| Provinces 省 Shěng | |
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| Category | Unitary state |
| Location |  People's Republic of China |
| Number | 22 (1 claimed) |
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 省 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 省 | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||||||
| Tibetan | ཞིང་ཆེན། | ||||||||||
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| Zhuang name | |||||||||||
| Zhuang | Swngj | ||||||||||
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| Hangul | 성 | ||||||||||
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| Mongolian name | |||||||||||
| Mongolian Cyrillic | муж | ||||||||||
| Mongolian script | ᠮᠤᠵᠢ | ||||||||||
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| Uyghur name | |||||||||||
| Uyghur | ئۆلكە | ||||||||||
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| Manchu name | |||||||||||
| Manchu script | ᡤᠣᠯᠣ | ||||||||||
| Möllendorff | golo | ||||||||||
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| Kazakh | ولكە өлке ölke | ||||||||||
| Kyrgyz name | |||||||||||
| Kyrgyz | ۅلكۅ өлкө ölkö | ||||||||||
| Administrative divisions of China |
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History: before 1912, 1912–49, 1949–present Administrative division codes |
Provinces (Chinese: 省; pinyin: Shěng) are the most numerous type of province-level divisions in the People's Republic of China (PRC). There are currently 22 provinces administered by the PRC and one province that is claimed, but not administered, which is Taiwan, currently administered by the Republic of China (ROC).
The local governments of Chinese provinces consists of a Provincial People's Government headed by a governor that acts as the executive, a Provincial People's Congress with legislative powers, and a parallel provincial branch of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that elects a Party Secretary and a Provincial Standing Committee.