China Adoption
Fast Facts
Full Name People's Republic of China
Capital City Beijing
Population 1,286,975,468
Time Zone GMT/UTC +8 ()
Languages Cantonese (official) , Mandarin (official)
China 's language is officially Mandarin, as spoken in Beijing . The Chinese call it Putonghua . About 70% of the population speaks Mandarin, but that's just the tip of the linguistic iceberg. The country is awash with dialects, and dialects within dialects - and few of them are mutually intelligible. Of the seven major strains, Cantonese is the one most likely to be spoken in your local Chinese takeaway. It's the lingua franca of Guangdong , southern Guangxi, Hong Kong and (to an extent) Macau .
Religion Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism (no stats available); Islam (14 million), Christianity (7 million)
Electric Plug Details
Japanese-style plug with two parallel flat blades
Australian-style plug with two flat angled blades and one vertical grounding blade
British-style plug with two flat blades and one flat grounding blade
South African/Indian-style plug with two circular metal pins above a large circular grounding pin
