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Direct-controlled municipalities of China

Index Direct-controlled municipalities of China

A municipality, also translated as direct-controlled municipality (informally, municipality directly under the central government, or province-level municipality), is the highest level of classification for cities used by the People's Republic of China. [1]

108 relations: Administrative divisions of China, Andong Province, Anhui, Anqing, Anshan, Beijing, Benxi, Bin County, Heilongjiang, Binhu District, Cangwu County, Changchun, Changzhou, China, Chongqing, City, Communist Party of China, County-level city, Daguan District, Dalian, Daxing District, Dongcheng District, Beijing, Donghu District, English language, Executive Yuan, Fushun, Fushun County, Liaoning, Gongshu District, Government of the Republic of China, Greater administrative area, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Hankou, Harbin, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Heping District, Tianjin, Huaining County, Huangpu District, Shanghai, Hubei, Imperial immediacy, Independent city, International Organization for Standardization, ISO 3166-2, ISO 3166-2:CN, Jiang'an District, Jiangning District, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, ..., Jiaozhou City, Jilin, Kwantung Leased Territory, Liaoning, Liaoxi Province, Liaoyang County, List of administrative divisions of Beijing, List of administrative divisions of Chongqing, List of administrative divisions of Shanghai, List of administrative divisions of Tianjin, Mayor, Nanchang, Nanchang County, Nangang District, Harbin, Nanguan District, Nanhai County, Nanjing, National People's Congress, Ningbo, Panyu District, Pingshan District, Benxi, Prefecture-level city, Provinces of China, Qingdao, Rural area, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanghai, Shanghai County, Shenhe District, Shenyang, Shinan District, Shuntian Prefecture, Sichuan, Songjiang District, Songjiang Province, State Council of the People's Republic of China, Sub-prefecture-level city, Sub-provincial divisions in the People's Republic of China, Tianjin, Tiedong District, Anshan, Tongzhou District, Beijing, Unitary state, Weiyang District, Xi'an, Wuchang District, Wuhan, Wuxi, Wuzhou, Xi'an, Xigang District, Xinfu District, Fushun, Xuanwu District, Nanjing, Yinzhou District, Ningbo, Yuexiu District, Yuhang District, Yuzhong District, Zhejiang, Zhili. Expand index (58 more) »

Administrative divisions of China

Due to China's large population and area, the administrative divisions of China have consisted of several levels since ancient times.

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Andong Province

Andong / Antung (Wade-Giles), or Liaodong was a former province in Northeast China, located in what is now part of Liaoning and Jilin provinces.

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Anhui

Anhui is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the eastern region of the country.

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Anqing

Anqing (also Anking, formerly Hwaining) is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Anhui province, People's Republic of China.

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Anshan

Anshan is the third largest prefecture-level city in Liaoning Province, China.

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Beijing

Beijing, formerly romanized as Peking, is the capital of the People's Republic of China, the world's second most populous city proper, and most populous capital city.

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Benxi

Benxi is a prefecture-level city located in the east of Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, south-southeast of the provincial capital Shenyang.

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Bin County, Heilongjiang

Bin County, or Binxian, is under the administration of Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China.

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Binhu District

Binhu District is one of six urban districts of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China.

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Cangwu County

Cangwu County (Zhuang: Canghvuz Yen) is a county in the east of the Guangxi Zhuang Autononomous Region, China, bordering Guangdong province to the east.

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Changchun

Changchun is the capital and largest city of Jilin Province, and is also the core city of Northeast Asia.

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Changzhou

Changzhou is a prefecture-level city in southern Jiangsu province of China.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Chongqing

Chongqing, formerly romanized as Chungking, is a major city in southwest China.

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City

A city is a large human settlement.

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Communist Party of China

The Communist Party of China (CPC), also referred to as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China.

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County-level city

A county-level municipality, county-level city, or county city is a county-level administrative division of mainland China.

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Daguan District

Daguan District is a district of Anhui Province, People's Republic of China under the jurisdiction of Anqing City.

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Dalian

Dalian is a major city and seaport in the south of Liaoning Province, China.

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Daxing District

Daxing District is a district of Beijing, covering the southern suburbs of the city.

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Dongcheng District, Beijing

The Dongcheng District (literally "east city district") of Beijing covers the eastern half of Beijing's urban core, the Old City.

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Donghu District

Donghu District is a district of Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province, China.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Executive Yuan

The Executive Yuan is the executive branch of the government of the Republic of China on Taiwan.

