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mainland China

geopolitical area under the jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China, excluding Special Administrative Regions
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Summary

mainland China is a region[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of region entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,792 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: People's Republic of China[3]
  • Continent: Asia[4]
  • Instance of: cultural region[5], political territorial entity[6], mainland[7]
  • Subclass of: administrative territorial entity[8]
  • Said to be the same as: mainland China[9]
  • Coordinate location: 36, 106[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Mainland China[11]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C173823[12]
  • Different from: mainland China[13]
  • Permanent duplicated item: Q22828739[14], Q55744448[15]

Why It Matters

mainland China has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 48 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

Related Entities

mainland China People's Republic of China

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · MsynBot bot · 2026-09-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → region, cultural region, political territorial entity +1
    Subclass of → administrative territorial entity
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-rank:1||1 */ Country: People's Republic of China, remove unnecessary use of preferred rank #msynbotTask13"
  2. 14w ago · WG0uMSn0dJm5lfrWbgoi · 2026-07-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nci thesaurus id → C173823
    Instance of → region, cultural region, political territorial entity +1
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Instance of: administrative territorial entity"
  3. 23w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Country → People's Republic of China
    Topic's main category → Category:Mainland China
    Coordinates → —
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Umls cui: CL1407632"
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