Administrative divisions off Fujian
Fujian is one of the provinces on the southeast coast of China, it has an area of 47,500 sq mi (123,100 sq km). The name Fujian comes from the combination of Fuzhou and Jian’ou, two cities in Fujian. The name was coined during Tang Dynasty.
Administrative divisions
Fujian province is divided into nine prefecture-level divisions, all of them prefecture-level cities are:
• Fuzhou
• Xiamen
• Zhangzhou
• Quanzhou
• Sanming
• Putian
• Nanping
• Longyan
• Ningde
All of the prefecture-level cities except Longyan, Sanming, and Nanping are found along the coast.
The nine prefecture-level divisions are subdivided into 85 county-level divisions (26 districts, 14 county-level cities, and 45 counties). Those are in turn divided into 1107 township-level divisions (605 towns, 328 townships, 18 ethnic townships, and 156 subdistricts). (Note: Quemoy is included as one of the 45 counties and Matsu as one of the 334 townships.)
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