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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/China" title="China">People's Republic of China</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Number</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">2,842 county-level divisions including 172 in <a href="/wiki/Taiwan_Province,_People%27s_Republic_of_China" title="Taiwan Province, People's Republic of China">Taiwan Province</a><sup id="cite_ref-TW_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TW-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (as of 2023)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Populations</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">6,567 (<a href="/wiki/Zanda_County" title="Zanda County">Zanda</a>) – 14,047,625 (<a href="/wiki/Pudong" title="Pudong">Pudong</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Areas</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">10 km<sup>2</sup> (3.9 sq mi) (<a href="/wiki/Xisha_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Xisha District">Xisha</a>) – 124,500 km<sup>2</sup> (48,100 sq mi) (<a href="/wiki/Golmud" title="Golmud">Golmud</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Government</th><td class="infobox-data" 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divisions of China">Administrative divisions<br />of China</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:#ddf; text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Province-level_divisions_of_China" title="Province-level divisions of China">Province-level (1st)</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><a href="/wiki/Direct-administered_municipality" title="Direct-administered municipality">Municipalities</a> <hr /> <p><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_China" title="Provinces of China">Provinces</a> </p> <hr /> <p><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_regions_of_China" title="Autonomous regions of China">Autonomous regions</a> </p> <hr /> <a href="/wiki/Special_administrative_regions_of_China" title="Special administrative regions of China">Special administrative regions</a><br /></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:#ddf; text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)"><div style="background:#fdd; width:100%; height:100%;"><a href="/wiki/Sub-provincial_division" title="Sub-provincial division">Sub-provincial level</a></div></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><a href="/wiki/Sub-provincial_division" title="Sub-provincial division">Sub-provincial cities</a> <hr /> <p><a href="/wiki/Sub-provincial_division" title="Sub-provincial division">Sub-provincial autonomous prefectures</a> </p> <hr /> <a href="/wiki/Sub-provincial_division" title="Sub-provincial division">Sub-provincial city districts</a></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:#ddf; text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Prefecture-level_divisions_of_China" title="Prefecture-level divisions of China">Prefecture-level (2nd)</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><a href="/wiki/Prefecture-level_city" title="Prefecture-level city">Prefectural cities</a> <hr /> <p><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_prefecture" title="Autonomous prefecture">Autonomous prefectures</a> </p> <hr /> <p><a href="/wiki/League_(China)" title="League (China)">Leagues (Aimag)</a><br /> (abolishing) </p> <hr /> <p><a href="/wiki/Prefecture_(China)" title="Prefecture (China)">Prefectures</a><br /> </p> (abolishing)</div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:#ddf; text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)"><div style="background:#fdd; width:100%; height:100%;"><a href="/wiki/Sub-prefecture-level_city" class="mw-redirect" title="Sub-prefecture-level city">Sub-prefectural-level</a></div></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><a 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text-align: left;color: #202122; background-color: #f9ffbc;">Transcriptions</th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Standard_Chinese" title="Standard Chinese">Standard Mandarin</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Hanyu_Pinyin" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanyu Pinyin">Hanyu Pinyin</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn">Xiàn Jí Xíngzhèngqū</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">People's Republic of China</a> (PRC) is divided into 2,854 <b>county-level divisions</b> which rank below <a href="/wiki/Prefecture-level_divisions_of_China" title="Prefecture-level divisions of China">prefectures</a>/<a href="/wiki/Province-level_divisions_of_China" title="Province-level divisions of China">provinces</a> and above <a href="/wiki/Townships_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Townships of China">townships</a> as the third-level <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_China" title="Administrative divisions of China">administrative division</a> in the country. Of these, 2,842 are located in territory controlled by the PRC, while 172 are located in land controlled by the <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Republic of China</a> (ROC).<sup id="cite_ref-TW_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TW-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are six types of county-level divisions: </p> <ul><li>1,123 <a href="/wiki/District_(China)" title="District (China)">districts</a> (965 in <a href="/wiki/Mainland_China" title="Mainland China">Mainland China</a> and 158 in the claimed <a href="/wiki/Taiwan_Province,_People%27s_Republic_of_China" title="Taiwan Province, People's Republic of China">Taiwan Province</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-TW_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TW-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>411 <a href="/wiki/County-level_city" title="County-level city">county-level cities</a> (408 in Mainland China and 3 in Taiwan)</li> <li>1,319 <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Counties of China">counties</a> (1,307 in Mainland China and 12 controlled by the Republic of China)</li> <li>117 <a href="/wiki/Autonomous_county" title="Autonomous county">autonomous counties and banners</a></li> <li>1 <a href="/wiki/Liuzhi_Special_District" title="Liuzhi Special District">special district</a></li> <li>1 <a href="/wiki/Shennongjia_Forestry_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Shennongjia Forestry District">forestry district</a></li></ul> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County-level_divisions_of_China&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Xian</i> have existed since the <a href="/wiki/Warring_States_period" title="Warring States period">Warring States period</a> and were set up