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Chinese Philippine languages 24.4%, Chinese 23.4%, Chamorro 22.4%, English 10.8%, other Pacific island languages 9.5%, other 9.6% (2000 census) www.exxun.com/NorthernMarianaIslands/c_pp.html
Chinese ... breadfruit, tomatoes, and melons. Garment production is by far the most important industry with the employment of 17,500 mostly Chinese workers and sizable shipments to the US under duty and quota exemptions www.exxun.com/NorthernMarianaIslands/e_ec.html
Chinese ... Tobi (Tobi and English are official), and Angaur (Angaur, Japanese, and English are official), Filipino 13.5%, English 9.4%, Chinese 5.7%, Carolinian 1.5%, Japanese 1.5%, other Asian 2.3%, other languages 1.5% (2000 census www.exxun.com/Palau/c_pp.html
Chinese no indigenous inhabitants note: there are scattered Chinese garrisons www.exxun.com/ParacelIslands/c_pp.html
Chinese small Chinese port facilities on Woody Island and Duncan Island being expanded www.exxun.com/ParacelIslands/g_tr.html
Chinese Amerindian 45%, mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 37%, white 15%, black, Japanese, Chinese, and other 3% www.exxun.com/Peru/c_pp.html
Chinese African descent 50%, white 25%, Chinese 25% www.exxun.com/SaintHelena/c_pp.html
Chinese mixed French, African, Indian, Chinese, and Arab www.exxun.com/Seychelles/c_pp.html
Chinese Mandarin 35%, English 23%, Malay 14.1%, Hokkien 11.4%, Cantonese 5.7%, Teochew 4.9%, Tamil 3.2%, other Chinese dialects 1.8%, other 0.9% (2000 census) www.exxun.com/Singapore/c_pp.html
Chinese ... 15%, "Maroons" (their African ancestors were brought to the country in the 17th and 18th centuries as slaves and escaped to the interior) 10%, Amerindian 2%, Chinese 2%, white 1%, other 2 www.exxun.com/Suriname/c_pp.html
Chinese In 1895, military defeat forced China to cede Taiwan to Japan. Taiwan reverted to Chinese control after World War II. Following the Communist victory on the mainland in 1949, 2 million Nationalists ... www.exxun.com/Taiwan/a_fg.html
Chinese Taiwanese (including Hakka) 84%, mainland Chinese 14%, indigenous 2% www.exxun.com/Taiwan/c_pp.html
Chinese Republic Day (Anniversary of the Chinese Revolution), 10 October (1911) www.exxun.com/Taiwan/d_gv.html
Chinese ... be the world's tallest dam. Tajikistan has also received substantial infrastructure development loans from the Chinese government to improve roads and an electricity transmission network. To help increase north-south trade ... www.exxun.com/Tajikistan/e_ec.html
Chinese Thai 75%, Chinese 14%, other 11% www.exxun.com/Thailand/c_pp.html
Chinese Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian), Papuan, small Chinese minority www.exxun.com/EastTimor/c_pp.html
Chinese English (official), Caribbean Hindustani (a dialect of Hindi), French, Spanish, Chinese www.exxun.com/TrinidadandTobago/c_pp.html
Chinese ... 2004), 115.93 (2003) euros per US dollar: 0.7345 (2007), 0.7964 (2006), 0.8041 (2005), 0.8054 (2004), 0.8860 (2003) Chinese yuan per US dollar: 7.61 (2007), 7.97 (2006), 8.1943 (2005), 8.2768 (2004), 8.2770 (2003 www.exxun.com/UnitedStates/e_ec.html
Chinese Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian) www.exxun.com/Vietnam/c_pp.html
Chinese Mandarin Chinese 13.22%, Spanish 4.88%, English 4.68%, Arabic 3.12%, Hindi 2.74%, Portuguese 2.69%, Bengali 2.59%, Russian 2.2%, Japanese 1.85%, Standard German 1.44%, Wu Chinese 1.17% (2005 est.) note: percents are for "first ... www.exxun.com/World/c_pp.html
Ching ... a red (top) and blue yin-yang symbol in the center; there is a different black trigram from the ancient I Ching (Book of Changes) in each corner of the white field www.exxun.com/Korea_South/d_gv.html
Chinggis The Mongols gained fame in the 13th century when under Chinggis KHAN they conquered a huge Eurasian empire. After his death the empire was divided into several powerful Mongol states, but these ... www.exxun.com/Mongolia/a_fg.html
chinook ... in the Great Basin of the southwest; low winter temperatures in the northwest are ameliorated occasionally in January and February by warm chinook winds from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains www.exxun.com/UnitedStates/b_mp.html
Chinyanja Chichewa 57.2% (official), Chinyanja 12.8%, Chiyao 10.1%, Chitumbuka 9.5%, Chisena 2.7%, Chilomwe 2.4%, Chitonga 1.7%, other 3.6% (1998 census) www.exxun.com/Malawi/c_pp.html
Chios ... autonomous region*; Achaia, Agion Oros* (Mt. Athos), Aitolia kai Akarnania, Argolis, Arkadia, Arta, Attiki, Chalkidiki, Chanion, Chios, Dodekanisos, Drama, Evros, Evrytania, Evvoia, Florina, Fokidos, Fthiotis, Grevena, Ileia, Imathia, Ioannina, Irakleion, Karditsa, Kastoria ... www.exxun.com/Greece/d_gv.html
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