Shanxi is on the north of Henan.
山西在河南的北面。
North Korea is to the east of China.
朝鲜在中国的东边。
There is a river north of our village.
我们村庄北面有一条小河。
注意：把表示方位、地点的介词或副词及短语放在句首时,句子用倒装语序。
East of our school lies a railway.
我们学校东面有条铁路。
In the west of the city is the house.
那房子在城市的西部。
2. In terms of size and population, how big is the European Union compared with China?
与中国相比，在大小及人口方面,欧盟有多大？
compare......with...... 把……与……相比
If you compare her work with his, you?ll find hers is much better.
要是把他俩的工作比较一下，就会发现她的好得多。
compare......to...... 把……比作……
compared to / with...... 与……相比(常作状语)
Poets compared death to sleep.
诗人把死亡比作睡觉。
Compared with/to many women, she was indeed very lucky.
与许多妇女相比，她的确很幸运。
3. The expanded European Union has a population of more than half a billion people, twice as big as the population of the United States.
扩大了的欧盟人口超过5亿，相当于美国人口的两倍。
倍数+as +形容词(副词)+as
This big stone is three times as heavy as that one.
这块大石头的重量是那块的3倍。