Key facts
- Traditional chinese
- 中國本土
- Simplified chinese
- 中国本土
- Hanyu pinyin
- zhōngguó běntǔ
- Literal meaning
- China proper
- Wade giles
- Chung Kuo Pen T'u
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Framed by a dotted line, the provinces of "China proper". This definition excludes Inner Mongolia, Northeast China (Inner Manchuria), Taiwan, Tibet, and Xinjiang. Map of Asia from 1796, with China proper coloured in yellow as "China"
Alternative Chinese name Traditional Chinese中國本部 Simplified Chinese中国本部
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “China proper” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.