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THE SUPER COUNTRY CHINA  Written By Ben Gerlach Overall view of China  China is the 4th largest country in the world and the second largest Asian country after Russia. In this country 1 out of every 6 people live in China meaning China has the largest population of 1.4 billion people. Being so China then has the third largest economy at $13.39 billion with only Europe at $15.83 and the U.S.of A at $16.72 billion ahead of it. Location (overall) When someone is talking about location ask yourself this. Which location are they talking about exact or relative? That is what I'm going to talk in this first section of location in this page about China starting with relative location. Location (relative) Ever since science figured out the earth was round and not flat like people thought it was way back when there was the northern and southern hemisphere. After the second world war back in 1941 through 45, the world was split in two and the east and west was made making the east and west hemisphere. Think about that for a little bit. China is in the east about 100° and north about 30°. That is an example of relative with coordinates. Another example is shown in parenthesis next "China is located in the southeastern corner of Asia". The next time you invite your friend over for the first time and they don't know where you live make the description specific as you can.

Location (exact) The next location I'm going to talk about is the exact location of China on this Earth. Exact location is where something is exactly where a pair of coordinates is like this example in quotes " Germany is at 43.000° north and 18.000° east. Now that is just a false example so kids don't use that for a school project. China is really located at a few coordinate pairs like 30.000° north and 90.000° east, 30.000° north and 105.000° east, 30.000° north and 120.000°east, 45.000° north and 90.000° east, and 45.000° north and 120.000° east. Those are the coordinate pairs that wil show up on the map on China. China's capital, Beijing is directly located at 39.9139° north and 116.3917° east at its center. Going back to the example with your friend coming over, tell them your address and you just told them the exact location of your house.

Place Overall  This is the most confused thing of the thing I'm going to talk about on this page. Place if you're wondering is not location but more of the man made things called human features and nature made things are called physical features.Take the Panama Canal in Panama for example. For that area that canal is a human feature. Right next to Wisconsin, Lake Michigan was made by humongous sheets of ice called glaciers. Glaciers and Lake Michigan were both made by nature making them physical features. I'm going to show you the differences between human and physical features starting with human. To learn more about glaciers if you're interested [|Click Here]  To learn more about Lake Michigan if you're interested [|Click Here]    Place (human features) Like I said before human features are made by humans like you. A human feature can be as simple as a plank bridge to a complex as the empire state building. You've probably have heard or at least talked about the Great Wall of China. It should be more like the Great Walls of China because the wall is made up of many walls. It used to be the most effective way to keep foreigners and anything unwanted out of the country but it does little to keep foreigners and anything unwanted anymore due to modern technology. That was made by humans many many many years ago and that is what makes it a human feature. The forbidden city is another example of a human feature.

Place (physical features)  Physical features are everywhere. The water, frozen, fresh, or salt water on this planet is a physical feature and that is no accident. The thing is we can't make those physical features until nature makes it or it never will come back because the Earth can't make it. Underneath the Great Wall are low altitude mountains. Most mountains are physical features but some, underneath the surface are land fills. Out side my school it stinks a little bit especially around the river. That area for how many feet down was a land fill. They piled it high enough so when they put top soil back on, a hill was made. That is a human feature hill. The hills the "wall" is sitting on are physical meaning nature made them. H.E.I (Human Environment Interactions) Human environment interactions are right in front of you if you know what I mean. The materials needed to make the screen you are looking at, the keyboard you and I use to type. The clothes you're wearing used plants like cotton if your clothes aren't made of synthetic materials which mean fake. If you have one, your leather jacket was made from animal hides that is if it's not synthetic. Those are all H.E.Is meaning you played with the environment like when the farmer prepped the field to grow the cotton and when he tilled that field that entire area lost a small bit of dirt and microscopic things that help the soil. You've probably heard of China's massive population and their overpopulated city's. Well did you know that because China has the large population, people have there cars and they smog up the city when they use them. Only a handful of days can you see the sunshine in Beijing because they polluted the city so bad. That is a very severe H.E.I that they have and that has probably put many bird species in the vulnerable range on the endangered list. The Chinese have also cut away many of the great forests that used to be plentiful but those areas are now deserts due to desertification. I be made a Facebook page to help reduce or even stop severe H.E.I and the link is [|here]. Movement Movement is another highly confused thing that people talk about. You may say they ride bikes, they drive cars, they walk around. Sure that's movement but this movement I'm talking about is more like the spread of their culture. Take Mc. Donald's for example, they now have McKeeDees over in China and we have a few more Chineserestaurants over in the U.S. Beijing now has a few more skyscrapers and more American style houses. That is another thing of movement explained correctly. China also used to have round tables and you can't really whisper to your little girl friend at a round table. American style tables have started popping up in Chinese restaurants. That is what movement really is. Region Region is kind of like place if you really look at it like I do. Region is practicality place even though it's still different. If you've heard someone talking about the mid west and great plains, they're talking about two different U.S regions. The great plains is a massive area that is flat and covers a good portion of the U.S. That area was made from an ancient ocean millions of years ago that receded and that area after being pounded by the ocean was flat. The mid west mainly consists of semi-flat hills and lots of foreign earth materials from glaciers. All of those foreign materials made the soil rich and the mid west is the perfect area to farm. Enough with the U.S and on with China's region. Now that were back with China, the majority of the land there is a wasteland to many but me. I'm not going to say what because I'm going to start a rush for that material but that region is mainly in the middle of China. The middle of China is mostly desert so that is what I call the desert region. More towards the east of the china are the large mountains like Mount Everest and the Himalayas. To the west along the Pacific coast the main city's and the capital, Beijing. There along that coast is the prime spot for settlements to form and expand. Cause And Effects You should easily know what cause and effect is so I am not going to go over everything like I did with the previous sections. This section will be about the causes and effects in China some good and some bad. #1. Earlier in H.E.I, I explained how many people were causing harmful smog. That is an effect of all of all the traffic jams, running cars and factory's not having strict enough pollution output laws like the U.S. of A has. [|Click Here] To Check out the Facebook Page I made to help stop pollution called Stop The Smog. #2. Back before China became a country the desert area used to be small and not even a quarter of the size it is now but the Chinese's did what many people do now for a living. Forestry for pete's sake. Those deserts used to be vast forests full of plentiful wild life but nope, we had to come along and destroy the forest and now the desert is fighting back and getting bigger due to desertification. #3. Because China has so many factory's everything there is mass produced and those things are bought giving China the third largest economy in the WORLD. Thank you for reading this article about China as I put a bit of time into it and again thank you.