China - Chinese geography, Geography of China
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With a surface of 9 600 000 km2 at 70% mountainous, from the arid desert of Gobi to the green hills of the Canton, while passing by the immense plain of the North of China, China is composed today of 34 administrative units on the level of the province.
Resume: Province: 23, Autonomous Region: 5, Metropolitain City: 4, Special Zone: 2
All these entities constitute the first layer of the Chinese Administration, Equivalent Provinces, they are directly responsible for the central government at Pekin (Beijing) except for the Island of Taiwan. The 2 special zones HongKong and Macao ended with a peaceful decolonization with a legislative supreme at a semi-democratic mode. The 4 metropolitan cities are characterized by their small managed surface and a strong urban and industrial concentration. In the 5 autonomous areas the national minorities are in a majority in their respective area. The remainder (a number of 23) are normal provinces whose population is primarily of Han - 95% of the Chinese population. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Thursday, March 11, 2010 16:06:06 GMT +01:00 Chinese Calendar: cycle 78, Chinese Year Geng-Yin (27), year 2010, month 1, day 26 (2010-01-26) |
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