List of Chinese administrative divisions by area

This is a list of the first-level administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China (PRC), including all provinces (except the claimed Taiwan Province), autonomous regions, special administrative regions, and municipalities, in order of their total land area as reported by the national or provincial-level government.

Rank Administrative division Region Area (km2) Area (sq mi) National
share (%)
Source
1 Xinjiang Northwestern China 1,664,900 642,800 17.31
2 Tibet Southwestern China 1,228,400 474,300 12.77
3 Inner Mongolia North China 1,183,000 457,000 12.30
4 Qinghai Northwestern China 722,300 278,900 7.51
5 Sichuan Southwestern China 486,100 187,700 5.05
6 Heilongjiang Northeast China 454,800 175,600 4.73
7 Gansu Northwestern China 425,800 164,400 4.43
8 Yunnan Southwestern China 394,100 152,200 4.10
9 Guangxi South Central China 237,600 91,700 2.47
10 Hunan South Central China 211,800 81,800 2.20
11 Shaanxi Northwestern China 205,800 79,500 2.14
12 Hebei North China 188,800 72,900 1.96
13 Jilin Northeast China 187,400 72,400 1.95
14 Hubei South Central China 185,900 71,800 1.93
15 Guangdong South Central China 179,700 69,400 1.87
16 Guizhou Southwestern China 176,200 68,000 1.83
17 Henan South Central China 167,000 64,500 1.74
18 Jiangxi East China 166,900 64,400 1.74
19 Shandong East China 157,100 60,700 1.63
20 Shanxi North China 156,700 60,500 1.63
21 Liaoning Northeast China 148,400 57,300 1.54
22 Anhui East China 139,400 53,800 1.45
23 Fujian East China 123,900 47,800 1.29
24 Jiangsu East China 102,600 39,600 1.07
25 Zhejiang East China 101,800 39,300 1.06
26 Chongqing Southwestern China 82,400 31,800 0.86
27 Ningxia Northwestern China 66,400 25,600 0.69
28 Hainan South Central China 35,354 13,650 0.37
29 Beijing North China 16,411 6,336 0.17
30 Tianjin North China 11,917 4,601 0.12
31 Shanghai East China 6,340.5 2,448.1 0.066
32 Hong Kong South Central China 1,105.7 426.9 0.011
33 Macau South Central China 30.5 11.8 0.0003
People's Republic of China 9,616,400 3,712,900 100

Notes

  1. Heilongjiang's officially reported area of 473,000 square kilometres (183,000 sq mi) explicitly includes parts of Inner Mongolia's Oroqen Autonomous Banner administered as Songling District and Jiagedaqi District under Heilongjiang's Daxing'anling Prefecture. The combined area of these two districts is 18,200 square kilometres (7,000 sq mi), which has been subtracted from Heilongjiang's reported area to arrive at the figure of style="text-align:right;" data-sort-value="7011454800000000000"|454,800 |style="text-align:right;" data-sort-value="7011454800000000000"|175,600 reported in the table and corroborated by ref. 6.
  2. Figure is the sum of the areas of the listed administrative divisions, rounded to the nearest hundred square kilometres. The National Bureau of Statistics of China gives China's total land area as 9.6 million square kilometres. The United Nations Statistics Division reports China's land area excluding Hong Kong and Macau as 9.5970 million square kilometres.
  3. Figure is the sum of the areas of the listed administrative divisions, rounded to the nearest hundred square miles.

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