Townships (Chinese: 乡; pinyin: Xiāng) formally township level divisions (Chinese: 乡级行政区) is the basic level (fourth-level administrative units) of political divisions in China. They are similar to municipalities and communes in other countries and in turn may contain village committees and villages. In 1995 there were 29,502 townships and 17,532 towns (a total of 47,034 township-level divisions) in China.
Fields
- Administrative Division
- Level
Source
- Glitchdata Research
Links
Where the data comes from now
- National Bureau of Statistics of China — Publishes the official statistical codes for county, township and village divisions annually.
- Administrative-divisions-of-China (GitHub) — Widely used machine-readable dump of NBS division codes down to village level.
- Wikipedia — Administrative divisions of China — Explains the township-level tier and lists divisions; continuously edited.
Formats
CSV, HTML, ODS, PDF, TXT, XLSX
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Where to get it
glitchdata catalogues this dataset but does not host the files here. It is published in the glitchdata shop (free), where the download covers every format listed above.
Last updated on the source site: 2013-11-30.