Chinese provinces 3

Different administrations

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1. China’s 34 provinces have 4 different styles of administration. There are 22 “provinces” (省 sheng). There are also 5 "Autonomous Regions" (自治区 zizhiqu) characterized by a large number of non-Han Chinese. There are also 4 "municipalities" or "province-level cities" (直辖市 zhixiashi), Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Chongqing. On top of this, there are 2 "Special Administrative Regions" (特别行政区 tebiexingzhengqu) - Hong Kong and Macau (for the rest of this quiz we will use the Chinese names of Xianggang and Aomen). Then there is Taiwan, whose status is heavily disputed. For this quiz it is suffice to say that Taiwan is neither independent nor is it administered by the Central Government in Beijing. We will divide the provinces into types for the quiz (don’t worry, theres no need to remember how to pronounce the different types).