nationwide by the <a href="/wiki/Qin_dynasty" title="Qin dynasty">Qin dynasty</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The number of counties in <a href="/wiki/China_proper" title="China proper">China proper</a> gradually increased from dynasty to dynasty. As <a href="/wiki/Qin_Shi_Huang" title="Qin Shi Huang">Qin Shi Huang</a> reorganized the counties after his unification, there were about 1,000. Under the Eastern <a href="/wiki/Han_dynasty" title="Han dynasty">Han dynasty</a>, the number of counties increased to above 1,000. About 1400 existed when the <a href="/wiki/Sui_dynasty" title="Sui dynasty">Sui dynasty</a> abolished the <a href="/wiki/Commandery_(China)" title="Commandery (China)">commandery</a> level (郡 jùn), which was the level just above counties, and demoted some commanderies to counties. The current number of <a href="/wiki/Counties" class="mw-redirect" title="Counties">counties</a> mostly resembled that of the later years of <a href="/wiki/Qing_dynasty" title="Qing dynasty">Qing dynasty</a>. Changes of location and names of counties in <a href="/wiki/History_of_China" title="History of China">Chinese history</a> have been a major field of research in Chinese historical geography, especially from the 1960s to the 1980s.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In Imperial China, the county was a significant administrative unit because it marked the lowest level of the imperial bureaucratic structure;<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2016)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> 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 dynasties. The head of a county was the <a href="/wiki/County_magistrate" title="County magistrate">magistrate</a>, who oversaw both the day-to-day operations of the county as well as civil and criminal cases. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Types">Types</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County-level_divisions_of_China&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Types"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Counties">Counties</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County-level_divisions_of_China&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Counties"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>One of the most common types of county-level divisions, counties have been continuously in existence since the <a href="/wiki/Warring_States_period" title="Warring States period">Warring States period</a>, much earlier than any other level of government in China. <i>Xian</i> is often translated as "district" or "prefecture". The ruling <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party" title="Chinese Communist Party">Chinese Communist Party</a> (CCP) is central to directing government policy in mainland China, each level of administrative division has a local CCP committee. A county's CCP head is called the <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party_Committee_Secretary" title="Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary">secretary</a> (<span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh-Hans">中共县委书记</span></span>), the <i>de facto</i> highest office of the county. Policies are carried out via the <a href="/wiki/Central_People%27s_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="Central People's Government">people's government</a> of the county, and its head is called the county governor (<span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh-Hans">县长</span></span>). The governor is often also one of the deputy secretaries in the CCP Committee. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="County-level_cities">County-level cities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County-level_divisions_of_China&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: County-level cities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A county-level city is a "city" (<span lang="zh">市</span>; <i><span lang="zh-Latn">shì</span></i>) and "county" (<span lang="zh-Hans">县</span>; <i><span lang="zh-Latn">xiàn</span></i>) that have been merged into one unified jurisdiction. As such, it is simultaneously a city, which is a municipal entity, and a county, which is an administrative division of a prefecture. Most county-level cities were created in the 1980s and 1990s by replacing denser populated <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Counties of China">counties</a>. Compared to counties, they have <a href="/wiki/Judiciary" title="Judiciary">judicial</a> but no <a href="/wiki/Legislature" title="Legislature">legislative</a> rights over their own <a href="/wiki/Local_ordinance" title="Local ordinance">local law</a> and are usually governed by <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_China#Prefectural_level_(2nd)" title="Administrative divisions of China">prefecture-level divisions</a>, but a few are governed directly by <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_China#Provincial_level_(1st)" title="Administrative divisions of China">province-level divisions</a>. </p><p>Because county-level cities are not "<a href="/wiki/City" title="City">cities</a>" in the strictest sense of the word, since they usually contain rural areas many times the size of their urban, built-up area. This is because the counties that county-level cities have replaced are themselves large administrative units containing <a href="/wiki/Towns_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Towns of China">towns</a>, <a href="/wiki/Villages_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Villages of China">villages</a> and farmland. To distinguish a "county-level city" from its actual urban area (the traditional meaning of the word "city"), the term "<span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh-Hans">市区</span></span>" (shìqū) or "urban area", is used. