China

Capital: Beijing

Farmers digging a well near Xi'an found the Terracotta Army on 29 March 1974; a 2007 estimate counts more than 8,000 soldiers.
Built from 1406 to 1420, the Forbidden City has 980 surviving buildings and 8,886 bays of rooms, short of the claimed 9,999.
Bamboo makes up about 99 percent of a giant panda's diet. A 2015 national survey counted about 1,864 wild pandas, mostly in Sichuan.
Wall sections built across many dynasties total about 21,196 km, and the first walls date to the 7th century BC.
About 990 million people had Standard Chinese (Mandarin) as a first language in 2022, out of roughly 1.18 billion speakers in total.

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