Special municipality
City
County-administered city
In the structural hierarchy of the administrative divisions in Taiwan, there are three types of administrative divisions with the Chinese word shì (市, "city") in their names.
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Taiwanese Pe̍h-ōe-jī |
No. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Special municipality | 直轄市 | zhíxiáshì | ti̍t-hat-chhī | 6 | |
| City | 市 | shì | chhī | 3 | |
| County-administered city | 縣轄市 | xiànxiáshì | koān-hat-chhī | 14 |