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(-- General Survey of China --)
Geography

Geographic Location

China is located in the east of the Eurasian Continent, to the west of the Pacific Ocean.

China has a land boundary of more than 20,000 km, bordering 14 countries, with DPR Korea to the east; Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the north, northeast and northwest; Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bhutan to the west and southwest; and Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar to the South.

Chinese coastline extends from the north at the estuary of Yalu River on Sino-Korean border to the south at the estuary of Beilunhe River ("Song Ka Long" in Vietnamese) on Sino-Vietnam border, with a toatl length of more than 18,000 km. China is flanked by Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea and South China Sea, with the Pacific to the east. It has more than 5,000 islands along the coast, with the largest one being Taiwan Island. The total length of the coastline of islands is 14,000 km.

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China and the following countries face each other across the sea; Japan, the Republic of Korea, Philippine, Malaysia, Indoesia and Brunei.
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