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According to the administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China, including Hong Kong and Macau, [clarify] there are three levels of cities: provincial-level cities [1] (consisting of municipalities and Special Administrative Regions [failed verification] [clarify] [2]), prefecture-level cities, and county-level cities.
Prefecture-level cities nearly always contain multiple counties (县), county-level cities, and other such sub-divisions. Municipalities and prefecture-level cities are not each a 'city' in the strictest sense of the term, but are, instead, an administrative unit comprising, typically, both the urban core ( a city in the strict sense ) and ...
Liqian was split from Fanhe and received the county status in the Western Han dynasty. The inhabitants around Liqian were later called Liqian Rong (驪靬戎; Líqián Róng) or Lushui Hu (盧水胡; Lúshǔi Hú) in historical records. [8] Several states established by non-Han Chinese have controlled Liqian during the Sixteen Kingdoms period.
In China, a national central city (国家中心城市) is a municipality or city with regional, national, and international importance. There are nine national central cities: Beijing , Tianjin , Chongqing , Shanghai , Guangzhou , Chengdu , Wuhan , Xi'an , and Zhengzhou .
This is a list of cities designated as National Famous Historical and Cultural Cities (国家历史文化名城) by the State Council of China.China approved 99 National Famous Historical and Cultural Cities in three batches in 1982, 1986 and 1994, and has approved a further 45 cities from August 10, 2001 to December 12, 2024, bringing the total to 144.
The scope of this list is limited to capital cities of first-level administrative divisions such as provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, and special administrative regions, also including sub-provincial cities which are governed by a province but administered independently in many ways from a province.
Zhelaizhai (simplified Chinese: 者来寨; traditional Chinese: 者來寨; pinyin: Zhěláizhài) is a village on the edge of the Gobi desert in Gansu province, China. The area was renamed after Liqian, an ancient county, [1] and is located in Jiaojiazhuang township, [2] Yongchang County.
However, other scholars, including Hirth and Hoppál, identify it with Antioch. It has also been suggested that the capital of Daqin described in those works is a conflation of multiple cities, chiefly Rome, Antioch and Alexandria. [15] In Gan Ying's report the capital of Daqin is "An-tu", Antioch. [16]