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Situated
in the eastern part of Asia and the west coast of the Pacific Ocean,
The People's Repubic of China, also being called China for short,
is about 5500km in length from the northernmost point in the main
channel of the Heilong River north of Mohe City to the southernmost
Zengmu Ansha Island , and 5200km in width from Pamir Plateau in
the west to the confluence of the Heilong River and Wusuli River
in the east. China has a land area of about 9.6 million km 2, ranking
the third in the world, and a large population of 1.2953 billion,
of wich the Hans make-up more than 90%.
China
has a land boundary of over 20000 km and neighbours D.P.R. Korea
in the east, Russia and Mogolia in the north, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
in the northwest , Tajikistan , Afghanistan, Pakistan in the west
, India , Nepal , Sikkim in the southwest, Myanmar, Laos ,Vietnam
in the south, and faces Japan,R.0.Korea, Philippines, Indonesia,
Malaysia across the seas .China has a continental coastline of over
18000 km and is fringed by Bohai Sea, Huanghai Sea (Yellow Sea)
, Donghai Sea (East China Sea) Nanhai Sea(South China Sea) from
north to south and the territorial waters is 12 nautical miles in
width.
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