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List of capitals in China
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The scope of this list is limited to capital cities of first-level administrative divisions such as provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, and special administrative regions, also including sub-provincial cities which are governed by a province but administered independently in many ways from a province.
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Provincial-level capitals
Provincial-level administrative divisions and capitals of China
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Capital 
Direct-administered municipality 
East 
South 
West 
North 
Central 
Special Administrative Region (SAR)
Legend:
Capital 
Direct-administered municipality 
East 
South 
West 
North 
Central 
Special Administrative Region (SAR)- Note: The People's Republic of China claims Taiwan as one of its provinces, which it does not control.
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Sub-provincial cities that are not themselves provincial capitals
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Sub-provincial cities have a status that is below that of the municipalities, which are independent and equivalent to provinces, but above other, regular prefecture-level cities, which are completely ruled by their respective provinces. However, these sub-provincial cities are marked the same as other provincial capitals (or a prefecture-level city if the city is not a provincial capital) on almost all maps.
In total, there are five sub-provincial cities that are not themselves provincial capitals. These five cities have been designated as "Cities with Independent Planning Status" (Chinese: 计划单列市; pinyin: Jìhuá Dānliè Shì).
List of the Cities with Independent Planning Status
With the exception of Fuzhou, the provincial capital of Fujian Province, the provincial capitals of the other four provinces listed above – Guangzhou, Shenyang, Jinan, and Hangzhou – are themselves sub-provincial cities. Before 1997, when Chongqing was a sub-provincial city of Sichuan Province, provincial capital Chengdu was also a sub-provincial city.
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