Period+3+China+Geography

China is located between North Korea and Vietnam. It is in Easter Asia, bordering Korea Bay, East China Sea, Yellow sea, and the South China Sea. When it comes to size, China is slightly smaller than the United States. China consists of mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas, and hills in east. There are plentiful natural resources, including, coal, iron ore, petroleum, natural gas, mercury, tin, tungsten, antimony, manganese, molybdenum, vanadium, magnetite, aluminum, lead, zinc, uranium, hydropower potential. The weather is extremely diverse; tropical in south to subarctic in north. Leah McCloskey [|http://studentweb.cortland.edu]
 * Geography **

China in located in Asia, with a longitude of 35 N, 105 E. It has a total of 9,596,961 sq km, slightly smaller than the United States. The countries that border China are Afghanistan, Bhutan, Burma, India, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Russia, Tajikistan, Vietnam. The bordering regions are Hong Kong and Macau. China is the worlds’ fourth largest country.

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