Some of them wrote out '1,000,000,000' on their palms. It's the third largest country in the world, after Russia and Canada. The land area is 9.6 million square kilometres. The children were now eager to ask more questions. Yes it is.
China covers most of the eastern part of Asia.
However, a lot of the land is mountains and deserts. Most of the people live on the fertile eastern coast. You can imagine the country as a series of steps from east to west. The first step is the coastal plain. Most of China's large cities are located there.