The Communist country of China. During that time, China was in turmoil and many Chinese were being tortured. This wouldn't be the case now because China is starting to become an Industrious Nation.

Refers to the U.S. State of Colorado, and the Rocky Mountains, which reach their greatest heights there.

Refers to Great Falls, Montana.

Refers to Toledo, Ohio.

"Shanghai Breezes" was a later Top 40 hit for John Denver (in 1982). Besides the city of Shanghai (in China) that is in the chorus as I have posted above and also in the title of the tune, there is also again a mention of the Earth's only natural satellite, the Moon and the sun.

Some would dispute whether Heaven is a real place or not, but West Virginia certainly is. It is a U.S. State. The Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah River are also real places. Incidentally, the Blue Ridge Mountains just barely enter West Virginia, at its easternmost tip, but that is also where the Shenandoah River briefly crosses that state. "Blue Ridge" refers to a geological province that extends from southern Pennsylvania to northwest Georgia. The northern part of that province in Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, and most of the way through Virginia is often quite narrow, sometimes only a single ridge. Further south, the Blue Ridge province widens, dominating the portion of the Appalachian mountains in the Carolinas. Therein, the Appalachians reach their highest point, at North Carolina's Mt. Mitchell. The Blue ridge province is dominated by metamorphic rocks. To its west are other geologic provinces, dominated by sedimentary rocks. It is those latter provinces of the Appalachians that far and away dominate the "Mountain State" of West Virginia.