List of Chinese administrative divisions by area

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.

Rank	Administrative division	Area (km²)	Area (sq mi)	National share (%)	Source
1	Xinjiang	1,664,900	642,800	17.31	[1]
2	Tibet	1,228,400	474,300	12.77	[2]
3	Inner Mongolia	1,183,000	457,000	12.30	[3]
4	Qinghai	722,300	278,900	7.51	[4]
5	Sichuan	486,100	187,700	5.05	[5]
6	Heilongjiang	454,800	175,600	4.73	[6][lower-alpha 1]
7	Gansu	425,800	164,400	4.43	[9]
8	Yunnan	394,100	152,200	4.10	[10]
9	Guangxi	237,600	91,700	2.47	[11]
10	Hunan	211,800	81,800	2.20	[12]
11	Shaanxi	205,800	79,500	2.14	[13]
12	Hebei	188,800	72,900	1.96	[14]
13	Jilin	187,400	72,400	1.95	[15]
14	Hubei	185,900	71,800	1.93	[16]
15	Guangdong	179,700	69,400	1.87	[17]
16	Guizhou	176,200	68,000	1.83	[18]
17	Henan	167,000	64,500	1.74	[19]
18	Jiangxi	166,900	64,400	1.74	[20]
19	Shandong	157,100	60,700	1.63	[21]
20	Shanxi	156,700	60,500	1.63	[22]
21	Liaoning	148,400	57,300	1.54	[23]
22	Anhui	139,400	53,800	1.45	[24]
23	Fujian	123,900	47,800	1.29	[25]
24	Jiangsu	102,600	39,600	1.07	[26]
25	Zhejiang	101,800	39,300	1.06	[27]
26	Chongqing	82,400	31,800	0.86	[28]
27	Ningxia	66,400	25,600	0.69	[29]
28	Hainan	35,354	13,650	0.37	[30]
29	Beijing	16,411	6,336	0.17	[31]
30	Tianjin	11,917	4,601	0.12	[32]
31	Shanghai	6,340.5	2,448.1	0.066	[33]
32	Hong Kong	1,105.7	426.9	0.011	[34]
33	Macau	30.4	11.7	0.0003	[35]
—	People's Republic of China	9,616,400[lower-alpha 2]	3,712,900[lower-alpha 3]	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 454,800 square kilometres (175,600 sq mi) 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]
3. Figure is the sum of the areas of the listed administrative divisions, rounded to the nearest hundred square miles.

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