Full name: People's Republic of China
Coordinates: 35 00 N, 105 00 E
Land area: 9,569,901 sq km, Land borders: 22,117 km
Sea area: 27,060 sq km, Coastline: 14,500 km
Population: 1,336,718,015 (July 2011 est.)
Position: Eastern Asia, bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam
Neighbors: Kyrgyzstan 858 km, North Korea 1,416 km, Pakistan 523 km, Kazakhstan 1,533 km, Mongolia 4,677 km, Bhutan 470 km, Russia (northeast) 3,605 km, Nepal 1,236 km, India 3,380 km, Russia (northwest) 40 km, Tajikistan 414 km, Afghanistan 76 km, Burma 2,185 km, Vietnam 1,281 km, Laos 423 km
Government: Communist state
Telephones: 747 million (2009) mobile, 313.68 million (2009) landline
Phone international country code: 86