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Show The total area of China Is estimated at 4,278,352 square miles A census of the kind taken In "Western nations ha never been attempted in China, and the nearest approach to a reliable estimate es-timate Is probably the census of households house-holds (not individuals) taken by tb Chinese Ministry of Interior In 131C Assuming 5.5 persons to a household, which, which, by a test census In var lous parts of the country was found to be a fair average, the population totalled total-led 331,000,000, including 1.500,000 as the probable population of Thibet. |