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The Korea ( n ) Bay , sometimes the West Korea ( n ) Bay (" or " ), is a northern extension of the ___MASK21___ , between Liaoning Province of China and North P ' yngan Province of North Korea . Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People ' s Republic of China , is an autonomous territory on the ___MASK74___ Delta of East Asia . Macau lies across the delta to the west , and the Chinese province of Guangdong borders the territory to the north . With a total land area of and a population of over 7 . 3 million of various nationalities , it ranks as the world ' s fourth most densely populated sovereign state or territory . The Bohai ___MASK89___ or Bo ___MASK89___ , also known as Bohai Gulf or Bo Gulf , is the innermost gulf of the ___MASK21___ and Korea Bay on the coast of Northeastern and North China . It is approximately 78 , 000 km ( 30 , 116 sq . mi ) in area and its proximity to Beijing , the capital of China ( PRC ), makes it one of the busiest seaways in the world . The Kunlun Mountains are one of the longest mountain chains in Asia , extending more than . In the broadest sense , it forms the northern edge of the Tibetan Plateau south of the Tarim Basin and the Gansu Corridor and continues east south of the ___MASK58___ to end at the North China Plain . Jurisdiction ( from the Latin " ius , " meaning " law " and "" meaning " to speak ") is the practical authority granted to a legal body to administer justice within a defined area of responsibility , e . g ., Michigan tax law . In the federations like ___MASK33___ , areas of jurisdiction apply to local , state , and federal levels ; e . g . the court has jurisdiction to apply federal law . Europe is a continent that comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia . Europe is bordered by the ___MASK86___ to the north , the ___MASK39___ to the west , and the Mediterranean Sea to the south . To the east and southeast , Europe is generally considered as separated from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains , the Ural River , the Caspian and Black Seas , and the waterways of the Turkish Straits . Yet the non - oceanic borders of Europe  a concept dating back to classical antiquity  are arbitrary . The primarily physiographic term " continent " as applied to Europe also incorporates cultural and political elements whose discontinuities are not always reflected by the continent ' s current overland boundaries . Guangzhou , traditionally romanised as Canton , is the capital and largest city of the Province of Guangdong in southeastern China . Located on the ___MASK74___ about north - northwest of Hong Kong and north of Macau , Guangzhou was a major terminus of the maritime Silk Road and continues to serve as a major port and transportation hub . A ___MASK89___ is a large body of salt water that is surrounded in whole or in part by land . More broadly , " the ___MASK89___ " is the interconnected system of Earth ' s salty , oceanic waters  considered as one global ocean or as several principal oceanic divisions . The ___MASK89___ moderates Earth ' s climate and has important roles in the water cycle , carbon cycle , and nitrogen cycle . Although the ___MASK89___ has been traveled and explored since prehistory , the modern scientific study of the ___MASK89___  oceanography  dates broadly to the British " Challenger " expedition of the 1870s . The ___MASK89___ is conventionally divided into up to five large oceanic sections  including the International Hydrographic Organization ' s four named oceans ( the Atlantic , Pacific , Indian , and Arctic ) and the Southern Ocean ; smaller , second - order sections , such as the Mediterranean , are known as " seas ". Macau ( literally : " Bay Gate "), ( in Portuguese , which is still widely used in the city ) also spelled Macao ( in English ), officially the Região Administrativa Especial de Macau da República Popular da China , is an autonomous territory on the western side of the ___MASK74___ Delta in East Asia . Macau is bordered by the city of Zhuhai in China to the North and the ___MASK74___ Estuary to the East and South . Hong Kong lies about to its East across the Delta . With a population of 650 , 900 living in an area of , it is the most densely populated region in the world . The ___MASK21___ is the name given to the northern part of the East China Sea , which is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean . It is located between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula . Its name comes from the sand particles from Gobi Desert sand storms that turn the surface of the water golden yellow . Dongying , a prefecture - level city , lies on the northern ( Bohai ___MASK89___ ) coast of Shandong province , People ' s Republic of China . At the 2010 census , 2 , 035 , 338 people resided within its administrative area of and 998 , 968 in the built - up area made up of Dongying district and Kenli County largely being urbanized . Dongying is home to the Shengli Oilfield which after the Daqing oilfield is the second largest oilfield in China . The Bayan Har Mountains , formerly known as the Bayen - káras , are a mountain range in Tibet , China . It can be viewed as one of the branches of the Kunlun Mountains . It separates the drainage areas of the ___MASK76___ and the ___MASK62___ rivers . The source of the ___MASK76___ is in the basin of Yueguzonglie , which is located in the northern part of the range . An ocean ( the ___MASK89___ of classical antiquity ) is a body of saline water that composes much of a planet ' s hydrosphere . On Earth , an ocean is one of the major conventional divisions of the World Ocean , which covers almost 71 % of its surface . These are , in descending order by area , the Pacific , Atlantic , Indian , Southern ( Antarctic ), and Arctic Oceans . The word " ___MASK89___ " is often used interchangeably with " ocean " in American English but , strictly speaking , a ___MASK89___ is a body of saline water ( generally a division of the world ocean ) partly or fully enclosed by land . Asia is Earth ' s largest and most populous continent , located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres and sharing the continental landmass of Eurasia with the continent of Europe . Asia covers an area of , about 30 % of Earth ' s total land area and 8 . 