This is a compilation of 19 China Guinness records in Unknown date. You may want to take a look at our complete list of China Guinness Records broken down by year.
When | Record name | What | Who |
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399 | First extant Chinese map | ZhaoYu Tu (Map of the area of the mausoleum) | |
First tree | first first | Ginkgo biloba | |
Fastest maximum operating speed for a train | 350 kilometre(s) per hour | Unknown | |
Longest wall | 3460 kilometre(s) | Great Wall of China | |
Tallest human pyramid | Xiquets De Hangzhou | ||
First mechanical clock | 725 first | Y Xing & Liang Lingzan | |
959 | Most gender specific language | Nüshu | |
First non-flying bird | Protarchaeopteryx | ||
Longest covered wooden corridor | Long Corridor | ||
997 | First paper money | first first | Jiaozi |
First rally | first | Unknown | |
131 | First seismograph | first | Zhang Heng |
346 | First oil wells | Rudimentary Chinese drilling | |
Land farthest from sea | Unknown | ||
200 BC | First silk maps | Silk maps by cartographers in the court of the King of Ch’ang-sha | |
Oldest known paper | Unknown | ||
340 | First use of a crossbow | Battle of Ma-ling | |
305 BC | Oldest decimal multiplication table | 2,300 year(s) | Tsinghua Bamboo Slips |
Largest human population | 1300000000 people | Asia |