of South Korea, sits on the Han River (Korea) in ... Seoul, one of the world's most densely populated major cities ...
    25 KB (3,283 words) - 19:52, 6 March 2024
  • Xinjiang is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of ... quot;New Frontier," a name given during the Manchu Qing Dynasty in China ...
    28 KB (3,367 words) - 14:31, 20 May 2023
  • Shenzhen is a sub-provincial city of Guangdong province in southern ... The one-time fishing village of Shenzhen was singled out by late Chinese ...
    24 KB (3,404 words) - 19:58, 21 April 2023
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island nation in the Windward ... The islands' proximity to South America has influenced its culture ...
    18 KB (2,550 words) - 00:56, 23 December 2022
  • Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan (February 4, 1917 – August 10, 1980) was ... to maintain national unity or to resolve the ongoing dispute with India ...
    20 KB (3,141 words) - 10:02, 22 May 2023
  • Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a small landlocked country ... The country is infamous for the 1994 genocide that resulted in the ...
    25 KB (3,542 words) - 17:40, 28 September 2023
  • military official and politician during the late Qing Dynasty and the ... Yuan is criticized in Chinese culture for taking advantage of both ...
    25 KB (3,814 words) - 21:35, 4 June 2023
  • The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville or the ... offshore reserves has supplanted forestry as the mainstay of the economy, which ...
    23 KB (3,296 words) - 19:42, 16 April 2023
  • Oirat (Oirads, Oyirads, Oirots) is the common name of several pastoral ... From the thirteenth to eighteenth centuries the Kalmyk-Oirats numbered ...
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  • Myanmar - swift and strong (from the native words, myan meaning swift ... this nation is the largest in Southeast Asia, and has a population ...
    33 KB (4,741 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023

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