Land and sea neighbors (2): Vietnam and North Korea.
Maritime neighbors (4): Korea, Japan, Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia.
The country with the largest number of neighboring countries in the world is China, and China has 20 neighboring countries. Iceland, the country with the least neighbors in the world, has no neighbors.
China has the third largest land area in the world, with long subgrade line and coastline. At present, there are 12 countries with borders with China on the mainland, and there are two countries with borders and maritime coastlines. According to UNCLOS, the marine exclusive economic zone is also considered as the territory of a country, so China has six maritime neighbors ringing the bell.
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Brief introduction of China's neighboring countries
1, Korea
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (Korean:, English: Democratic People's Republic of Korea) is called "Korea" for short. It is a socialist country located in the north of the Korean Peninsula in East Asia. The ruling party is the Workers' Party of Korea and the capital is Pyongyang. The south is separated from South Korea by the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas along the 38th parallel, and the north is bordered by People's Republic of China (PRC) and Russia. It faces the Bohai Sea in the west, the Shandong Peninsula across the sea, and the Sea of Japan in the east.
2. Pakistan
Islamic Republic of Pakistan (Urdu:? English: Islamic Republic of Pakistan), referred to as "Pakistan", means "holy land" and "Muslim country". More than 95% of the residents believe in Islam, which is a multi-ethnic Islamic country. Urdu is the national language.
Pakistan is located in the northwest of the South Asian subcontinent, bordering the Arabian Sea in the south, India in the east, People's Republic of China (PRC) in the northeast, Afghan in the northwest and Iranian in the west. The coastline is 980 kilometers long. The climate in the south is tropical and the rest is subtropical. Islamabad, the capital, and Karachi, the former capital, are the largest cities.
3. Republic of Kazakhstan
* * * Republic of Kazakhstan (English: Republic of Kazakhstan; ; Russian: респубикакахстан), referred to as Kazakhstan; . казахстан) is a landlocked country in Central Asia and the largest landlocked country in the world. The name of this country comes from its main ethnic group, Kazakhstan. Located in central Asia. It borders Russia in the north, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan in the south, the Caspian Sea in the west and China in the east.
4. India
Republic of India (Hindi:; English: Republic of India), referred to as India. Located in South Asia, it is the largest country in the South Asian subcontinent. The territory borders Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and China in the northeast, Myanmar in the east, Sri Lanka across the sea in the southeast and Pakistan in the northwest. It borders the Bay of Bengal in the east and the Arabian Sea in the west, with a coastline of 5,560 kilometers. It is also a unified multi-ethnic country composed of more than 100 ethnic groups, with Hindustan as the main ethnic group.
5. Afghanistan
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Pashto:? Afghanistan for short is a landlocked country in south-central Asia, located in the heart of Asia. The location of Afghanistan has different definitions, sometimes it is considered to be in Central Asia or South Asia, and even classified as the Middle East (West Asia).
Afghanistan is closely related to most of its neighbors in religion, language and geography. Afghanistan borders Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, Jammu and Kashmir controlled by China and Pakistan in the east, Pakistan in the south and Iran in the west.
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