Autonomous prefecture
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Autonomous Prefecture 自治州 Zìzhìzhōu | |
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Category | Second level administrative division of a unitary state |
Location | China |
Number | 30 Autonomous Prefectures |
Administrative divisions of China |
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History: before 1912, 1912–49, 1949–present Administrative division codes |
Autonomous prefectures (
Ili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture contains two prefectures of its own. Under the Constitution of the People's Republic of China
, autonomous prefectures cannot be abolished.
Autonomous administrative divisions
The PRC's autonomous administrative divisions may be found in the first (or top) to third levels of its national administrative divisions thus:
Level | Type | Chinese | Pinyin | Number as of June 2005 |
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Province (1) | Autonomous regions | 自治区 | Zìzhìqū | 5 |
Prefecture (2) | Autonomous prefectures | 自治州 | Zìzhìzhōu | 30 |
County (3) | Autonomous counties | 自治县 | Zìzhìxiàn | 117 |
Autonomous banners | 自治旗 | Zìzhìqí | 3 |
List of autonomous prefectures
Province | Name | Simplified Chinese and Pinyin | Designated minority | Local name | Capital |
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Gansu | Linxia | 临夏回族自治州 Línxià Huízú Zìzhìzhōu |
Hui | (The Hui speak Chinese) Xiao'erjing: لٍثِیَا خُوِزُو زِجِجِوْ | Linxia city |
Gansu | Gannan | 甘南藏族自治州 Gānnán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu |
Tibetan
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Tibetan : ཀན་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ (Kan-lho Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul)
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Hezuo (Hzö) city |
Guizhou | Qiandongnan | 黔东南苗族侗族自治州 Qiándōngnán Miáozú Dòngzú Zìzhìzhōu |
Dong
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Dong : Qeenc Dongs Nanc Nyenc Miiul Nyenc Gaeml Zil Zl Zous
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Kaili (Kad Linx) city |
Guizhou | Qiannan
|
黔南布依族苗族自治州 Qiánnán Bùyīzú Miáozú Zìzhìzhōu |
Bouyei and Miao | Bouyei: Qianfnanf Buxqyaix Buxyeeuz ziqziqzouy : Qeef Naif Dol Yat Dol Hmub Zid Zid Zeb
Hmu |
Duyun city |
Guizhou | Qianxinan
|
黔西南布依族苗族自治州 Qiánxī'nán Bùyīzú Miáozú Zìzhìzhōu |
Bouyei and Miao | Bouyei: Qianfxiynanf Buxqyaix Buxyeeuz Ziqziqzouy : Qeef Xib Naif Dol Yat Dol Hmub Zid Zid Zeb
Hmu |
Xingyi city
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Hubei | Enshi | 恩施土家族苗族自治州 Ēnshī Tǔjiāzú Miáozú Zìzhìzhōu |
Tujia and Miao | Tujia: Eng Shiv Bif Ziv Kar hev Bef Kar zouf xengv zuvз Hmong: Ee Si Thws Ca Txhwj Mioj Txhwj Txim Tsim Tsawb |
Enshi city |
Hunan | Xiangxi | 湘西土家族苗族自治州 Xiāngxī Tǔjiāzú Miáozú Zìzhìzhōu |
Tujia and Miao | Tujia: Xiз’angv Xif Bif Ziv Kar hev Bef Kar zouf xengv zuvз Hmong: Xyaa Xyi Thws Ca Txhwj Mioj Txhwj Txim Tsim Tsawb |
Jishou city |
Jilin | Yanbian | 延边朝鲜族自治州 Yánbiān Cháoxiǎnzú Zìzhìzhōu |
Korean
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Korean: 연변 조선족 자치주 (Yeonbyeon Joseonjok Jachiju) | Yanji (Yeongil) city |
Qinghai | Haibei | 海北藏族自治州 Hǎiběi Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu |
Tibetan | Tibetan : མཚོ་བྱང་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ (Mtsho-byang Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul)
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Haiyan County |
Qinghai | Hainan | 海南藏族自治州 Hǎinán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu |
