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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 ...
China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land [k] across an area of nearly 9.6 million square kilometers (3,700,000 sq mi), making it the third-largest country by land area.
A short section (800 metres or 0.5 miles) of the electric railway that linked Rimini (Italy) and San Marino City until 1944 has been restored. 674 São Tomé and Príncipe: 678 Solomon Islands: Small railways used to transport bananas and copra, all closed by 1970. 090 Somalia: Mogadishu–Villabruzzi Railway existed from 1914 to 1941 706 Suriname
The first three are controlled by the People's Republic of China (PRC); the last two by the Republic Of China (ROC). Within the strait lie the Penghu or the Pescadores, also controlled by the ROC. There is a major underwater bank 40–60 km (25–37 mi) north of the Penghu Islands.
Projected HSR network in China by 2020 and travel time by rail from Beijing to provincial capitals. China's high-speed railway network is by far the longest in the world.As of December 2022, it extends to 31 of the country's 33 provincial-level administrative divisions and exceeds 40,000 km (25,000 mi) in total length, accounting for about two-thirds of the world's high-speed rail tracks in ...
China National Highway 318 between Yajiang and Kangding, Sichuan. The building of highways is seen as key to accelerating infrastructure construction. In 2003, completed investment in highway construction was 350 billion yuan and 219 key highway projects progressed, focusing mainly on the five north–south and seven east–west national arterial highways as well as highways in western China ...
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The region of all countries bordering China is sometimes referred to by scholars as the China Rim, [3] [4] [5] or simply as China's periphery (Chinese: 中国周边). [6] The China Rim plays a significant role in competition between other countries and China, as is the case with America's China Containment Policy. [7]