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China, (People's Republic of China), is situated
in eastern Asia, bounded by the Pacific in the east. The third
largest country in the world, next to Canada and Russia, it
has an area of 9.6 million square kilometers, or one-fifteenth
of the world's land mass. It begins from the confluence of the
Heilong and Wusuli rivers (135 degrees and 5 minutes east longitude)
in the east to the Pamirs west of Wuqia County in Xinjiang Uygur
Autonomous Region (73 degrees and 40 minutes east longitude)
in the west, about 5,200 kilometers apart; and from the midstream
of the Heilong River north of Mohe (53 degrees and 31 minutes
north latitude) in the north to the southernmost island Zengmu'ansha
in the South China Sea (4 degrees and 15 minutes north latitude),
about 5,500 kilometers apart.
The border
stretches over 22,000 kilometers on land and the coastline
extends well over 18,000 kilometers, washed by the waters
of the Bohai, the Huanghai, the East China and the South China
seas. The Bohai Sea is the inland sea of China.
There are
6,536 islands larger than 500 square meters, the largest is
Taiwan, with a total area of about 36,000 square kilometers,
and the second, Hainan. The South China Sea Islands are the
southernmost island group of China.
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