Tibetan | Tibetan : མཚོ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ (Mtsho-lho Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul)
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Gonghe County |
Qinghai | Huangnan | 黄南藏族自治州 Huángnán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu |
Tibetan | Tibetan : རྨ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ (Rma-lho Bod-rigs rang skyong khul)
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Tongren city |
Qinghai | Golog | 果洛藏族自治州 Guǒluò Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu |
Tibetan | Tibetan : མགོ་ལོག་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ (Mgo-log Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul)
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Maqên County |
Qinghai | Yushu | 玉树藏族自治州 Yùshù Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu |
Tibetan | Tibetan : ཡུལ་ཤུལ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ (Yul-shul Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul)
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Yushu city |
Qinghai | Haixi | 海西蒙古族藏族自治州 Hǎixī Měnggǔzú Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu |
Tibetan
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Tibetan : མཚོ་ནུབ་སོག་རིགས་ཆ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ (Mtsho-nub Sog-rigs dang Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul)
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Delingha (Delhi) city |
Sichuan | Ngawa | 阿坝藏族羌族自治州 Ābà Zàngzú Qiāngzú Zìzhìzhōu |
Tibetan & Qiang | Tibetan: རྔ་བ་བོད་རིགས་ཆ་བ༹ང་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ (Rnga-ba Bod-rigs dang Chavang-rigs rang skyong khul) : Ggabba Shbea Rrmea nyujugvez zhou
Qiangic |
Barkam city |
Sichuan | Garzê | 甘孜藏族自治州 Gānzī Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu |
Tibetan | Tibetan : དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ (Dkar-mdzes Bod-rigs rang-skyong khul)
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Kangding (Dartsedo) city |
Sichuan | Liangshan | 凉山彝族自治州 Liángshān Yízú Zìzhìzhōu |
Yi | Yi : ꆃꎭꆈꌠꊨꏦꏱꅉꍏ (Niepsha Nuosu Zytjiejux dde Zho)
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Xichang (Op Rro) city |
Xinjiang | Kizilsu
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克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治州 Kèzīlèsū Kē'ěrkèzī Zìzhìzhōu |
Kyrgyz | Kyrgyz: قىزىلسۇۇ قىرعىز اپتونوم وبلاسى (Kızılsuu Kırgız avtonom oblastı) | Artux city
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Xinjiang | Bortala | 博尔塔拉蒙古自治州 Bó'ěrtǎlā Měnggǔ Zìzhìzhōu |
Mongolian
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Mongolian: ᠪᠣᠷᠣᠳᠠᠯᠠ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠤ ᠵᠧᠦ (Borotala mongγol ebereen zasaqu ǰuu) | Bole (Bortala) city |
Xinjiang | Changji | 昌吉回族自治州 Chāngjí Huízú Zìzhìzhōu |
Hui | (The Hui speak Chinese) Xiao'erjing: چَانْݣِ خُوِزُو زِجِجِوْ | Changji city |
Xinjiang | Bayingolin | 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州 Bāyīnguōlèng Měnggǔ Zìzhìzhōu |
Mongolian
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Mongolian: ᠪᠠᠶᠠᠨᠭᠣᠣᠯ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠤ ᠵᠧᠦ (Bayangol mongγol ebereen zasaqu ǰuu) | Korla city |
Xinjiang | Ili (Altay) (Tacheng) |
伊犁哈萨克自治州 Yīlí Hāsàkè Zìzhìzhōu (阿勒泰地区) (Ālètài Dìqū) (塔城地区) (Tǎchéng Dìqū) |
Kazakh | Kazakh: ىله قازاق اۆتونومىيالى وبلىسى (İle Qazaq awtonomïyalıq oblısı) (Kazakh: ئالتاي ۋىلايىتى) (Altay aymağı) (Kazakh: تارباعاتاي ايماعى) (Tarbağatay aymağı) |
city) |
Yunnan | Dehong | 德宏傣族景颇族自治州 Déhóng Dǎizú Jǐngpōzú Zìzhìzhōu |
