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The People's Republic of China has an area of about 9,600,000 km 2 (3,700,000 sq mi). The exact land area is sometimes challenged by border disputes, most notably about Taiwan, Aksai Chin, the Trans-Karakoram Tract, and South Tibet. The area of the People's Republic of China is 9,596,960 km 2 (3,705,410 sq mi) according to the CIA's The World ...
THL. Dri Chu. English: ˈjæŋtsiˈjɑːŋtsi simplified Chinese 长江 traditional Chinese 長江 pinyin Cháng Jiānglit. Eurasia third-longest Tanggula Mountains East China Sea 8 fifth-largest primary river by discharge volume in the world drainage basin China country's population 9. history culture economy of China Yangtze Delta China's GDP ...
Geology of China. Clockwise from upper left: Li River karst, Mount Everest 's north face, loess landscape in Datong and Zhangye National Geopark. The geology of China (or the geological structure of the People's Republic of China) consists of three Precambrian cratons surrounded by a number of orogenic belts.
In 2005, Zhangye Danxia was voted by a panel of reporters from 34 major media outlets as one of the most beautiful Danxia landform areas in China. In 2009, Chinese National Geography magazine chose Zhangye Danxia as one of the "six most beautiful landforms" in China. [2] The area has become a top tourist attraction for Zhangye.
East China Sea. Gan River and Poyang Lake of Jiangxi. Han River Basin of Hubei, southern Shaanxi and southwestern Henan. Lake Dongting and the Lishui, Yuan, Zi, Xiang and Miluo Rivers of Hunan. Wu River of Guizhou. Jialing River Basin of Chongqing, eastern Sichuan and southern Gansu.
The new types of maps include national maps showing mountains and cities, land defence maps, coastal defence maps, river maps for flood control, and nautical charts for maritime navigation. These maps exhibited characteristics such as greater focus on the accuracy of rivers and mountains, greater use of mathematics in cartography, and the use ...
The Tian Shan range is located north and west of the Taklamakan Desert and directly north of the Tarim Basin. It straddles the border regions of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Xinjiang in Northwest China. To the south, it connects with the Pamir Mountains, while to north and east, it meets the Altai Mountains of Mongolia.
Bayan Har Mountains, a southern branch of the Kunlun Mountains, forms the watershed between the catchment basins of China's two longest rivers, the Yangtze River and the Yellow River. The highest mountain of the Kunlun Mountains is the Kunlun Goddess Peak (7,167 m) in the Keriya area of the western Kunlun Mountains.