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| area_footnote = {{efn|The area given is the official United Nations figure for [[Mainland China|the mainland]] and excludes [[Hong Kong]], [[Macau]] and [[Taiwan]].<ref name="UN Stat">{{cite web |url = http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2007/Table03.pdf |title = Demographic Yearbook—Table 3: Population by sex, rate of population increase, surface area and density |publisher=UN Statistics |year=2007 |access-date=31 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101224063215/http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2007/Table03.pdf |archive-date=24 December 2010 }}</ref> It also excludes the [[Trans-Karakoram Tract]] ({{convert|5800|km2|sqmi|abbr=on|disp=or|sp=us}}), [[Aksai Chin]] ({{convert|37244|km2|sqmi|abbr=on|disp=or|sp=us}}) and other territories in dispute with India. The total area of China is listed as {{convert|9572900|km2|sqmi|abbr=on|sp=us}} by the ''Encyclopædia Britannica''.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url= http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/111803/China |title = China |encyclopedia = Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date = 16 November 2012 }}</ref> For further information, see [[Territorial changes of the People's Republic of China]].}}<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.worldometers.info/geography/largest-countries-in-the-world/ |title = Largest Countries in the World by Area – Worldometers |website = www.worldometers.info }}</ref> | | area_footnote = {{efn|The area given is the official United Nations figure for [[Mainland China|the mainland]] and excludes [[Hong Kong]], [[Macau]] and [[Taiwan]].<ref name="UN Stat">{{cite web |url = http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2007/Table03.pdf |title = Demographic Yearbook—Table 3: Population by sex, rate of population increase, surface area and density |publisher=UN Statistics |year=2007 |access-date=31 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101224063215/http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2007/Table03.pdf |archive-date=24 December 2010 }}</ref> It also excludes the [[Trans-Karakoram Tract]] ({{convert|5800|km2|sqmi|abbr=on|disp=or|sp=us}}), [[Aksai Chin]] ({{convert|37244|km2|sqmi|abbr=on|disp=or|sp=us}}) and other territories in dispute with India. The total area of China is listed as {{convert|9572900|km2|sqmi|abbr=on|sp=us}} by the ''Encyclopædia Britannica''.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url= http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/111803/China |title = China |encyclopedia = Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date = 16 November 2012 }}</ref> For further information, see [[Territorial changes of the People's Republic of China]].}}<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.worldometers.info/geography/largest-countries-in-the-world/ |title = Largest Countries in the World by Area – Worldometers |website = www.worldometers.info }}</ref> | ||
| area_rank = 3rd/4th | | area_rank = 3rd/4th | ||
| area_sq_mi = 3,705,407 <!--Do not remove per [[ | | area_sq_mi = 3,705,407 <!--Do not remove per [[Bharatpedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers]]--> | ||
| percent_water = 2.8{{efn|This figure was calculated using data from the CIA World Factbook.<ref name="CIA" />}} | | percent_water = 2.8{{efn|This figure was calculated using data from the CIA World Factbook.<ref name="CIA" />}} | ||
| population_estimate = {{increase}} 1,400,050,000<ref name="govPPL">{{cite web |script-title=zh:总人口 |url = http://data.stats.gov.cn/easyquery.htm?cn=C01 |access-date = 14 July 2020 |publisher=[[National Bureau of Statistics of China]] |language=zh }}</ref> | | population_estimate = {{increase}} 1,400,050,000<ref name="govPPL">{{cite web |script-title=zh:总人口 |url = http://data.stats.gov.cn/easyquery.htm?cn=C01 |access-date = 14 July 2020 |publisher=[[National Bureau of Statistics of China]] |language=zh }}</ref> | ||
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| population_density_km2 = 145<ref>{{cite web |title = Population density (people per km<sup>2</sup> of land area) | | population_density_km2 = 145<ref>{{cite web |title = Population density (people per km<sup>2</sup> of land area) | ||
