Location:

 Eastern Asia, bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China  Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam 

 Geographic coordinates: 

 35 00 N, 105 00 E

 Area:

 9,596,960 sq km

 Area comparative:

 slightly smaller than the US

 Land boundaries:

 Afghanistan, Bhutan, Burma, India, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Laos,  Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, , Tajikistan 414 km, Vietnam Coastline: 14,500 km

 Coastline:

 14,500 km

 Climate:

 extremely diverse; tropical in south to subarctic in north

 Terrain:

 mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas, and hills in east

 Elevation extremes:

 lowest point: Turpan Pendi -154 m, highest point: Mount Everest 8,850 m

 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)

 Land use:

 arable land: 15.4%, permanent crops: 1.25%, other: 83.35%

 Natural hazards:

 frequent typhoons (about five per year along southern and eastern coasts); damaging  floods; tsunamis; earthquakes; droughts; land subsidence

 Environment - international agreements:

 Protocol, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto  Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea,  Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical  Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling signed, but not ratified: none of the selected  agreements