Towns of China

Town (Zhen)
Town (Zhen)
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	镇
Traditional Chinese	鎮
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Zhèn
other Mandarin
Xiao'erjing	جٍـ
Tibetan name
Tibetan	གྲོང་རྡལ།
Wylie
Transcriptions
Wylie	drong del
Tibetan Pinyin	Chongdai
Zhuang name
Zhuang	Cin
Korean name
Hangul	진
Revised Romanization
Transcriptions
Revised Romanization	jin
McCune–Reischauer	chin
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillic	балгас
Mongolian script	ᠪᠠᠯᠭᠠᠰᠤ
SASM/GNC
Transcriptions
SASM/GNC	balɣasu
Uyghur name
Uyghur	بازارلىق‎
Latin Yëziqi
Transcriptions
Latin Yëziqi	Bazarliq
Manchu name
Manchu script	ᡴᠠᡩᠠᠯᠠᠩᡤᠠ
Möllendorff	kadalaŋga
Kazakh name
Kazakh	قالاشىق; қалашық; qalaşyq
Kyrgyz name
Kyrgyz	شاارچا; шаарча; şaarça

When referring to political divisions of China, town is the standard English translation of the Chinese 镇 (traditional: 鎮; pinyin: zhèn; Wade–Giles: chen⁴). The Constitution of the People's Republic of China classifies towns as third-level administrative units, along with, for example, townships (Chinese: 乡; pinyin: xiāng).^[1] A township is typically smaller in population and more remote than a town.

Similarly to a higher-level administrative units, the borders of a town would typically include an urban core (a small town with the population on the order of 10,000 people), as well as rural area with some villages (村; cūn, or 庄; zhuāng).

^ "Administrative Division". english.gov.cn. Retrieved 2018-03-30.

[1] "Administrative Division". english.gov.cn. Retrieved 2018-03-30.

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