Administrative Divisions
Zhejiang is divided into eleven prefecture-level divisions, all of them prefecture-level cities:
| Map | # | Name | Administrative Seat | Hanzi Hanyu Pinyin |
Population (2010) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — Sub-provincial city — | |||||
| 1 | Hangzhou | Gongshu District | 杭州市 Hángzhōu Shì |
8,700,400 | |
| 2 | Ningbo | Haishu District | 宁波市 Níngbō Shì |
7,605,700 | |
| — Prefecture-level city — | |||||
| 3 | Huzhou | Wuxing District | 湖州市 Húzhōu Shì |
2,893,500 | |
| 4 | Jiaxing | Nanhu District | 嘉兴市 Jiāxīng Shì |
4,501,700 | |
| 5 | Jinhua | Wucheng District | 金华市 Jīnhuá Shì |
5,361,600 | |
| 6 | Lishui | Liandu District | 丽水市 Líshuǐ Shì |
2,117,000 | |
| 7 | Quzhou | Kecheng District | 衢州市 Qúzhōu Shì |
2,122,700 | |
| 8 | Shaoxing | Yuecheng District | 绍兴市 Shàoxīng Shì |
4,912,200 | |
| 9 | Taizhou | Jiaojiang District | 台州市 Tāizhōu Shì |
5,968,800 | |
| 10 | Wenzhou | Lucheng District | 温州市 Wēnzhōu Shì |
9,122,100 | |
| 11 | Zhoushan | Dinghai District | 舟山市 Zhōushān Shì |
1,121,300 | |
The eleven prefecture-level divisions of Zhejiang are subdivided into 90 county-level divisions (32 districts, 22 county-level cities, 35 counties, and one autonomous county). Those are in turn divided into 1570 township-level divisions (761 towns, 505 townships, 14 ethnic townships, and 290 subdistricts).
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