List of regions of the People's Republic of China
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This is a list of the 31 provincial-level divisions of the People's Republic of China grouped by its former administrative areas from 1949 to 1952, which are now known as traditional regions.
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Economic regions[edit]
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Central China
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Northeast China
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Western China
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Nationalist Era regions[edit]
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Central China
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South China
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North China
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Northern Frontier
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Western China
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People's Republic of China[edit]
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North China
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East China
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South Central China
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| Region | Map | Area | Population (2010) |
Population Density |
Provinces | Provincial seat |
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| North China 华北 |
1,556,061 km² | 164,823,226 | 105/km² | Beijing | Dongcheng District | |
| Tianjin | Heping District | |||||
| Hebei | Shijiazhuang | |||||
| Shanxi | Taiyuan | |||||
| Inner Mongolia | Hohhot | |||||
| Northeast China 东北 |
793,300 km² | 109,520,844 | 138/km² | Liaoning | Shenyang | |
| Jilin | Changchun | |||||
| Heilongjiang | Harbin | |||||
| East China 华东 |
795,837 km² | 384,364,968 | 483/km² | Shanghai | Huangpu District | |
| Jiangsu | Nanjing | |||||
| Zhejiang | Hangzhou | |||||
| Anhui | Hefei | |||||
| Fujian | Fuzhou | |||||
| Jiangxi | Nanchang | |||||
| Shandong | Jinan | |||||
| South Central China 中南 |
1,014,354 km² | 383,559,808 | 378/km² | Henan | Zhengzhou | |
| Hubei | Wuhan | |||||
| Hunan | Changsha | |||||
| Guangdong | Guangzhou | |||||
| Guangxi | Nanning | |||||
| Hainan | Haikou | |||||
| Hong Kong | Hong Kong | |||||
| Macau | Macau | |||||
| Southwest China 西南 |
2,365,900 km² | 192,979,243 | 82/km² | Chongqing | Yuzhong District | |
| Sichuan | Chengdu | |||||
| Guizhou | Guiyang | |||||
| Yunnan | Kunming | |||||
| Tibet | Lhasa | |||||
| Northwest China 西北 |
3,107,701 km² | 96,644,038 | 31/km² | Shaanxi | Xi'an | |
| Gansu | Lanzhou | |||||
| Qinghai | Xining | |||||
| Ningxia | Yinchuan | |||||
| Xinjiang | Ürümqi |
Other kinds of statistics[edit]
| Region | Area | Population (2010) |
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| North China (without Eastern Inner Mongolia) |
1,082,492 km² | 153,180,300 | 142/km² | Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, and Inner Mongolia (without Chifeng, Hinggan, Hulunbuir, and Tongliao) |
| Northeast China (with Eastern Inner Mongolia) |
1,266,869 km² | 121,163,770 | 96/km² | Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, and Eastern Inner Mongolia (Chifeng, Hinggan, Hulunbuir, and Tongliao) |
| East China | 832,028 km² | 407,527,091 | 499/km² | The above-mentioned seven entities plus the claimed Taiwan Province. Taiwan is administered by the Republic of China but claimed by the People's Republic of China. |
| Central China | 564,700 km² | 216,945,029 | 384/km² | Henan, Hubei, and Hunan |
| South China | 449,654 km² | 166,614,779 | 371/km² | Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hong Kong, and Macau |
| Western China | 3,978,700 km² | 289,623,281 | 73/km² | Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, and Xinjiang |
See also[edit]
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- Administrative divisions of China
- List of ecoregions in China
- Northern and southern China
- Physiographic macroregions of China
- Regional discrimination in China
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