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Geography of China; Continent: Asia: Region: East/Southeast Asia: Coordinates: 1]: Area: Ranked 3/4: • Total: 9,596,960 [1] km 2 (3,705,410 sq mi): • Land: 97.2 [1] %: • Water: 2.8 [1] %: Coastline: 14,500 [1] km (9,000 mi): Borders: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Myanmar, India, North Korea, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Laos, Mongolia, Nepal, Russia, Tajikistan, Vietnam: Highest point: Mount ...
The Hainei Huayi Tu map is lost, but a later map of China from the Southern Song period, the Huayi tu map engraved in 1136 on a stele, contains names of foreign places inscribed on the edges that it took from Jia Dan's map. [11] The map shows 500 settlements and a dozen rivers in China, and includes large parts of Korea and Vietnam.
The People's Republic of China is the most extensive country in East Asia and the third most extensive country in the world. [ 1 ] [ note 1 ] With a population of over 1,400,000,000, it is the second most populous country in the world .
The Inside Story of China's High-Tech Industry: Making Silicon Valley in Beijing is a 2007 book by Chinese-American economic geographer and academic Yu Zhou. Zhou examines the early transformation of Beijing's Zhongguancun (ZGC) Science Park from an academic district with China's leading research institutes and universities to a technologically innovative entrepreneurial center in the ...
China's iron ore is mainly found in northeast and southwest of mainland China. [2] China's largest gold mining region is in the northeast of the country. In 2014 China mined more gold than any other country, however, its projected reserves places it between 6th and 10th in the world. [46] [49] There are extensive coal fields throughout China.
China, [h] officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), [i] is a country in East Asia.With a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the second-most populous country after India, representing 17.4% of the world population.
Geology of China by province or municipality (24 C) ... Geography of Inner Mongolia (9 C, 19 P) J. Geography of Jiangsu (11 C, ...
Physiographic macroregions of China is a term suggested by an American anthropologist G. William Skinner as a subdivision of China Proper into nine areas according to the drainage basins of the major rivers and other travel-constraining geomorphological features.