China prefectures map quiz: find all 353
The level below the provinces: China's prefecture-level cities, autonomous prefectures and leagues. Most are named after their main city, but each one also covers the towns and countryside around it, so together they fill the whole map. This is a hard one: start with the provinces quiz if you haven't yet, and use Learn to explore one region at a time.
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Quick facts
- 353 areas: 292 prefecture-level cities, 30 autonomous prefectures, 7 prefectures and 3 leagues (Inner Mongolia), plus 21 smaller areas governed directly by their province, mostly on Hainan island and in Hubei.
- Largest: Bayingolin in Xinjiang, about 470,000 km², bigger than Sweden. Smallest: Shihezi, also in Xinjiang, about 460 km².
- Most populous: Chengdu, with about 21 million people at the 2020 census, ahead of Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
- Guangdong and Sichuan have the most (21 each); Ningxia has the fewest (5).
Easy to mix up
- Some names are used twice, so the quiz adds the province: two Suzhous (Jiangsu's, famous for its gardens, and one in northern Anhui), two Taizhous (Jiangsu and Zhejiang), two Fuzhous (Fujian's capital and one in Jiangxi), two Yichuns (Heilongjiang and Jiangxi) and two Yulins (Shaanxi and Guangxi).
- Hainan is an island province, and also a Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Qinghai.
- Jilin is both a province and a city inside it, Jilin City.
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About the map
The quiz covers every prefecture-level area in China's 22 provinces and 5 autonomous regions, plus the 21 county-level areas governed directly by their province, so the map has no gaps. Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing, Hong Kong and Macau aren't divided into prefectures and are drawn in grey, as is Taiwan, which isn't included (as in the other quizzes).
Boundaries come from OCHA's 2020 administrative boundaries for China (via geoBoundaries) and follow de facto borders. A few boundary changes since 2015 aren't shown yet, and the islands of Sansha (the South China Sea) are not included.
Map data: Natural Earth (public domain). Map rendering: MapLibre. Country facts: Wikidata (CC0), population and GDP per capita from the World Bank (CC BY 4.0), languages and currencies from mledoze/countries (ODbL; our derived country data is available under the ODbL). Flags: flag-icons (MIT). Exchange rates: exchange-api (CC0), approximate and for interest only. Prefecture boundaries: OCHA (HDX) via geoBoundaries (CC BY 3.0 IGO), with corrections.