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  2. Chongqing - Wikipedia

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    Chongqing food is part of Sichuan cuisine. Chongqing is known for its spicy food. Its food is normally considered numbing because of the use of Sichuan pepper, also known as Sichuan peppercorn, containing hydroxy alpha sanshool. Chongqing's city center has many restaurants and food stalls where meals often cost less than RMB10.

  3. Southwestern China - Wikipedia

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    The narrowest concept of Southwestern China consists of Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan, and Guizhou, while wider definitions often include Guangxi and western portions of Hunan. [4] The official government definition of Southwestern China includes the core provinces of Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan, and Guizhou, in addition to the Tibet Autonomous ...

  4. Sichuan - Wikipedia

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    Chongqing was part of Sichuan Province until 1939 and 1954 to 1997. Xikang Province dissolved in 1955 and parts were incorporated into Sichuan Province. The majority of the province's population is Han Chinese (95% of the provincial population), who are found scattered throughout the region except for the far western areas.

  5. Sichuan cuisine - Wikipedia

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    Sichuan cuisine or Sichuanese cuisine, alternatively romanized as Szechwan cuisine or Szechuan cuisine (Chinese: 四川 ⓘ, Standard Mandarin pronunciation: [sɨ̂.ʈʂʰwán] ⓘ) [1] is a style of Chinese cuisine originating from Sichuan province and the neighboring Chongqing municipality. Chongqing was formerly a part of Sichuan until 1997 ...

  6. List of administrative divisions of Sichuan - Wikipedia

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    ↳ Hechuan (CL-City) transferred parts of Sichuan Province: Chongqing (Municipality) provincial transferred ★ Chongqing (PL-City) provincial-controlled: disestablished & merged into ☆ Fuling (PL-City) disestablished & merged into ↳ Zhicheng District: ↳ Fuling District: disestablished & established ↳ Lidu District: disestablished ...

  7. Sichuan Basin - Wikipedia

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    Administratively, the entire basin was part of Sichuan province until Chongqing was separated into a provincial-level municipality in 1997. In addition to Chengdu and Chongqing, significant cities found within the Sichuan Basin include Guangyuan , Mianyang , Deyang , Nanchong , Guang'an , Dazhou , Ya'an , Meishan , Leshan , Ziyang , Suining ...

  8. Chongzhou - Wikipedia

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    Chongzhou (Chinese: 崇州; pinyin: Chóngzhōu), known as Chongqing County (simplified Chinese: 崇庆县; traditional Chinese: 崇慶縣) until 1994, is a county-level city of Sichuan Province, Southwest China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Chengdu, located about 37 km (23 mi) west-southwest of downtown Chengdu.

  9. List of Chinese administrative divisions by population

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    PRC-controlled administrative divisions by population (2013). Average Annual Population Growth Rate in each Chinese province (exc. Taiwan), municipality, and autonomous region between 2010 and 2020 according to the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics