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Overview of administrative divisions of the Republic of China
Republic of China
Free area [i] Mainland area [ii]
Special municipalities [α] [iii] Provinces [iv] Not administered [v]
Counties [α] Autonomous municipalities [α] [vi]
Districts [β] Mountain
indigenous
districts
[α]
County-
administered
cities
[α]
Townships [α] [β] [vii] Districts [β]
Villages [γ] [viii]
Neighborhoods
Notes
  1. ^ a b c d e f Has an elected executive and an elected legislative council.
  2. ^ a b c Has an appointed district administrator for managing local affairs and carrying out tasks commissioned by superior agency.
  3. ^ Has an elected village administrator for managing local affairs and carrying out tasks commissioned by superior agency.
  1. ^ Also known as the Taiwan area or Tai–Min area ( Chinese: 臺閩地區; lit. 'Taiwan–Fujian area')
  2. ^ The mainland area consists of Mainland China, Tibet and (previously) Outer Mongolia
  3. ^ Special municipalities, cities, and county-administered cities are all called shi ( Chinese: ; lit. 'city')
  4. ^ Nominal; provincial governments have been abolished
  5. ^ Constitutionally having the same structure as the free area, these are currently under the Chinese Communist Party control with a different structure
  6. ^ Sometimes called cities ( Chinese: ) or provincial cities ( Chinese: 省轄市) to distinguish them from special municipalities and county-administered cities
  7. ^ There are two types of townships: rural townships or xīang ( Chinese: ) and urban townships or zhèn ( Chinese: )
  8. ^ Villages in rural townships are known as tsūn ( Chinese: ), those in other jurisdictions are known as ( Chinese: )