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China: map and facts
China is in Eastern Asia. It has about 1.41 billion people (2025), the 2nd largest population. It covers 9,562,910 km², the 4th largest by area. That is about 147 people per km². Its highest point is Mount Everest, at 8,849 m. The longest river on its map is the Yangtze, 6,300 km from source to mouth.
Facts
- Population: 1,406,585,000 (2025, World Bank)
- Area: 9,562,910 km² (2024, World Bank). This figure covers a different area from the one this map shows: as drawn, about 9,340,000 km².
- Capital: Beijing
- Highest point: Mount Everest, 8,849 m (Wikidata)
- Forest: 24% of the land (2024, World Bank)
Rivers
The longest rivers on the map of China, with the length of each whole river (Wikidata):
- Yangtze: 6,300 km
- Mekong: 4,350 km
- Irtysh: 4,248 km
- Indus: 3,180 km
- Yarlung Tsangpo: 2,900 km
- Amur: 2,824 km
- Salween: 2,815 km
- Xi: 2,197 km
- Nanpan: 856 km
- Hongshui: 638 km
Also on the map: Hailar, Tuotuo, Jinsha, Tongtian, Za Qu, Yellow River, Argun, Nmai, Xun and Quan.
Mountains and landscapes
Its highest peaks:
- Mount Everest: 8,849 m (its highest point)
- Namcha Barwa: 7,782 m
- Kongur Tagh: 7,649 m
- Gangkar Punsum: 7,570 m
- Gongga Shan: 7,509 m
- Pik Pobeda: 7,439 m
- Gyala Peri: 7,294 m
- Liushi Shan: 7,167 m
Mountain ranges: Himalayas, Tian Shan, Altai Mountains, Greater Khingan Range, Karakoram Range, Kunlun Mountains, Pamirs, Altun Mountains, Dabie Mountains, Lesser Khingan Range, Nan Ling Mountains and Qilian Mountains.
Plateaus, plains, deserts and other regions: Gobi Desert, North China Plain, Plateau of Tibet, Manchurian Plain, Mongolian Plateau, Shandong Peninsula, Sichuan Basin, Tarim Basin, Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, Hexi Corridor, Junggar Basin and Leizhou Peninsula.
Land
Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): grassland 30.1%, bare ground 23%, farmland 13%, wooded savanna 8.6%, savanna 7.4%, deciduous broadleaf forest 4.6%.
Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): plateaus 25.2%, hills 24.9%, high mountains 19%, mountains 18.7%, plains 12.2%.
Forests covered 24% of its land in 2024, up from 16.7% in 1990 (World Bank).
Minerals and fuels
- World #1 in coal among the countries EIA lists (2024)
- World #1 in gold among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #1 in zinc among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #1 in lead among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #1 in tin among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #1 in tungsten among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #1 in rare earths among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #1 in phosphate among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #1 in mica among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #1 in graphite among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #1 in titanium among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #1 in molybdenum among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #1 in antimony among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #1 in fluorspar among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #1 in salt among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #1 in sulfur among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #2 in lithium among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #2 in barite among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #2 in silica sand among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #3 in silver among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #3 in bauxite among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #3 in potash among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #4 in natural gas among the countries EIA lists (2024)
- World #4 in iron ore among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #4 in copper among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #4 in gypsum among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #4 in zircon among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #6 in oil among the countries EIA lists (2025)
- World #6 in nickel among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #7 in manganese among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #9 in cobalt among the countries USGS lists (2025)
Neighbours
China shares land borders with Afghanistan, Bhutan, Hong Kong, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Macao, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Russia, Tajikistan and Vietnam on this map.
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Sources
India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.
- Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
- GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
- Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL): UN Population Division, national statistical offices (2025 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Surface area (AG.SRF.TOTL.K2): FAO (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Forest area (% of land area) (AG.LND.FRST.ZS): FAO, FAOSTAT (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Credit: U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 data release (doi:10.5066/P1WKQ63T). Terms
- Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (2026-09-03). Terms
- Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
- Some figures corrected by Make Me Smarter from published references: Australian Bureau of Statistics; Atlas of Canada; CIA World Factbook (archived); FAO; FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025; FSM Statistics; GeoNames; Gilbertson & Gilbertson's GPS surveys of national high points; INEGI (Mexico); Peaklist.org; PeakVisor; Government of the Pitcairn Islands; Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program; Statistics Finland; UN Demographic Yearbook; UN World Population Prospects 2024; Wikidata; Wikipedia.
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