Provinces of China
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Provinces (Chinese: 省; pinyin: Shěng) are the most numerous type of province-level divisions in the People's Republic of China (PRC). There are currently 22 provinces administered by the PRC and one province that is claimed, but not administered, which is Taiwan, currently administered by the Republic of China (ROC).
This article is about provinces in the People's Republic of China. For all province-level divisions of China, see Province-level divisions of China. For the Republic of China, see Administrative divisions of Taiwan.
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Category | Unitary state |
Location | People's Republic of China |
Number | 22 (1 claimed) |
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Simplified Chinese | 省 | ||||||||||
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Tibetan | ཞིང་ཆེན། | ||||||||||
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Zhuang | Swngj | ||||||||||
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Hangul | 성 | ||||||||||
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Mongolian Cyrillic | муж | ||||||||||
Mongolian script | ᠮᠤᠵᠢ | ||||||||||
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Uyghur | ئۆلكە | ||||||||||
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Manchu script | ᡤᠣᠯᠣ | ||||||||||
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Kazakh | ولكە өлке ölke | ||||||||||
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Kyrgyz | ۅلكۅ өлкө ölkö | ||||||||||
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The local governments of Chinese provinces consists 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.