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In China, an administrative village (Chinese: 村; pinyin: cūn) is a type fifth-level administrative division, underneath a township, county, city, and province. There are more than six hundred thousand administrative villages in China. [1] Some villages are not administrative villages but natural villages, which are not administrative divisions.
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]).
Villages (Chinese: 村; pinyin: Cūn), formally village-level divisions (村级行政区; Cūn Jí Xíngzhèngqū) in China, serve as a fundamental organizational unit for its rural population (census, mail system). Basic local divisions like neighborhoods and communities are not informal, but have defined boundaries and designated heads (one ...
299 prefecture-level cities: the largest number of prefectural-level divisions, generally composed of an urban center and surrounding rural areas much larger than the urban core and thus not "cities" but municipalities in the strict sense of the term
Shanghai is China's most populous urban area, [8] [9] while Chongqing is its largest city proper, the only city in China with the largest permanent population of over 30 million. [ 10 ] As of 2020, there were 113 Chinese cities with over 1 million people in urban areas.
Pages in category "Villages in China" The following 104 pages are in this category, out of 104 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
List of top municipalities and prefecture-level divisions by GDP [5] Nominal GDP is based on the official annual average exchange rate at CN¥ 6.3527 per US dollar in 2021 ; CN¥4.173 per Int'l. dollar (according to World Economic Outlook published by IMF in October 2021 publication) [ 6 ] [ 7 ]
From then on, "cities" in mainland China became just like any other administrative division, containing urban areas, towns, villages, and farmland. These cities are subdivided into districts, counties, autonomous counties, and county-level cities. At the same time, counties and county-level cities began to be replaced with districts, especially ...