How Chinese name their localities: province, county, city, town, district

Updated 2012-02-14 00:32:54

China is a country on the continent Asia, her capital is Beijing. Here is the hierarchy of the China administrative divisions: China is subdivided into provinces, that are at their turn subdivided into region cities, that are at their turn subdivided into counties, cities counties, that are at their turn subdivided into townships, that are at their turn subdivided into villages.

In China, The Names of Chinese Metropolitan Cities or strategic localities have names since centuries: LuoYang 洛阳, Ninghai 宁海, HangZhou 杭州, Liuzhou 柳州. It's regrettable that Chang An 长安, The Long Peace, capitat of six chinese dynasties be renamed as Xi'An 西安, peace at the West. This collection regroups 11 4398 names of provinces, counties, cities, towns, districts of large cities, names of streets, those of schools, comitees... Please not hesitate to launch a search...

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ID
Locality Ref.
1217
Locality
SanYuan County
French
Comté de SanYuan
Chinese
Spanish
SanYuan County
Italian
SanYuan County
Portuguese
SanYuan County
Germain
SanYuan County
Pinyin
San1 Yuan2 Xian4
PinyinPlain
SanYuanXian
Zipcode
713800
CodeLocality
610422
Phone Prefix
29
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