Over 1.3 billion people – about 18% of all people in the world – live in China and it’s no surprise that the country can get quite crowded with so many people living there. The country has tried to slow down its population growth in the past with its one-child policy, though it still remains the world’s most populated country. If you want to see for yourself just how crowded it can get in China, check out these 9 photos.
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Students are driven off in buses to sit important exams as friends and family crowd the streets to wish them good luck
2. Chinese New Year is always hugely popular, as you can see here
3. These many thousands of New Year revellers were stranded in a train station due to snow
4. Keen tourists queue up to buy train tickets, not put off by the crowds and queues
5. A seriously packed train station…let’s just hope there were no delays
6. This job fair in Beijing attracted thousands upon thousands of jobseekers
7. A beach so crowded you’d easily get lost
8. A huge surge of tourists on the Great Wall
9. A swimming pool with absolutely no room at all for swimming
