With a surface of 9 600 000 km² at 70% mountainous, from the arid desert of Gobi to the green hills of the Canton, while passing by the immense plain of the North of China, China is composed today of 34 administrative units on the level of the province.

No.	Name	Type		No.	Name	Type
1	Beijing (Pekin)	Metropolitain City		18	Hubei	Province
2	Tianjin	Metropolitain City		19	Guangdong	Province
3	Hebei	Province		20	Guangxi	Autonomous Region
4	Shanxi	Province		21	Hainan	Province
5	Liaoning	Province		22	Sichuan	Province
6	Jilin	Province		23	Guizhou	Province
7	Shanghai	Metropolitain City		24	Yunnan	Province
8	Jiangsu	Province		25	Xizang (Tibet)	Autonomous Region
9	Zhejiang	Province		26	Shaanxi	Province
10	Anhui	Province		27	Gansu	Province
11	Fujian	Province		28	Qinghai	Province
12	Jiangxi	Province		29	Ningxia	Autonomous Region
13	Shandong	Province		30	Xinjiang	Autonomous Region
14	Henan	Province		31	Taiwan	Province
15	Neimenggu	Autonomous Region		32	Chongqing	Metropolitain City
16	Heilongjiang	Province		33	Hong Kong	Special Zone
17	Hunan	Province		34	Aomen (Macao)	Special Zone

Resume: Province: 23, Autonomous Region: 5, Metropolitain City: 4, Special Zone: 2

 

All these entities constitute the first layer of the Chinese Administration, Equivalent Provinces, they are directly responsible for the central government at Pekin (Beijing) except for the Island of Taiwan.

The 2 special zones HongKong and Macao ended with a peaceful decolonization with a legislative supreme at a semi-democratic mode. The 4 metropolitan cities are characterized by their small managed surface and a strong urban and industrial concentration. In the 5 autonomous areas the national minorities are in a majority in their respective area. The remainder (a number of 23) are normal provinces whose population is primarily of Han - 95% of the Chinese population.

In China, The Names of Chinese Metropolitan Cities or strategic localities have names since centuries: LuoYang 洛阳, Ninghai 宁海, HangZhou 杭州, Liuzhou 柳州. It's regrettable that Chang An 长安, The Long Peace, capitat of six chinese dynasties be renamed as Xi'An 西安, peace at the West. This collection regroups 11 4398 names of provinces, counties, cities, towns, districts of large cities, names of streets, those of schools, comitees... Please not hesitate to launch a search...