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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.

Thursday, May 15, 2008 06:08:29 GMT +02:00
Chinese Calendar: cycle 78, Chinese Year Wu-Zi (25), year 2008, month 4, day 11 (2008-04-11)

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