Here are all the Chinese provinces. You can click on the column header to sort the table; click on the province name to select it in the table and on the map, or Double Click to go to the province's full information page.
Click on a row to select the province and highlight it in the map. Click on a column header to sort the provinces by that column. Here is a key to the information displayed in the table:
Chinese
The province name in Chinese
Capital
The capital city of the province
Short
The short name for the province in Chinese. Used on, for example, vehicle license plates.
Population
The population of the province in millions (National Bureau of Statistics 2021)
Area
The land area of the province in thousands of square kilometers (Goddard 1997)
Density
The number of people per square kilometer i.e. (Population/Area)
GDP
Gross Domestic Product in Chinese Yuan of the province per person (National Bureau of Statistics 2020)
Literacy
Proportion of people who can read and write (Bureau of Statistics of the PRC 2010)
Ethnicity
Percentage of people who are not Han Chinese (China Statistical Yearbook 2007)
Information
Link to a full description of the province and also to a Google map of the province
Chinese Geographic terms
The names of Chinese provinces, cities and regions use common elements that are helpful to know when touring China and interpreting maps.
chéng shì
城市
City or large town
chéng zhèn
城镇
Town
chí
池
Small lake, pond or pool
chì lǔ
斥卤
Saline marsh; salt marsh
cūn zi
村子
Village
daǒ
岛
An Island. The character is a representation of a bird on a mountain. As in Qingdao 青岛, Shandong.
dì tú
地图
Map or chart
dòng
峒
A cave or cavern
fēng
峰
Peak or summit of a mountain. As in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia
