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China

The world's most populous country until India overtook it in 2023, and the world's second-largest economy. The Great Wall stretches roughly 21,000 km including all its branches. Taiwan has been governed separately since 1949; China claims it, and it is not a UN member.

The Great Wall of China winding along mountain ridges at Mutianyu

The Great Wall at Mutianyu

Photo: Lloyd Tudor, CC BY-SA 4.0

Red for revolution, the large star for the Communist Party, the four smaller stars for the social classes it claimed to unite: workers, peasants, the urban middle class and capitalists. Adopted in 1949.

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