What three countries that share a border with china?
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Countries That Border China
China shares its borders with 14 sovereign states.
Countries That Border China
A map showing China and some of its bordering countries like Mongolia and Nepal.
China has an area of 3,700,000 square miles and shares borders with 14 self-governing states. China is located in East Asia and had an estimated population of 1.379 billion in 2016. The country has a total land border of 13,743 miles making it the country with the longest land border in the world. China also shares a border with the special administrative regions of Macau and Hong Kong. The border with Hong Kong is 18.64 miles long and the one with Macau 1.86 miles.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan shares a border with China to the Southwest. The Chinese-Afghanistan border is 47 miles long and begins where the two countries border Pakistan and end where they border Tajikistan. There is a nature reserve on each side of the border, Taxkorgan Nature Reserve in China and the Wakhan Corridor Nature Refuge in Afghanistan. The border was formerly the Silk Road, and the border was agreed upon in 1963.
Bhutan
The Kingdom of Bhutan borders China to the south, and the border is 292 miles long and some areas lying on the border are disputed. Bhutan and China do not have any diplomatic ties and the border between Bhutan and Tibet has never been officially demarcated. China since 1958 has included parts of Bhutan territory on their maps bringing tension between the two regions.
India
India borders China to the South with the length of the border-spanning 2,100 miles. Doklam is a region located near the border shared between Bhutan, India, and China. Both China and Bhutan claims the region. In 2017, China had begun extending a road into the region, and this led to a stalemate between the armies of China and Bhutan’s ally, India.