7 % of the Earth ' s total surface area . The continent , which has long been home to the majority of the human population , was the site of many of the first civilizations . Asia is notable for not only its overall large size and population , but also dense and large settlements as well as vast barely populated regions within the continent of 4 . 4 billion people . A river is a natural flowing watercourse , usually freshwater , flowing towards an ocean , ___MASK89___ , lake or another river . In some cases a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water . Small rivers can be referred to using names such as stream , creek , brook , rivulet , and rill . There are no official definitions for the generic term river as applied to geographic features , although in some countries or communities a stream is defined by its size . Many names for small rivers are specific to geographic location ; examples are " run " in some parts of the United States , " burn " in Scotland and northeast England , and " beck " in northern England . Sometimes a river is defined as being larger than a creek , but not always : the language is vague . Eurasia is the combined continental landmass of Europe and Asia . The term is a portmanteau of its constituent continents . Located primarily in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres , it is bordered by the ___MASK39___ to the west , the Pacific Ocean to the east , the Arctic Ocean to the north , and by Africa , the Mediterranean Sea , and the Indian Ocean to the south . The division between Europe and Asia as two different continents is a historical and cultural construct , with no clear physical separation between them ; thus , in some parts of the world , Eurasia is recognized as the largest of five or six continents . In geology , Eurasia is often considered as a single rigid megablock . However , the rigidity of Eurasia is debated based on the paleomagnet data . The ___MASK62___ River ( or ), known in China as the Cháng Jing ( literally : " Long River ") or the Yángz Jing , is the longest river in Asia and the third - longest in the world . The river is the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country . It drains one - fifth of the land area of the People ' s Republic of China ( PRC ) and its river basin is home to one - third of the country ' s population . The ___MASK62___ is the sixth - largest river by discharge volume in the world . China , officially the People ' s Republic of China ( PRC ), is a unitary sovereign state in East Asia . With a population of over 1 . 381 billion , it is the world ' s most populous country . The state is governed by the Communist Party of China , and its capital is Beijing . It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces , five autonomous regions , four direct - controlled municipalities ( Beijing , Tianjin , Shanghai , and Chongqing ), and two mostly self - governing special administrative regions ( Hong Kong and Macau ), and claims sovereignty over Taiwan . The country ' s major urban areas include Shanghai , Guangzhou , Beijing , Chongqing , Shenzhen , Tianjin and Hong Kong . China is a great power and a major regional power within Asia , and has been characterized as a potential superpower . The ___MASK76___ or Huáng Hé is the third - longest river in Asia , following the ___MASK62___ River and Yenisei River , and the sixth - longest in the world at the estimated length of 5 , 464 km ( 3 , 395 mi ) . Originating in the Bayan Har Mountains in Qinghai province of western China , it flows through nine provinces , and it empties into the Bohai ___MASK89___ near the city of Dongying in Shandong province . The ___MASK76___ basin has an east -- west extent of about 1 , 900 kilometers ( 1 , 180 mi ) and a north -- south extent of about 1 , 100 km ( 680 mi ) . Its total basin area is about 742 , 443 square kilometers ( 286 , 659 sq mi ) . The ___MASK76___ is called `` the cradle of Chinese civilization '' , because its basin was the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilization , and it was the most prosperous region in early Chinese history . However , because of frequent devastating floods and course changes produced by the continual elevation of the river bed ( due in part to manmade erosion upstream ) , sometimes above the level of its surrounding farm fields , it also has the names China ' s Sorrow and Scourge of the Sons of Han . Northern China or North China ( literally " China ' s north ") is a geographical region of China . The heartland of North China is the North China Plain , or the ___MASK76___ Plain . North China is usually restricted to the northern part of China proper ( inner China and excludes Xinjiang and often Manchuria and the Northeast China . Tianjin , formerly romanized as Tientsin , is a metropolis in northern coastal Mainland China , administered by the People ' s Republic of China and one of the five national central cities of China , with a total municipal population of 15 , 469 , 500 . It is governed as one of the four direct - controlled municipalities of the PRC and is thus under direct administration of the central government . Tianjin borders Hebei Province and Beijing Municipality , bounded to the east by the Bohai Gulf portion of the ___MASK21___ . Part of the Bohai Economic Rim , it is the largest coastal city in northern China . Shanghai (": Zånhae " ), often abbreviated as Hu or Shen , is one of the four direct - controlled municipalities of the People ' s Republic of China . It is the most populous city proper in the world , with a population of more than 24 million . It is a global financial centre and transport hub , with the world ' s busiest container port . Located in the ___MASK62___ River Delta in East China , Shanghai sits on the south edge of the mouth of the ___MASK62___ in the middle portion of the Chinese coast . The municipality borders the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the north , south and west , and is bounded to the east by the East China ___MASK89___ .