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China Geography Maps（Esclude Hongkong,
Taiwan）
Location:Eastern
Asia, bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay,
Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam
Geographic coordinates: 35 00 N, 105 00 E
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references: Asia
Area: total: 9,596,960 sq km， land:
9,326,410 sq km， water: 270,550 sq km
Area-comparative: slightly
smaller than the US
Land boundaries:
total: 22,143.34 km
border countries: Afghanistan 76 km, Bhutan 470 km, Burma 2,185
km, Hong Kong 30 km, India 3,380 km, Kazakhstan 1,533 km, North
Korea 1,416 km, Kyrgyzstan 858 km, Laos 423 km, Macau 0.34 km,
Mongolia 4,673 km, Nepal 1,236 km, Pakistan 523 km, Russia
(northeast) 3,605 km, Russia (northwest) 40 km, Tajikistan 414 km,
Vietnam 1,281 km
Coastline: 14,500 km
Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 24 nm,
continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
territorial sea: 12 nm
Climate: extremely diverse; tropical in south
to subarctic in north
Terrain: mostly
mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas, and hills
in east
Elevation extremes: lowest point: Turpan Pendi -154 m，
highest point: Mount Everest 8,848 m
Natural
resources: coal, iron ore, petroleum, natural gas, mercury,
tin, tungsten, antimony, manganese, molybdenum, vanadium, magnetite,
aluminum, lead, zinc, uranium, hydropower potential (world's
largest)
Land use:
arable
land: 10% permanent crops: 0% permanent pastures: 43%
forests and woodland: 14% other: 33% (1993 est.) Irrigated
land: 498,720 sq km (1993 est.)
Natural hazards: frequent
typhoons (about five per year along southern and eastern coasts);
damaging floods; tsunamis; earthquakes; droughts
Environment-current issues: air pollution (greenhouse gases,
sulfur dioxide particulates) from reliance on coal, produces acid
rain; water shortages, particularly in the north; water pollution
from untreated wastes; deforestation; estimated loss of one-fifth of
agricultural land since 1949 to soil erosion and economic
development; desertification; trade in endangered species
Environment-international agreements:
party to: Antarctic-Environmental Protocol,
Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification,
Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine
Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83,
Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling
signed, but not ratified:
Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Nuclear Test Ban
Geography-note:
world's fourth-largest country (after Russia, Canada, and US)
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