This page is China Area & Population for China Information. Anyway you look at it， China is a big country in terms of both population and area. It looks big, it feels big, and it is big. Its population of 1.2 million is the world’s largest, representing 22 percent of all the people in the world. Its cities also are some of the world’s largest and most congested. Wherever you travel in China, it seems there are people everywhere. Indeed, there are few places in China where you won’t see people. After a while, you begin understanding the rationale behind China’s one-child family planning policy: too many people competing for too few resources.

China also is the world’s third largest country in terms of area, ranking just behind Canada and Russia. Covering an area of 9.6 million square kilometers, China borders Korea in the northeast; Mongolia and Siberia in the north; Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikastan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Nepal in the west; and Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam in the south. It boasts one of the world’s longest coastlines (14,500 kilometers) and an awesome 22,143 kilometer border that encompasses numerous nationalities, climates, and typographies, from deserts and snow capped mountains to pine forests, fertile valleys, and deltas. Only 10 percent of the land is arable. While much of China’s climate approximates that of the United States, it is more extreme, ranging from subarctic in the north to tropical in the south. Beijing in the north often feels like New York or Philadelphia. Shanghai near the central east coast feels like Atlanta or Houston. And steamy Guangzhou and Hong Kong in the south approximate subtropical Miami or San Juan.