Worth knowing
China
All of China keeps Beijing time. In the far west, where the sun runs about two hours behind the clock, shops and offices commonly open at 10 in the morning.
Where its story happens
The Great Wall at Badaling, at 40.36°N, 116.02°E. It's the place the game marks on the globe once the country is found. See it on a map.
Five things to know about China
In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the easy countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.
- Where it is. It's China, the giant of East Asia, south of Mongolia and Russia. See China on a map.
- Its Great Wall runs for thousands of kilometres, and giant pandas live wild only here.
- An army of about 8,000 life-size clay soldiers was buried here to guard its first emperor.
- It is about as wide as the mainland United States, yet the whole country runs on a single time zone.
- Paper, printing, gunpowder and the compass were all invented here.