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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 Province.
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Hangzhou is located in northwestern Zhejiang province, at the southern end of the Grand Canal of China, which runs to Beijing, in the south-central portion of the Yangtze River Delta. Its administrative area (sub-provincial city) extends west to the mountainous parts of Anhui province, and east to the coastal plain near Hangzhou Bay.
Description: An SVG map of China with Zhejiang highlighted in orange and Hangzhou highlighted in red Legend: Date: 19 February 2010: Source: self-made; based on CIA public domain maps:
State Council [2013]112 Shangyu (CL-City) Shangyu District: reorganized 2014-12-13: Fuyang County: Fuyang District: reorganized: State Council [2014]157 2015-07-23: Dongtou County: Dongtou District: reorganized: State Council [2015]122 2016-09-14: Jiangdong District: Yinzhou District: merged into: State Council [2016]158 parts of Yinzhou ...
Provinces are the most common form of province-level governments. The legislative bodies of the provinces are the Provincial People's Congresses. The executive branch is the Provincial People's Government, led by a governor. The People's Government is answerable to both the State Council and the Provincial People's Congress.
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 ...
Zhejiang is also one of China's leading provinces in research and education. As of 2024, two major cities in Zhejiang ranked in the world's top 200 cities (Hangzhou 13th and Ningbo 123rd) by scientific research output, as tracked by Nature Index. [9]