China provinces quiz

How to learn them

• Start with the four municipalities, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing: small, and three of them are on the coast.
• Walk the coast from Liaoning in the north-east down to Guangxi and the island of Hainan, then the two special administrative regions, Hong Kong and Macau, and Taiwan across the strait.
• The west is three big pieces, Xinjiang, Tibet and Qinghai, with Gansu curling between them and Inner Mongolia along the whole northern border.
• The middle is the hard part: the Yellow River loop (Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi), then the Yangtze provinces in a row from Sichuan to Jiangsu.
• The table of all 34 has each one's capital, Chinese name, pinyin and area; the blank map prints with an answer key.

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How many provinces does China have?

China has 34 province-level regions: 23 provinces, 5 autonomous regions (Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Tibet, Ningxia, Xinjiang), 4 municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing) and 2 special administrative regions (Hong Kong and Macau).

Which is the largest region of China?

Xinjiang, at 1,664,897 km², then Tibet (1,228,400 km²) and Inner Mongolia (1,181,104 km²). The smallest is Macau, 115 km².

Which region has the most people?

Guangdong, with 126.0 million people (2020), then Shandong (101.5 million) and Henan (99.4 million).

What is the capital of each province?

Every region has a capital city, which the "Name the capital" mode asks for: Beijing (Beijing), Tianjin (Tianjin), Shijiazhuang (Hebei), Taiyuan (Shanxi), Hohhot (Inner Mongolia), Shenyang (Liaoning), Changchun (Jilin), Harbin (Heilongjiang), Shanghai (Shanghai), Nanjing (Jiangsu), Hangzhou (Zhejiang), Hefei (Anhui), Fuzhou (Fujian), Nanchang (Jiangxi), Jinan (Shandong), Zhengzhou (Henan), Wuhan (Hubei), Changsha (Hunan), Guangzhou (Guangdong), Nanning (Guangxi), Haikou (Hainan), Chongqing (Chongqing), Chengdu (Sichuan), Guiyang (Guizhou), Kunming (Yunnan), Lhasa (Tibet), Xi'an (Shaanxi), Lanzhou (Gansu), Xining (Qinghai), Yinchuan (Ningxia), Ürümqi (Xinjiang), Taipei (Taiwan), Hong Kong (Hong Kong), Macau (Macau).