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  2. Geography of China - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. China - Wikipedia

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    China, [i] officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), [j] 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.

  4. List of extreme points of China - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the extreme points of China, compared both globally and within the country ... This position is at a distance of approximately 2,648 km (1,645 mi ...

  5. Taiwan Strait - Wikipedia

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    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. [6]

  6. Li (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Map of the eastern South China Sea from 1588; each grid square is 400 li (about 133 km or 80 miles).. Li or ri (Chinese: 里, lǐ, or 市里, shìlǐ), also known as the Chinese mile, [citation needed] is a traditional Chinese unit of distance.

  7. Borders of China - Wikipedia

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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]

  8. Great Wall of China - Wikipedia

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    The Great Wall of China ... an 1136 map of China with the Great Wall ... was an often irregular distance that was intended to show the length of a standard ...

  9. China–Russia border - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese–Russian border or the Sino-Russian border is the international border between China and Russia.After the final demarcation carried out in the early 2000s, it measures 4,209.3 kilometres (2,615.5 mi), [3] and is the world's sixth-longest international border.