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China
Cups, dishes, etc. made out of china.
Baked clay of a type first employed in China.
Country in Eastern Asia, home to 1/5th of mankind.
Provinces
of the
( Zizhiju
自治区) which theoretically gives various
ethnic minorities control over their own affairs.
(特别行政区)
Provinces do not nest neatly into geographic regions; in a few cases I
have had to pick one.
The preferred romanization is the Pinyin system devised by the Chinese
government.  My initial source for this writeup, a 1970
Times
Atlas of China, used a mixture of the older Wade-Giles system and
the even older Post Office System.  After using the atlas s W-G/Pinyin