Where is China?

China is located in the east of Asia and the west coast of the Pacific Ocean. It starts from the center of Heilongjiang near Mohe in the north and reaches Zengmu shoal in Nansha Islands in the south. It starts from Pamirs in the west and ends at the intersection of Heilongjiang and Wusuli rivers in the east. The land area is 9.6 million square kilometers and the land boundary is more than 20,000 kilometers.

China has a land border of 22,800 kilometers, bordering North Korea in the east, Mongolia in the north, Russia in the northeast, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in the northwest, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bhutan in the west and southwest, and Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam in the south. The east and southeast are across the sea from Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia.

The territorial sea consists of the Bohai Sea (inland sea), the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and the coastline of the eastern and southern continents is1.8000 km long.

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Terrain:

The terrain of China is high in the west and low in the east, which is complex and diverse. The proportion of various landforms in the national land area is: mountain 33. 3%, plateau 26%, basin 65,438+08.8%, plain 65,438+02%, hilly 9. 9%. The terrain forms three steps from west to east: the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the largest in the world, has the highest terrain in the west, with an altitude of more than 4,000 meters. It consists of extremely high mountains and plateaus, and is called "the roof of the world".

Terrain:

Mountains, plateaus and hills in China account for about 67% of the land area, while basins and plains account for about 33% of the land area. The mountains are mostly east-west, northeast-southwest, mainly Altai Mountain, Tianshan Mountain, Kunlun Mountain, Karakorum Mountain, Himalayan Mountain, Yinshan Mountain, Qinling Mountain, Nanling Mountain, Daxinganling Mountain, Changbai Mountain, Taihang Mountain, Wuyishan Mountain, Taiwan Province Mountain, Wushan Mountain and Hengduan Mountain.

Administrative divisions:

By the end of 20 17, * * was divided into 34 provincial-level administrative regions (including 23 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, 4 municipalities directly under the central government and 2 special administrative regions), 334 prefecture-level administrative regions (including 30 autonomous prefectures, 294 prefecture-level cities, 7 regions and 3 leagues), 285 1 county-level administrative regions, and 285/county-level administrative regions. Beijing is the capital of China.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-People's Republic of China (PRC)