Dai and Jingpo | Tai Nüa - ᥟᥪᥒᥱ ᥙᥪᥴ ᥓᥝᥲ ᥙᥩᥒ ᥛᥥᥝᥰ ᥖᥭᥰ ᥓᥤᥒ ᥚᥨᥲ ᥖᥬᥲ ᥑᥨᥒᥰ (Sakhkung Sam Jinghpo Amyu Madu Uphkang Mungdo) :Sikung Sam Zaizo Byumyu Yumsing Upkang Mau
Zaiwa |
Mangshi city |
Yunnan | Nujiang | 怒江傈僳族自治州 Nùjiāng Lìsùzú Zìzhìzhōu |
Lisu | Lisu: ꓠꓳ-ꓟꓵ ꓡꓲ-ꓢꓴ ꓫꓵꓽ ꓚꓲꓸ ꓛꓬꓽ ꓗꓪꓼ ꓫꓵꓽ ꓝꓳꓴ (Nolmut lisu shit jilqait guatshit zhou) | Lushui city |
Yunnan | Dêqên (Diqing)
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迪庆藏族自治州 Díqìng Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu |
Tibetan | Tibetan : བདེ་ཆེན་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ (Bde-chen Bod-rigs rang-skyong khul)
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Shangri-La city |
Yunnan | Dali | 大理白族自治州 Dàlǐ Báizú Zìzhìzhōu |
Bai | Bai: Darl•lit Baif•cuf zirl•zirl•zox | Dali city
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Yunnan | Chuxiong | 楚雄彝族自治州 Chǔxióng Yízú Zìzhìzhōu |
Yi | Yi : ꀒꇐꆈꌠꊨꏦꏱꅉꍏ (Olu Nuosu Zytjiejux dde Zho)
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Chuxiong city |
Yunnan | Honghe | 红河哈尼族彝族自治州 Hónghé Hānízú Yízú Zìzhìzhōu |
Hani and Yi | Yi : ꉼꉻꆈꌠꊨꏦꏱꅉꍏ (Hopho Nuosu Zytjiejux dde Zho)
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Mengzi city |
Yunnan | Wenshan | 文山壮族苗族自治州 Wenshān Zhuàngzú Miáozú Zìzhìzhōu |
Zhuang and Miao | : Veej Sa Tsuaam Txhwj Mioj Txhwj Txim Tsim Tsawb | Wenshan city |
Yunnan | Xishuangbanna (Sibsongbanna) | 西双版纳傣族自治州 Xīshuāngbǎnnà Dǎizú Zìzhìzhōu |
Dai | Tai Lü : ᦈᦹᧈ ᦈᦹᧈ ᦵᦋᦲᧁᧈ ᦘᦱ ᦉᦱ ᦺᦑ ᧑᧒ ᦗᧃ ᦓᦱ
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Jinghong city |
Ethnic composition of autonomous prefectures
- Note: * - denotes as the second titular ethnic group
Autonomous prefecture |
Year established |
Province | Titular ethnic group |
Other minorities |
Han % | Total population | |||||
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% 2000 | % 2010 | % 2000 | % 2010 | 2000 | 2010 | ||||||
Bayingolin Prefecture | 1954 | Xinjiang | Mongolian
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3.40 | 3.40 | Uyghur | 31.83 | 31.83 | 59.29 | 59.29 | 1,323,028 |
Bortala Prefecture | 1954 | Xinjiang | Mongolian
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5.64 | 5.66 | Uyghur | 12.53 | 13.32 | 67.19 | 64.96 | 482,615 |
Changji Prefecture | 1954 | Xinjiang | Hui | 11.55 | 9.52 | Kazakh | 7.98 | 9.33 | 75.14 | 75.31 | 1,412,844 |
Chuxiong Prefecture | 1958 | Yunnan | Yi | 26.31 | 26.70 | Lisu | 2.03 | 1.98 | 67.45 | 66.94 | 2,615,109 |
Dali Prefecture | 1956 | Yunnan | Bai | 32.80 | 32.19 | Yi | 12.94 | 13.02 | 50.35 | 50.69 | 3,525,706 |
Dehong Prefecture | 1953 | Yunnan | Dai | 30.14 | 28.88 | Jingpo* | 11.53 | 11.09 | 50.66 | 51.93 | 1,124,432 |
Dêqên (Diqing) Prefecture | 1957 | Yunnan | Tibetan | 33.12 | 32.36 | Lisu | 27.78 | 26.72 | 16.39 | 18.34 | 357,528 |
Enshi Prefecture | 1983 | Hubei | Tujia | 45.00 | 47.50 | Miao* | 5.45 | 5.01 | 47.24 | 45.32 | 3,976,081 |
Gannan Prefecture | 1953 | Gansu | Tibetan | 51.44 | 54.64 | Hui | 6.43 | 6.25 | 41.75 | 38.70 | 723,521 |
Garzê Prefecture | 1950 | Sichuan | Tibetan | 78.37 | 78.29 | Yi | 2.56 | 2.66 | 18.24 | 18.24 | 1,060,632 |
Golog Prefecture | 1954 | Qinghai | Tibetan | 91.63 | 91.86 | Hui | 1.11 | 0.96 | 6.59 | 6.57 | 173,541 |
Haibei Prefecture | 1953 | Qinghai | Tibetan | 24.15 | 24.36 | Hui | 30.58 | 31.52 | 36.63 | 35.88 | 283,230 |
Hainan Prefecture | 1953 | Qinghai | Tibetan | 62.77 | 66.31 | Hui | 6.97 | 6.84 | 28.06 | 24.84 | 446,849 |
Haixi Prefecture | 1954 | Qinghai | Mongol
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7.23 | 5.53 | Tibetan* | 12.16 | 10.93 | 64.95 | 66.01 | 390,743 |
Honghe Prefecture | 1957 | Yunnan | Hani | 16.60 | 17.55 | Yi* | 23.57 | 23.19 | 44.31 | 42.85 | 4,408,699 |
