Provinces of China Map Quiz

Great quiz. Good for geo-buffs who want to get to know a little more about the next superpower

Also a good idea for the rest of us to learn more about our future overlords.

Ha!

I hate reading about all this stuff that "the Chinese are our future overlords". That's a pessimistic view, and only if most non-Chinese have such an attitude, will they become our overlords. China is a superpower with growing strength, but so is India, which will eventually have a higher population and nominal GDP than China. China won't rule over the USA and Europe, just like the USA doesn't rule over Latin America today.

But I do understand that China will be the most influential superpower for decades and I do understand the need to learn more about China.

I think 'Bob Saget' was purposefully engaging in a little hyperbole to produce a few chuckles from readers.

To Huaiwei. The short way to say it is most people like knowing that they have power over others.

@Sulps I heavily doubt that India would have a higher nominal GDP than China ANYtime soon......

I got 8. Only 35th percentile. My erudition has failed me.

Me too!

At first, I was going to refuse to take the bait. But you suckered me in, and I managed to go from 6 right on my first try to getting them all on my third. Thanks for guilt-tripping me into learning something new.

I got 20-- mostly cities, western stuff, and Manchuria, and then missed all of the central stuff. Henan, Hunan, Hebei, and Hubei got me, they all sound so similar.

They progress alphabetically North to South in a diagonal.

Wait, there's Shanxi and Shaanxi? Got to rename some of those provinces, China.

They changed the latter by adding 1 extra 'a' ?

I think western world will more get confused now.........

I got 1 correct out of 32, yet still beat 11.9% of test takers.

Another quiz where playing Europa Universalis 4 helped me substantially! Glad to see my addiction to that game finally paying off :)

Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Ningxia, Chongqing, Shanghai, Tianjin and Beijing are not provinces either, but they're included.

Shh... If you got rid of Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Shanghai then I would only have Hainan!

Got them all with 0:17 left. Not bad for an American thirteen-year-old.

I can't click Hong Kong/Macau...

If you know your Chinese directions, you can work your way around: dong (east), nan (south), xi (west), bei (north). So Hebei is north of Henan... Guangxi is west of Guangdong... Hunan is south of Hubei.

Chinese and still got 9. And one was random

Tibet, Uyghur and Inner Mongolia should be free of China's autocratic rule. Tibet and Uyghur should have independence and form their own states. Inner Mongolia should join with Mongolia.

Even Hong Kong should become independent.

FreeTibet

China shares land borders with 14 countries and has land disputes with 23 Countries.......

Yes agreed on all of that, and then have ROC take back control of the leftover China

Yeah, if it wasn't for hoi, i would have gotten 0

Hunan, Henan, Hubei, and Hebei always confuse me XD

Shaanxi-Shanxi, Hunan-Henan, Hebei-Hubei looks like they purposely name there provinces like this.... I'm sure school kids would mix up all or might even write u in such a way that some teachers might think it's an e

In the case of some, the names actually give clues. Remember 'nan' is south and 'bei' is north. So Hebei is directly above Henan. Hubei is directly above Hunan. If you start with the knowledge that Beijing is surrounded by Hebei and know all the H-bei/nan provinces are in a line, it makes it easy to get them. It's the same as in the city names (Beijing is 'north capital', while Nanjing is 'south capital'). There's also 'dong' and 'xi, which are east and west respectively - hence Guangdong is immediately east of Guangxi.

The shape and size of Inner Mongolia scares me... whenever i look at it i feel intimidated.