Provinces (China)

Province-level administrative divisions 省级行政区 shěng-jí xíngzhèngqū
Category	Unitary State
Location	People's Republic of China (PRC)
Number	34 (33 controlled by PRC & 1 controlled by ROC)
Populations	552,300 (Macau) – 104,303,132 (Guangdong)
Areas	31 km2 (12 sq mi) (Macau) – 730,000 km2 (280,000 sq mi) (Qinghai)
Government	Single-Party Government SARs: 1 country, 2 systems
Subdivisions	Sub-provincial city, Prefecture

province-level administrative divisions
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	省级行政区
Traditional Chinese	省級行政區
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin shěng-jí xíngzhèngqū
province
Chinese	省
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin shěng
Tibetan name
Tibetan	ཞིང་ཆེན།
Transcriptions Wylie zhing chen
Zhuang name
Zhuang	Swngj
Mongolian name
Mongolian script	ᠮᠤᠵᠢ
Transcriptions SASM/GNC Moji
Uyghur name
Uyghur	ئۆلكە
Transcriptions Latin Yëziqi Ölke Yengi Yeziⱪ Ɵlkə SASM/GNC Öleä

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	shěng-jí xíngzhèngqū

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	shěng

Transcriptions
Wylie	zhing chen

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SASM/GNC	Moji

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Latin Yëziqi	Ölke
Yengi Yeziⱪ	Ɵlkə
SASM/GNC	Öleä

Provinces (Chinese: 省; pinyin: shěng), formally provincial-level administrative divisions (Chinese: 省级行政区; pinyin: shěng-jí Xíngzhèngqū) or first-level administrative divisions (Chinese: 一级行政区; pinyin: yī-jí Xíngzhèngqū), are the highest-level Chinese administrative divisions. There are 33 such divisions, classified as 22 provinces (not including Taiwan, which is claimed but not actually controlled by the People's Republic of China), four municipalities, five autonomous regions, and two Special Administrative Regions.

The People's Republic of China (PRC) claims sovereignty over the territory administered by the Republic of China (ROC), claiming most of it as its Taiwan Province. The ROC also administers some offshore islands which form Fujian Province, ROC. These were part of an originally unified Fujian province, which since the stalemate of the Chinese Civil War in 1949 has been divided between the PRC and ROC.

Note that every province (except Hong Kong and Macau, the two special administrative regions) has a Communist Party of China provincial committee (Chinese: 省委; pinyin: shěng wěi), headed by a secretary (Chinese: 书记; pinyin: shūjì). The committee secretary is in effective charge of the province, rather than the nominal governor of the provincial government.

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