Provinces of China
| Provinces 省 Shěng | |
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| Location | China |
| Number | 22+1 claimed but not controlled |
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 省 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 省 | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||||||
| Tibetan | ཞིང་ཆེན། | ||||||||||
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| Zhuang name | |||||||||||
| Zhuang | Swngj | ||||||||||
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| Hangul | 성 | ||||||||||
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| Mongolian name | |||||||||||
| Mongolian Cyrillic | муж | ||||||||||
| Mongolian script | ᠮᠤᠵᠢ | ||||||||||
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| Uyghur name | |||||||||||
| Uyghur | ئۆلكە | ||||||||||
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| Manchu name | |||||||||||
| Manchu script | ᡤᠣᠯᠣ | ||||||||||
| Möllendorff | golo | ||||||||||
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| Kazakh | ولكە өлке ölke | ||||||||||
| Kyrgyz name | |||||||||||
| Kyrgyz | ۅلكۅ өлкө ölkö | ||||||||||
| Administrative divisions of China |
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History: before 1912, 1912–49, 1949–present Administrative division codes |
Provinces (Chinese: 省; pinyin: Shěng) are the most numerous type of province-level divisions, the first-level subdivisions of the People's Republic of China (PRC). There are currently 22 provinces administered by the PRC, and one further province that is claimed but not administered, which is Taiwan.
The local governments of Chinese provinces consist of a Provincial People's Government headed by a governor that acts as the executive, a Provincial People's Congress with legislative powers, and a parallel provincial branch of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that elects a party secretary and a provincial standing committee.