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Geography of China

Can you guess these facts about the geography of China?
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First submittedApril 20, 2020
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Highest mountain in the world – found on the China/Nepal border
Everest
Second highest mountain in the world – found on the China/Pakistan border
K2
Former English-language spelling of Beijing
Peking
The world's most populous urban agglomeration
Guangzhou / Shenzhen
Dialect of Chinese which is native to the above region
Cantonese
Sea in which China has been building artificial islands in order to establish a territorial claim
South China Sea
Former Portuguese colony which was returned to China in 1999
Macau
China's longest river
Yangtze
Desert which China shares with Mongolia
Gobi
Chinese province which has more Mongolians than the country of Mongolia
Inner Mongolia
Informal name for the far northeastern part of China
Manchuria
Major river which rises in Qinghai province and empties in Vietnam
Mekong
The largest animal which is endemic to China (meaning it can be found only there)
Giant panda
Muslim ethnic group that lives in northwestern China
Uyghur
Largest island in the People's Republic of China
Hainan
Region which consists mostly of a plateau with an average elevation of 4500 meters (14,800 feet)
Tibet
The main city of the above region
Lhasa
Country with which China share its shortest border – just 76 kilometers long
Afghanistan
Largest city square in Beijing, covering an area of about 0.2 km²
Tiananmen Square
City where Qin Shi Huang was buried, along with his Terracotta Army
Xi'an
Peninsula which is found just north of Hong Kong island
Kowloon
River that marks most of the border between China and Russia
Amur
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45 Comments
dirtyorange
+3
Level 75
May 6, 2020
Wow! I never do this well when it comes to China. I'll have to come back to see how other do.
KoljiVriVoda
+5
Level 81
May 6, 2020
21/22. Missed only the peninsula of Hong Kong.
KoljiVriVoda
+4
Level 81
May 6, 2020
In Serbian language Beijing is still called Peking. Any other language?
Djilas
+7
Level 86
May 6, 2020
From Wikipedia article list:

Peking/Pekin/Pekino/... is the primary form in Slavic, Baltic, Finno-Ugric, Turkic (except Kazakh) languages, most Romance languages (not Romanian), almost all languages in ex-USSR and Spain, German, Dutch, Swedish, Frisian, Greek, Albanian, Romani, Arabic, Persian, ...

IsleAuHaulte
+2
Level 92
May 6, 2020
In French they still say Pekin, which preceded Peking in English as in Pekin, Illinois.
promastermage
+3
Level 62
May 6, 2020
22/22. Surprised that Amur got only 48%
IsleAuHaulte
+3
Level 92
May 6, 2020
I'm surprised 34% got everything correct. Go nerds.
Yanni47
+2
Level 80
May 7, 2020
Thanks. :)
FadKrashmor
+2
Level 70
May 7, 2020
I knew this passively, couldn't call it up. Had plenty of time to look it up on the map, (didn't put the answer in tho', messes up the stats doesn't it?)
Collinatheguy
+7
Level 46
May 7, 2020
in chinese the amur river is called heilongjiang, so i imagine a ton of chinese people like me tried that.
Yanni47
+3
Level 80
May 7, 2020
Didn't know that. I thought that was just the name of the province.
fbhou
+2
Level 63
Mar 13, 2024
Heilongjiang Province got its name from Heilongjiang, the river. Just like Qinghai Province got its name from Qinghai Lake.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 79
May 7, 2020
That was the only one I had to think about.
Bringitonlarsons
+7
Level 94
May 7, 2020
Please can you add 'Dongbei' as a common name for the north-eastern provinces. That's the common name used in China
Ymmot
+1
Level 86
May 2, 2023
+1

"Manchuria" is the Japanese name (from Imperial Japan's occupation). Dongbei (Northeast) is what it's more properly called.

