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China's Landscapes
Rapeseed fields, Qinghai province
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The world's third-largest country - on a par size-wise with the
USA - China covers a colossal 9.5 million sq km, only surpassed in
area by Russia and Canada. Straddling natural environments as
diverse as subarctic tundra in the north and tropical rainforests in
the south, this massive land embraces the world's highest mountain
range and one of its hottest deserts in the west, to the steamy,
typhoon-lashed coastline of the South China Sea.
