Province.
Anhui
54,826
Chekiang.
36,680
CHINA
AREA AND POPULATION
563
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 Administra- tion to obtain an estimate of the population of China. Recourse was had to the assist- ance of the provincial officials, which in most 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 the limitations that have so far been imposed to a full record of the outlying districts:—
Area, square miles.
Province.
Kwangtung, Shantung..
Area, square miles.
100,000
55,984
Chihli
115,830
Szechuen
218,533
......
Fukien
46,332
Yunnan..
146,718
Hunan
83,398
Shansi
81,853.
Hupeh
71,428
Shensi
75,290,
Kiangsi.
69,498
Kansu
125,483.
Kiangsu
38,610
Honan
67,954
Kwangsi
77,220
Kweichow
67,182
Total...
1,532,819
Manchuria (Chinese estimate)
363,000
Population
Population
Peking.
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
Fukien
13,157,791
Manchuria
Shantung
Szechuen
13,701,819
Kwangtung
37,167,701
30,803,245
Kwangsi
12,258,335
49,782,810
Yunnan
9,839,180
Hupeh.
27,167,244
Kweichow
11,216,400
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.
Of
The total number of foreigners in China was given in 1922 as 282,491. these, 152,848 were Japanese, 96,727 Russian, 11,855 British, 1,986 Germans, 3,596 Portuguese, 9,153 Americans, and 2,300 French. The total of Japanese residents has risen by fifty per cent. since 1915. The Russians increased by over 300 per cent. in three years. The Chinese Maritime Customs Returns for 1922 showed the number of commercial firms to be 7,021. Japan headed the list with 3,940, followed by Russia with 1,141, the United Kingdom with 725, America with 377, France with 229, Portugal with 197, Germany with 184, Italy with 43, Belgium with 42, Holland with 33, Denmark with 31, Norway with 16, Sweden with 11, and Spain with 9; 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 362,000 square miles, and an estimated population of 13,700,000. Outer Mongolia in 1912 asserted her independence of Chinese sovereignty, and obtained the formal recognition of Russia, but under the Russo Chinese Treaty concluded in 1915
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