China is a populous nation in East Asia whose vast landscape encompasses grassland, desert, mountains, lakes, rivers and more than 14, 000 Km of coastline. Capital Beijing mixes modern architecture with historic sites such as the Forbidden city palace complex and Tiananmen square . Shanghai is a skyscraper-studded global financial center. The iconic Great Wall of China runs east-west across the country’s north.
The Chinese border stretches over 22, 000 kilometers on land and its coastline extends well over 18, 000 kilometers, washed by the waters of the Bohai Sea, the Huanghai, the East china and the South china Seas. The Bohai Sea is China’s only inland sea.