China

The country calling code for China is +86. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local China number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

China is assigned CN as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and CHN as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for China is .cn. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of China is the Chinese yuan, with the ISO 4217 code CNY and the symbol ¥. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside China are quoted in CNY. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for China is +08:00, currently UTC+08:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of China is Beijing. China sits in Asia, specifically the Eastern Asia subregion. Its approximate centre point is 35.00000000, 105.00000000. Traffic in China drives on the right. Languages recorded for China: Chinese.

China shares a land border with 16 countries: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Myanmar, Hong Kong, India, Kazakhstan, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), Kyrgyzstan, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Macao, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Vietnam and Nepal. Land borders are not the same as nearest countries: a country across a narrow strait can be closer than one you share a fence with. The nearby page ranks countries by straight-line distance instead.