![]() ![]() by the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea, Gulf of Chih-liĪnd Manchuria. by Burma, S.īy Tongking and the gulf of that name, S.E. Occupies the south-eastern part of the empire. Shores of the Gulf of Liao-tung are in Manchuria.Ĭhina proper or the Eighteen Provinces ( Shih-pa-shêng) following the indentations of the coast, is almost, wholly inĬhina proper, but the peninsula of Liao-tung and also the western It rapidly broadens and for the greater part of its area is overġ800 m. The meridian of Kashgar (76° E.) has a breadth of but 250 m. by the China Sea,įrench Indo-China, Upper Burma and the Himalayan states. by Korea and those parts of the Pacific known as by Asiatic Russia, along a frontier extending someĦ000 m. ![]() The various estimates closely approximate, varyingīetween 4,277,000 and 4,300,000 sq. Though its area has not been exactly ascertained It lies, however, mainly between 20° andĥ0° N. its most western in 74° E., and its mostĮastern in 135° E. ![]() ![]() all the Chineseĭependencies lying between Mongolia on the north and Tibet on (East Turkestan, Kulja, Dzungaria, &c., i.e. In addition to China proper the ChineseĮmpire includes Manchuria, Mongolia, Tibet and Sin-kiang CHINA, a country of eastern Asia, the principal division of ![]()
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