China

Facts

What the numbers say about China

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 1.81× the size of China.
• At 150 people per km², China is the 41st most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 37°N is drawn about 1.6× too large in area, so China looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, China's main territory stretches about 4,050 km north to south and 4,800 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 9,563,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 9,375,000 km², to within 2%.

How China measures up

China holds 30% of the land area and 31% of the people of the 51 countries listed for Asia. In Eastern Asia it is the 1st largest of 8.

Where China sits

• China's centre lies at 36.7°N, 103.4°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 4,080 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 16°N to 54°N, about 4,200 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If China had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², China would have 11.74 billion people. It has 1.40 billion.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², China would have 34.9 million people. It has 1.40 billion.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 678.3 million.

Provinces and regions of China

Natural Earth’s file divides China into 31 provinces and regions. Each has its own page, drawn at true size and matched to the countries closest to it in area and in people.

• Xinjiang1,630,000 km²
• Inner Mongolia1,144,000 km²
• Tibet1,130,000 km²
• Qinghai714,000 km²
• Sichuan485,000 km²
• Heilongjiang452,000 km²
• Gansu406,000 km²
• Yunnan385,000 km²

All 31 provinces and regions, matched to countries

Compare China

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