The biggest and most complete ancient building complex is the
former Imperial Palace (also known as the Forbidden City) in
Beijing.
Longest Man-made Architecture
The longest man-made architecture in the world is the Great Wall
in China. It climbs and descends on the ridges of mountains in
northern China and has a total length of more than 6,700
kilometers.
Rarest Animal
The Giant Panda of China is one of the rarest animals in the
world. Giant pandas live in remote high mountains in Sichuan,
Shaanxi and Gansu Provinces and eat bamboo.
Oldest Tree
The oldest tree in the world is China's gingko, which first
appeared during the Jurassic Age some 160 million years
ago.
Greatest Canyon
The greatest canyon in the world is China's Brahmaputra Canyon,
504.6 kilometers long and 6,009 meters deep at its deepest spot. Its
average depth is 2,268 meters.
Highest Plateau
The highest plateau in the world is China's Qinghai-Tibet
Plateau with an average height of 4,500 meters above sea
level.
Language With Largest Number of Speakers
The Chinese language is the language that has
the largest number of speakers, more than 1.2 billion, throughout
world.
Biggest and Earliest Encyclopedia
The biggest and earliest encyclopedia in the world is the
Yongle Encyclopedia (Yongle Da Dian in Chinese),
complied between 1403 and 1408 in the Ming Dynasty by more than
2,000 scholars. It consists of 22,937 volumes.
Largest Public Square
The largest public square in the world is Tian'anmen Square in
Beijing. It covers an area of 40 hectares.The
Tian'anmen Square found in the center of Beijing boasts the largest
of its kind in the world.
Earliest and Longest Canal
The earliest and longest man-made canal in the world is the
Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. The canal was first built in the 5th
century BC and was substantially extended twice during the Sui and
Yuan dynasties.
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