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People's Republic of China
 The world's third largest country, ranking after the Russian and Canada, China has a land area of about 9.6 million square kilometers, making up 6.5 percent of earth's land mass. Approximately 98 percent of China's land area is located between 20 and 50 north latitude. In climate, the greater part of the country belongs to the temperate zone (i.e., the cold-temperate, temperate, and warm-temperate zones) and the subtropical zone, which respectively account for 45.6 and 26.1 percent of China's land area.
The territory of China extends about 5,200 kilometers from the Pamirs in western Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to the eastern corner of the boundary marker at the confluence of the Heilong and Wusuli Rivers.
From north to south, it measures some 5,500 kilometers, stretching from the borderline in the Heilong River north of the town of Mohe to the Zengmu Reef at the southernmost tip of the South China Sea Islands.
China is bordered by Korea in the northeast; Russia and Mongolia in the north; Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and India in the southwest; and Burma, Laos, and Vietnam in the south. Across the seas to the east and southeast it faces Japan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, and Indonesia.
The length of the land boundary is 22,000 kilometers and the mainland coastline, 18,000 kilometers (32,000 kilometers with the coastlines of the 5,000 or more offshore islands included).
China has a vast sea area, its domain extending into the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea. Contiguous to each other, the four seas form a northeast southwest arc covering a total area of 4.78 million square kilometers.
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