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A typical rural village in Hainan, China The building housing the local village committee and other government offices and organizations in Baiwan Village, Xiqiuwan Township, Badong County, Hubei. Administrative village or Village (Chinese: 行政村 or 村; pinyin: xíngzhèngcūn or cūn) Hamlet or Band (Chinese: 屯; pinyin: tún)
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town, with a population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. In China, an administrative village ( Chinese : 村 ; pinyin : cūn ) is a type fifth-level administrative division, underneath a township, county, city, and province.
When referring to political divisions of China, town is the standard English translation of the Chinese 镇 (traditional: 鎮; pinyin: zhèn; Wade–Giles: chen 4).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]
The Yunnan Nationalities Village, colloquially Yunnan Ethnic Village, (Chinese: 云南民族村; pinyin: Yúnnán Mínzú Cūn) is a theme park that displays the various folklore, culture, and religion of 26 ethnic groups in Yunnan Province, China next to Dianchi lake. [20] The park covers an area of 89 hectares including 31 hectares of water. [20]
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[6] [7] The Chinese government's Historic Artifacts Bureau preserved tombs of Arabs and Persians whom Hui are descended from around Quanzhou. [8] Many of these Hui worship their village guardian deities and are non-Muslims; they include Buddhists , Taoists , followers of Chinese Folk Religions, secularists, and Christians. [ 9 ]
The class identifier in Chinese is placed at the end, in English with the exceptions of mountains and lakes the identifier is placed at the end too. For names of lakes and mountains "X Lake" [4] / "Lake X" and "X Mountain" / "Mount X" both is used. Some mountain ranges like Tian Shan are referred to English by the Chinese name. "Tian" means sky ...
Urban villages (Chinese: 城中村; pinyin: chéngzhōngcūn; literally: "village in city") are villages that appear on both the outskirts and the downtown segments of major Chinese cities, including Shenzhen and Guangzhou. They are surrounded by skyscrapers, transportation infrastructures, and other modern urban constructions.