Borders of China

The term "China's borderlines" refers to the borders that the People's Republic of China shares with neighboring countries or regions. Currently, the length of China's borderlines is over 22,000 kilometers (still subject to dispute), making it the country with the longest land borders in the world. The actual administered territories share land borders with 14 countries (tied with Russia for the most in the world), including North Korea, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam. The land borders, in counterclockwise order from northeast to southwest, include the China–North Korea border, the eastern segment of the China–Russia border, the China–Mongolia border, the western segment of the China–Russia border, the China–Kazakhstan border, the China–Kyrgyzstan border, the China–Tajikistan border, the China–Afghanistan border, the China–Pakistan border (actual control line), the China–India border eastern segment of the China–India border, the central segment (actual control line), the China–Nepal border, the Sikkim segment of the China–India border, the China–Bhutan border, the eastern segment of the China–India border (actual control line), the China–Myanmar border, the China–Laos border, the China–Vietnam border. China shares international land borders with 14 sovereign states. In addition, there is a 30-kilometre (19 mi) internal border with the special administrative region of Hong Kong, which was a British dependency before 1997, and a 3-kilometre (1.9 mi) internal border with Macau, a Portuguese territory until 1999. With land borders of 22,117 kilometres (13,743 mi) in total, China has the longest aggregate land borders of any country.