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The Sihai Huayi Zongtu ("Complete Map of the Four Seas, China, and the Barbarians") is a Chinese world map dated to 1532, the 11th year of the Ming Dynasty's Jiajing Emperor. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is now located in the Harvard Library .
China contains five autonomous regions, Guangxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Tibet, and Xinjiang. [l] Additionally, it has sovereignty over the Special Administrative Regions of: Hong Kong Macau; China claims, but does not control Taiwan, which is governed by a rival administration (the Republic of China) that claims all of China as its territory. [q]
The four seas of China, the Bohai Sea, the Huanghai Sea, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea, occupy a total area of about 4.7 million sq. km, half of the area of Mainland China. These seas are located in the southeastern margin of the Eurasian continent and subject to the interactions between the Eurasian, Pacific, and Indian ...
"The Seven Seas" is a figurative term for all the seas of the known world. [1] The phrase is used in reference to sailors and pirates in the arts and popular culture and can be associated with the Mediterranean Sea, the Arabian Seven Seas east of Africa and Indian subcontinent (as told with Sinbad's seven journeys, and Captain Kidd), or is sometimes applied to the Caribbean Sea and seas around ...
The region of all countries bordering China is sometimes referred to by scholars as the China Rim, [3] [4] [5] or simply as China's periphery (Chinese: 中国周边). [6] The China Rim plays a significant role in competition between other countries and China, as is the case with America's China Containment Policy. [7]
National flags are adopted by governments to strengthen national bonds and legitimate formal authority. Such flags may contain symbolic elements of their peoples, militaries, territories, rulers, and dynasties. The flag of Denmark is the oldest flag still in current use as it has been recognized as a national symbol since the 14th century.
China is a nuclear-weapon state with the world's largest standing army by military personnel and the second-largest defense budget. It is a great power, and has been described as an emerging superpower. China is known for its cuisine and culture, and has 59 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the second-highest number of any country.
Hong Kong [z] (People's Republic of China) 2 1 0 People's Republic of China (2) Howland Island [f] and Baker Island [f] (United States) 1 1 1 Kiribati Hungary † 0 0 0 Iceland: 3 3 2 Faroe Islands [x] Greenland [x] (T) Jan Mayen [af] (T) Île Saint-Paul and Amsterdam Island [d] 0 0 0 India: 7 7 7 Bangladesh