Category:China

Zhongguo or Zhōnghuá (as in Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó), 中国, known in English as China (as in People's Republic of) from the Indo-Portuguese, formerly referred to variously as Cathay, the Middle Kingdom, etc., including territories held and divided between various dynastic states in East Asia from approximately 2000 B.C. to modernity. It is presently divided into twenty-three provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau.