"Here's a bizarre statistic for you . . . there are more people in China who speak English as a second language than there are native English speakers in the United States!"
Yes, China's size is on a scale that is hard for most of us to grasp. Here's another statistic. It is believed that China's actual population is around 1.5 billion, as opposed to the official government census of 1.3. That means that if China's margin for error in counting its population were a country all its own, it would be the 4th largest in the world, larger than the UK, France and Germany combined.
Wow -- that's a great piece of information!