30 charts and maps that explain China today
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/09/24/china-explained-simply-with-charts
China’s mind-boggling size, economy and history, visualized
China is more diverse than you might think.
One thing people outside of China may miss is the country’s incredible diversity. A lot of Chinese are of the same ethnic group, Han, and almost everyone learns the national language, Mandarin, in school. But many people in different parts of China grow up speaking languages that are mutually unintelligible — as different or more different from each other than European languages.
