Villages of China
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Chinese | 嘎查 | ||||||
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Tibetan | གྲོང་ཚོ | ||||||
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Zhuang | Cunh | ||||||
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Mongolian Cyrillic | тосгон (typical villages, гацаа (gatsaa) translate as Gaqa(嘎查) | ||||||
Mongolian script | ᠲᠣᠰᠬᠣᠨ ᠭᠠᠴᠠᠭᠠ | ||||||
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Uyghur | كەنت | ||||||
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Kazakh name | |||||||
Kazakh | قىستاق қыстақ qıstaq | ||||||
Kyrgyz name | |||||||
Kyrgyz | قىشتاق кыштак kıştak |
Administrative divisions of China |
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History: before 1912, 1912–49, 1949–present Administrative division codes |
Villages (Chinese:
Types of villages
[edit]Urban
[edit]- Residential community (simplified Chinese:
社 区 ; traditional Chinese:社 區 ; pinyin: shèqū)- Residents' committee (simplified Chinese:
居 民 委 员会; traditional Chinese:居 民 委員 會 ; pinyin: jūmín wěiyuánhuì)- Residential groups (simplified Chinese:
居 民 小 组; traditional Chinese:居 民 小 組 ; pinyin: jūmín xiǎozǔ
- Residential groups (simplified Chinese:
- Residents' committee (simplified Chinese:
- Note
- Urban village (Chinese:
城中 村 ; pinyin: chéngzhōngcūn) one that spontaneously and naturally exists within urban area, which is not an administrative division.
Rural
[edit]- Administrative village or Village (Chinese:
行政 村 or村 ; pinyin: xíngzhèngcūn or cūn) - Hamlet or Band (Chinese:
屯 ; pinyin: tún) - Gacha (Chinese: 嘎查; pinyin: gāchá) only for Inner Mongolia.
- Ranch (Chinese:
牧 委 会 ; pinyin: mùwěihuì) only for Qinghai. - Ethnic village (Chinese:
民族 村 ; pinyin: mínzúcūn) only for village populated by Ethnic minority.- Village committees (simplified Chinese:
村民 委 员会; traditional Chinese:村民 委員 會 ; pinyin: cūnmín wěiyuánhuì)- Villager groups (simplified Chinese:
村民 小 组; traditional Chinese:村民 小 組 ; pinyin: cūnmín xiǎozǔ)
- Villager groups (simplified Chinese:
- Village committees (simplified Chinese:
- Note
- Natural village (Chinese:
自然 村 ; pinyin: zìráncūn) one that spontaneously and naturally exists within rural area, which is not an administrative division.
Lists of village-level divisions
[edit]- Villages (
村 )
- Provinces
- List of village-level divisions of Anhui
- List of village-level divisions of Fujian
- List of village-level divisions of Gansu
- List of village-level divisions of Guangdong
- List of village-level divisions of Guizhou
- List of village-level divisions of Hainan
- List of village-level divisions of Hebei
- List of village-level divisions of Heilongjiang
- List of village-level divisions of Henan
- List of village-level divisions of Hubei
- List of village-level divisions of Hunan
- List of village-level divisions of Jiangsu
- List of village-level divisions of Jiangxi
- List of village-level divisions of Jilin
- List of village-level divisions of Liaoning
- List of village-level divisions of Qinghai
- List of village-level divisions of Shaanxi
- List of village-level divisions of Shandong
- List of village-level divisions of Shanxi
- List of village-level divisions of Sichuan
- List of village-level divisions of Yunnan
- List of village-level divisions of Zhejiang
- Autonomous areas
- List of village-level divisions of Guangxi
- List of village-level divisions of Inner Mongolia
- List of village-level divisions of Ningxia
- List of village-level divisions of the Tibet Autonomous Region
- List of village-level divisions of Xinjiang
- Municipalities
- List of village-level divisions of Beijing
- List of village-level divisions of Chongqing
- List of village-level divisions of Shanghai
- List of village-level divisions of Tianjin
See also
[edit]- Ethnic villages of China
- Organic Law of Village Committees
- Urban-type settlement, a similar concept used in the Soviet Union and present day Russia
References
[edit]- ^ Ellis 2004.
- ^ "Paved road links China's "last village" with outside world - Xinhua | English.news.cn". Archived from the original on July 5, 2020.
- Bibliography
- Ellis, E.C. (2004). DeFries, R. S.; Asner, G. P.; Houghton, R. A. (eds.). "Long-term ecological changes in the densely populated rural landscapes of China" (PDF). Geophysical Monographs. Ecosystems and Land Use Change. 153. Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union: 303–320. Bibcode:2004GMS...153..303E. doi:10.1029/153GM23. ISBN 0-87590-418-1.
- Joseph Esherick; Mary Backus Rankin; Joint Committee on Chinese Studies (U.S.) (1990). Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-06763-9.
- Roxann Prazniak (1 January 1999). Of Camel Kings and Other Things: Rural Rebels Against Modernity in Late Imperial China. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8476-9007-7.