|url = http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.POP.DNST |publisher=IMF |access-date=16 May 2015 }}</ref> | |url = http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.POP.DNST |publisher=IMF |access-date=16 May 2015 }}</ref> | ||
| population_density_sq_mi = 373 <!-- Do not remove per [[ | | population_density_sq_mi = 373 <!-- Do not remove per [[Bharatpedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers]] --> | ||
| population_density_rank = 83rd | | population_density_rank = 83rd | ||
| GDP_PPP = {{increase}} $24.162 trillion<ref name="IMFWEOCN">{{cite web |url = https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/weo-database/2020/October/weo-report?c=924,&s=NGDPD,PPPGDP,NGDPDPC,PPPPC,&sy=2018&ey=2025&ssm=0&scsm=1&scc=0&ssd=1&ssc=0&sic=0&sort=country&ds=.&br=1 |title = World Economic Outlook Database, October 2020 |publisher=International Monetary Fund |website=IMF.org |access-date=19 October 2020 }}</ref> | | GDP_PPP = {{increase}} $24.162 trillion<ref name="IMFWEOCN">{{cite web |url = https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/weo-database/2020/October/weo-report?c=924,&s=NGDPD,PPPGDP,NGDPDPC,PPPPC,&sy=2018&ey=2025&ssm=0&scsm=1&scc=0&ssd=1&ssc=0&sic=0&sort=country&ds=.&br=1 |title = World Economic Outlook Database, October 2020 |publisher=International Monetary Fund |website=IMF.org |access-date=19 October 2020 }}</ref> | ||
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The word "China" has been used in English since the 16th century; however, it was not a word used by the Chinese themselves during this period in time. Its origin has been traced through [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]], [[Malays (ethnic group)|Malay]], and [[Persian people|Persian]] back to the Sanskrit word ''Chīna'', used in [[ancient India]].<ref name=OED>{{cite web |url=https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/31735? |title= China |work= Oxford English Dictionary }}{{ISBN|0-19-957315-8}}</ref> | The word "China" has been used in English since the 16th century; however, it was not a word used by the Chinese themselves during this period in time. Its origin has been traced through [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]], [[Malays (ethnic group)|Malay]], and [[Persian people|Persian]] back to the Sanskrit word ''Chīna'', used in [[ancient India]].<ref name=OED>{{cite web |url=https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/31735? |title= China |work= Oxford English Dictionary }}{{ISBN|0-19-957315-8}}</ref> | ||
"China" appears in [[Richard Eden]]'s 1555 translation{{efn|"[...] Next vnto this, is found the great China, whose kyng is thought to bee the greatest prince in the worlde, and is named Santoa Raia".<ref>[[Richard Eden|Eden, Richard]] (1555), ''Decades of the New World'', [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/a20032.0001.001/511?page=root;size=125;vid=4616;view=text p. 230].</ref><ref>{{cite book | title=Western Views of China and the Far East, Volume 1 | publisher=Asian Research Service | year=1984 | page=34 |first=Henry Allen |last=Myers}}</ref>}} of the 1516 journal of the [[Portuguese empire|Portuguese]] [[Portuguese exploration|explorer]] [[Duarte Barbosa]].{{efn|"[...] The Very Great Kingdom of China".<ref>{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=edzW9fuOF-cC&pg=PA211|page=211|title=The Book of Duarte Barbosa, ''Vol. II'' |last=Barbosa |first=Duarte |display-authors=0 |editor-last=Dames |editor-first=Mansel Longworth |location=London |date=1918 |isbn=978-81-206-0451-3 }}</ref> ({{lang-pt|...O Grande Reino da China...}}).<ref>{{citation|first=Duarte |last=Barbosa |title=Livro em que dá Relação do que Viu e Ouviu no Oriente |editor=Augusto Reis Machado |display-editors=0 |location=Lisbon |date=1946 |url=http://purl.pt/435 |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20081022202824/http://purl.pt/435 |archive-date= 22 October 2008}}. {{in lang|pt}}</ref>}}<ref name=OED/> Barbosa's usage was derived from [[Persian language|Persian]] ''Chīn'' ({{lang|fa|{{linktext|چین}}}}), which was in turn derived from [[Sanskrit]] ''[[Chinas|Cīna]]'' ({{lang|sa|{{linktext|चीन}}}}).<ref name="AmHer">"[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/China?qsrc=2888 China]". ''The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'' (2000). Boston and New York: Houghton-Mifflin.