Statistics for China Geography Trivia

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Former English name for Beijing	Peking	97%
De facto independent region in the west annexed by China in 1950	Tibet	95%
Longest river in China	Yangtze River	86%
Number of countries that border China	14	84%
Former Portuguese colony that is now the gambling resort with a gaming industry seven times that of Las Vegas	Macau	82%
Number of time zones in China	1	79%
World's third largest desert	Gobi	78%
Former Chinese capital and scene of infamous massacre at the hands of the Imperial Japanese army in 1937	Nanjing	74%
Island province that lends its name to one of China's national airlines	Hainan	71%
Chinese city with more Rolls Royce per capita than any other world city	Hong Kong	67%
China's largest autonomous region and home to the Uyghur people	Xinjiang	66%
Scene of the 1989 massacre known as "June Forth Incident"	Tiananmen Square	65%
Second highest mountain in China	K2	62%
Region in North-East China which encompasses Heilongjian, Jilin, Liaoning and parts of Inner Mongolia	Manchuria	61%
Large city in that region famous for its annual Ice Festival	Harbin	57%
Southern province which borders Laos and Myanmar and is popular amongst backpackers	Yunnan	51%
City that is home to China's most exported beer	Qingdao	45%
On the Yangtze river, this is the world's largest hydro-electric power source	Three Gorges Dam	45%
Province formlerly part of Sichuan famous for the spicy chicken dish "Laziji"	Chongqing	34%
Delta that surpassed Tokyo in 2015 to become the world's largest urban area	Pearl River Delta	33%