Villages of China

*formally*
Village-level divisions
formally; Village-level divisions
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	村级行政区
Traditional Chinese	村級行政區
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Cūn Jí Xíngzhèngqū
Alternative Chinese name
Chinese	村
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Cūn
Second alternative Chinese name
Chinese	嘎查
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Gāchá
Tibetan name
Tibetan	གྲོང་ཚོ
Wylie
Transcriptions
Wylie	grong tsho
Tibetan Pinyin	Chongco
Zhuang name
Zhuang	Cunh
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillic	тосгон (typical villages, 村); гацаа (gatsaa) translate as Gaqa(嘎查)
Mongolian script	ᠲᠣᠰᠬᠣᠨ; ᠭᠠᠴᠠᠭ᠎ᠠ
SASM/GNC
Transcriptions
SASM/GNC	togson; gaqaa
Uyghur name
Uyghur	كەنت‎
Latin Yëziqi
Transcriptions
Latin Yëziqi	kent
Kazakh name
Kazakh	قىستاق; қыстақ; qıstaq
Kyrgyz name
Kyrgyz	قىشتاع; кыштаг; kıştag

Villages (Chinese: 村; pinyin: Cūn), formally village-level divisions (村级行政区; Cūn Jí Xíngzhèngqū) in China, serve as a fundamental organizational unit for its rural population (census, mail system). Basic local divisions like neighborhoods and communities are not informal, but have defined boundaries and designated heads (one per area). In 2000, China's densely populated villages (>100 persons/square km) had a population greater than 500 million and covered more than 2 million square kilometers, or more than 20% of China's total area.^[1] By 2020, all incorporated villages (with proper conditions making it possible) had road access, the last village to be connected being a remote village in Sichuan province's Butuo County.^[2]

^ Ellis 2004.
^ "Paved road links China's "last village" with outside world - Xinhua | English.news.cn". Archived from the original on July 5, 2020.

[FOOTNOTEEllis2004-1] Ellis 2004.

[2] "Paved road links China's "last village" with outside world - Xinhua | English.news.cn". Archived from the original on July 5, 2020.

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