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Key Facts
Climate
extremely diverse; tropical in south to subarctic in north
Coastline
14,500 km
Government type
communist party-led state
Natural resources
coal, iron ore, helium, petroleum, natural gas, arsenic, bismuth, cobalt, cadmium, ferrosilicon, gallium, germanium, hafnium, indium, lithium, mercury, tantalum, tellurium, tin, titanium, tungsten, an...
Terrain
mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas, and hills in east