Autonomous regions of China

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Autonomous regions 自治区 Zìzhìqū
Category	Unitary state
Location	China
Number	5 (Guangxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Tibet, and Xinjiang)
Populations	110,879,058[a]
Areas	4,380,000 km2 (1,690,000 sq mi)[b]
Government	Regional People's Government, Central People's Government
Subdivisions	Prefecture-level city, prefecture, league, sub-provincial autonomous prefecture, autonomous prefecture

The autonomous regions (Chinese: 自治区; pinyin: Zìzhìqū) are one of four types of province-level divisions of China. Like Chinese provinces, an autonomous region has its own local government, but under the law of the People's Republic of China, an autonomous region has more legislative rights, such as the right to "formulate self-government regulations and other separate regulations."^[1] An autonomous region is the highest level of minority autonomous entity in China, which has a comparably higher population of a particular minority ethnic group.

There are five autonomous regions in China: Guangxi, Inner Mongolia (Nei Menggu), Ningxia, Tibet (Xizang), and Xinjiang (Chinese Turkestan).

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