Province-level divisions of China
China is divided into thirty-four province-level administrative divisions, the first level of administrative division in the country. There are four types of divisions at the province level:
- Provinces (23)
- Autonomous regions (5)
- Municipalities (4)
- Special Administrative Regions (SARs; 2)
| Province-level divisions 省级行政区 Shěngjí Xíngzhèngqū | |
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| Category | Unitary state |
| Location | People's Republic of China |
| Number | 33-34 (1 claimed) |
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| Simplified Chinese | 省级行政区 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 省級行政區 | ||||||||
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| Chinese | 省 | ||||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||||
| Tibetan | ཞིང་ཆེན། | ||||||||
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| Zhuang name | |||||||||
| Zhuang | Swngj | ||||||||
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| Mongolian script | ᠮᠤᠵᠢ | ||||||||
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| Uyghur name | |||||||||
| Uyghur | ئۆلكە | ||||||||
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| Manchu name | |||||||||
| Manchu script | ᡤᠣᠯᠣ | ||||||||
| Romanization | golo | ||||||||
| Administrative divisions of China |
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History: before 1912, 1912–49, 1949–present Administrative division codes |
Province-level divisions can trace their origins back to the Yuan dynasty. The political status of Taiwan Province, as well as small portions of other provinces, are disputed.
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