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[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wondered about that myself a country as old and as large as China seems like it should have a huge number of them

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

China was old. Then the „cultural revolution“ made BRRRRR so now most of China isn‘t very old anymore.