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CHINA
AREA AND POPULATION
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 inposed to a full record of the outlying districts:-
Province.
Area, square miles.
Area,
Province.
square miles.
Anhui
54,826
Kwangtung.
100,000
Chekiang
36,680
Shantung.
55,984
Chihli
115,830
Szechuen
218,533
Fukien
46,332
Yunnan...
146,718
Hunan
83,398
Shansi
81,653
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 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.
Manchuria
Shantung Szechuen Hupeh....
2,519,579
Fukien
13,157,791
13,701,819
Kwangtung
37,167,701
30,803,245
Kwangsi
12,258,335
....
49,782,810
Yunnan
27,167,244
Kweichow
9,839,180 11,216,400
TOTAL: 427,679,214
Not included in the above (no data available) :-
(a.) 1 IIsien and Mongolia in Peking District.
(b.) 3 Hsien in Manchuria District.
(c.) Tibet.
Of
The total number of foreigners in China was given in 1923 as 324,947. these, 201,704 were Japanese, 85,856 Russian, 14,775 British, 2,233 Germans, 3,424 Portuguese, 9,356 Americans, and 3,361 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 1922 showed the number of commercial firms to be 6,995. Japan headed the list with 4,067, followed by Russia with 1,034, the United Kingdom with 661, America with 409, Germany with 244, France with 242, Portugal with 105, Italy with 44, Belgium with 30, Holland with 35, Denmark with 35, Switzerland with 28, Norway with 15, 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
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