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Map of China's county-level divisions As of August 18, 2015, there were 2,852 county-level divisions: 1,408 Counties : the most common county-level divisions, continuously in existence since the Warring States period , much earlier than any other level of government in China.
This is a list of the first-level administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China (PRC), including all provinces (except the claimed Taiwan Province), autonomous regions, special administrative regions, and municipalities, in order of their total land area as reported by the national or provincial-level government.
This is a list of Chinese administrative divisions in order of their total resident populations. It includes all provinces , autonomous regions , direct-controlled municipalities and special administrative regions controlled by the Republic of China (1912–1949) or the People's Republic of China (1949–present).
The first province-level divisions were created in the Yuan dynasty, and have remained one of the most stable forms of Chinese government since then. [5] They were created to help the Imperial court manage local county governments, which were too numerous and far-flung to be managed directly. [ 6 ]
This is a list of the first-level administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China (PRC), including all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, and special administrative regions in order of their Human Development Index (HDI), along with the Republic of China (ROC, Taiwan).
Provinces (Chinese: 省; pinyin: Shěng) are the most numerous type of province-level divisions in the People's Republic of China (PRC). There are currently 22 provinces administered by the PRC and one province that is claimed, but not administered, which is Taiwan, currently administered by the Republic of China (ROC).
In Imperial China, the county was a significant administrative unit because it marked the lowest level of the imperial bureaucratic structure; [citation needed] in other words, it was the lowest level that the government reached. Government below the county level was often undertaken through informal non-bureaucratic means, varying between ...
List of sovereign states; List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area, comparing continents, countries, and first-level administrative country subdivisions. List of first-level administrative divisions by population; List of FIPS region codes in FIPS 10-4, withdrawn from the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) in 2008