One of the most amazing things about China is the size and population of it's cities. I expected the cities of Beijing and Shanghai to be massive but when our guide, David, told us on the train to Nanjing that we were going to a smaller town a few hours from Shanghai by train, in my mind I was expecting something tiny in comparison to Shanghai but in fact Nanjing itself has a population of over 5 million people and is a huge city in its own right and this is true all over China, there are just so many people its unbelievable. The city of Nanjing has a long historical heritage, having twice been the nation's capital, one of which was during the famous Ming dynasty. We spent only one day there which was spent
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