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China: 34 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 34 first-level units down to ADM3, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Page GRX-CHN-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO CHN / CNStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
34
first-level units
5,288
units at 3 levels
1,435,501,884
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief
01Map

China by province, state and territory

34 first-level units, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.

FIG 1 · 34 first-level units of China
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values.
02Levels

Every administrative level of China

Each level comes from the boundary source admitted for that country and level, with its own licence.

ADM1
34 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Public Domain · each with its own page
ADM2
2,390 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL) v1.0 · each with its own page
ADM3
2,864 third-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · in the maps, tables and downloads of the pages above
03Units

All 34 first-level units

Two population estimates from open grids, summed inside each boundary. The CSV carries the first two levels; each unit page carries the levels below it.

Boundary licences: Public Domain

UnitCodePeople (GHSL)People (WorldPop)Area km²Per km²ShareCoast ≤ 10 m
Anhui ProvinceCHN62,077,65460,603,084139,3094464.3%6,014,113
Beijing MunicipalityCHN23,828,35122,557,03416,2961,4621.7%0
Chongqing MunicipalityCHN31,871,22832,214,44680,2813972.2%0
Fujian ProvinceCHN34,931,20140,429,324121,3942882.4%6,291,014
Gansu ProvinceCHN24,681,28023,719,091422,125581.7%0
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous RegionCHN46,778,62549,892,640240,6251943.3%267,302
Guangzhou ProvinceCHN114,463,701128,531,102180,4296348%32,623,747
Guizhou ProvinceCHN34,533,27541,195,929177,8831942.4%0
Hainan ProvinceCHN9,337,38010,169,10135,4122640.7%1,608,084
Hebei ProvinceCHN75,217,03572,227,864185,9254055.2%9,123,074
Heilongjiang ProvinceCHN38,386,23325,492,903444,565862.7%0
Henan ProvinceCHN101,324,451103,702,149166,2876097.1%0
Hong Kong Special Administrative RegionCHN7,621,9337,334,3081,1666,5370.5%806,613
Hubei ProvinceCHN55,282,05456,050,184186,8972963.9%56,144
Hunan ProvinceCHN68,662,01764,898,042212,9563224.8%0
Inner Mongolia Autonomous RegionCHN25,584,07922,748,4961,131,839231.8%0
Jiangsu ProvinceCHN90,924,56284,013,50197,8639296.3%61,884,501
Jiangxi ProvinceCHN50,417,39344,885,241168,7142993.5%117,524
Jilin ProvinceCHN26,574,73420,409,944191,2201391.9%610
Liaoning ProvinceCHN44,404,51238,319,691149,0172983.1%5,365,694
Macau Special Administrative RegionCHN564,221641,513965,8770%69,822
Ningxia Ningxia Hui Autonomous RegionCHN7,278,7557,577,56053,2491370.5%0
Qinghai ProvinceCHN6,732,0966,206,169701,846100.5%0
Shaanxi ProvinceCHN38,620,26239,809,624202,9911902.7%0
Shandong ProvinceCHN91,168,51495,443,358151,1206036.4%8,256,525
Shanghai MunicipalityCHN31,671,75123,858,6656,2275,0862.2%29,124,832
Shanxi ProvinceCHN39,279,81032,875,157156,9602502.7%0
Sichuan ProvinceCHN75,778,97383,336,518483,9831575.3%0
Taiwan ProvinceCHN23,407,67822,709,10136,3846431.6%4,047,240
Tianjin MunicipalityCHN15,995,43213,843,93011,7661,3591.1%14,465,572
Tibet Autonomous RegionCHN4,432,2845,066,0151,217,68240.3%0
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous RegionCHN26,198,37228,062,1851,622,737161.8%21,651
Yunnan ProvinceCHN48,077,03946,492,187391,8821233.3%0
Zhejiang ProvinceCHN59,394,99968,976,510100,4385914.1%27,405,896
04Risk

Subnational risk products

Values when released. Subnational risk values for China publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index, with intervals and sources. Until then these pages show boundaries, people and exposure only.
05Sources

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen CHN ADM1, source: geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2019
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen CHN ADM2, source: National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation of China, Revolutionary GIS, licence: Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL) v1.0 · source · represents 2017
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen CHN ADM3, source: Lee Beryman, OpenStreetMap © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2017. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Countries
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

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