Departments/Provinces - Correspondence between English and Chinese

Japan is a country on the continent Asia, her capital is Tokyo. Here is the hierarchy of the Japan administrative divisions: Japan is subdivided into prefectures, that are at their turn subdivided into cities, villages.

There are 102 départements in France of which 96 in Metropolitan France, who correspond in China approximatively to the size of a region city like Ningbo City in the Zhejiang Province with several Chinese counties. The other six departments are oversea territories out of the Europe, the heritage of the French Empire in the History: Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guyane, Reunion, St Pierre and Miquelon and Mayotte.

In China, there are 34 Provinces, Metropolitan Cities or Autonomous Regions.

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