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Fushun

Fushun (formerly romanised as Fouchouen, using French spelling, also as Fuxi (撫西)) is a prefecture level city in Liaoning province, China, about east of Shenyang, with a population of 2,138,090 inhabitants (2010 census) and a total area of, of which is the city proper.

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Fushun County, Liaoning

Fushun County, is one of the three counties under the administration of Fushun City, in the east of Liaoning province in Northeast China.

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Gongshu District

is a core district of Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province, China.

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Government of the Republic of China

The Government of the Republic of China was formally established in 1912 in Nanking, with Sun Yat-sen as President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of China under the Provisional Constitution of the Republic of China.

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Greater administrative area

Greater administrative areas were early top-level administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China that directly governed provinces and municipalities.

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Guangdong

Guangdong is a province in South China, located on the South China Sea coast.

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Guangxi

Guangxi (pronounced; Zhuang: Gvangjsih), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is a Chinese autonomous region in South Central China, bordering Vietnam.

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Guangzhou

Guangzhou, also known as Canton, is the capital and most populous city of the province of Guangdong.

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Hangzhou

Hangzhou (Mandarin:; local dialect: /ɦɑŋ tseɪ/) formerly romanized as Hangchow, is the capital and most populous city of Zhejiang Province in East China.

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Hankou

Hankou p Hànkǒu), formerly romanized as Hankow (Hangkow), was one of the three cities whose merging formed modern-day Wuhan municipality, the capital of the Hubei province, China.

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Harbin

Harbin is the capital of Heilongjiang province, and largest city in the northeastern region of the People's Republic of China.

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Hebei

Hebei (postal: Hopeh) is a province of China in the North China region.

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Heilongjiang

Heilongjiang (Wade-Giles: Heilungkiang) is a province of the People's Republic of China.

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Heping District, Tianjin

Heping District is a district in the center of Tianjin, China.

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Huaining County

Huaining County is a county in Anhui Province, People's Republic of China, under the jurisdiction of Anqing City.

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Huangpu District, Shanghai

District, makes up the eastern part of Shanghai's traditional urban core and is today the most central of Shanghai's 16 districts.

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Hubei

Hubei is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the Central China region.

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Imperial immediacy

Imperial immediacy (Reichsfreiheit or Reichsunmittelbarkeit) was a privileged constitutional and political status rooted in German feudal law under which the Imperial estates of the Holy Roman Empire such as Imperial cities, prince-bishoprics and secular principalities, and individuals such as the Imperial knights, were declared free from the authority of any local lord and placed under the direct ("immediate", in the sense of "without an intermediary") authority of the Emperor, and later of the institutions of the Empire such as the Diet (Reichstag), the Imperial Chamber of Justice and the Aulic Council.

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Independent city

An independent city or independent town is a city or town that does not form part of another general-purpose local government entity (such as a county).

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International Organization for Standardization

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations.

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ISO 3166-2

ISO 3166-2 is part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and defines codes for identifying the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

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ISO 3166-2:CN

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.

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Jiang'an District

Jiang'an District forms part of the urban core of and is one of 13 districts of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, People's Republic of China.

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Jiangning District

Jiangning District is one of 11 districts of Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province, China.

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Jiangsu

Jiangsu, formerly romanized as Kiangsu, is an eastern-central coastal province of the People's Republic of China.

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Jiangxi

Jiangxi, formerly spelled as Kiangsi Gan: Kongsi) is a province in the People's Republic of China, located in the southeast of the country. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north into hillier areas in the south and east, it shares a border with Anhui to the north, Zhejiang to the northeast, Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, Hunan to the west, and Hubei to the northwest. The name "Jiangxi" derives from the circuit administrated under the Tang dynasty in 733, Jiangnanxidao (道, Circuit of Western Jiangnan; Gan: Kongnomsitau). The short name for Jiangxi is 赣 (pinyin: Gàn; Gan: Gōm), for the Gan River which runs across from the south to the north and flows into the Yangtze River. Jiangxi is also alternately called Ganpo Dadi (贛鄱大地) which literally means the "Great Land of Gan and Po".

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Jiaozhou City

Jiaozhou, formerly Jiaoxian or Jiao County, is a county-level city of Qingdao sub-provincial city, Shandong Province, China.

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Jilin

Jilin, formerly romanized as Kirin is one of the three provinces of Northeast China.

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Kwantung Leased Territory

The Kwantung Leased Territory was a Russian-leased territory (1898–1905), then a Japanese-leased territory (1905–1945) in the southern part of the Liaodong Peninsula (遼東半島) in the Republic of China that existed from 1898 to 1945.

