What is the closest city in China to Vietnam?

The closest city in China to Vietnam is Pingxiang City, Guangxi.

Pingxiang City is 160 kilometers (highway) away from Nanning, the capital of Guangxi, and Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. It borders Liangshan Province of Vietnam on both sides in the southwest, with a 97-kilometer border.

Border area There are 2 national first-class ports, Youyiguan Port (road) and Pingxiang Port (railway), 1 second-class port, and 5 border trade points. It is the largest border port city in Guangxi with the largest number of ports, the most complete types, and the largest scale. , is the largest and most convenient land passage from China to Vietnam and Southeast Asia. In June 1992, it was approved by the State Council as a border city open to the outside world.

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The territory of the Republic of China

China is located in the east of Asia, on the west coast of the Pacific. It starts from the center of the Heilongjiang River near Mohe in the north and ends at Zengmu Shoal in the Nansha Islands in the south. It starts from the Pamir Plateau in the west and ends at the confluence of Heilongjiang and Ussuri Rivers in the east. The land area is 9.6 million square kilometers and the land border is more than 20,000 kilometers.

The territorial waters consist of the Bohai Sea (inland sea) and three major border seas: the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea. The eastern and southern continental coastlines are 18,000 kilometers long. The water area of ??inland seas and coastal seas is about 4.7 million square kilometers. There are 7,600 large and small islands distributed in the sea area, of which Taiwan Island is the largest, covering an area of ??35,798 square kilometers.

The Bohai Sea is located in the Bohai Strait from Laotieshan Point on the Liaodong Peninsula to Penglai Point on the north coast of the Shandong Peninsula. It is connected with the Yellow Sea waters. There are Miaodao Islands stretching across the mouth of the strait, covering an area of ??77,000 square kilometers and an average water depth of 18 meters. The deepest point is 70 meters.

The Yellow Sea starts from the mouth of the Yalu River in the north, is divided from the East China Sea by the north bank of the Yangtze River Estuary in the south toward Jeju Island, and is connected to the Bohai Sea by the Bohai Strait in the west. The average water depth is 44 meters, the deepest point is 140 meters, and the area is 380,000 square kilometers. The seabed is a semi-enclosed shallow sea continental shelf.

The East China Sea stretches from the north bank of the Yangtze River to Jeju Island in the north, from Nan'ao, Guangdong Province to the southern end of the main island of Taiwan Province in the south, to the Okinawa Trough in the east (the Okinawa Trough is the boundary between the Okinawa Trough and Japan's territorial waters), and to Taiwan due east. It is 12 nautical miles away from the east coast of the island and covers an area of ??770,000 square kilometers.

The seabed of the South China Sea is a huge ocean basin. The mountains in the ocean basin protruding from the sea are my country’s Dongsha, Xisha, Zhongsha and Nansha Islands. These submarine mountains are natural extensions of China’s continental shelf. The total area of ??the South China Sea is 3.5 million square kilometers.

China’s land border is 22,800 kilometers long, bordering North Korea to the east, Mongolia to the north, Russia to the northeast, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan to the northwest, and Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Nepal to the west and southwest. , Bhutan and other countries, and the south is connected to Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam.

The east and southeast are separated by South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, and Indonesia across the sea. The provincial-level administrative divisions are divided into 4 municipalities, 23 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, and 2 special administrative regions, with the capital Beijing.

Baidu Encyclopedia—Pingxiang