Borders of China

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Border marker of China.
Border guards' booth on the sea coast in Zhuhai, Guangdong, across which is Macau.
Several smaller models of the former Chinese border gates into Russia
A modern border gate at Manzhouli, Inner Mongolia into Russia

The People's Republic of China has international borders with 14 sovereign states, equal highest of any country along with Russia, which also has 14. In addition, there is a 30-km border with the special administrative region of Hong Kong, which was a British dependency before 1997, and a 3 km border with Macau, a Portuguese territory until 1999. With a land border of 22,117 kilometres (13,743 mi) in total it also has the longest land border of any country.

Below is a table of countries and territories who share a land border with China around its perimeter, counterclockwise from the east. The numbers in parenthesis are their lengths in miles.[1]

Country Length (km) and (mi)
North Korea 1,416 (879)
Russia (NE) 3,605 (2,240)
Mongolia 4,677 (2,906)
Russia (NW) 40 (24)
Kazakhstan 1,533 (952)
Kyrgyzstan 858 (533)
Tajikistan 414 (257)
Afghanistan 76 (47)
Pakistan 523 (324)
India 3,380* (2,100), disputed
Nepal 1,236 (768)
Bhutan 470 (292)
Myanmar 2,185 (1,357)
Laos 423 (262)
Vietnam 1,281 (795)
Hong Kong 30 (18)
Macau 3 (1.8)

 * In three sections, separated by Nepal and Bhutan.

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