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CHINA
AREA AND POPULATION
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Province.
Area,
square miles.
Anhui
54,826
1
Chekiang
36,680
Chihli
115,830
China proper, extending over 1,335,841 square miles, is divided into eighteen provinces. Considerable trouble and care were taken in 1919 by the Postal Administrar tion to obtain an estimate of the population of China. Recourse was had to the assist ance of the provincial officials, which in inost cases was willingly accorded. Below are given the results obtained. These, while they cannot be regarded as accurate, may be taken as a close approximation to actual figures. The footnote will show ther limitations that have so far been imposed to a full record of the outlying districts:-
Area, square miles 100,000
55,984 218,53318
Province.
Kwangtung.
Shantung.
Szechuen
Fukien
46,332
Yunnan....
146,718 1
Hunan
83,398
Shansi
81,853
Hupeh
71,428
Shensi
75,290€
Kiangsi.
69,498
Kansu
125,483
Kiangsu
38,610
Houan
...
67,954
Kwangsi
77,220
Kweichow
67,1808
Total...
1,532,819 i
Manchuria (Chinese estimate)
363,000
Population
Population
Peking District..
4,014,619
Hunan
28,443,279
· Chihli
30,172,092
Kiangsi
24,466,800
Shansi
11,080,827
Kiangsu
28,235,864
Honan
30,831,909
Shanghai
5,550,200
Shensi
9,465,558
Anhui
19,832,665
Kansu
5,927,997
Chekiang
22,043,300
Sinkiang.
2,519,579
Manchuria
13,701,819
Shantung
30,803,245
Fukien
Kwangtung Kwangsi.
13,157,791
37,167,701
12,258,335
Szechuen
49,782,810
Yunnan
....
9,839,180
Hupeh....
27,167,244
Kweichow
11,216,400
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TOTAL: 427,679,214
Not included in the above (no data available) :-
(a.) 1 Hsien and Mongolia in Peking District. (b.) 3 Hsien in Manchuria District. (c.) Tibet.
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The total number of foreigners in China was given in 1924 as 320,829. these, 198,206 were Japanese, 85,766 Russian, 14,701 British, 8,817 Americans, 2,733 Germans, 3,657 Portuguese, and 2,715 French. The total of Japanese residents has risen by fifty per cent. since 1915. The Russians have increased by 300 per cent. in four years.
The Chinese Maritime Customs Returns for 1924 showed the number of commercial firms to be 7,286. Japan headed the list with 4,278, followed by Russia with 934, the United Kingdom with 726, America with 470, France with 255, Germany with 253, Portugal with 131, Italy with 49, Denmark with 39, Holland with 38, Switzerland with 29, Belgium with 26, Norway with 19, Spain with 14, and Sweden with 12; but, as the British Commercial Attaché has remarked, much depends on the definition and status of a commercial firm.
The principal dependencies of China have been Mongolia, with an area of 1,288,035 -square miles, and some 2,000,000 people; and Manchuria, with an area of 363,000