Countries Bordering China Since 1914

Nooo, all the old comments are gone! But actually, this looks accurate now, and is a great quiz.

Great idea :) 100%.

As a former critic, I am now a fan. Good job.

Agreed with the above comments, the dates make for interesting clues with regards to former colonies :)

Puppet state of Japan, which is present.

Germany leased the Kiautschou Bay until 1914.

ouch!

From 1945-1950 then?

@Micklopedia Northern half governed by the USSR, southern half run by the U.S.

Wikipedia seems to think that before 1905 it did indeed border China for several centuries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Empire

@JonOfKent but the quiz starts in 1914, see title.

I know you include colonial territories, but it would still be better to say French, British, Portuguese, Japanese empires.

There is so many things wrong with this, both countries and years.

Please accept Imperial Japan for Japan

Like....why wouldn't you just type Japan?

Probably outer.

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I didn't get North Vietnam for the reason that Gandalf tirelessly argued about what West Germany and Germany are the same thing.

Gandalf the Blau.

Yeah, my first thought when I saw that the answer I missed was North Vietnam was all the Germany/West Germany discussions I've read here.

Shouldn't the Republic of China be included at some point?

Not really. The leaders of the ROC fled to an island. They never controlled any land that bordered land controlled by the PRC.

There's a difference between lines of control and borders. You're right that under a definition of "which Weberian areas of control did that authority with the greatest claim to representing China have its territory abut," you would have to list the PRC and ROC (as well as earlier Communist states within China).

This is not entirely true. The PRC was declared on October 1st, 1949. Wikipedia says that the Guomindang retreat to Taiwan occurred in December of 1949. There were still Nationalist military forces in Western China, and Wikipedia lists military actions that occurred after the proclamation of the PRC. Additionally, Hainan was not captured until April 1950.

I'm not sure that the ROC should be included, but they did control land that bordered land controlled by the PRC.

What? Where do you think they retreated from, thin air? Of course Chankaishek controlled land on the mainland, bordering PRC, where would the PRC madetheir revolution? Do you think they just popped into existence in a land that was ungoverned before?

Folgore: yes. That theory would make the most sense. Though to be honest I thought simply they were chased out of the country in a couple of months and were in retreat most of the time so not really in control of the land they were surrendering. Frostar's dates above seem to confirm this.

Wow, didn't even think about the European countries in spite of the caveat. Great quiz, relessness.

You missed thailand

Thailand does not have a common border with China. Before WWII, it was called Siam.

and it didn't have a common border with China then, either, so whatever you called it is somewhat irrelevant.

Missed France... should have known.

Nice Quiz!

Austria-Hungary owned a city in mainland China in 1914 until 1918, so it should be here.

Austria only had a concession in Tianjin. The caveat clearly excludes that.

Sikkim?

What about Bangladesh?

What about it?

Bangladesh doesn't border China

Parallax, Bangladesh never bordered China

10/10 -IGN

What about Xinjiang, Guangxi, Anhui, Sichuan, Yunnan, Ma, Shanxi, Mengjiang, Manchukuo, Zhili, Fengitan, Guominjun etc

Most of those are/were parts of China and are/were not considered sovereign countries.

Why Korea isn't here?

iirc, it was part of the Japanese empire 1910-1945 and split in 1945.

It also oftenly happens with Ukraine. You type in Uk and then see a "raine" in the box and think that what just happened.

Technically Taiwan (or Republic of China) should be here as they bordered each other in the Chinese Civil War

Sikkim should definitely be on here.

Manchuria is part of China. Persia is Iran, and Iran does not border China

sikkim?

how about Korea?

Shouldn't Sikkim be added? It was an independent protectorate of India until 1975.

I only missed North Vietnam :(