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| Administrative divisions of China |
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Analogous county level units Management areas Management committee |
Analogous township level units Management areas Management committee Farms area (Overseas Chinese Farm Region [zh]),Prison area,University towns, etc. |
(Grassroots Autonomous Organizations) Villages · Gaqa · Ranches Residential Committees |
History:before 1912,1912–49,1949–present Administrative division codes |
Aprovincial-controlled division (Chinese:省直辖县级行政区;pinyin:shěng zhíxiá xiàn jí xíngzhèngqū), is an unofficial designation for a type of administrative division of China. Every provincial-controlled divisions is officially considered to be acounty-level city orcounty, but it has more powerde facto because it is directly under the province similar to prefectural-level divisions.