Chinese Geography and Nature

Climate, Wildlife and Cities

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  1. Which animal, native to Sichuan, is the best-known national symbol of China in conservation?
  2. What kind of climate affects most of eastern China, bringing wet summers and drier winters?
  3. How many official time zones does mainland China use?
  4. Which of these cities, home to the Bund and Pudong, is China's largest by urban population?
  5. Which northern city is famous for its winter ice and snow festival?
  6. Which city in Yunnan is known as the Spring City for its mild climate?
  7. Which city in Guangxi is famous for its river and limestone peaks?
  8. Which mountain in Anhui, known for twisted pines and seas of cloud, is on the World Heritage list?
  9. The Tropic of Cancer crosses which southern province?
  10. Which large mammal, known as the chiru, lives on the Tibetan Plateau and is protected?
  11. Which small crocodilian lives only in the lower Yangtze region?
  12. Which tree, found in Hubei and Sichuan and long thought extinct, was discovered alive in the 1940s?
  13. Which monkey, with a blue face and a turned-up nose, lives in the mountains of Sichuan and Shaanxi?
  14. Which freshwater porpoise lives in the middle and lower Yangtze?
  15. Which sandstone-pillar scenic area in Hunan province is on the UNESCO World Heritage list?
  16. Which city in Tibet lies at about 3,650 metres above sea level?
  17. Which city on a hilly stretch of the Yangtze is a major municipality in the south-west?
  18. Which Chinese city, the capital of Guangdong, was a historic port for foreign trade?
  19. Which province contains the narrow Hexi Corridor, once the main Silk Road route into central China?
  20. The Gobi Desert lies on China's border with which country?
  21. A city lies on the Tropic of Cancer in the south, has a monsoon climate and is the capital of a province whose name means broad east. Which?
  22. Which statement about China's winter and summer climate is correct?
  23. Which pair of provincial capitals both lie on the Yangtze itself?
  24. Which list runs from the northernmost to the southernmost city?
  25. Which mountain belt, running east-west across Shaanxi, is the main divide between the Yellow River and Yangtze basins?

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