Towns of China
When referring to political divisions of China, town is the standard English translation of the Chinese 镇 (traditional: 鎮; pinyin: zhèn; Wade–Giles: chen4). The Constitution of the People's Republic of China classifies towns as third-level administrative units, along with for example townships (Chinese: 乡; pinyin: xiāng). A township is typically smaller in population and more remote than a town.
| Town (Zhen) | |||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 镇 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 鎮 | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||||||
| Tibetan | གྲོང་རྡལ། | ||||||||||
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| Zhuang name | |||||||||||
| Zhuang | Cin | ||||||||||
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| Mongolian script | ᠪᠠᠯᠭᠠᠰᠤ | ||||||||||
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| Uyghur name | |||||||||||
| Uyghur | بازارلىق | ||||||||||
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| Manchu name | |||||||||||
| Manchu script | ᠴᠣᠯᡥᠣᠷᠣᠨ | ||||||||||
| Kazakh name | |||||||||||
| Kazakh | قالاشىع Қалашық | ||||||||||
| Kyrgyz name | |||||||||||
| Kyrgyz | شااردىق шаардык | ||||||||||
| Administrative divisions of China |
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History: before 1912, 1912–49, 1949–present Administrative division codes |
Similarly to a higher-level administrative units, the borders of a town would typically include an urban core (a small town with the population on the order of 10,000 people), as well as rural area with some villages (村; cūn, or 庄; zhuāng).
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