Professor Cui Haiting from Peking University Institute of Environment and Chen Jun, director of the National Basic Geographic Information Center, said that the land area of China is 9.6 million square kilometers. In the Encyclopedia Britannica, China is 9,572,900 square kilometers, and the area of the United States is 9,565,438+0,828,700 square kilometers. Mr. Wu, the Surveying and Mapping Achievement Management Office of the Department of Land Surveying and Mapping of the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping, told the reporter of Shanghai Oriental Morning Post that the accurate statistical data of China's land area has been completed and will be released in due course. "As soon as the numbers come out, it will be clear who is the third and who is the fourth."