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Chongqing is the largest of the four direct-controlled municipalities of the People's Republic of China and is further divided into 26 districts, 8 counties, and 4 autonomous counties. It had 17 counties until October 2011, when Qijiang County and Wansheng District were merged to form the new Qijiang District , and Dazu County and Shuangqiao ...
Thus, Chongqing was separated from Sichuan province and made into a municipality in its own right on 14 March 1997 [95] in order to accelerate its development and subsequently China's relatively poorer western areas (see China Western Development strategy). [96] By the 2000s the city had become an important industrial area in western China. [97]
The above-mentioned seven entities plus the claimed Taiwan Province. Taiwan and its surrounding island groups are administered by the Republic of China but claimed by the People's Republic of China. Central China: 564,700 km 2: 216,945,029: 384/km 2: Henan, Hubei, and Hunan: South China: 449,654 km 2: 166,614,779: 371/km 2: Guangdong, Guangxi ...
Province-like, which is the municipality of Chongqing, a merger of 4 former prefectures and similar to the former Eastern-Sichuan province. Prefecture-like, which are the other three municipalities and almost all prefectural-level cities, usually 10–1,000 times larger than the urban center and a conglomeration of several counties and county ...
Name Name in Chinese Prefecture Province Type Area (km 2) Population Census 2010 Division code; numerical alphabetical ... Chongqing: District: 3,457: 1,563,100 500101
Location of Chongqing Municipality in China. This is a list of township-level divisions of the municipality of Chongqing, People's Republic of China (PRC).After province, prefecture, and county-level divisions, township-level divisions constitute the formal fourth-level administrative divisions of the PRC.
Municipalities (Beijing, Chongqing, [note 4] Shanghai, & Tianjin) are not included but their internal divisions are similar as those of prefectures. Sub-prefecture-level cities are excluded. Sub-provincial cities are included, but other types of sub-provincial divisions are not. The six prefectures of Taiwan Province are not listed.
ISO 3166-2:CN is the entry for China in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g. provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.