China has an area of 9.6million square kilometers making it the third largest country in the world after Russia and Canada. China has a rooster like shape on a map. The countries that surround China are Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Burma, India, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakstan, Mongolia, and Russia.China is located in southeast Asia along the Pacific Ocean coastline. The coastline is 18 000 kilometers.
these are the countries that border china: Afghanistan , Bhutan Burma India Kazakhstankm, North Korea , Kyrgyzstan Laos Mongolia Nepal , Pakistan Russia (northeast) Russia (northwest) Tajikistan Vietnam
This is the area of China.
total: 9,596,960 sq km
land: 9,326,410 sq km
water: 270,550 sq km
Political Map of China
Geographical map of China
China Flag
Regions
Both the North and the South regions of China are located in the eastern monsoon area. These regions are divided by the Qin mountains-Huai River. Almost all of the population of China live there.
There are two other regions, the Northwest and Qinghai-Tibetan regions take up 55 percent of the land.
North Region of China
Northwest Region of China
south region of China
Qinghai tibetan region of China
Human Environment
Interaction
The environment is being polluted by the coal combustion and it is damaging humans, the water quality, agriculture and the economy. In 1998 there was a report that seven out of ten of the most polluted Cities in the world are in China.
One of the reasons for this is there is a lot of acid rain. 30 percent of Chinas land area is hit with acid rain. The furnaces and boilers of China are the largest single point sources of Urban air pollution. In 1999 the government of beijing declared that the city vehicles had to use natural gases and by the year 2002 there were 1630 buses running on natural gases.
natural resources
coal, iron ore, petroleum, natural gas, mercury, tin, tungsten, antimony, manganese, molybdenum, vanadium, magnetite, aluminum, lead, zinc, uranium, hydropower potential (world's largest)
Movement
local airlines are notorious; the generic airline company, CAAC, is humorously said to refer to either China Airlines Always Cancels, or China Airlines Always Crashes, both of which are somewhat worrisome. It is true that the Chinese have a less-than-perfect record on air safety, that
China is home to one of the most famous transportation options of all: the Trans-Siberian Railway. Train tracks go nearly everywhere in China
The buses of china are relatively comfortable and affordable and will take you almost anywhere you want to go in china. Chinas cities all have buses that will take you were you want to go in China for a bit of cash. Taxies in China were once hard to find in china but know the place is crawling with taxies for travelers and the locals. One of the cheapest ways of transportation in China is taking a boat to were you want to go. The airlines of China are famous for the most crashes of airplanes and this worries some people that want to go to china. The airlines in China are famous for there dangerous ways.
natural resources
coal, iron ore, petroleum, natural gas, mercury, tin, tungsten, antimony, manganese, molybdenum, vanadium, magnetite, aluminum, lead, zinc, uranium, hydropower potential (world's largest)
Tibet one of the richest regions in China's territory and could shift the country's reliance on imports of copper and iron altogether, affecting international commodity markets way beyond China.With more than 2,700 billion cubic meters of water flow through the rivers, China has enough water supply. Despite this, China is rich in water power resources, leading the world in hydroelectric power potential with 680 million kilowatts in reserves. 32,000 species of higher plants, 7,000 species of woody plants, 2,000 species of edible plants and 3,000 species of medicinal plants.
Trans siberian railway
Communication
At the end of 1998 Chinas mobile phone exchange amount had come to 130 million circuits and the amount of phone users had totaled 23.86 million, making China third largest market for mobile phones in the whole wide world.
China has 102,000 post offices worldwide the length of the postal routes and rural mail delivery routes and the total an amount of 6.215 million kilometers.
