This is a very non-scientific collection of administrative divisions of China collected from various available sources – mostly photographs of official government agency signs. It is by no means comprehensive and should always be checked against official sources.
11 Beijing City
12 Tianjin City
13 Hebei Province
14 Shanxi Province
15 Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
21 Liaoning Province
22 Jilin Province
23 Heilongjiang Province
31 Shanghai City
32 Jiangsu Province
33 Zhejiang Province
34 Anhui Province
35 Fujian Province
36 Jiangxi Province
37 Shandong Province
41 Henan Province
42 Hubei Province
43 Hunan Province
44 Guangdong Province
45 Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
46 Hainan Province
50 Chongqing City
51 Sichuan Province
52 Guizhou Province
53 Yunnan Province
54 Tibet (Xizang) Autonomous Region
61 Shaanxi Province
62 Gansu Province
63 Qinghai Province
64 Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
65 Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Administrative divisions are based on
Notice: As of October 2024 the National Bureau of Statistics (stats.gov.cn) will no longer disclose urban and rural division codes. (Source).
This means that from now on official codes will be provided only by the Ministry of Civil Affairs (mca.gov.cn). These codes do not include industrial parks (园区), mining areas (工矿区), farms (农场) and other township-level units (codes containing xxxxxx400xxx-599xxx, with a few exceptions). To indicate “legacy” codes from the National Bureau of Statistics, they will be highlighted in blue.
New feature starting October 2024: Click on a row to show the source(s) for the entry and if available the history of name changes back to 1980.
Additional sources are listed separately for each province.
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Elements marked with * indicate that they are the primary sources for all references containing (Photo). This includes pictures of official building signs (plaques), road signs, etc.
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