Borders of China

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. 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 Korea1,416 (879)
Russia (NE)3,605 (2,240)
Mongolia4,677 (2,906)
Russia (NW)40 (24)
Kazakhstan1,533 (952)
Kyrgyzstan858 (533)
Tajikistan414 (257)
Afghanistan76 (47)
Pakistan523 (324)
India3,380* (2,100) [disputed]
Nepal1,236 (768)
Bhutan470 (292)
Myanmar2,185 (1,357)
Laos423 (262)
Vietnam1,281 (795)
Hong Kong30 (18)
Macau3 (1.8)

 * In three sections, separated by Nepal and Bhutan. India is the only country with whom China has border dispute. At present it shares longest border with it after Mongolia and Russia.

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