| Great Region | Provinces | area (sq.km) | population (in mil.) | Provincial Capital | ||
| Northeast China |  |
Heilongjiang | 460,000 | 38.24 | Harbin | |
| Jilin | 190,000 | 27.3 | Changchun | |||
| Liaoning | 150,000 | 42.98 | Shenyang | |||
| North China |  |
Beijing | 16,800 | 17.55 | Dongcheng | |
| Hebei | 190,000 | 69.43 | Shijiazhuang | |||
| Inner Mongolia | 1,180,000 | 24.05 | Hohhot | |||
| Shanxi | 160,000 | 33.93 | Taiyuan | |||
| Tianjin | 12,000 | 11.15 | Heping | |||
| Northwest China |  |
Gansu | 430,000 | 26.19 | Lanzhou | |
| Ningxia | 66,000 | 6.1 | Yinchuan | |||
| Qinghai | 720,000 | 5.52 | Xining | |||
| Shaanxi | 210,000 | 37.48 | Xian | |||
| Xinjiang | 1,660,000 | 20.95 | Urumq | |||
| East China |  |
Anhui | 140,000 | 61.18 | Hefei | |
| Fujian | 121,300 | 35.81 | Fuzhou | |||
| Jiangsu | 100,000 | 76.25 | Nanjing | |||
| Jiangxi | 170,000 | 43.68 | Nanchang | |||
| Shandong | 160,000 | 93.67 | Jinan | |||
| Shanghai | 6,369 | 18.58 | Huangpu | |||
| Zhejiang | 100,000 | 50.6 | Hangzhou | |||
| Central South | Central China |  |
Henan | 170,000 | 93.6 | Zhengzhou |
| Hubei | 190,000 | 56.99 | Wuhan | |||
| Hunan | 210,000 | 63.55 | Changsha | |||
| South China | Guangdong | 180,000 | 94.49 | Guangzhou | ||
| Guangxi | 240,000 | 47.68 | Nanning | |||
| Hainan | 34,000 | 8.45 | Haikou | |||
| Southwest China |  |
Guizhou | 180,000 | 39.75 | Guiyang | |
| Sichuan | 490,000 | 81.27 | Chengdu | |||
| Tibet | 1,230,000 | 2.84 | Lhasa | |||
| Yunnan | 390,000 | 45.14 | Kunming | |||
| Chongqing | 82,000 | 28.16 | Yuzhong | |||
