Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1917 — Vastness of China. [ARTICLE]

Vastness of China.

A large part? of the great Chinese empire has never been surveyed or even explored. As a resuft, all sorts of varying estimates as to the size of China have been given. An estimate can merely be an approximation representing the last guess. This last guess is estimated to be about 4,000,000 square miles for China’s area—about 500,000 miles larger than the total area of our United States. While one of the 18 provinces of China is several thousand square miles smaller than our own state of Texas, yet within the border of this Chinese province there have been dwelling 20 times as many Chinese inhabitants as there are Americans" who dwell without our great state of Texas.