LanguagesStandard Chinese or Mandarin (officialPutonghuabased on the Beijing dialect)Yue (Cantonese)Wu (Shanghainese)Minbei (Fuzhou)Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese)XiangGanHakka dialectsminority languagesnote - Zhuang is official in Guangxi ZhuangYue is official in GuangdongMongolian is official in Nei MongolUyghur is official in Xinjiang UygurKyrgyz is official in Xinjiang Uyghurand Tibetan is official in Xizang (Tibet)
TimezonesUTC+8
Area9,596,960 km²
Map ReferenceEastern Asia, bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam