china | language | standard_chinese <sep> china (chinese: 中国; pinyin: zhōngguó), officially the people's republic of china (prc), is a country in east asia it has a population exceeding 14 billion china spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land, the most of any country in the world with an area of approximately 96 million square kilometres (3,700,000 sq mi), it is the world's third largest country by total land area the country consists of 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two special administrative regions (hong kong and macau) 
standard chinese is the language of china.china (chinese: pinyin: zhngguó) is a country in east asia