Political Geography Of China

China is the 3rd largest country in the world, with a total area of approximately 22,117 km. Located in Eastern Asia, between North Korea and Vietnam, it is bordered by a total of 15 countries, and has access to three seas, the East China Sea, Yellow Sea and South China Sea, and the Korea Bay.

Mandate of Heaven is an ancient Chinese belief and philosophical that heaven granted emperors the right to rule based on their ability to govern well and fairly.

China is divided into two regions: the eastern zone, which has much better agriculture, and the various deserts on the west. The Eastern side itself is also divided into two regions, separated by various mountain ranges.

1. China is divided into two major geographical regions: the steppe, desert, and high plateau west and northwest; and the eastern zone, more suitable for settled agriculture.

China is located in East Asia. Ancient China is surrounded by Gobi Desert in the north, the Pacific Ocean in the east, the Himalayan Mountains in the southwest, and the Taklimakan desert in the west. This land has a wide variation of animals because of the different habitats provided for them. Most farming was done in the very fertile lands of the Yangtze valley. Present China is much bigger than Ancient China, which means that over time, the kings and different dynasties went gaining more and more land and wealth.

Ancient China is one of the oldest and longest lasting civilizations in the world. The Ancient Chinese have thrived for thousands of years because of the geography, their skills, and their talents. Throughout history, rivers such as the Yangtze and Huang He rivers made China thrive for thousands of years. While other features such as deserts and mountains like the Gobi, Himalayas, and the Taklimakan isolated the Chinese and kept other civilizations from culturally diffusing into Chinese lifestyle and culture.

In 2014, China’s GDP (Purchasing Power Parity) was $17.62 trillion. However, China’s per capita income is below the world average. China’s GDP per capita stood as $12,900. According to Magnier (2014), “The country’s gross domestic product last year totaled

Many historians have contemplated if ancient China’s geography was harmful or helpful to the lasting of its civilization. Ancient China’s geography brought many contributions and devastations. The Huang He and Yangtze river valleys were vital to Chinese history. They provided the Chinese with fertile soil on which they based their agrarian society. The Himalayas form a natural barrier and played an important role by serving the Chinese with protection. While this helped China to thrive, rivers also overflowed and caused devastation along with mountain ranges preventing cultural diffusion from happening.

Climate: Northeast China experiences hot and dry summers and bitterly cold winters. North and central regions experience continual rainfall, hot summers and cold winters. Southeast region has substantial rainfall, semi tropical summers and cool winters. Central, southern and western regions are susceptible to flooding.

China economy experienced an incredible growth in the last few decades that made the country the 2nd largest economy in the world. When China started the program of economic reforms in 1978, it ranked 9th in nominal GDP but 35 years later it’s now ranked 2nd in the nominal GDP and been the world’s manufacturing hub. In recent years, China’s modernization propelled the tertiary sector and in 2013, it became the largest category of GDP with a share of 46.1%, while the secondary sector still accounted for a sizeable, 45% of the country’s total output. Meanwhile, the primary sector's weight in GDP has shrunk dramatically since the country opened up to the world.

Outer China is an area of great extremes in climate and physical features. Outer China did not supply good farmland, so fewer people settled here than in Inner China. The Taklimakan and the Gobi deserts are

Geography caused several ways of life to develop in China because of the varying availability of food and water. In some places of China, like The North China Plain, open water was readily available. This caused a way of life that involved harnessing this water, like farming and fishing for food. Nomadically herding animals was the only way to get food in other areas. People require water to live, so the geography of the Northwestern Deserts forced the inhabitants to crowd around oasis' to get water.

As a matter of fact, modern China is a vast country, it is the world's fourth largest country, and is home to approximately 1.25 billion people. Nearly a quarter of the world's population. It has a great variety of climates and terrains. The south is wet and tropical, with some rain forest coverage, in the north-west China is covered in desert, in the very far north-east, close to Russia, the temperature can drop to -50ºC in the winter, in the west of China there are the Himalayas, with some of the highest mountains in the world. China's lowest point is in the Turfan Depression, at -154 meters below sea level. The Turfan Depression is also known as one of the 'furnaces' of China because of its incredible heat. The melting snows from the mountains

The Chinese culture is mainly located in China. Chinese people refer to China as the middle nation. China has a land area of 3,691,502 square miles which makes China the third largest nation in the world. Due to its large size, China borders thirteen other countries including North Korea, Russia, Vietnam, and India; and since the country is so large there are diverse climates depending on where a person is located (Culture of China, N.d). (ENTER)

Fourth largest country in the world, China makes up almost the entire East Asian Landmass. China’s 9,596,960 square kilometers in total area, features the highest and one of the lowest points in the world. Nearly 70% of China is made of mountains, hills, or plateaus (Defense, 2010). China has 23 providences and 4 Municipalities. China is also home to more than 3,400 islands. China’s climate reflects what one might think coming from such a large mass of land. The cold Siberian air coming from the north and tropical air masses coming from the south create bipolar conditions. China is home to many rivers, most notably being the, “Chang Jiang (Yangtze River) literally translated as “Long River,” the Chang Jiang, at 6,300 km (3,915 mi), is Asia’s longest river and the third longest in the world” (Defense, 2010). China has 20 of the 30 most polluted cities in the world, according to the World Bank (Defense, 2010). Consequently, the Chinese government has made pollution control a high priority