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Liaoning

Liaoning is a province of China, located in the northeast of the country.

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Liaoxi Province

Liaoxi was a former province in Northeast China, located in what is now part of Liaoning and Jilin provinces.

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Liaoyang County

Liaoyang County is a county in east-central Liaoning province of Northeast China.

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List of administrative divisions of Beijing

Beijing is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of People's Republic of China, and is divided into 16 districts.

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List of administrative divisions of Chongqing

Chongqing is the largest of the four direct-controlled municipalities of China and is further divided into 25 districts, 9 counties, and 4 autonomous counties.

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List of administrative divisions of Shanghai

Shanghai is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of People's Republic of China, and is further divided into 16 districts. There is no single downtown district in Shanghai as the urban core is scattered across several districts, although Huangpu is generally considered the center of Shanghai.

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List of administrative divisions of Tianjin

Tianjin is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of People's Republic of China, and is further divided into 16 districts.

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor (from the Latin maior, meaning "bigger") is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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Nanchang

Nanchang is the capital of Jiangxi Province in southeastern China.

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Nanchang County

Nanchang (南昌县; pinyin: Nánchāng Xiàn) is a county of the province of Jiangxi in the People's Republic of China.

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Nangang District, Harbin

Nangang District is one of nine districts of Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China, forming part of the city's urban core.

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Nanguan District

Nanguan District is one of six districts of Changchun, the capital of Jilin province, People's Republic of China, and forms part of the urban core.

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Nanhai County

Nanhai County was a former county in Guangdong Province, China, named after the South China Sea.

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Nanjing

Nanjing, formerly romanized as Nanking and Nankin, is the capital of Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China and the second largest city in the East China region, with an administrative area of and a total population of 8,270,500.

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National People's Congress

The National People's Congress (usually abbreviated NPC) is the national legislature of the People's Republic of China. With 2,980 members in 2018, it is the largest parliamentary body in the world. Under China's Constitution, the NPC is structured as a unicameral legislature, with the power to legislate, the power to oversee the operations of the government, and the power to elect the major officers of state. However, the NPC has been described as a "rubber stamp," having "never rejected a government proposal" in its history. The NPC is elected for a term of five years. It holds annual sessions every spring, usually lasting from 10 to 14 days, in the Great Hall of the People on the west side of Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The NPC's sessions are usually timed to occur with the meetings of the National Committee of the People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), a consultative body whose members represent various social groups. As the NPC and the CPPCC are the main deliberative bodies of China, they are often referred to as the Lianghui (Two Assemblies). According to the NPC, its annual meetings provide an opportunity for the officers of state to review past policies and present future plans to the nation.

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Ningbo

Ningbo, formerly written Ningpo, is a sub-provincial city in northeast Zhejiang province in China. It comprises the urban districts of Ningbo proper, three satellite cities, and a number of rural counties including islands in Hangzhou Bay and the East China Sea. Its port, spread across several locations, is among the busiest in the world and the municipality possesses a separate state-planning status. As of the 2010 census, the entire administrated area had a population of 7.6 million, with 3.5 million in the six urban districts of Ningbo proper. To the north, Hangzhou Bay separates Ningbo from Shanghai; to the east lies Zhoushan in the East China Sea; on the west and south, Ningbo borders Shaoxing and Taizhou respectively.

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Panyu District

Panyu, formerly romanized as Punyu, is a district of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province in southern China.

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Pingshan District, Benxi

Pingshan District is a District under the administration of Benxi City, Liaoning, People's Republic of China.

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Prefecture-level city

A prefectural-level municipality, prefectural-level city or prefectural city; formerly known as province-controlled city from 1949 to 1983, is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure.

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Provinces of China

Provincial-level administrative divisions or first-level administrative divisions, are the highest-level Chinese administrative divisions.

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Qingdao

Qingdao (also spelled Tsingtao) is a city in eastern Shandong Province on the east coast of China.

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Rural area

In general, a rural area or countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities.

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Shaanxi

Shaanxi is a province of the People's Republic of China.

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Shandong

Shandong (formerly romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the East China region.

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Shanghai

Shanghai (Wu Chinese) is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of China and the most populous city proper in the world, with a population of more than 24 million.

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Shanghai County

Shanghai County, was a county located in south of Shanghai's Puxi districts until it was fully absorbed by Minhang District in 1992.

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Shenhe District

Shenhe District is one of nine districts of Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, and forms part of the urban core.

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Shenyang

Shenyang, formerly known by its Manchu name Mukden or Fengtian, is the provincial capital and the largest city of Liaoning Province, People's Republic of China, as well as the largest city in Northeast China by urban population.

