Villages of China

*formally*
Village-level divisions
formally; Village-level divisions
Chinese name
Mongolian Cyrillic	тосгон (typical villages, 村); гацаа (gatsaa) translate as Gaqa(嘎查)
Mongolian script	ᠲᠣᠰᠬᠣᠨ; ᠭᠠᠴᠠᠭ᠎ᠠ
SASM/GNC
Transcriptions
SASM/GNC	togson; gaqaa
Uyghur name
Uyghur	كەنت‎
Latin Yëziqi
Transcriptions
Latin Yëziqi	kent
Kazakh name
Kazakh	قىستاق; қыстақ; qıstaq
Kyrgyz name
Kyrgyz	قىشتاع; кыштаг; kıştag

Villages (Chinese: 村; pinyin: Cūn), formally village-level divisions (村级行政区; Cūn Jí Xíngzhèngqū) in China, serve as a fundamental organizational unit for its rural population (census, mail system). Basic local divisions like neighborhoods and communities are not informal, but have defined boundaries and designated heads (one per area). In 2000, China's densely populated villages (>100 persons/square km) had a population greater than 500 million and covered more than 2 million square kilometers, or more than 20% of China's total area.^[1] By 2020, all incorporated villages (with proper conditions making it possible) had road access, the last village to be connected being a remote village in Sichuan province's Butuo County.^[2]

Types of villages

Urban

Residential community (simplified Chinese: 社区; traditional Chinese: 社區; pinyin: shèqū)
- Residents' committee (simplified Chinese: 居民委员会; traditional Chinese: 居民委員會; pinyin: jūmín wěiyuánhuì)
  - Residential groups (simplified Chinese: 居民小组; traditional Chinese: 居民小組; pinyin: jūmín xiǎozǔ

Note: Urban village (Chinese: 城中村; pinyin: chéngzhōngcūn) one that spontaneously and naturally exists within urban area, which is not an administrative division.

Rural

Administrative village or Village (Chinese: 行政村 or 村; pinyin: xíngzhèngcūn or cūn)
Hamlet or Band (Chinese: 屯; pinyin: tún)
Gacha (Chinese: 嘎查; pinyin: gāchá) only for Inner Mongolia.
Ranch (Chinese: 牧委会; pinyin: mùwěihuì) only for Qinghai.
Ethnic village (Chinese: 民族村; pinyin: mínzúcūn) only for village populated by Ethnic minority.
- Village committees (simplified Chinese: 村民委员会; traditional Chinese: 村民委員會; pinyin: cūnmín wěiyuánhuì)
  - Villager groups (simplified Chinese: 村民小组; traditional Chinese: 村民小組; pinyin: cūnmín xiǎozǔ)

Note: Natural village (Chinese: 自然村; pinyin: zìráncūn) one that spontaneously and naturally exists within rural area, which is not an administrative division.

Lists of village-level divisions

Villages (村)

List of villages in China

Provinces

Autonomous areas

Municipalities

References

^ Ellis 2004.
^ "Paved road links China's "last village" with outside world - Xinhua | English.news.cn". Archived from the original on July 5, 2020.

Bibliography

Ellis, E.C. (2004). DeFries, R. S.; Asner, G. P.; Houghton, R. A. (eds.). "Long-term ecological changes in the densely populated rural landscapes of China" (PDF). Geophysical Monographs. Ecosystems and Land Use Change. 153. Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union: 303–320.
ISBN 0-87590-418-1
.

Joseph Esherick; Mary Backus Rankin; Joint Committee on Chinese Studies (U.S.) (1990). Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance. University of California Press.
ISBN 978-0-520-06763-9
.

Roxann Prazniak (1 January 1999). Of Camel Kings and Other Things: Rural Rebels Against Modernity in Late Imperial China. Rowman & Littlefield.
ISBN 978-0-8476-9007-7
.

External links

[FOOTNOTEEllis2004-1] Ellis 2004.

[2] "Paved road links China's "last village" with outside world - Xinhua | English.news.cn". Archived from the original on July 5, 2020.

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v t e Lists of village-level divisions of China
Provinces	Anhui Fujian Gansu Guangdong Guizhou Hainan Hebei Heilongjiang Henan Hubei Hunan Jiangsu Jiangxi Jilin Liaoning Qinghai Shaanxi Shandong Shanxi Sichuan Yunnan Zhejiang
Autonomous regions	Guangxi Inner Mongolia (Nei Mongol) Ningxia Tibet (Xizang) Xinjiang
Municipalities	Beijing Chongqing Shanghai Tianjin
See also: List of county-level divisions of China