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Land Frontier:
China's land
frontier is about 20,000
km in length, extending
from the Yalu River
estuary on the
Sino-Korean boundary to
the Beicang River
estuary on the
Sino-Vietnamese
boundary. The country is
bounded by Korea ti the
east; Russia to the
northeast; Mongolia ti
the north; Russia and
Kazakhstan to the
northwest; Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan, Afghanistan
and Pakistan to the
west; India, Nepal,
Sikkim and Bhutan to the
southwest; and Myanmar,
Laos and Viet Nam to the
south.
Coastline:
China's 18,000-km-long
continental coast is
washed by the Bohai Sea,
the Yellow Sea, the East
China Sea and the South
China Sea.. The Pacific
is off the eastern shore
of the Taiwan Island.
There are more than
5,000 islands of varying
sizes on the Chinese
territorial seas, the
largest of them being
the Taiwan Island, and
the second largest, The
Hainan Island.
Nine-tenths of these
islands are found on the
East China Sea and the
South China Sea. There
are also a number of
archipelagos on the
ocean, such as the
Zhoushan Archipelago and
the Nansha
Archipelago.Shandong,
Liaodong, and Leizhou
are three largest
peninsulas.
The Chinese territorial
seas are 12 nautical
miles in width. The
Bohai Sea in the arms of
the Liaodong and
Shandong peninsulas, and
the Qiongzhou Strait
between the Leizhou
Peninsula and the Hainan
Island are continental
seas.
The
countries separated from
China by the sea are,
from north to south, the
Republic of Korea,
Japan, the Philippines,
Brunei, Malaysia and
Indonesia. |
