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China has the highest mountains and deepest valleys in the world, deserts and fertile loess plains, dark pine forests and tropical rain forests, and rivers which are amongst the longest in the world. The distance between the northern town of Mohe on Heilongjiang, which forms the border to the Soviet Union, to the Zhengmu Reef on the Nansha Islands in the South Seas is 5,500 km. From the eastern border in the Pamir Mountains to the confluence of the Heilongjiang and the Wusulijian, the distance is 5,200 km. China covers an area of 9,560,900 sq. km. It is the third largest country in the world, next to Canada and Russia..
China's border stretches over 22,000 km on land and its coastline extends well over 18,000 kilometers, washed by the waters of the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea, the East China and the South China Seas. The Bohai Sea is China¡¯s only inland sea. There are 6,536 islands larger than 500 square meters, the largest is with a total area of about 36,000 square kilometers.