Total Area:~ 9,596,961 sq km
Land Area:~ 9,569,901 sq km
Water Area:~ 27,060 sq km
Climate Description:~ Extremely Diverse; Tropical in the South, Subarctic in the North
Terrain Description:~ Mostly Mountains, High Plateaus, Deserts in West, Plains, Deltas, and Hills in East.
Arable Land Use:~ 14.86 %
Permanent Crop Land Use:~ 1.27 %
Irrigated Land:~ 641,410 sq km (2003)
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Total Renewable Water Resources:~ 2,829.6 cu km (1999)
Total Freshwater Withdrawal:~ Total: 549.76 cu km/yr (7%/26/68%)
Per Person Freshwater Withdrawal:~ Per Capita: 415 cu m/yr (2000)
Natural Hazards Description:~ Frequent Typhoons (about 5 per year along southern and eastern coasts), damaging floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, droughts, land subsidence.
Environmental Current Issues:~ Air pollution (greenhouse gasses, sulfur dioxide particulates) from reliance on reliance on coal which produces acid rain, water shortages, particularly in North; water pollution from untreated wastes, deforestation, estimated loss of one-fifth of agricultural land since 1949 to soil erosion and economic development, desertification, trade of endangered species.
Total Labor Force:~ 795.4 million (2012)
% of Labor Force in Agriculture:~ 36.7%
Agricultural Products Description:~ World leader in gross value of agricultural output: rice, wheat, potatoes, corn, peanuts, tea, millet, barley, apples, cotton, oil seed, pork, fish
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