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The
Chinese territory is around 5,500 km from the middle of the Heilongjiang
River north of Mohe,heilongjiang Province, in the north to Zengmu Ansha
of the Nansha Islands in the south, and stretches for some 5,000 km from
the confluence of the Heilongjiang and Wusulijiang rivers in the east to
the Pamirs in the west. The land boundary extends for 22,800 km.The Chinese
mainland faces the Bohai Sea (nearly 80,000 square km), the yellow Sea (380,000
square km), the East China Sea (770,000 square km) and the South China Sea
(3.5 million square km) on the east and south.China has a totle territorial
sea area of 4.73 million square km in which there are over 5,400 islands.
The mainland coastline is 18,000 km and that of the island 14,000 km, giving
China a total coastline distance of 32,000 km. |
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