Originally posted by Sifright
china has one of the largest population sizes considering how small there land mass is. 2 third of the population of usa on 1 third its size
2 thirds of the USA?!!!
Here\'s some facts:
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China is the most populous country in the world, with 1.25909 billion people at the end of 1999, about 22 percent of the world??s total. This figure does not include many Chinese in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Taiwan Province and Macao Special Administrative Region.
The population density in China is 130 people per sq km. This population, however, is unevenly distributed. Along the densely populated east coast there are more than 400 people per sq km; in the central areas, over 200; and in the sparsely populated plateaus in the west there are less than 10 people per sq km.
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That would make the population of the US of A nearly 2 Billion today?!!!!
WOW! I didn\'t know that there were so many USA citizens... Mmmmhhh must be all those mexican immigrants or what? //Sarcasm
Oh and btw regarding the size
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Among the major countries of the world, China is surpassed in area only by Russia and Canada, and it is almost as large as the whole of Europe.
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Thus leaving it larger than the USA
China has about 1/5 of the worlds population... What is their ratio in medals?
