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Administrative divisions of the
People's Republic of ChinaProvinces
(省; shěng)
Autonomous regions
(自治区; zìzhìqū)
Municipalities
(直辖市; zhíxiáshì)
Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China
(中华人民共和国特别行政区/中華人民共和國特别行政區; tèbié xíngzhèngqū)Sub-provincial autonomous prefectures
(副省级自治州; fùshěngjí zìzhìzhōu)
Sub-provincial cities
(副省级城市; fùshěngjí chéngshì)
Sub-provincial new areas
(副省级市辖新区; fùshěngjí shìxiá xīnqū)Prefectural levelPrefectures
(地区; dìqū)
Autonomous prefectures
(自治州; zīzhìzhōu)
Prefecture-level cities
(地级市; dìjíshì)
Leagues
(盟; méng)Sub-prefecture-levelSub-prefectural-level cities
(副地级市; fùdìjíshì)Counties
(县; xiàn)
Autonomous counties
(自治县; zìzhìxiàn)
County-level cities
(县级市; xiànjíshì)
City districts
(市辖区; shìxiáqū)
Ethnic districts
Banners
(旗; qí)
Autonomous banners
(自治旗; zìzhìqí)
Forestry areas
(林区; línqū)
Special districts
(特区; tèqū)Township levelTownships
(乡; xiāng)
Ethnic townships
(民族乡; mínzúxiāng)
Towns
(镇; zhèn)
Subdistricts
(街道办事处; jiēdào bànshìchù)
Sumus
(苏木; sūmù)
Ethnic sumus
(民族苏木; mínzúsūmù)
District public offices (abolishing)
(区公所; qū gōngsuǒ)Village Committees
(村民委员会; cūnmín-wěiyuánhùi)
Neighborhood Committees
(居民委员会; jūmín-wěiyuánhùi)
This is a list of the 31 provincial-level divisions of the People's Republic of China grouped by its former administrative areas from 1949 to 1952, which are now known as traditional regions.
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Overview
This map shows the area under effective control of the PRC and the ROC (Taiwan). List of Regions
Other kinds of statistics
Region Area Population
(2010)Population
DensityProvinces included & Notes East China 832,028 km² 407,527,091 499/km² The seven entities above and the claimed Taiwan Province.
Taiwan is administered by the ROC and claimed by the PRC.Central China 564,700 km² 216,945,029 384/km² Henan, Hubei, Hunan South China 449,654 km² 166,614,779 371/km² Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Hong Kong, Macau Western China 3,978,700 km² 289,623,281 73/km² Chongqing, Gansu, Guizhou, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Tibet, Xinjiang, Yunnan See also
- Geography of China
- Northern and southern China
- Physiographic macroregions of China
- Administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China
- Regional discrimination in China
List of regions of Asia Sovereign
states- Afghanistan
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- Brunei
- Burma (Myanmar)
- Cambodia
- People's Republic of China
- Cyprus
- East Timor (Timor-Leste)
- Egypt
- Georgia
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- North Korea
- South Korea
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mongolia
- Nepal
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Qatar
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- Sri Lanka
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
- Yemen
States with limited
recognition- Abkhazia
- Nagorno-Karabakh
- Northern Cyprus
- Palestine
- Republic of China (Taiwan)
- South Ossetia
Dependencies and
other territories- Christmas Island
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Hong Kong
- Macau
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