What is the official name of China?

The People's Republic of China (PRC) is a sovereign state in East Asia, bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea.

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What is the current official name of China?

The official name of the modern state is the "People's Republic of China" (simplified Chinese: 中华人民共和国; traditional Chinese: 中華人民共和國; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó).

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Why is China called Zhongguo?

The Chinese word for China, Zhongguo, literally means 'central state or states' (there is no plural inflection in Chinese), giving rise to the poetic sobriquet “Middle Kingdom.” Thus, China is not the land of the Han or the empire of the Qin, but simply the country in the middle.

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Which country does PRC stand for?

People's Republic of China (PRC) and ADB.

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Why PRC instead of China?

Made in PRC means the product was manufactured in China. PRC is simply the abbreviation used for the People's Republic of China. Though it can be confusing for some, companies use this in their labels to sell their products better. There's no difference between Made in China and PRC.

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What is difference between PRC and China?

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Under this principle, while the PRC has no de facto control over territory administered by the ROC, the PRC nevertheless claims that the territories controlled by both the PRC and ROC are part of the same, indivisible sovereign entity "China".

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What is the real name of Taiwan?

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. It is located at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south.

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What does Japan call itself?

In English, the modern official title of the country is simply "Japan", one of the few countries to have no "long form" name. The official Japanese-language name is Nippon-koku or Nihon-koku (日本国), literally "State of Japan".

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What was the Old English name for China?

In the English language, the word Cathay was sometimes used for China, although increasingly only in a poetic sense, until the 19th century, when it was completely replaced by China.

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When did Taiwan separate from China?

The ROC government relocated to Taiwan in 1949 while fighting a civil war with the Chinese Communist Party. Since then, the ROC has continued to exercise effective jurisdiction over the main island of Taiwan and a number of outlying islands, leaving Taiwan and China each under the rule of a different government.

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What does China call their own country?

The People's Republic of China (Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó) and Republic of China (Zhōnghuá Mínguó) are the official names for the two contemporary sovereign states currently claiming sovereignty over the traditional area of China.

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Has China changed its name?

In 1912, Zhongguo was designated the short-form Chinese name for the Republic of China, and the People's Republic inherited the name in 1949.

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What is the medieval name for China?

Cathay, name by which North China was known in medieval Europe. The word is derived from Khitay (or Khitan), the name of a seminomadic people who left southeastern Mongolia in the 10th century ce to conquer part of Manchuria and northern China, which they held for about 200 years.

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Why do Chinese have 2 names?

The first name is only used or called by oneself to show one's self-modesty while the style name is only used or called by others to show others' respect to the person they address. Many people also have a pseudonym (Hao). It's also for others to address, just like the style name, but with more respect.

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What did China call Japan?

It's uncertain why the ancient Chinese decided to call Japan 'Wakoku' (倭国), or the 'Land of Wa'. One theory is that the traditional Japanese words for 'I' and 'we' are 'waga' (我が) and 'ware' (我), so the Chinese decided that must mean the people they encountered there were the Wa people.

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What was Japan called in 1492?

When the Genovese explorer's three ships sailed westward from Palo de la Frontera, Spain, on Aug. 2, 1492, he was bound, he thought, for “the noble island of Cipangu” — Japan. Cipangu would be his gateway to “the Indies,” then the term for Asia — land of gold, spices, silks, perfumes, jewels.

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What is the old name for Tokyo?

Originally named Edo, the city started to flourish after Tokugawa Ieyasu established the Tokugawa Shogunate here in 1603. As the center of politics and culture in Japan, Edo grew into a huge city with a population of over a million by the mid-eighteenth century.

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Why did Taiwan leave China?

In December 1949, the Republic of China Armed Forces and the Kuomintang were defeated in the Chinese Civil War, forcing the Government of the Republic of China to relocate to Taiwan.

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Do Taiwan citizens pay taxes to China?

A: Yes, if you are a Taiwan tax resident. The 6.7 million AMT deduction does not apply to Mainland China income, but if you are a Taiwanese national you can offset your mainland China tax paid via the 兩岸條例.

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Is Taiwan Mandarin or Chinese?

Mandarin Chinese has been the official language of Taiwan since 1945 and is the most spoken language in the country. It's remarkably unchanged from the mainland variant of Mandarin that immigrants brought there, primarily in the 1940s, as they escaped political and military upheaval in that country.

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What does China call Taiwan?

The term "Taipei, China" (中国台北), sometimes also translated as "China Taipei", is the PRC's unilaterally preferred Chinese translation for the English term "Chinese Taipei".

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Is Taiwan its own independent country?

Taiwan as a de facto separate self-governing entity. Become part of China as a province or special administrative region of the PRC under the one country, two systems framework (like Hong Kong and Macau).

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Is China still called the People's Republic of China?

The People's Republic of China (PRC) (simplified Chinese: 中华人民共和国; traditional Chinese: 中華人民共和國) is a one-party state in East Asia governed by the Communist Party of China (CPC).

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What were Chinese called before Chinese?

Before the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), the Huaxia nationality named their motherland Zhongguo, and after that, it developed into a nation of various nationalities, and was then called Zhonghua Nation (known as Chinese Nation).

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