torny81
+2
Level 74
May 7, 2020
Would you please accept alternative spelling for the square in Beijing?
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
May 7, 2020
We accept many misspellings, but are happy to take specific suggestions.
FolgoreCZ
+1
Level 59
Jun 23, 2020
What abou Heavenly Peace?
Ymmot
+1
Level 86
May 2, 2023
It's the gate of heavenly peace, not just heavenly peace, fwiw.
Yanni47
+3
Level 80
May 7, 2020
The quiz that got me to level 70! :D What an honor. Needed 100% to do it, too.
TurkeyCookTime
+2
Level 85
May 7, 2020
Never knew there were more Mongolians in China than in Mongolia...
uuleelgoy
+1
Level 63
Nov 18, 2024
Those aren't real mongols.
BettyToo
+3
Level 39
May 7, 2020
please accept Qomolongma for Everest.
BettyToo
+2
Level 39
May 7, 2020
enjoyed this quiz otherwise, lots of good variety. though there is also the question of taiwan, which u.n. doesn't recognize... and china holds as belonging to it... which is larger than hainan. oh, politics....
JackintheBox
+5
Level 82
May 7, 2020
I suggest changing 'was the former English-language spelling' to 'is', because it is still a former spelling.
JackintheBox
+2
Level 82
May 7, 2020
I only missed Amur (I live in China by the way)!
WillemLAif
+4
Level 81
May 10, 2020
In other news... there's a Huawei 5G on Everest now. Waiting for the conspiracy theories. Should be juicy.
Nestormakhno
+2
Level 79
Jun 10, 2020
Only missed Kowloon... I lived in Hong Kong for a time and now I feel stupid
tigersue
+2
Level 75
Jun 10, 2020
I can't spell uyghur - must have tried a dozen ways! I will just have to try and remember from now on
nojik
+2
Level 67
Jun 10, 2020
i never thought i would do this well on a chinese test, yet i found everything.
Manila101
+4
Level 32
Jun 10, 2020
Can please you Accept Qomolangma for Mt. Everest?
Rufy
+2
Level 79
Jun 10, 2020
For a Frenchman, the only really difficult thing here is to guess (for one long minute !) how you could possibly spell "Uyghur" in English! ;-)
11level360
+2
Level 51
Jun 10, 2020
Easy, 22/22 but I am Chinese
ander217
+3
Level 73
Jun 11, 2020
Uggyrs? Uygyrs? Uggrys? Ugh, I give up.
ander217
+2
Level 73
Jun 11, 2020
Tried Canton for the dialect - didn't think to add the ese.
Pacybwoah
+3
Level 61
Jun 12, 2020
Heilongjiang for Amur? It's the Chinese spelling.
lucd13
+3
Level 70
Jun 12, 2020
Can you accept Hui for Uyghur? While they're not the same, the Hui people are a ethnic group in the northwestern regions who are also adherents of Islam.
Findlay
+2
Level 80
Apr 27, 2021
I really feel like Heilong Jiang should be allowed for the river. Makes more sense to use the Chinese name in a quiz about China, rather than the Russian name.
Rockett7
+2
Level 71
Jun 26, 2021
Could Heilong river or Heilong jiang be accepted for the Amur river question?
jbook
+1
Level 63
Jul 2, 2021
i got 21 out of 22 correct. according to the scoring stats, 16.6% of test-takers got a better score than me. this means they all got a perfect score on this quiz. i seriously doubt this is true, unless a large majority of those who took the test were chinese, which i find very unlikely.
boltos
+1
Level 77
Apr 18, 2022
Excellent quiz. I am moving to China in summer and pleased to get these right, although spending a lot of time on JetPunk lately has helped with some of them! I stupidly put dragon for national animal but you allowed it, so thanks!
peterpancake
+2
Level 32
Dec 14, 2022
please accept heilongjiang

nobody uses amur river in china

mondegreen
+1
Level 71
Jan 7, 2023
Like many others have said, this quiz would benefit from the names used in China. Amur is the Russian name of the river, the Chinese name is Heilongjiang (literally "black dragon river"). And in China no one refers to the current Northeast as "Manchuria", we just call it Dongbei (literally "northwest").
GlassMonkeyOLD
+1
Level 69
Dec 31, 2023
I tried Heilongjiang, thinking of the province, because it means black dragon river. I think it should be accepted.
Limukala
+1
Level 62
Apr 2, 2026
You should accept "Pearl River Delta" for largest urban agglomeration, since it's generally divided into at least 3 metropolitan areas (Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou).
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