The Chinese Nation China is one of the largest countries in the world, her territory being about the size of the whole of Europe.
China has a population of almost a quarter of the world total.
Over nine-tenths of her inhabitants belong to the Han nationality. There are several score of minority nationlties, including the Mongol, Hui, Tibetan, Uighur, Miao, Yi, Zhuang, Zhungjia, Korean and many other nationlities, all with long histories though at different levels of cultural development. Thus China is a country with a very large population composed of many nationalities. Some 4,000 years have gone by since the collapse of these primitive communes and the transition to society, which took the form first of slave and then feudal society. The Chinese nation is known throughout the world for its industriousness and stamina.