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Located in Southeast Asia along the coastline of the Pacific 

Ocean, China is the world's third largest country, after Russia 

and Canada. With an area of 9.6 million square kilometres and 

a coastline of 18,000 kilometres, its shape on the map is like a 

rooster. It reaches Mohe in Heilongjiang Province as its 

northern end, Zengmu Ansha (or James Shoal) to the south, 

Pamirs to the west, and expands to the eastern border at the 

conjunction of the Heilongjiang (Amur) River and the Wusuli 

(Ussuri) River, spanning about 50 degrees of latitude and 62 

degrees of longitude. China is bordered by 14 countries -- 

Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Burma, India, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, 

Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakstan, Mongolia, and 

Russia. Marine-side neighbours include eight countries -- 

North Korea, Korea, Japan, Philippines, Brunei, Indonesia, 

Malaysia and Vietnam

 China's topography was completely formed around the emergence of the Qinghai-

Tibet Plateau, the most important geological event over the past several million 

years. Taking a bird's-eye view of China, the terrain gradually descends from west 

to east like a staircase. Due to the collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates, the 

young Qinghai-Tibet Plateau rose continuously to become the top of the four-step 

"staircase," averaging more than 4,000 m above sea level, and called "the roof of 

the world." Soaring 8,848 m above sea level on the plateau is Mt. Qomolangma, the 

world's highest peak and the main peak of the Himalayas. The second step includes 

the gently sloping Inner Mongolia Plateau, the Loess Plateau, the Yunnan-Guizhou 

Plateau, the Tarim Basin, the Junggar Basin and the Sichuan Basin, with an average 

elevation of between 1,000 m and 2,000 m. The third step, dropping to 500-1,000 

m in elevation, begins at a line drawn around the Greater Hinggan, Taihang, 

Wushan and Xuefeng mountain ranges and extends eastward to the coast of the 

Pacific Ocean. Here, from north to south, are the Northeast Plain, the North China 

Plain and the Middle-Lower Yangtze Plain. Interspersed amongst the plains are hills 

and foothills. To the east, the land extends out into the ocean, in a continental 

shelf, the fourth step of the staircase. The water here is less than 200 m deep. The 

area of mountains and hills and plateaus account for 65 percent of the total land 

area of China. 

China, with more than 1.2 billion people, is the 

most populous country in the world. Overall 

population density of the country is somewhat 

over 110 people per square kilometer, which is 

only about one-third that of Japan and less than 

many other countries in Asia and in Europe. 

Regional variations, however, are dramatic as 

over 90 percent of the Chinese population live 

on less than 40 percent of the land China, like 

all other large states, is multi-ethnic. The Han 

people, however, form the large majority, with 

about 94 percent of the population

The climate in China varies from region to region 

since the country is massive. In the northeast the 

summers are hot and dry and the winters are 

freezing cold.   The north and central regions have 

frequent bouts of rain coupled with hot summers and 

cold winters.   In the southeast there is plenty of 

rainfall, semi-tropical summers and cool winters.  

Flooding can occur in the central, southern and 

western regions and the country in general can 

experience earthquakes.

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