Huangnan Prefecture | 1953 | Qinghai | Tibetan | 66.32 | 68.55 | Mongol
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13.54 | 13.98 | 7.54 | 6.08 | 254,033 |
Ili Prefecture | 1954 | Xinjiang | Kazakh | 21.53 | Uyghur | 26.88 | 35.22 | 2,814,980 | |||
Kizilsu Prefecture | 1954 | Xinjiang | Kyrgyz | 28.32 | 27.32 | Uyghur | 63.98 | 64.68 | 6.41 | 6.78 | 539,849 |
Liangshan Prefecture | 1952 | Sichuan | Yi | 44.43 | 49.13 | Tibetan | 1.49 | 1.39 | 51.97 | 47.55 | 4,789,421 |
Linxia Prefecture | 1956 | Gansu | Hui | 31.59 | Dongxiang | 25.99 | 39.70 | 2,103,259 | |||
Ngawa Prefecture | 1953 | Sichuan | Tibetan | 53.72 | 54.50 | Qiang* | 18.28 | 17.58 | 24.69 | 24.56 | 898,846 |
Nujiang Prefecture | 1954 | Yunnan | Lisu | 47.13 | 48.21 | Bai | 26.97 | 26.04 | 13.13 | 12.35 | 520,765 |
Qiandongnan Prefecture | 1956 | Guizhou | Miao | 41.48 | 41.57 | Dong *
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31.40 | 29.02 | 19.3 | 21.73 | 4,535,015 |
Qiannan Prefecture | 1956 | Guizhou | Buyei
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32.46 | 31.22 | Miao* | 13.37 | 12.69 | 43.37 | 44.84 | 4,037,887 |
Qianxinan Prefecture | 1982 | Guizhou | Buyei
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30.04 | 27.56 | Miao* | 7.51 | 7.08 | 57.53 | 60.62 | 3,398,147 |
Wenshan Prefecture | 1958 | Yunnan | Miao | 12.94 | 13.68 | Zhuang* | 30.04 | 29.20 | 41.99 | 42.69 | 3,703,008 |
Xiangxi Prefecture | 1957 | Hunan | Tujia | 42.73 | Miao* | 33.85 | 22.85 | 2,547,833 | |||
Xishuangbanna (Sibsongbanna) Prefecture | 1953 | Yunnan | Dai | 29.89 | 27.89 | Hani | 18.73 | 19.01 | 29.11 | 30.03 | 942,844 |
Yanbian Prefecture | 1952 | Jilin | Korean | 36.26 | 32.45 | Manchu | 2.58 | 2.52 | 60.70 | 64.55 | 2,190,763 |
Yushu Prefecture | 1951 | Qinghai | Tibetan | 96.49 | Hui | 0.22 | 3.09 | 373,427 |
Former autonomous prefectures of China
- Hainan Li and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (1952–1988) in Guangdong, abolished because of the establishment of Hainan Province.
- Hedong Hui Autonomous Prefecture (1954–1955) in Gansu, later changed name as Wuzhong Hui Autonomous Prefecture (1955–1958), abolished because of the establishment of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
- Xihaigu Hui Autonomous Prefecture (1953–1955) in Gansu, later changed name as Guyuan Hui Autonomous Prefecture (1955–1958), abolished because of the establishment of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
- Guixi Zhuang Autonomous Prefecture (sub-provincial level, 1953–1955) in Guangxi Province, abolished because of the establishment of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
- Bayinhot Mongol Autonomous Prefecture (1954–1956) in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Administrative prefecture level units with a population of 30% or more of ethnic minorities
- Excluding prefecture level units of autonomous regions in 2000.
- Hebei: Chengde (Han - 55.32%, Manchu - 39.87%)
- Liaoning: Benxi (Han - 66.84%, Manchu - 30.22%), Dandong (Han - 64.11%, Manchu - 32.99%)
- Hunan: Zhangjiajie (Tujia - 68.40%, Han - 22.81%), Huaihua (Han - 61.33%, Dong - 17.42%, Miao - 15.63%)
- Guizhou: Tongren(Tujia - 37.81%, Han - 31.76%, Miao - 14.87%, Dong - 11.41%)
- Yunnan: Lijiang (Han - 42.71%, Nakhi 20.51%, Yi - 18.68%, Lisu - 9.62%), Lincang(Han - 61.22%, Dai - 15.77%, Lahu and Va - 9.76%)
- Qinghai: Haidong (Han - 56.33%, Hui - 20.38%, Tibetan - 9.2%, Tu - 8.06%)
See also
- List of prefecture-level divisions of China
- Tusi Native Chieftain System
- Autonomous regions of China