China GapFill

The Physical Geography of China

China, the fourth largest country in the world after Russia, Canada and the USA, has a huge variety of physical features. Extending just over   502060304070 degrees north of the equator in some places and with other areas south of the   Tropic of CapricornTropic of CancerequatorGreenwich MeridianAntarctic CircleInternational Date Line it covers almost   10 million75 million40 million50 million5 million20 million square kilometres. The   north-easteastnorthsouth-eastsouth-westnorth-west of the country is dominated by a vast plateau known as the   Korat PlateauBohemian PlateauPatagonia PlateauMexican PlateauTibetan PlateauColorado Plateau while the lowest-lying areas where most people live are found in the   northdesertsmountainseastwestsouth. China has a wide variety of climate zones. In the west it is   mild and wetcold and wetcold and drywarm and wettropicalhot and dry, while in the east, there is plenty of rain, especially in the   Gobi DesertTurpan DepressionDongbei PlainHuabei PlainHimalayan MountainsKumtag Desert making it ideal for growing crops. China's main rivers, which include   the Danubethe Amazonthe River Nilethe River Thamesthe Volgathe Yangtze River, tend to flow from west to east into the   Atlantic OceanPacific OceanSouthern OceanMediterranean SeaArctic OceanEast China Sea.