List of Chinese administrative divisions by area

For the administrative divisions governed by the Republic of China (Taiwan), see List of administrative divisions of Taiwan.

This is a list of the first-level administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China (PRC), including all provinces (except the claimed Taiwan Province), autonomous regions, special administrative regions, and municipalities, in order of their total land area as reported by the national or provincial-level government.

Color	Regions of China
	North China
	East China
	Southwestern China
	Northwestern China
	South Central China
	Northeast China

Rank	Administrative division	Region	Area (km2)	Area (sq mi)	National share (%)	Source
1	Xinjiang	Northwestern China	1,664,900	642,800	17.31	[1]
2	Tibet	Southwestern China	1,228,400	474,300	12.77	[2]
3	Inner Mongolia	North China	1,183,000	457,000	12.30	[3]
4	Qinghai	Northwestern China	722,300	278,900	7.51	[4]
5	Sichuan	Southwestern China	486,100	187,700	5.05	[5]
6	Heilongjiang	Northeast China	454,800	175,600	4.73	[6][a]
7	Gansu	Northwestern China	425,800	164,400	4.43	[9]
8	Yunnan	Southwestern China	394,100	152,200	4.10	[10]
9	Guangxi	South Central China	237,600	91,700	2.47	[11]
10	Hunan	South Central China	211,800	81,800	2.20	[12]
11	Shaanxi	Northwestern China	205,800	79,500	2.14	[13]
12	Hebei	North China	188,800	72,900	1.96	[14]
13	Jilin	Northeast China	187,400	72,400	1.95	[15]
14	Hubei	South Central China	185,900	71,800	1.93	[16]
15	Guangdong	South Central China	179,700	69,400	1.87	[17]
16	Guizhou	Southwestern China	176,200	68,000	1.83	[18]
17	Henan	South Central China	167,000	64,500	1.74	[19]
18	Jiangxi	East China	166,900	64,400	1.74	[20]
19	Shandong	East China	157,100	60,700	1.63	[21]
20	Shanxi	North China	156,700	60,500	1.63	[22]
21	Liaoning	Northeast China	148,400	57,300	1.54	[23]
22	Anhui	East China	139,400	53,800	1.45	[24]
23	Fujian	East China	123,900	47,800	1.29	[25]
24	Jiangsu	East China	102,600	39,600	1.07	[26]
25	Zhejiang	East China	101,800	39,300	1.06	[27]
26	Chongqing	Southwestern China	82,400	31,800	0.86	[28]
27	Ningxia	Northwestern China	66,400	25,600	0.69	[29]
28	Hainan	South Central China	35,354	13,650	0.37	[30]
29	Beijing	North China	16,411	6,336	0.17	[31]
30	Tianjin	North China	11,917	4,601	0.12	[32]
31	Shanghai	East China	6,340.5	2,448.1	0.066	[33]
32	Hong Kong	South Central China	1,105.7	426.9	0.011	[34]
33	Macau	South Central China	30.5	11.8	0.0003	[35]
—	People's Republic of China		9,616,400[b]	3,712,900[c]	100

Notes

1. Heilongjiang's officially reported area of 473,000 square kilometres (183,000 sq mi)^[7] explicitly includes parts of Inner Mongolia's Oroqen Autonomous Banner administered as Songling District and Jiagedaqi District under Heilongjiang's Daxing'anling Prefecture. The combined area of these two districts is 18,200 square kilometres (7,000 sq mi),^[8] which has been subtracted from Heilongjiang's reported area to arrive at the figure of style="text-align:right;" data-sort-value="7011454800000000000"|454,800 |style="text-align:right;" data-sort-value="7011454800000000000"|175,600 reported in the table and corroborated by ref. 6.
2. Figure is the sum of the areas of the listed administrative divisions, rounded to the nearest hundred square kilometres. The National Bureau of Statistics of China gives China's total land area as 9.6 million square kilometres.^[36] The United Nations Statistics Division reports China's land area excluding Hong Kong and Macau as 9.5970 million square kilometres.^[37]
3. Figure is the sum of the areas of the listed administrative divisions, rounded to the nearest hundred square miles.