china's geographical background Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/chinas-geographical-background Fri, 13 Jan 2017 15:04:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 China Topography http://toursmaps.com/china-topography.html http://toursmaps.com/china-topography.html#respond Fri, 13 Jan 2017 15:04:56 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=229769 For a country which extends over 60 lines of longitude and 25 lines of Characteristics latitude, all the geographical features typical of Asia can be found within its borders. The diverse and changing landscape exhibits many complex relief formations. The densely populated heartlands of the Pacific coastal plain and river basins, the agricultural settlements and industrial conurbations stand in stark contrast to the thinly populated, desolate semi-desert of outlying central Asia with its barren plateaux and steep high-mountain ranges. One third of China, a country sometimes described as the “Land of Mountains”, consists of high-mountain ranges and high-surface plateaux, while

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