Towns of China

Town (Zhen)
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhèn
other Mandarin
Xiao'erjingجٍـ
Tibetan name
Tibetanགྲོང་རྡལ།
Transcriptions
Wyliedrong del
Tibetan PinyinChongdai
Zhuang name
ZhuangCin
Korean name
Hangul
Transcriptions
Revised Romanizationjin
McCune–Reischauerchin
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillicбалгас
Mongolian scriptᠪᠠᠯᠭᠠᠰᠤ
Transcriptions
SASM/GNCbalɣasu
Uyghur name
Uyghurبازارلىق
Transcriptions
Latin YëziqiBazarliq
Manchu name
Manchu scriptᡴᠠᡩᠠᠯᠠᠩᡤᠠ
Möllendorffkadalaŋga
Kazakh name
Kazakhقالاشىق
қалашық
qalaşyq
Kyrgyz name
Kyrgyzشاارچا
шаарча
şaarça

When referring to political divisions of China, town is the standard English translation of the Chinese (traditional: ; pinyin: zhèn; Wade–Giles: chen4). The Constitution of the People's Republic of China classifies towns as third-level administrative units, along with, for example, townships (Chinese: ; pinyin: xiāng).[1] A township is typically smaller in population and more remote than a town.

Similarly to a higher-level administrative units, the borders of a town would typically include an urban core (a small town with the population on the order of 10,000 people), as well as rural area with some villages (; cūn, or ; zhuāng).

  1. ^ "Administrative Division". english.gov.cn. Retrieved 2018-03-30.