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The prefecture is the tier between the province and the county, and the one a Chinese address names right after the province: Guangdong, Shenzhen. It is also the level a licence plate names, since the letter after the province character stands for the prefecture, so 粤B is Shenzhen. There are 357 divisions on this map, from a Zhejiang island group to a Xinjiang prefecture larger than Germany.
Four kinds of division share this level. Most are prefecture-level cities, 地级市, which in China means a city together with the countryside around it, often the size of a European country. Autonomous prefectures are named for the minority peoples who live there, and leagues are the same thing in Inner Mongolia, under an older name. The map also holds the four municipalities, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Chongqing, which rank with the provinces and have nothing beneath them on this map, so each answers as one piece.
Two provinces run some of their counties directly, with no prefecture in between, and a map without them would have holes. Hainan has fifteen such counties and county-level cities, and Hubei, Henan and Xinjiang have a few each, such as Shennongjia and Shihezi. They answer like any prefecture.
Names are given the way an English map writes them, without the type attached: Dali rather than Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture. Five are shared by two prefectures in different provinces, Fuzhou, Suzhou, Taizhou, Yichun and Yulin, and those carry their province in brackets.
The map is very uneven. The prefectures of the east and south are a hundred kilometres across, and the Pearl River delta and Hainan crowd into a few pixels, so the smallest have a tap area wider than their outline. The west is the opposite: Bayingolin, Nagqu, Haixi and Ngari are each larger than most European countries.
The groups are the provinces, so the game lets you drill them one at a time. Each province answers under the same name in China Provinces.
Zhoushan is an archipelago off the coast of Zhejiang, near the mouth of the Yangtze, and the smallest prefecture on this map. It needs a tap area.
Bayingolin is the largest prefecture, in the south of Xinjiang around the Taklamakan Desert, and it is bigger than France.
Suzhou in Jiangsu is the canal city next to Shanghai. Its namesake is a prefecture in Anhui. The brackets name the province, and so does the group the question is dealt from.
333 prefecture-level divisions: 293 cities, 30 autonomous prefectures, 7 prefectures and 3 leagues. This map adds the four municipalities and the counties Hainan, Hubei, Henan and Xinjiang administer directly, so that it has no holes, which makes 357.
Five names are borne by two prefectures each, and the bracket says which province the one you are asked about is in.
357 names are a long first sitting, so a first run starts on Guangdong and you can switch the rest on in the settings.
Hong Kong and Macau are special administrative regions without prefectures, and Hong Kong has a game of its own, as does Taiwan. China Provinces leaves all three out as well, so the two China games draw the same country.
The tier above this one is China Provinces. For another country at this level, see Mongolia Sums.
