It is low lying in the northern half of China's coastline, while in the southern half, it's more of an irregular where in the South China Sea, it is neighbored by the Indochinese Peninsula, Taiwan and the northern Philippines.
Most of the northern half is low lying, although some of the mountains and hills of Northeast China and the Shandong Peninsula extend to the coast. The southern half is more irregular. It is bounded in the north by the shores of South China (hence the name), in the west by the Indochinese Peninsula, in the east by the islands of Taiwan and northwestern Philippines (mainly Luzon, Mindoro and Palawan), and in the south by Borneo, eastern Sumatra and the Bangka Belitung Islands, encompassing an area of around 3,500,000 km (1,400,000 sq mi). 
