List of regions of the People's Republic of China
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This is a list of the 31 provincial-level divisions of the People's Republic of China grouped by its former administrative areas from 1949 to 1952, which are now known as traditional regions.
Overview
Economic regions
East Coast |
Central China |
Northeast China |
Western China |
Nationalist Era regions
Central China |
South China |
North China |
Northeast China |
Northern Frontier |
Western China |
People's Republic of China
North China |
Northeast China |
East China |
South Central China |
Southwest China |
Northwest China |
Region | Map | Area | Population (2010) | Population Density | Provinces | Provincial seat |
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North China 华北 | 1,556,061 km² | 164,823,226 | 105/km² | Beijing | Dongcheng District | |
Tianjin | Heping District | |||||
Hebei | Shijiazhuang | |||||
Shanxi | Taiyuan | |||||
Inner Mongolia | Hohhot | |||||
Northeast China 东北 | 793,300 km² | 109,520,844 | 138/km² | Liaoning | Shenyang | |
Jilin | Changchun | |||||
Heilongjiang | Harbin | |||||
East China 华东 | 795,837 km² | 384,364,968 | 483/km² | Shanghai | Huangpu District | |
Jiangsu | Nanjing | |||||
Zhejiang | Hangzhou | |||||
Anhui | Hefei | |||||
Fujian | Fuzhou | |||||
Jiangxi | Nanchang | |||||
Shandong | Jinan | |||||
South Central China 中南 | 1,014,354 km² | 383,559,808 | 378/km² | Henan | Zhengzhou | |
Hubei | Wuhan | |||||
Hunan | Changsha | |||||
Guangdong | Guangzhou | |||||
Guangxi | Nanning | |||||
Hainan | Haikou | |||||
Hong Kong | Hong Kong | |||||
Macau | Macau | |||||
Southwest China 西南 | 2,365,900 km² | 192,979,243 | 82/km² | Chongqing | Yuzhong District | |
Sichuan | Chengdu | |||||
Guizhou | Guiyang | |||||
Yunnan | Kunming | |||||
Tibet | Lhasa | |||||
Northwest China 西北 | 3,107,701 km² | 96,644,038 | 31/km² | Shaanxi | Xi'an | |
Gansu | Lanzhou | |||||
Qinghai | Xining | |||||
Ningxia | Yinchuan | |||||
Xinjiang | Ürümqi |
Other kinds of statistics
Region | Area | Population (2010) | Population Density | Provinces included & Notes |
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North China (without Eastern Inner Mongolia) |
1,082,492 km² | 153,180,300 | 142/km² | Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, and Inner Mongolia (without Chifeng, Hinggan, Hulunbuir, and Tongliao) |
Northeast China (with Eastern Inner Mongolia) |
1,266,869 km² | 121,163,770 | 96/km² | Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, and Eastern Inner Mongolia (Chifeng, Hinggan, Hulunbuir, and Tongliao) |
East China | 832,028 km² | 407,527,091 | 499/km² | The above-mentioned seven entities plus the claimed Taiwan Province. Taiwan is administered by the Republic of China but claimed by the People's Republic of China. |
Central China | 564,700 km² | 216,945,029 | 384/km² | Henan, Hubei, and Hunan |
South China | 449,654 km² | 166,614,779 | 371/km² | Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hong Kong, and Macau |
Western China | 3,978,700 km² | 289,623,281 | 73/km² | Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, and Xinjiang |
See also
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- Administrative divisions of China
- List of ecoregions in China
- Northern and southern China
- Physiographic macroregions of China
- Regional discrimination in China
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