</ref> ''Cīna'' was first used in early [[Hindu]] scripture, including the ''[[Mahābhārata]]'' (5th century BCE) and the ''[[Manusmṛti|Laws of Manu]]'' (2nd century BCE).<ref name=wade>Wade, Geoff. "[http://www.sino-platonic.org/complete/spp188_yelang_china.pdf The Polity of Yelang and the Origin of the Name 'China']". ''[[Sino-Platonic Papers]]'', No. 188, May 2009, p. 20.</ref> In 1655, [[Martino Martini]] suggested that the word China is derived ultimately from the name of the [[Qin dynasty]] (221–206 BCE).<ref name="Martini">Martino, Martin, ''Novus Atlas Sinensis'', Vienna 1655, Preface, p. 2.</ref | "China" appears in [[Richard Eden]]'s 1555 translation{{efn|"[...] Next vnto this, is found the great China, whose kyng is thought to bee the greatest prince in the worlde, and is named Santoa Raia".<ref>[[Richard Eden|Eden, Richard]] (1555), ''Decades of the New World'', [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/a20032.0001.001/511?page=root;size=125;vid=4616;view=text p. 230].</ref><ref>{{cite book | title=Western Views of China and the Far East, Volume 1 | publisher=Asian Research Service | year=1984 | page=34 |first=Henry Allen |last=Myers}}</ref>}} of the 1516 journal of the [[Portuguese empire|Portuguese]] [[Portuguese exploration|explorer]] [[Duarte Barbosa]].{{efn|"[...] The Very Great Kingdom of China".<ref>{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=edzW9fuOF-cC&pg=PA211|page=211|title=The Book of Duarte Barbosa, ''Vol. II'' |last=Barbosa |first=Duarte |display-authors=0 |editor-last=Dames |editor-first=Mansel Longworth |location=London |date=1918 |isbn=978-81-206-0451-3 }}</ref> ({{lang-pt|...O Grande Reino da China...}}).<ref>{{citation|first=Duarte |last=Barbosa |title=Livro em que dá Relação do que Viu e Ouviu no Oriente |editor=Augusto Reis Machado |display-editors=0 |location=Lisbon |date=1946 |url=http://purl.pt/435 |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20081022202824/http://purl.pt/435 |archive-date= 22 October 2008}}. {{in lang|pt}}</ref>}}<ref name=OED/> Barbosa's usage was derived from [[Persian language|Persian]] ''Chīn'' ({{lang|fa|{{linktext|چین}}}}), which was in turn derived from [[Sanskrit]] ''[[Chinas|Cīna]]'' ({{lang|sa|{{linktext|चीन}}}}).<ref name="AmHer">"[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/China?qsrc=2888 China]". ''The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'' (2000). Boston and New York: Houghton-Mifflin.</ref> ''Cīna'' was first used in early [[Hindu]] scripture, including the ''[[Mahābhārata]]'' (5th century BCE) and the ''[[Manusmṛti|Laws of Manu]]'' (2nd century BCE).<ref name=wade>Wade, Geoff. "[http://www.sino-platonic.org/complete/spp188_yelang_china.pdf The Polity of Yelang and the Origin of the Name 'China']". ''[[Sino-Platonic Papers]]'', No. 188, May 2009, p. 20.</ref> In 1655, [[Martino Martini]] suggested that the word China is derived ultimately from the name of the [[Qin dynasty]] (221–206 BCE).<ref name=wade/><ref name="Martini">Martino, Martin, ''Novus Atlas Sinensis'', Vienna 1655, Preface, p. 2.</ref> Although this derivation is still given in various sources,<ref>{{cite book |author=Bodde, Derk |editor=Denis Twitchett |editor2= Michael Loewe |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=A2HKxK5N2sAC&pg=PA20|title = The Cambridge History of China: Volume 1, The Ch'in and Han Empires, 221 BC – AD 220 |page = 20 |isbn = 978-0-521-24327-8|year=1978 }}</ref> the origin of the Sanskrit word is a matter of debate, according to the ''Oxford English Dictionary''.<ref name=OED /> Alternative suggestions include the names for [[Yelang]] and the [[Chu (state)|Jing]] or Chu state.<ref name=wade/><ref>{{cite book |author=Yule, Henry |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=SAqgAb41ifIC&pg=PA3 |title = Cathay and the Way Thither |pages= 3–7 |isbn = 978-81-206-1966-1|year = 1866 }}</ref> | ||
The official name of the modern state is the "People's Republic of China" ({{zh|s={{linktext|中华人民共和国}}|p={{linktext|Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó}}|c=|t={{linktext|中華人民共和國}} | The official name of the modern state is the "People's Republic of China" ({{zh|s={{linktext|中华人民共和国}}|p={{linktext|Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó}}|c=|t={{linktext|中華人民共和國}} | ||
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