Note 1 — Chapter XLIV · THE PRIMORSK OR SEA-COAST PROVINCE.

From this point its inland border runs along the crests of the Stanovoi range to the 55th degree of latitude, then continues southwards to the Little Khingan mountains, thence in a line to the Ussuri and Sungacha, through Lake Khanka, and so to Corea. The length of the province from north to south exceeds 2,300 miles. Its widest part, taken at right angles from the shore, does not exceed 400 miles, whilst at its narrowest, on the Sea of Okhotsk, the western border in some places is not more than 30 miles inland. The area of the province is 733,000 square miles, or about six times as large as the British possessions in Europe.