Back Provinsies van die Volksrepubliek China Afrikaans التقسيم الإداري في الصين Arabic مقاطعات الصين ARZ Organización territorial de la República Popular China AST Административно деление на Китайската народна република Bulgarian চীনের প্রশাসনিক বিভাজন Bengali/Bangla ཀྲུང་ཧྭ་མི་དམངས་སྤྱི་མཐུན་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་ས་ཁུལ་ཁག། Tibetan Administrativna podjela NR Kine BS Organització territorial de la República Popular de la Xina Catalan Administrativní dělení Číny Czech
There are twenty-three provinces, four municipalities, five autonomous regions and two special administrative regions in the People's Republic of China. Provinces are pronounced Shěng in Chinese Pinyin. The island of Taiwan is claimed as a province by the People's Republic of China (PRC), but it is not under their control. Taiwan is an island known as Republic of China (Taiwan).
Provinces and autonomous regions are broken into prefectures and sub-provincial cities.