| County-level division 县级行政区 Xiàn Jí Xíngzhèngqū | |
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| Category | Third level administrative division of a unitary state |
| Location |  People's Republic of China |
| Number | 2,842 county-level divisions including 172 in Taiwan Province[a] (as of 2023) |
| Populations | 6,567 (Zanda) – 14,047,625 (Pudong) |
| Areas | 10 km2 (3.9 sq mi) (Xisha) – 124,500 km2 (48,100 sq mi) (Golmud) |
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| Administrative divisions of China |
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History: before 1912, 1912–49, 1949–present Administrative division codes |
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| Simplified Chinese | 县级行政区 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 縣級行政區 | ||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 县 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 縣 | ||||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||||
| Tibetan | རྫོང་། (formerly 宗 in Chinese) | ||||||||
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| Zhuang | Yen | ||||||||
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| Hangul | 현 | ||||||||
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| Mongolian script | ᠰᠢᠶᠠᠨ | ||||||||
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| Uyghur name | |||||||||
| Uyghur | ناھىيە | ||||||||
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The People's Republic of China (PRC) is divided into 2,854 county-level divisions which rank below prefectures/provinces and above townships as the third-level administrative division in the country. Of these, 2,842 are located in territory controlled by the PRC, while 172 are located in land controlled by the Republic of China (ROC).[a]
There are six types of county-level divisions:
- 1,123 districts (965 in Mainland China and 158 in the claimed Taiwan Province)[a]
- 411 county-level cities (408 in Mainland China and 3 in Taiwan)
- 1,319 counties (1,307 in Mainland China and 12 controlled by the Republic of China)
- 117 autonomous counties and banners
- 1 special district
- 1 forestry district
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