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Villages of China

formally
Village-level divisions
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese村级行政区
Traditional Chinese村級行政區
Alternative Chinese name
Chinese
Second alternative Chinese name
Chinese嘎查
Tibetan name
Tibetanགྲོང་ཚོ
Zhuang name
ZhuangCunh
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillicгацаа (gatsaa) translate as Gaqa(嘎查)
ᠭᠠᠴᠠᠭ᠎ᠠ
Uyghur name
Uyghurكەنت

Villages (Chinese: ; pinyin: Cūn), formally village-level divisions (村级行政区; Cūn Jí Xíngzhèngqū) in China, serve as a fundamental organizational unit for its rural population (census, mail system). Basic local divisions like neighborhoods and communities are not informal, but have defined boundaries and designated heads (one per area). In 2000, China's densely populated villages (>100 persons/square km) had a population greater than 500 million and covered more than 2 million square kilometers, or more than 20% of China's total area.[1] By 2020, all incorporated villages (with proper conditions making it possible) had road access, the last village to be connected being a remote village in Sichuan province's Butuo County.[2]

Types of villages

Urban

  • Residential community (simplified Chinese: 社区; traditional Chinese: 社區; pinyin: shèqū)
    • Residential committees (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
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

A typical rural village in Hainan, China
The building housing the local village committee and other government offices and organizations in Baiwan Village, Xiqiuwan Township, Badong County, Hubei
  • Administrative village or Village (Chinese: 行政村 or; pinyin: xíngzhèngcūn or cūn)
  • 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)
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

Villages ()

List of villages in China

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

  • Ethnic villages of China
  • Organic Law of Village Committees

References

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. Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union. 153: 303–320.
  • 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.

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