What are the provinces in China and what are the provinces in China?

The twenty-three provinces of China are:

Jiangxi Province, Shandong Province, Henan Province, Hubei Province, Hunan Province, Guangdong Province, Hainan Province, Sichuan Province, Guizhou Province, Yunnan Province, Hebei Province, Shanxi Province, Liaoning Province, Jilin Province, Heilongjiang Province, Jiangsu Province, Zhejiang Province, Anhui Province, Fujian Province, Shaanxi Province, Gansu Province, Qinghai Province, Taiwan Province.

Extended information: 1. China is located in the east of the Asian continent and the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, with a land area of about 9.6 million square kilometers. China's land border is 10,000 kilometers long, the mainland coastline is about 10,000 kilometers long, and the sea area is 4.73 million square kilometers.

2. Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region covers an area of 1.66 million square kilometers; Qinghai Province covers an area of 10,000 square kilometers; Hubei Province covers an area of 10,000 square kilometers; Guangdong Province covers an area of 180,000 square kilometers; The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region covers an area of 1101 square kilometers; The Macao Special Administrative Region covers an area of square kilometres.

3. Heilongjiang is located in the northeastern province, Jilin has the largest oil mother rock reserves in the country, Inner Mongolia is the largest natural grassland in the country, Hubei is the largest number of freshwater lakes, and Taiwan is the largest island in China.

4. The provincial people's first implementation of the provincial governor's responsibility system, the main functions and powers are: to implement the resolutions of the provincial people's congress and the resolutions and orders of the provincial people's congress, to formulate rules in accordance with the constitution and laws, to issue resolutions and orders, and to stipulate administrative measures.

China has 23 provinces, 5 autonomous regions and 4 municipalities directly under the central government.

By the end of 2020, China had 34 provincial-level administrative regions (including 23 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, 4 municipalities directly under the Central Government, 2 special administrative regions, 2,844 county-level administrative regions, and 38,741 township-level administrative regions).

The Constitution of the People's Republic of China stipulates that the administrative regions of the People's Republic of China are divided as follows: (1) the country is divided into provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government; (2) Provinces and autonomous regions are divided into autonomous prefectures, counties, autonomous counties, and cities; (3) Counties and autonomous counties are divided into townships, ethnic townships, and towns.

Regional location

China is located in the east of Asia, on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean. It starts from the center of the Heilongjiang River near the Mohe River in the north and reaches the dark sand of Zengmu in the Nansha Islands in the south. It stretches from the Pamir Plateau in the west to the confluence of the Heilongjiang and Ussuri rivers in the east. The land area is 9.6 million square kilometers, and the land border is more than 20,000 kilometers.

The territorial sea consists of the Bohai Sea (inland sea) and the three major border seas of the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and the coastline of the eastern and southern continents is 10,000 kilometers.

China's land borders are 10,000 kilometers long, bordering North Korea to the east, Mongolia to the north, Russia to the northeast, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the northwest, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan and other countries to the west and southwest, and Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam to the south. The east and southeast are bordered by South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, and Indonesia.