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.
2138
Locality
SanMen County
French
Comté de SanMen
Chinese
Spanish
SanMen County
Italian
SanMen County
Portuguese
SanMen County
Germain
SanMen County
Pinyin
San1 Men2 Xian4
PinyinPlain
SanMenXian
Zipcode
317100
CodeLocality
331022
Phone Prefix
576
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