Provinces of China

*formally*
Province-level divisions
formally; Province-level divisions
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	省级行政区
Traditional Chinese	省級行政區
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Shěng jí xíngzhèngqū
Alternative Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	省
Traditional Chinese	省
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Shěng
Tibetan name
Tibetan	ཞིང་ཆེན།
Wylie
Transcriptions
Wylie	zhing chen
Tibetan Pinyin	Xingqên
Zhuang name
Zhuang	Swngj
Korean name
Hangul	성
Revised Romanization
Transcriptions
Revised Romanization	seong
McCune–Reischauer	sŏng
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillic	муж
Mongolian script	ᠮᠤᠵᠢ
SASM/GNC
Transcriptions
SASM/GNC	muǰi
Uyghur name
Uyghur	ئۆلكە‎
Latin Yëziqi
Transcriptions
Latin Yëziqi	ölke
Yengi Yeziⱪ	ɵlkə
SASM/GNC	ölkä
Siril Yëziqi	өлкә
Manchu name
Manchu script	ᡤᠣᠯᠣ
Möllendorff	golo
Kazakh name
Kazakh	ولكە; өлке; ölke
Kyrgyz name
Kyrgyz	ۅلكۅ; өлкө; ölkö

Provinces
省
*Shěng*
Provinces; 省; Shěng
Category	Unitary state
Location	People's Republic of China
Number	22 (1 claimed)
Government	Unitary one-party socialist republic;
Subdivisions	Sub-provincial city, Prefecture-level divisions;

Provinces (Chinese: 省; pinyin: Shěng) are the most numerous type of province-level divisions in the People's Republic of China (PRC). There are currently 22 provinces administered by the PRC and one province that is claimed, but not administered, which is Taiwan, currently administered by the Republic of China (ROC).

The local governments of Chinese provinces consists of a Provincial People's Government headed by a governor that acts as the executive, a Provincial People's Congress with legislative powers, and a parallel provincial branch of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that elects a Party Secretary and a Provincial Standing Committee.