China's diversity in maps

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China Political Map



Ethnic Diversity





Minorities of Northern China



Minorities of Yunnan Province



Minorities of Southern China



Religions of China



Legend:
Brown - Chinese traditional religions: including worship of gods and ancestors, Confucianism and Taoism
Orange - Buddhism
Dark Green - Islam
Purple - Non-Han Chinese traditional faiths: Zhuang Shigongism, Yi Bimoism, Miao Hmongism, Yao Taoism
Turquois - Tengerism: Mongolian shamanism
Light Green - Dongbei folk religion and Manchu shamanism

Linguistic Diversity



Division by Major Regions



If each of these regions were countries:

World’s Largest Nations By Population, 2008
(If China’s Nine Nations Were Broken Out Separately)
Rank Country Population
#1 India 1,140,566,211
#2 The Yellow Land 358,790,000
#3 United States 304,059,724
#4 Indonesia 237,512,355
#5 The Crossroads 226,260,000
#6 Brazil 196,342,587
#7 Pakistan 171,852,793
#8 Bangladesh 154,037,902
#9 The Metropolis 146,850,000
#10 Nigeria 146,255,306
#11 Russia 140,702,094
#12 Shangri-La 131,520,000
#13 Japan 127,288,419
#14 The Back Door 111,510,000
#15 Mexico 109,955,400
#16 The Refuge 109,770,000
#17 The Rust Belt 108,740,000
#18 Philippines 96,061,683
#19 Vietnam 87,558,363
#20 The Frontier 86,320,000

…

#29 United Kingdom 60,943,912
#30 The Straits 59,080,000
#31 Italy 58,145,321

Population Density



China's cities over 1 Million



China Crop Diversity



China Climatic Diversity





China Topographical Diversity



China Night Satellite Map

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Urbanization Map



Expressway Map



Railway Map



High Speed Rail Map

[Dylan]

these maps could go even further to be honest. I'm not completely knowledgable about this topic, but for example, the Han people can be placed into further subgroups, e.g. Hakka people are one of them. the people who were at the center of the Taiping Rebellion!

[zhaoyun]

these maps could go even further to be honest. I'm not completely knowledgable about this topic, but for example, the Han people can be placed into further subgroups, e.g. Hakka people are one of them. the people who were at the center of the Taiping Rebellion!

That's a good point. There is great diversity within the Han Chinese group as well, a lot of that is reflected in the linguistic diversity map, which does include groups like the Hakka. Of course, in reality, the map is still an oversimplification of the linguistic diversity that exists.

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China's territory is occupied by four primary Civilizational spheres.

The Confucian Taoist Buddhist Sphere - Dominant in traditional Chinese civilization and the basis of the majority Han Chinese culture.

Hanfu - Traditional Chinese dress







Daoist Monks





Hanging Buddhist Monastery - Shanxi



Confucian School



Shanghai Street



Han Architecture

[TheGoldenSon]

Didn't know that there where so many variants of Chinamen.

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Lamaist Buddhist Tengrist Sphere - Primarily defined by Tibetans and Mongolians

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Islamic China - Primarily defined by two major spheres. The mostly Turkic ethnic groups of Northwest China, the Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Tatars, Kyrgyz, and Iranid Tajiks.

And the very different Hui Muslims, who are very assimilated with the Han Chinese, but have represented a strong Islamic element in the Han Chinese world since the Tang Dynasty (8th Cent).

Hui Muslims











Hui Mosques












Turkic and Iranid Zone

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Theravada Buddhism - Primarily defined by the Dai related ethnic groups of Southwest China (Thai related)

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Topographic and Climatic Diversity

Sub-tropical Southern China - Rice Paddies



Continental - Central China - Jiuzhaigou



Alpine forests - Northeastern and Northwestern China



Sub-arctic - Northeastern China



Tundra/Steppes - Northern and Northwestern China



Continental - Zhangjiajie



Plateau - Tibet, Western China



Tropical - Southern China Rainforest



Tropical - Hainan



Desert - Taklamakan and Gobi