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Northwestern China (西北) is a region in the People's Republic of China. It consists of five provincial administrative regions, namely Shaanxi , Gansu , Qinghai , Ningxia , and Xinjiang . The region is characterized by a (semi-)arid continental climate .
This is a set of revised NPOV locator maps for each of the provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities of Mainland China. These maps are intended to be as NPOV as possible: all disputed areas are shown and then labeled separately. (The South China Sea islands are however omitted, because they would take up too much space in the infobox.)
Because of this, prefecture-level cities often overlap in area with county-level cities. Four cities are centrally administered municipalities, which include dense urban areas, suburbs, and large rural areas: Chongqing (32.05 million [3]), Shanghai (24.87 million [3]), Beijing (21.89 million [3]), and Tianjin (13.87 million [3]).
East China: 832,028 km 2: 407,527,091: 499/km 2: The above-mentioned seven entities plus the claimed Taiwan Province. Taiwan and its surrounding island groups are administered by the Republic of China but claimed by the People's Republic of China. Central China: 564,700 km 2: 216,945,029: 384/km 2: Henan, Hubei, and Hunan: South China: 449,654 ...
Xi'an – which includes the sites of the former capitals Fenghao and Chang'an – is the provincial capital and largest city in Northwest China [5] and also one of the oldest cities in China and the oldest of the Four Ancient Capitals, being the capital for the Western Zhou, Western Han, Jin, Sui and Tang dynasties. [6]
All provincial-level divisions of China are divided into prefectural-level divisions (second-level): prefectural-level cities, prefectures, autonomous prefectures and leagues. There are 339 official prefecture level divisions in China as of January 2019: 333 under the control of the People's Republic of China , and 6 in the claimed Taiwan ...
English: Map of Northwestern China as defined by the Chinese government. Based on File:China provinces blank.svg , meant to supersede File:Xibei_China.png . Created with Inkscape.
Gansu [a] is a province in Northwestern China.Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeastern part of the province.The seventh-largest administrative district by area at 453,700 square kilometres (175,200 sq mi), Gansu lies between the Tibetan and Loess plateaus and borders Mongolia's Govi-Altai Province, Inner Mongolia and Ningxia to the north, Xinjiang and Qinghai to the west ...