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Shinan District

Shinan ("South City") is an urban district of Qingdao, Shandong.

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Shuntian Prefecture

Shuntian Prefecture was an administrative region of China during the Ming and Qing dynasties, equivalent to Beijing Municipality in today's People's Republic of China.

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Sichuan

Sichuan, formerly romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan, is a province in southwest China occupying most of the Sichuan Basin and the easternmost part of the Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north, and the Yungui Plateau to the south.

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Songjiang District

Songjiang, is a suburban district, formerly a county, of Shanghai.

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Songjiang Province

Sungkiang or Songjiang was a province (c.32,000 sq mi/82,880 km²) of the Republic of China.

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State Council of the People's Republic of China

The State Council, constitutionally synonymous with the Central People's Government since 1954 (particularly in relation to local governments), is the chief administrative authority of the People's Republic of China.

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Sub-prefecture-level city

A sub-prefecture-level municipality (pinyin: fùdìjíshì), sub-prefecture-level city, or vice-prefecture-level municipality, is an unofficial designation for a type of administrative division of China.

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Sub-provincial divisions in the People's Republic of China

A sub-provincial division (or deputy-provincial divisions) in the People's Republic of China is like a prefecture-level city that is governed by a province, but is administered independently in regard to economy and law.

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Tianjin

Tianjin, formerly romanized as Tientsin, is a coastal metropolis in northern China and one of the four national central cities of the People's Republic of China (PRC), with a total population of 15,469,500, and is also the world's 11th-most populous city proper.

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Tiedong District, Anshan

Tiedong District is a district of the city of Anshan, Liaoning province, People's Republic of China.

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Tongzhou District, Beijing

Tongzhou District (alternate spellings Tungchow Tungchou (T'ung-chou), or Tong County during 1914–1997) is a district of Beijing.

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Unitary state

A unitary state is a state governed as a single power in which the central government is ultimately supreme and any administrative divisions (sub-national units) exercise only the powers that the central government chooses to delegate.

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Weiyang District, Xi'an

Weiyang District is one of nine districts of Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi province, China.

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Wuchang District

Wuchang forms part of the urban core of and is one of 13 districts of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, China. It is the oldest of the three cities that merged into modern-day Wuhan, and stood on the right (southeastern) bank of the Yangtze River, opposite the mouth of the Han River. The two other cities, Hanyang and Hankou, were on the left (northwestern) bank, separated from each other by the Han. The name "Wuchang" remains in common use for the part of urban Wuhan south of the Yangtze River. Administratively, however, it is split between several districts of the City of Wuhan. The historic center of Wuchang lies within the modern Wuchang District, which has an area of and a population of 1,003,400. Other parts of what is colloquially known as Wuchang are within Hongshan District (south and south-east) and Qingshan District (north-east). Presently, on the right bank of the Yangtze, it borders the districts of Qingshan (for a very small section) to the northeast and Hongshan to the east and south; on the opposite bank it borders Jiang'an, Jianghan and Hanyang. On 10 October 1911, the New Army stationed in the city started the Wuchang Uprising, a turning point of the Xinhai Revolution that overthrew the Qing dynasty and established the Republic of China.

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Wuhan

Wuhan is the capital of Hubei province, People's Republic of China.

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Wuxi

Wuxi is a city in southern Jiangsu province, China.

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Wuzhou

Wúzhōu (postal: Wuchow), formerly Ngchow, is a prefecture-level city in the east of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China.

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Xi'an

Xi'an is the capital of Shaanxi Province, China.

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Xigang District

Xigang District is one of the seven districts of Dalian, Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, forming part of the urban core.

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Xinfu District, Fushun

Xinfu District, is one of the four districts under the administration of Fushun City, in Liaoning Province, China.

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Xuanwu District, Nanjing

Xuanwu District is one of 11 districts of Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province, China.

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Yinzhou District, Ningbo

Yinzhou is a district of the major city of Ningbo, Zhejiang province, China.

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Yuexiu District

Yuexiu District is a district of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province, China, located west of the Tianhe District and east of the Liwan District.

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Yuhang District

Yuhang is a suburban district of Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China.

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Yuzhong District

Yuzhong District is the central district and heart of Chongqing municipality.

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Zhejiang

, formerly romanized as Chekiang, is an eastern coastal province of China.

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Zhili

Zhili, formerly romanized as Chihli, was a northern province of China from the 14th-century Ming Dynasty until the province was dissolved in 1928 during the Warlord Era.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-controlled_municipalities_of_China

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