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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 ...
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.
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.
[131] [33] The first Roman glassware discovered in China is a blue soda-lime glass bowl dating to the early 1st century BC and excavated from a Western Han tomb in the southern port city of Guangzhou, which may have come there via the Indian Ocean and South China Sea. [132] Other Roman glass items include a mosaic-glass bowl found in a prince's ...
Xi'an is a world leading city for scientific research and as of 2023, it ranked among the world's top 20 cities and China's top 10 cities by scientific research output by the Nature Index. [14] It ranked first in West China region, with a combined population of almost 300 million.
Additionally, several city governments have promoted the name "Oriental Geneva" (simplified Chinese: 东方日内瓦; traditional Chinese: 東方日內瓦; pinyin: Dōngfāng Rìnèiwǎ) for themselves. These cities include Shijiazhuang and Qinhuangdao in Hebei, Zhaoqing in Guangdong, Kunming and Dali in Yunnan, Chaohu in Anhui, and Wuxi in ...
During a recent trip to Italy, I visited Solomeo, a small village in the Province of Perugia.. The fairytale-like village was restored by billionaire fashion designer Brunello Cucinelli.. I loved ...
The culture of the People's Republic of China (PRC) is a rich and varied blend of traditional Chinese culture with communist and other international modern and post-modern influences. During the Cultural Revolution , an enormous number of cultural treasures of inestimable value were seriously damaged or destroyed, and the practice of many arts ...