China is located in the eastern part of Eurasia, being the third country in the world by the largest occupied area after Russia and Canada. 9.6 million km² - the area of China. The PRC has borders with Russia, Mongolia, North Korea, Myanmar, India, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. The People's Republic of China is located on the territory that is washed by the waters of the Pacific Ocean, namely its seas: South China, East China and Yellow, as well as the Korean Gulf. The Taiwan Strait passes between the mainland and the island of Taiwan. Features of China's nature are due primarily to the presence of different types of climate - from subtropical to sharply continental.
Relief
China is characterized by the presence of simultaneously the highest mountain ranges - the Himalayas (the highest peak in the world - Everest, 8848 m), accumulative plains, hollows, plateaus, valley and caravan glaciers, alpine deserts. On an area with heights of more than 500 m, more than 85% of the country's territory is located, and at an altitude of over 5000 m, about 19% of its territory is located. In China, a variety of surface deposits can be observed. Over time, the nature of China carefully created them. As a result of the concentration of such deposits, one of the world's largest Loess Plateau in the northern part of the country arose. It originates from the bend of the Yellow River and has an area of 580 thousand square meters. km
Loess, or “huantu”, is “yellow land” in translation from Chinese. A literal translation of the name of this loess landscape arose by chance. The color of these deposits, characteristic of Northern China, predetermined the entire color scheme of the Yellow River.
Climate features
The size of the country, climatic conditions, the nature of China, its features make it possible to clearly distinguish the country from most other Asian countries. Speaking about the peculiarities of the country's climate, it is necessary to focus on its diversity. It is subtropical in the southeast, and sharply continental in the northwest. As a result of the interaction of the air masses of the ocean and land, the southern coast is affected by monsoons. Depending on the occurrence, intensity and attenuation of monsoons, the amount and concentration of precipitation is distributed. Diametrically opposed temperature indicators and features of the nature of China are inextricably linked. In winter, in the northernmost part of the country - in the temperate climate of Heilongjiang Province - the temperature drops to -30 ° C, and the average temperature - 0 ° C. In summer, the average temperature here is around 20 ° C. And in the southern regions of Guangdong is much warmer - from + 28 ° C in July to + 10 ° C in January.
Water wealth of the country
The thawed snow of the highlands of the Tibetan Plateau is an indispensable water donor of the country's main rivers: Saluin, Mekong, Yangtze, and Yellow River. The largest rivers of China originate high in the mountains. The Great Chinese Canal, built back in the 7th-13th centuries, located along the coast, connects the mouths of the largest rivers: the Yellow River and the Yangtze.
You never cease to admire how rich and diverse the nature of China is. The magnificence of natural reservoirs is amazing: Tianchi (Lake of Heaven), located east of Urumqi, on the slopes of Bogdo-ul, Mansorovar - one of the highest freshwater lakes in the world, the pearl of Hangzhou - Lake Xihu. The huge rivers of the country are also fascinating. However, they are moody and can bring a lot of grief to those who live along their shores.
China and its wildlife
An inextricable connection between man and nature in China. A vivid example of such continuity can be observed in the Heilongjiang Nature Reserve, the largest in number of individuals of the Amur tigers. There are more than 1 thousand of them. In order to create adaptive conditions for the life of tigers, animals are closely monitored and measures are taken to maintain their health. Conditions have been created for feeding animals that are close to natural - namely, meat and mainly live poultry. Favorable migration conditions for animals have been created. Observations of the tiger population have been conducted for over 20 years.
Flora and fauna of China
The nature of China generously endowed the flora and fauna with a variety of species and subspecies. Some species and families of flora and fauna are distinguished by antiquity. From the diversity of the plant world in China, one can distinguish cedar and larch in the taiga, magnolia and camellia in the subtropics, as well as about 25 thousand relict species in eastern China. Of the inhabitants of the animal kingdom in northwestern China, one can find a gazelle and a Przhevalsky horse, in Tibet - a Himalayan bear, an antelope orongo, kiang. In the south-west of the country you can see flying dogs, big and small pandas, loris and leopards. China is rich in little-known and sometimes inaccessible treasures of nature. The wildlife of China is represented by the splendor of Everest, the noisy cascades of multi-level waterfalls in the Jiuzhaigou Valley, rocky formations in the Gansu province, created mainly from red sandstones and called the "Landscape of Denxia." And this list will be infinitely long.
