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tropical jungle and coral reefs at the bottom, everything in between (deciduous, subtropical etc).
Wrong. China lacks many biomes. China's coral reefs are almost gone.
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Then throw in 'the Third Pole', with plenty of tundra and salt lakes, and a High Plateau averaging 15,000 ft covering 2.5 million sq km - plus 24 mountain ranges and over 40,000 glaciers (more mountain than any other country, including the highest peaks, ranges, and deepest canyons, including two more than twice the depth of the Grand Canyon), huge grasslands, steppe and marsh. Then there are the karst areas -the kind of pinnacle happy places like Guilin, Huangshan or Zhangjiajie that inspired Avatar - that cover an area of France and Spain combined, that are riddled with the biggest caverns, shafts, sinkholes, natural arches, bridges and underground weather systems.
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Then there are 5 of the 12 longest rivers. The third largest desert (covering rock, sand and ice), full of the biggest dunes,
Wrong, the biggest dunes aren't in China.
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formations, canyons and multi-coloured badlands, and record breaking temperatures,
and depressions. Unique bamboo, rhododendron, eucalyptus, sequoia and dipterocarp forests too considered some of the most biodiverse places in the world. Throw in a few thousand bizarre formations, red earth regions, hot springs, volcanoes, underground rivers, red coasts, tropical valleys among the tundra and where glacier meets desert.
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And in the fertile east, the great historic, manmade landscapes - rice terracing, tea country, loesslands, and rapeseed fields that cover millions of sq km.
Manmade landscapes aren't natural.
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Out to the islands and the coral atolls, reefs,
They are almost all gone, the USA has more and better coral reefs than China.
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white sand beaches and jungles start, alongside the world's tallest cliffs
Wrong. Qingshui Mountain isn't a cliff. There are cliffs there but they aren't the tallest in the world.
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and the densest collection of high mountain (286 tall peaks in an area the size of Belgium, that is Taiwan), while south the dense jungles, waterfalls and mountains harbour the tribal groups of the country.
Taiwan isn't China.
Please stop posting misinformation. It just does your argument disservice.
They are all very diverse and I don't see the point, nor the possibility of reaching some sort of agreement. No one is that well traveled to be able to make that claim.
China's nature often is less accessible than that in the US/Europe I would say.
the worlds tallest collection of dunes,made possible by the unnaturally high water content, and currently being studied as to how to extract thousands of tonnes of water from what would otherwise be desert. The water content allows for the dunes to cement themselves so high, and not to move with the wind - hence buildings can be built on them, and roads and oases dug without fear of gradual burial.
The 5740 feet you are quoting is from sea level, not the base of the dune. Argentina's are over 9000 ft above sea level and above 4000 ft from base to peak, DWARFING those in China.
I love how Americans cannot stand not being number one!
China is far more diverse landscape wise, the US is relatively homogeneous geographically speaking. Half of the US is composed of desert and plains.
Its not about wanting to be number one, its just telling it like it is; the US, in terms of having an aggregate of climactic/landscape types, is more diverse than both China and Europe. The US accomplishes in a smaller area what it takes the entire Eurasian landmass to accomplish; stretching from humid subtropical to Med.
China too has is large areas of homogeneity, so I wouldn't be going there if I were you.
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Those in Dunhuang are NOT measured from sea level - considering the area already is higher than 1750m. The whole Dunhuang county averages at 1150m elevation already.
They most certainly are. Look at the link I posted. Go on Google Earth. You are wrong.
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