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4 Municipalities*
23 Provinces:
5 Autonomous Regions***
2 Special Administrative
Regions (SAR)****
Notes:
* Municipalities
are directly under the administration of central government. A
municipality has the same political, economical and jurisdictional
rights as a province;
**Taiwan
Issue:
a result of China's civil
war in late 1940s'. In the earlier years of separation of mainland
China and Taiwan, both sides of China (also called People's Republic
of China "PRC" or "communist China", "red China" , "mainland China")
and Taiwan (also called Republic of China "ROC") claim the legal
sovereignty over China. Mainland China keeps claiming Taiwan as one of
its provinces while Taiwan regards itself as an independent country.)
*** Autonomous Regions was
provincial level administrative division of China, like
province, an autonomous region has its won local government,
but has more legislative rights. Autonomous Region is a
minority entity which has higher population of a particular
minority ethnic group.
**** Special Administrative
Regions (SAR) was established specially designed for solving
Hong Kong and Macao issues and based on the concept of "one country,
two systems", SAR is in a pattern within which two completely
different social systems (socialist system and capitalist system) and
ideologies can coexist, SAR has more autonomous power regulated
clearly by laws, including executive, legislative and independent
judicial power.
The statistics of each administrative division are collected from
official and unofficial publications, updated constantly and for your
reference only.
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