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China proper. A 1912 map from an issue of National Geographic magazine showing the Republic of China. China proper is shaded in pink, while other Chinese territories have pink borders. China proper, also called Inner China, [note 1] are terms used primarily in the West in reference to the traditional "core" regions of China centered in the ...
The People's Republic of China has an area of about 9,600,000 km 2 (3,700,000 sq mi). The exact land area is sometimes challenged by border disputes, most notably about Taiwan, Aksai Chin, the Trans-Karakoram Tract, and South Tibet. The area of the People's Republic of China is 9,596,960 km 2 (3,705,410 sq mi) according to the CIA's The World ...
Greater China is an ethno-linguistic term describing a geographical area sharing cultural and economic ties with the Chinese people. [1][2][3][4] The notion contains a "great deal of ambiguity in its geographical coverage and politico-economic implications", [5] because some users use it to refer to "the commercial ties among ethnic Chinese ...
China,[i]officially the People's Republic of China(PRC),[j]is a country in East Asia. With a populationexceeding 1.4 billion, it is the world's second-most populous countryafter India, representing 17.4% of the world population. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land.
v. t. e. 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 ...
Qing China reached its largest extent during the 18th century, when it ruled China proper (eighteen provinces) as well as the areas of present-day Northeast China, Inner Mongolia, Outer Mongolia, Xinjiang and Tibet, at approximately 13 million km 2 in size. There were originally 18 provinces, all of which in China proper, but later this number ...
The constitution of China provides for three levels of government. However in practice, there are five levels of local government; the provincial (province, autonomous region, municipality, and special administrative region), prefecture, county, township, and village. Since the 17th century, provincial boundaries in China have remained largely ...
China is officially (de jure) divided into 34 [ a ]province-level administrative divisions, the first level of administrative division in the country. There are four types of divisions at the province level: Province-level divisions can trace their origins back to the Yuan dynasty.