North China

North China
North People's Republic of China region
North People's Republic of China region
Country People's Republic of China
Area
 • Total2,185,105 km2 (843,674 sq mi)
Population
 • Total164,823,136
 • Density75/km2 (200/sq mi)
GDP2022[2]
 - Total¥14.909 trillion
($2.217 trillion)
 - Per Capita¥90,457
($13,449)
Northern China (a much broader area named Beifang)

North China (华北) is a region of the People's Republic of China. It consists of five provincial administrative regions, namely Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, and Inner Mongolia.

Part of the larger region of Northern China (Beifang), it lies north of the Qinling–Huaihe Line,[3] with its heartland in the North China Plain. Most inhabitants here speak variants of Northern Chinese languages such as Mandarin, which includes Beijing dialect and its cousin variants. The Beijing dialect is largely the basis of Standard Chinese (or Standard Mandarin), the official language of the People's Republic of China. Jin Chinese and Mongolian are also widely spoken due to the political and cultural history of the area.

  1. ^ "Main Data of the Seventh National Population Census". National Bureau of Statistics of China. Archived from the original on May 11, 2021.
  2. ^ GDP-2022 is a preliminary data "Home - Regional - Quarterly by Province" (Press release). China NBS.
  3. ^ Li, Shuangshuang; Yang, Saini; LIU, Xianfeng (10 September 2015). "Spatiotemporal variability of extreme precipitation in north and south of the Qinling-Huaihe region and influencing factors during 1960-2013". The Chinese Journal of Geography. 34 (3): 354–363. Retrieved 25 May 2017.