a.
^ General Information of the People's Republic of China, ChinaToday. Retrieved 21 February 2007. The official language of
Hong Kong and
Macau is described only as "Chinese". In practice, this means
Standard Cantonese is addition to Standard Mandarin as the national language. English is co-official in
Hong Kong (SAR); correspondingly,
Portuguese in
Macau (SAR). Similarly, several minority languages are also co-official with Chinese (Mandarin) in minority areas, viz.
Zhuang in
Guangxi,
Uyghur in
Xinjiang,
Mongolian in the classical alphabet in
Inner Mongolia,
Tibetan in
Tibet, etc.
b. ^ The role of the government, China, Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved on 21-02-2007.
c. ^ Information for mainland China only. The Special Administrative Regions of the PRC: Hong Kong, Macau are excluded. In addition, the territories under the jurisdiction of the Republic of China, commonly known as Taiwan, are also excluded.
d. ^ 9,598,086 km2 Excludes all disputed territories.
9,640,821 km2 Includes PRC-administered area (Aksai Chin and Trans-Karakoram Tract, both territories claimed by India), Taiwan is not included.
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