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Having started in the 7th century BCE, work on the

3700 mile (6000 km) long Great Wall of China

continued for hundreds of years. A major renovation

begun in 1386 took 200 years to complete.

The Huang He (Yellow River) has flooded more

than 1500 times in the last 1800 years. In 1931,

catastrophic flooding was responsible for the

deaths of 3.7 million people. The river has also

changed its course at least nine times.

The name Gobi Desert is derived

from Mongolian, meaning “waterless

place.” Bare rock rather than sand

dunes typify the cold desert landscape

that stretches for some 500,000

sq miles (1,295,000 sq km).

Despite a population of 1.3 billion, China

has only about 200 family names.