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Provinces and other province-level administrative regions of the People's Republic of China 中华人民共...

China Cups, dishes, etc. made out of china. Baked clay of a type first employed in China. Country in Eastern Asia, home to 1/5th of mankind. Provinces of the ('Zizhiju' 自治区) which theoretically gives various ethnic minorities control over their own affairs. (特别行政区) Provinces do not nest neatly into geographic regions; in a few cases I have had to "pick" one. The preferred romanization is the Pinyin system devised by the Chinese government.  My initial source for this writeup, a 1970 Times Atlas of China, used a mixture of the older Wade-Giles system and the even older ...