Map of China

China is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 35.0° N, 105.0° E. It shares land borders with 14 countries — Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Vietnam — and also has its own coastline. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, China is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

China shares land frontiers with the following 14 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

China covers about 9,706,961 km² (3,747,879 sq mi). That makes it the 3rd-largest country in the world by area and the largest country in Asia by area.

It is home to a population of roughly 1,408,280,000, the 2nd-largest in the world and the 2nd-largest in Asia, accounting for about 30% of the continent’s people. With that land area, China has an average population density of about 145 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 2nd by population and 1st by area.

The seat of government is Beijing, and the official currency is the Chinese yuan (CNY, ¥), and the main official language is Chinese. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+08:00.

China carries the ISO country codes CN and CHN, dials on the international calling code +86 and uses the .cn, .中国, .中國, .公司, .网络 internet domain.

China shares its land borders with 14 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are India (capital New Delhi, about 1,417,492,000 people), Pakistan (capital Islamabad, about 241,499,431 people), Russia (capital Moscow, about 146,028,325 people), Vietnam (capital Hanoi, about 101,343,800 people), Myanmar (capital Naypyidaw, about 51,316,756 people), Afghanistan (capital Kabul, about 43,844,000 people), Nepal (capital Kathmandu, about 29,911,840 people), North Korea (capital Pyongyang, about 25,950,000 people), Kazakhstan (capital Astana, about 20,426,568 people), Tajikistan (capital Dushanbe, about 10,499,000 people), Laos (capital Vientiane, about 7,647,000 people), Kyrgyzstan (capital Bishkek, about 7,281,800 people), Mongolia (capital Ulan Bator, about 3,544,835 people) and Bhutan (capital Thimphu, about 784,043 people).

By area, China is larger than 13 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 35.0° N, 105.0° E and opens at zoom level 3, framing China within Asia. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Beijing. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

China lies about 3,885 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

China keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+08:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +08:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Chinese yuan (CNY, ¥).

The official language is Chinese, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +86 and websites commonly use the .cn, .中国, .中國, .公司, .网络 internet domain.

In short, China is a coastal country in Asia, sharing land borders with 14 countries. Its capital is Beijing. China has a population of about 1,408,280,000 and covers around 9,706,961 km² (3,747,879 sq mi), ranking it 2nd in the world by population and 3rd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for China.

The flag of China has a red field. In the canton are five yellow five-pointed stars — a large star and four smaller stars arranged in a vertical arc on the fly side of the large star.

The flag of China is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.