Prefecture-level city
| Prefecture-level city Prefectural-level city | |||||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 地级市 | ||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 地級市 | ||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Regional-level city | ||||||||||||||
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| Tibetan | ས་ཁུལ་རིམ་པ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། | ||||||||||||||
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| Mongolian name | |||||||||||||||
| Mongolian Cyrillic | Дугаргийн энтэй хот | ||||||||||||||
| Mongolian script | ᠲᠣᠭᠣᠷᠢᠭ ᠤᠨ ᠡᠩ ᠲᠡᠢ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ | ||||||||||||||
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| Uyghur | ۋىلايەت دەرىجىلىك شەھەر | ||||||||||||||
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History: before 1912, 1912–49, 1949–present Administrative division codes |
A prefecture-level city (Chinese: 地级市(地級市); pinyin: Dìjíshì) or prefectural city is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure.