Asia · Eastern Asia
Capital: Beijing
China
Explore the facts and rankings that shape China in Country Blitz, from its population and economy to its military, innovation, manufacturing, and neighboring countries.
Country Blitz power profile
Overall rank #2
China's Country Blitz power profile compares population, GDP, military expenditure, research-and-development spending, and manufacturing output across every playable country. A lower numerical rank represents a stronger position in that category.
Population
1.41B
#2 of 196
99th percentile
2025 · World Bank WDI / UN population sources
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$19.5T
#2 of 196
99th percentile
2025 · World Bank WDI
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$313.66B
#2 of 196
99th percentile
2024 · SIPRI via World Bank WDI
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$470.88B
#2 of 196
99th percentile
2023 · UNESCO UIS and World Bank WDI
View data source ↗Manufacturing Output
$4.8T
#1 of 196
100th percentile
2025 · World Bank WDI
View data source ↗Quick facts
- Capital
- Beijing
- Region
- Asia
- Subregion
- Eastern Asia
- Country code
- CHN
Three interesting facts
China shares land borders with 15 countries: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Myanmar, HKG, India, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, MAC, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Vietnam.
China is the 3rd-largest country in this factbook by land area.
Its 15 land neighbors give China one of the most connected positions on its regional map.
Geography
China on the map
China is located in Eastern Asia, bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam. Its terrain is mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west, plains, deltas, and hills in east. The climate is extremely diverse, tropical in south to subarctic in north. In area, the country is slightly smaller than the US.
Economy
Economic profile
China's economy is characterized by world’s second-largest economy by nominal GDP, global leader in exports and manufacturing, historically strong growth slowing, challenges of aging workforce, weak productivity, rising youth unemployment, struggling property sector, and public debt, state-sponsored economic controls and infrastructure investments. Major industries include world leader in gross value of industrial output, mining and ore processing, iron, steel, aluminum, and other metals, coal, machine building, armaments, textiles and apparel, petroleum, cement, chemicals, fertilizer, consumer products (including footwear, toys, and electronics), food processing, transportation equipment, including automobiles, railcars and locomotives, ships, aircraft, telecommunications equipment, commercial space launch vehicles, satellites. Important agricultural products include maize, rice, vegetables, wheat, sugarcane, potatoes, cucumbers/gherkins, tomatoes, watermelons, pork (2023). Notable exports include broadcasting equipment, computers, integrated circuits, garments, machine parts (2023).
Demographics
People and population
China has an estimated population of 1,408,280,000. Language and cultural traditions vary across China. The population includes Han Chinese 91.1%, ethnic minorities 8.9% (includes Zhang, Hui, Manchu, Uighur, Miao, Yi, Tujia, Tibetan, Mongol, Dong, Buyei, Yao, Bai, Korean, Hani, Li, Kazakh, Dai, and other nationalities) (2021 est.). The urban population represents 64.6% of total population (2023).
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