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✶ Provincial-level divisions · 2020 census

Thirty-four units,
five levels down.

The PRC lists 23 provinces (one of them Taiwan, which it claims but does not govern), 5 autonomous regions, 4 municipalities and 2 special administrative regions. Below them, at the end of 2024: 333 prefecture-level, 2,846 county-level and 38,712 township-level divisions; counties and townships elect their people's congresses directly.

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Hover or tap a unit. Hatched: Taiwan, governed by the Republic of China.

Boundaries: geoBoundaries (public domain) clipped to Natural Earth's outline, which follows the lines of actual control; India's section draws the Survey of India boundary instead. Territorial claims are not shown. Map notes: SOURCES.md.

In relief · 14th NPC

Henan stands tallest,
Guangdong stretches thinnest.

Each unit raised by the deputies it sends to the National People's Congress, and coloured by how many residents each of them stands for: 745,636 in Guangdong. Switch to population to see how far the delegations track it.

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Drag to turn. Height: the measure chosen above, on a square-root scale. Colour: residents per deputy, from Macao (56,935) to Guangdong (745,636). Taiwan, governed by the Republic of China, is flat and hatched. Lines of actual control; no claim lines.

All 34 · with 14th NPC delegations

From 126 million
to 683,218.

UnitTypeCapitalPopulation 2020NPC deputiesPer deputy
Guangdong 广东 CN-GD Province Guangzhou 126,012,510 169 745,636
Shandong 山东 CN-SD Province Jinan 101,527,453 173 586,864
Henan 河南 CN-HA Province Zhengzhou 99,365,519 174 571,066
Jiangsu 江苏 CN-JS Province Nanjing 84,748,016 144 588,528
Sichuan 四川 CN-SC Province Chengdu 83,674,866 147 569,217
Hebei 河北 CN-HE Province Shijiazhuang 74,610,235 123 606,587
Hunan 湖南 CN-HN Province Changsha 66,444,864 118 563,092
Zhejiang 浙江 CN-ZJ Province Hangzhou 64,567,588 99 652,198
Anhui 安徽 CN-AH Province Hefei 61,027,171 111 549,794
Hubei 湖北 CN-HB Province Wuhan 57,752,557 113 511,085
Guangxi 广西 CN-GX Autonomous region (Zhuang) Nanning 50,126,804 91 550,844
Yunnan 云南 CN-YN Province Kunming 47,209,277 91 518,783
Jiangxi 江西 CN-JX Province Nanchang 45,188,635 81 557,884
Liaoning 辽宁 CN-LN Province Shenyang 42,591,407 94 453,100
Fujian 福建 CN-FJ Province Fuzhou 41,540,086 74 561,353
Shaanxi 陕西 CN-SN Province Xi'an 39,528,999 69 572,884
Guizhou 贵州 CN-GZ Province Guiyang 38,562,148 75 514,162
Shanxi 山西 CN-SX Province Taiyuan 34,915,616 68 513,465
Chongqing 重庆 CN-CQ Municipality Chongqing 32,054,159 59 543,291
Heilongjiang 黑龙江 CN-HL Province Harbin 31,850,088 84 379,168
Xinjiang 新疆 CN-XJ Autonomous region (Uyghur) Ürümqi 25,852,345 60 430,872
Gansu 甘肃 CN-GS Province Lanzhou 25,019,831 53 472,072
Shanghai 上海 CN-SH Municipality Shanghai 24,870,895 57 436,331
Jilin 吉林 CN-JL Province Changchun 24,073,453 60 401,224
Inner Mongolia 内蒙古 CN-NM Autonomous region (Mongol) Hohhot 24,049,155 58 414,641
Taiwan 台湾 CN-TW Provinceclaimed; governed by the ROC — 23,561,236 13 —
Beijing 北京 CN-BJ Municipality Beijing 21,893,095 53 413,077
Tianjin 天津 CN-TJ Municipality Tianjin 13,866,009 40 346,650
Hainan 海南 CN-HI Province Haikou 10,081,232 26 387,740
Hong Kong 香港 CN-HK Special administrative region — 7,474,200 36 207,617
Ningxia 宁夏 CN-NX Autonomous region (Hui) Yinchuan 7,202,654 23 313,159
Qinghai 青海 CN-QH Province Xining 5,923,957 24 246,832
Tibet 西藏 CN-XZ Autonomous region (Tibetan) Lhasa 3,648,100 24 152,004
Macao 澳门 CN-MO Special administrative region — 683,218 12 56,935

7th National Population Census, standard time 2020-11-01 00:00; resident population. Mainland 31 total 1,411,778,724 (incl. 2,000,000 active-duty military); national total incl. HK/Macau/Taiwan 1,443,497,378. Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan: end-2020 figures from their own authorities, as quoted by the NBS (not census counts). Capitals: Wikipedia (secondary). Autonomous regions are named for their titular group.

Below the provinces · end of 2024

Every level
has a congress.

  • 333prefecture-level divisions — congress elected by the county congresses
  • 2,846county-level divisions — congress elected directly
  • 977municipal districts
  • 397county level cities
  • 1,301counties
  • 117autonomous counties
  • 38,712township-level divisions — towns and townships elect directly; subdistricts are not among the levels Article 95 lists

China Statistical Yearbook 2025, table 1-1 全国行政区划(2024年底), NBS (image table read directly). County-level types not itemised (banners and others) make up the remainder.