China
Names and codes: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0 · Boundary: Natural Earth, public domain · Refresh date not recorded · Sources and licenses
Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- CN
- ISO alpha-3
- CHN
- ISO numeric
- 156
- FIPS 10-4
- CH
- GeoNames ID
- 1814991
Key facts
- Capital
- Beijing
- Area
- 9,596,960 km²
- Population
- 1,411,778,724
- Currency
- Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
- Calling code
- +86
- Top-level domain
- .cn
- Official languages
- zh-CN,yue,wuu,dta,ug,za
Continent
- Name
- Asia
- Code
- AS
- In this dataset
- 51 countries
Location
- Latitude
- 35
- Longitude
- 105
- Min latitude
- 15.77537669500009
- Min longitude
- 73.60225630700006
- Max latitude
- 53.56944447900007
- Max longitude
- 134.77257938700006
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/CN?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 9596960,
"capital": "Beijing",
"continent_code": "AS",
"currency_code": "CNY",
"iso3_code": "CHN",
"iso_code": "CN",
"name": "China",
"population": 1411778724
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/CN/regions/v1/cities?country=CN/v1/postal-codes?country=CN/v1/timezones?country=CN
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- الصين
- Chinese
- 中国
- English
- China
- French
- Chine
- German
- China
- Hindi
- चीन
- Italian
- Cina
- Japanese
- 中国
- Korean
- 중국
- Portuguese
- China
- Russian
- Китай
- Spanish
- China
- Total language variants
- 154
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Asia/Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | UTC+08:00 |
| Asia/Urumqi | UTC+06:00 | UTC+06:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- ######
- Pattern
^(\d{6})$
First-level administrative regions
- Guangdong
- Shandong
- Henan
- Jiangsu
- Sichuan
- Hebei Sheng
- Hunan
- Zhejiang
- Anhui
- Hubei
- Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
- Yunnan
- Jiangxi
- Liaoning
- Fujian
- Shaanxi
- Guizhou
- Shanxi
- Hēilóngjiāng
- Chongqing Shi
- Gansu
- Shanghai Shi
- Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
- Jilin
24 of 31 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Shanghai | 24,874,500 |
| Beijing | 18,960,744 |
| Shenzhen | 17,494,398 |
| Guangzhou | 16,096,724 |
| Chengdu | 13,568,357 |
| Tianjin | 11,090,314 |
| Wuhan | 10,392,693 |
| Dongguan | 9,644,871 |
| Xi’an | 9,600,000 |
| Nanjing | 9,314,685 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 896,262
- First-level regions
- 31
- Postal codes
- 2,352
- Name languages
- 154
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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