Town (China)
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 镇 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 鎮 | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||||||
| Tibetan | གྲོང་རྡལ། | ||||||||||
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| Zhuang name | |||||||||||
| Zhuang | Cin | ||||||||||
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| Hangul | 진 | ||||||||||
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| Mongolian name | |||||||||||
| Mongolian Cyrillic | балгас | ||||||||||
| Mongolian script | ᠪᠠᠯᠭᠠᠰᠤ | ||||||||||
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| Uyghur name | |||||||||||
| Uyghur | بازارلىق | ||||||||||
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| Manchu name | |||||||||||
| Manchu script | ᡴᠠᡩᠠᠯᠠᠩᡤᠠ | ||||||||||
| Möllendorff | kadalaŋga | ||||||||||
| Kazakh name | |||||||||||
| Kazakh | قالاشىق қалашық qalaşyq | ||||||||||
| Kyrgyz name | |||||||||||
| Kyrgyz | شاارچا шаарча şaarça | ||||||||||
| Daur name | |||||||||||
| Daur | giaabn | ||||||||||
| Oroqen name | |||||||||||
| Oroqen | ajil | ||||||||||
| Administrative divisions of China |
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History: before 1912, 1912–49, 1949–present Administrative division codes |
When referring to political divisions of China, town is the standard English translation of the Chinese 镇 (traditional: 鎮; pinyin: zhèn; Wade–Giles: chen4). The Constitution of the People's Republic of China classifies towns as fourth-level administrative units, along with, for example, townships (Chinese: 乡; pinyin: xiāng). A township is typically smaller in population and more remote than a town.
Similar to higher-level administrative units, the borders of a town would typically include an urban core (a small town with the population on the order of 10,000 people), as well as a rural area with some villages (村; cūn, or 庄; zhuāng).