Welcome to China!
Located : Eastern Asia
Capital : Beijing
Currency : Renminbi
Number of People
living in China : 1.3 billion
fun facts about china
Mount Everest is the highest point in China.
Chinese is the longest-used, continuously-written language on Earth.
Even though China is a huge country, it only has one time zone.
Fortune cookies are not part of Chinese custom. The fortune cookie was actually created by a Japanese-American man living in San Francisco, CA.
The Chinese were the first to create silk and kept the process a secret for thousands of years. If you were caught telling someone how to make silk, you were punished by being put to death!
Some historians believe that the Chinese invented the sport of soccer back in 1000 B.C.
The Chinese were the first people to use paper money.
People in China have been able to predict earthquakes for thousands of years. They were the first to build a seismometer (which is an earthquake detector) back in 132 A.D.
Most food in China is cooked and cut up into small pieces so that a knife and fork are not needed. All you need to help you eat is a pair of chopsticks!
The Great Wall of China is 13,171 miles
long and is the largest man made structure on Earth.