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Districts">Districts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County-level_divisions_of_China&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Districts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>District are subdivisions of a <a href="/wiki/Direct-administered_municipalities_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Direct-administered municipalities of China">municipality</a> or a <a href="/wiki/Prefecture-level_city" title="Prefecture-level city">prefecture-level city</a>. The rank of a district derives from the rank of its city. Districts of a municipality are <a href="/wiki/Prefectures_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Prefectures of China">prefecture-level</a>; districts of a <a href="/wiki/Sub-provincial_division" title="Sub-provincial division">sub-provincial city</a> are sub-prefecture-level; and districts of a prefecture-level city are <a href="/wiki/Counties_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Counties of China">county-level</a>. They were formerly the subdivisions of urban areas, consisting of built-up areas only. Recently many counties have become districts, so that districts are now often just like counties, with towns, villages, and farmland. After the 1980s, <a href="/wiki/Prefectures_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Prefectures of China">prefectures</a> began to be replaced with <a href="/wiki/Prefecture-level_city" title="Prefecture-level city">prefecture-level cities</a>. From then on, "cities" in mainland China became just like any other administrative division, containing urban areas, towns, villages, and farmland. These cities are subdivided into districts, <a href="/wiki/County" title="County">counties</a>, <a href="/wiki/Autonomous_county" title="Autonomous county">autonomous counties</a>, and <a href="/wiki/County-level_city" title="County-level city">county-level cities</a>. At the same time, counties and county-level cities began to be replaced with districts, especially after 1990. From then onwards, districts were no longer strictly urban entities—some districts today are just like counties, with large <a href="/wiki/Towns_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Towns of China">towns</a> and <a href="/wiki/Townships_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Townships of China">townships</a> under them governing rural areas. </p><p>Other two specialty districts exists, with a special county-level forestry district located in <a href="/wiki/Hubei" title="Hubei">Hubei</a> province and a special county-level division located in <a href="/wiki/Guizhou" title="Guizhou">Guizhou</a> province. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Banners">Banners</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County-level_divisions_of_China&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Banners"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Banners were first used during the <a href="/wiki/Qing_dynasty" title="Qing dynasty">Qing dynasty</a>, which organized the Mongols into banners, except those who belonged to the <a href="/wiki/Eight_Banners" title="Eight Banners">Eight Banners</a>. Each banner had <a href="/wiki/Sum_(administrative_division)" title="Sum (administrative division)">sums</a> as nominal subdivisions. In Inner Mongolia, several banners made up a <a href="/wiki/Leagues_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Leagues of China">league</a>. In the rest, including <a href="/wiki/Outer_Mongolia" title="Outer Mongolia">Outer Mongolia</a>, northern <a href="/wiki/Xinjiang" title="Xinjiang">Xinjiang</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Qinghai" title="Qinghai">Qinghai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aimag" title="Aimag">Aimag</a> (Аймаг) was the largest administrative division. While it restricted the Mongols from crossing banner borders, the dynasty protected Mongolia from <a href="/wiki/Population_pressure" title="Population pressure">population pressure</a> from <a href="/wiki/China_proper" title="China proper">China proper</a>. After the <a href="/wiki/Mongolian_Revolution_of_1921" title="Mongolian Revolution of 1921">Mongolian People's Revolution</a>, the banners of Outer Mongolia were abolished in 1923.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are 52 in total, including 3 autonomous banners.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Autonomous_counties">Autonomous counties</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County-level_divisions_of_China&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Autonomous counties"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Autonomous counties are county-level <a href="/wiki/Autonomous_administrative_divisions_of_China" title="Autonomous administrative divisions of China">autonomous administrative divisions of China</a>. They are counties designated for a minority group. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ethnic_districts">Ethnic districts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County-level_divisions_of_China&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Ethnic districts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ethnic districts are city districts that are specially created for <a href="/wiki/Ethnic_minorities_in_China" title="Ethnic minorities in China">ethnic minorities</a>. Currently there are five such "ethnic districts": three in <a href="/wiki/Henan" title="Henan">Henan</a>, one in <a href="/wiki/Heilongjiang" title="Heilongjiang">Heilongjiang</a>, and one in <a href="/wiki/Inner_Mongolia" title="Inner Mongolia">Inner Mongolia</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List">List</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County-level_divisions_of_China&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: List"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="List of counties of China">List of counties of China</a></div> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"> <caption> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Provincial level division(s) </th> <th>Counties </th> <th>County-level cities </th> <th>Districts </th> <th>Banners </th> <th>Autonomous counties </th> <th>Autonomous banners </th> <th>Ethnic districts </th> <th>Other </th> <th>Total </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Anhui" title="Anhui">Anhui</a></td> <td>50</td> <td>9</td> <td>45</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>104 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Beijing" title="Beijing">Beijing</a></td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>16</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>16 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Chongqing" title="Chongqing">Chongqing</a></td> <td>8</td> <td>0</td> <td>26</td> <td>0</td> <td>4</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>38 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Fujian" title="Fujian">Fujian</a></td> <td>44<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td>13</td> <td>29</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>86 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Gansu" title="Gansu">Gansu</a></td> <td>57</td> <td>7</td> <td>17</td> <td>0</td> <td>7</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>86 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong">Guangdong</a></td> <td>36</td> <td>20</td> <td>64</td> <td>0</td> <td>3</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>123 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Guangxi" title="Guangxi">Guangxi</a></td> <td>47</td> <td>11</td> <td>40</td> <td>0</td> <td>12</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>110 