Administrative divisions of Shanxi
Shanxi is a province in the northern part of the People’s Republic of China, which has an area of 60,700 sq mi (157,100 sq km).Its one-character abbreviation is Jin, after the state of Jin that existed here during the Spring and Autumn Period.
Shanxi’s name literally means "mountains’ west", which refers to the province’s location west of the Taihang Mountains.
Administrative divisions
Shanxi is divided into eleven prefecture-level divisions, all of them prefecture-level cities:
• Taiyuan
• Datong
• Yangquan
• Changzhi
• Jincheng
• Shuozhou
• Jinzhong
• Yuncheng
• Xinzhou
• Linfen
• Lüliang
The 11 prefecture-level divisions of Shanxi are subdivided into 119 county-level divisions (23 districts, 11 county-level cities, and 85 counties). Those are in turn divided into 1388 township-level divisions (561 towns, 634 townships, and 193 subdistricts).
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