List of administrative divisions of Tianjin

Tianjin is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of the People's Republic of China, and is further divided into 16 districts.

Municipality of Tianjin
Municipality
Seat: Heping District
County level divisions
Sub-provincial new areas	1
Districts	15
Township level divisions
Towns	118
Townships	19
Ethnic townships	1
Subdistricts	106
Villages level divisions
Communities	1,646
Administrative villages	3,680

In addition, the Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Area (TEDA) is not a formal level of administration, but nevertheless enjoys rights similar to a regular district.^{[citation needed]}

Map of Tianjin (labeled as T'IEN-CHING (TIENTSIN)) and vicinity (AMS, 1955)

Heping Hexi Hebei Nankai Hedong Hongqiao Central Tianjin Jizhou Baodi Ninghe Binhai Dongli Jinnan Xiqing Beichen Wuqing Jinghai

Administrative divisions

All of these administrative divisions are explained in greater detail at Administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China. This chart lists only county-level divisions of Tianjin.

	County Level
	Name	Chinese	Hanyu Pinyin	Division code[1]		Area (km²)	Population (2010 census)[2]	Density (/km²)
	Heping District (City seat)	和平区	Hépíng Qū	120101	HPG	9.97	273,466	27,429
	Hedong District	河东区	Hédōng Qū	120102	HDQ	39.00	860,852	22,073
	Hexi District	河西区	Héxī Qū	120103	HXQ	41.24	870,632	21,111
	Nankai District	南开区	Nánkāi Qū	120104	NKQ	40.64	1,018,196	25,054
	Hebei District	河北区	Héběi Qū	120105	HBQ	29.14	788,368	27,054
	Hongqiao District	红桥区	Hōngqiáo Qū	120106	HQO	21.30	531,526	24,954
	Dongli District	东丽区	Dōnglì Qū	120110	DLI	460.00	569,955	1,239
	Xiqing District	西青区	Xīqīng Qū	120111	XQG	545.00	684,690	1,256
	Jinnan District	津南区	Jīnnán Qū	120112	JNQ	401.00	593,063	1,479
	Beichen District	北辰区	Běichén Qū	120113	BCQ	478.00	669,031	1,400
	Wuqing District	武清区	Wǔqīng Qū	120114	WQQ	1,570.00	949,413	605
	Baodi District	宝坻区	Bǎodǐ Qū	120115	BDI	1,523.00	799,057	525
	Binhai New Area	滨海新区	Bīnhǎi Xīnqū	120116	BHX	2,270.00	2,482,065	1,093
	Ninghe District	宁河区	Nínghé Qū	120117	NIH	1,414.00	416,143	294
	Jinghai District	静海区	Jìnghǎi Qū	120118	JHC	1,476.00	646,978	438
	Jizhou District	蓟州区	Jìzhōu Qū	120119	JZI	1,590.00	784,789	494

Recent changes in administrative divisions

Date	Before	After	Note	Reference[3][4]
1973-07-07	parts of Hebei Province	Tianjin Municipality	provincial transferred
	parts of Tianjin Prefecture	provincial-controlled	transferred
	↳ Ninghe County	↳ Ninghe County	transferred
	↳ Jinghai County	↳ Jinghai County	transferred
	↳ Wuqing County	↳ Wuqing County	transferred
	↳ Baodi County	↳ Baodi County	transferred
	↳ Ji County	↳ Ji County	transferred
1979-11-06	parts of Nanjiao District	Dagang District	established
1992-02-12	Dongjiao District	Dongli District	renamed	Civil Affairs [1992]16
	Nanjiao District	Jinnan District	renamed
	Xijiao District	Xiqing District	renamed
	Beijiao District	Beichen District	renamed
2000-06-13	Wuqing County	Wuqing District	reorganized	State Council [2000]67
2001-03-22	Baodi County	Baodi District	reorganized	State Council [2001]29
2009-10-21	Tanggu District	Binhai New Area	merged & established	State Council [2009]125
	Hangu District		merged & established
	Dagang District		merged & established
2015-07-23	Ninghe County	Ninghe District	reorganized	State Council [2015]119
	Jinghai County	Jinghai District	reorganized
2016-06-08	Ji County	Jizhou District	reorganized	State Council [2016]98

Historical divisions

ROC (1911–1949)

County / City	Present division
Tianjin City 天津市	Heping, Hexi, Hebei, Nankai, Hedong, Hongqiao
Tianjin County 天津縣	Jinnan, Dongli, Xiqing, Beichen
Wuqing County 武清縣	Wuqing
Baodi County 寶坻縣	Baodi
Jinghai County 靜海縣	Jinghai, Binhai
Ninghe County 寧河縣	Ninghe, Binhai
Ji County 薊縣	Jizhou