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Guizhou" title="Guizhou">Guizhou</a></td> <td>50</td> <td>10</td> <td>16</td> <td>0</td> <td>11</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>1<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td>88 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hainan" title="Hainan">Hainan</a></td> <td>4</td> <td>5</td> <td>10</td> <td>0</td> <td>4</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>23 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hebei" title="Hebei">Hebei</a></td> <td>93</td> <td>20</td> <td>48</td> <td>0</td> <td>6</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>167 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Heilongjiang" title="Heilongjiang">Heilongjiang</a></td> <td>45</td> <td>21</td> <td>53</td> <td>0</td> <td>1</td> <td>0</td> <td>1</td> <td>0</td> <td>121 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Henan" title="Henan">Henan</a></td> <td>83</td> <td>22</td> <td>50</td> <td>0</td> <td>6</td> <td>0</td> <td>3</td> <td>0</td> <td>158 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hubei" title="Hubei">Hubei</a></td> <td>35</td> <td>26</td> <td>39</td> <td>0</td> <td>2</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>1<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>d<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td>103 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hunan" title="Hunan">Hunan</a></td> <td>59</td> <td>19</td> <td>36</td> <td>0</td> <td>7</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>121 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Inner_Mongolia" title="Inner Mongolia">Inner Mongolia</a></td> <td>17</td> <td>11</td> <td>22</td> <td>49</td> <td>0</td> <td>3</td> <td>1</td> <td>0</td> <td>103 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Jiangsu" title="Jiangsu">Jiangsu</a></td> <td>19</td> <td>21</td> <td>55</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>95 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Jiangxi" title="Jiangxi">Jiangxi</a></td> <td>61</td> <td>11</td> <td>27</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>99 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Jilin" title="Jilin">Jilin</a></td> <td>16</td> <td>20</td> <td>21</td> <td>0</td> <td>3</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>60 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Liaoning" title="Liaoning">Liaoning</a></td> <td>18</td> <td>16</td> <td>59</td> <td>0</td> <td>8</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>101 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Ningxia" title="Ningxia">Ningxia</a></td> <td>11</td> <td>2</td> <td>9</td> <td>0</td> <td>3</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>22 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Qinghai" title="Qinghai">Qinghai</a></td> <td>25</td> <td>5</td> <td>7</td> <td>0</td> <td>7</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>44 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Shaanxi" title="Shaanxi">Shaanxi</a></td> <td>70</td> <td>7</td> <td>30</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>107 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Shandong" title="Shandong">Shandong</a></td> <td>52</td> <td>26</td> <td>58</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>136 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Shanghai" title="Shanghai">Shanghai</a></td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>16<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>e<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>16 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Shanxi" title="Shanxi">Shanxi</a></td> <td>80</td> <td>11</td> <td>26</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>117 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sichuan" title="Sichuan">Sichuan</a></td> <td>106</td> <td>19</td> <td>54</td> <td>0</td> <td>4</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>183 </td></tr> <tr style="background: salmon;"> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Taiwan_Province,_People%27s_Republic_of_China" title="Taiwan Province, People's Republic of China">Taiwan</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-TW_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TW-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span 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<tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Yunnan" title="Yunnan">Yunnan</a></td> <td>65</td> <td>18</td> <td>17</td> <td>0</td> <td>29</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>129 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Zhejiang" title="Zhejiang">Zhejiang</a></td> <td>32</td> <td>20</td> <td>37</td> <td>0</td> <td>1</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>90 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County-level_divisions_of_China&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_China" title="Administrative divisions of China">Administrative divisions of China</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Counties_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Counties of China">Counties of China</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/County-level_city" title="County-level city">County-level city</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/District_(China)" title="District (China)">District (China)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_county" title="Autonomous county">Autonomous county</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Taiwan" title="Counties of Taiwan">Counties of Taiwan</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County-level_divisions_of_China&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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href="#cite_ref-TW_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">As <a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Taiwan" title="Geography of Taiwan">Taiwan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Penghu" title="Penghu">Penghu</a> are currently administered by the <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Republic of China</a>, its <a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_the_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Administrative divisions of the Republic of China">administrative divisions</a> differ from those in provinces administered by the <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">People's Republic of China</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Kinmen" title="Kinmen">Kinmen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Matsu_Islands" title="Matsu Islands">Lienchiang County</a> are governed by the Republic of China as part of its <a href="/wiki/Fuchien_Province,_Republic_of_China" title="Fuchien 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