China FactsThe People's Republic of China is located in the eastern part of the Asian continent, the Pacific West Coast. Its land area of about 9.6 million square kilometers, second only to Russia and Canada, is the world's third largest country.
Chinese territory north of Heilongjiang middle of the river north of Mohe (latitude 53 ° 30 '), James Shoal south to the southern tip of the Nansha Islands (latitude 4 °), cross-over latitude 49 degrees; east from the confluence of Heilongjiang and the Ussuri River (longitude 135 ° 05 '), west to the Pamirs (longitude 73 ° 40'), across more than 60 degrees longitude. From south to north, from east to west, the distance is 5,000 km.
China's land borders up to 22.8 thousand kilometers, east of North Korea, Mongolia, north, northeast neighbor of Russia, the northwest neighborhood of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, west and south-west with Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan and other countries bordering South and Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam connected. The east and south-east with South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia, across the sea.
