Map of People's Republic of China
Open People's Republic of China on the map — framed on the country itself, not on every far-off island it holds — and look at it by population density, by the historical maps of its region, or with the open data below.
Facts
As the source states them, in the source’s own words.
| Capital | Beijing |
|---|---|
| Area | 9,706,961 km² |
| Currency | CNY (Chinese yuan) |
| Languages | Chinese |
Source: mledoze/countries, IANA Time Zone Database, Natural Earth admin-0. Licence: ODbL 1.0, public domain.
Historical maps
IntMap’s historical maps of the regions this outline lies in, on every date the map draws them. A region is a frame on the map, not a statement that People's Republic of China existed then: the names on each map are the ones the historical records give.
Map of East Asia Map of South Asia Map of Central Asia Map of Southeast Asia
Dated events in this outline
Events of IntMap’s war record dated to a place inside today’s outline of People's Republic of China. Each links to the page of its calendar day, which opens the map on that day.
- 1914
The siege of Tsingtao — Japan and Britain take Germany’s naval base in China
World War I · IntMap’s war record
27 August → - 1939
Unit 731 — human experiments and the manufacture of biological weapons at Pingfang, outside Harbin
World War II · IntMap’s war record
1 September → - 1939
The first battle of Changsha — the Japanese reach the city and pull back to their start line in three weeks
World War II · IntMap’s war record
17 September → - 1939
South Guangxi — Nanning is taken from the sea to cut the road to Indochina, and given up a year later
World War II · IntMap’s war record
15 November → - 1940
Zaoyang–Yichang — Yichang is taken, and with it the last river port below the gorges to Chongqing
World War II · IntMap’s war record
1 May → - 1940
The Hundred Regiments Offensive — the largest Communist operation of the war, against the railways of the north
World War II · IntMap’s war record
20 August → - 1941
South Shanxi — the Nationalist armies in the Zhongtiao mountains are destroyed and the front reaches the Yellow River
World War II · IntMap’s war record
7 May → - 1941
The third battle of Changsha — the first clear Allied victory against Japan since Pearl Harbor
World War II · IntMap’s war record
24 December → - 1942
The Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign — the airfields the Doolittle raiders were to have landed on are destroyed
World War II · IntMap’s war record
21 April → - 1943
The battle of Changde — chemical weapons are used against the city, which is retaken
World War II · IntMap’s war record
2 November → - 1944
Operation Ichi-Go — half a million men, the largest Japanese offensive of the war, and it wins the ground and loses the war
World War II · IntMap’s war record
19 April → - 1944
Luoyang falls in the first phase of Ichi-Go and the Peking–Hankow railway is opened end to end
World War II · IntMap’s war record
25 May → - 1944
Operation Matterhorn — B-29s bomb Japan from Chengdu, with every gallon of fuel flown over the Himalayas
World War II · IntMap’s war record
15 June → - 1944
Hengyang — a garrison of 17,000 holds a city for 47 days against ten times its number
World War II · IntMap’s war record
22 June → - 1944
Guilin and Liuzhou — the American air bases in Guangxi are overrun and destroyed before they fall
World War II · IntMap’s war record
1 September → - 1945
The West Hunan offensive — the last Japanese offensive of the war is stopped short of the Zhijiang airfield
World War II · IntMap’s war record
9 April → - 1945
- 1945
Mukden, Harbin and Changchun are taken; the Kwantung Army has ceased to exist in eleven days
World War II · IntMap’s war record
20 August →
Open data about People's Republic of China
The datasets IntMap may share about People's Republic of China, each under its own terms. The values are in one file: api/v1/countries/CHN.json
airports
Public domain, ODbL 1.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike
Credit: OurAirports, Country facts — mledoze/countries (capital, currency, languages, land borders, UN membership, demonym; ODbL 1.0, build time only)
country-facts
ODbL 1.0, public domain · Requires: credit · share-alike
Credit: mledoze/countries, IANA Time Zone Database, Natural Earth admin-0
health
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike · non-commercial
Credit: WHO Global Health Observatory — UHC service coverage index & IHR SPAR (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO), World Bank Open Data
language
public domain, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit
Credit: CIA World Factbook, Language identity, genealogical classification and endangerment status — Glottolog (CC BY 4.0)
mobility
ODbL 1.0, public domain, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike
Credit: OpenFlights — airline route database (country-pair route counts for the pandemic simulator; snapshot of June 2014, no longer updated; ODbL 1.0), OurAirports, World Bank Open Data, Country facts — mledoze/countries (capital, currency, languages, land borders, UN membership, demonym; ODbL 1.0, build time only)
religion
public domain · Requires: nothing
What this page states
The outline, the name and the code are Natural Earth’s (admin-0, public domain), the set IntMap’s map draws countries from. The map opens on the frame the app’s country search uses for it: the country itself, not every far-off island it holds.
A historical map is listed when its region’s frame overlaps this outline. It is listed for the place, not for the country: the borders on it are what the historical records draw.
An event is listed when the point the war record gives it falls inside this outline — a fact about the point, not about which state held the place at the time.
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