county-level city
county-level city noun: an administrative division of China immediately below the prefecture level.
Noun
county-level city (plural county-level cities)
- An administrative division of China immediately below the prefecture level.
- And there are six corps cities, Shihezi, Wujiaqu, Alar, Tumushuke, Beitun and Tiemenguan among 22 county-level cities.2014, Xinping (李欣凭) Li, 活力新疆 [Modern Xinjiang], Beijing: China Intercontinental Press (五洲传播出版社), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 32
- “Overall production curbs in Tangshan in September are on par with August, which are loose,” Huatai Futures said in a note, adding that output restrictions in Wuan, county-level city of the second-biggest steelmaking city of Handan, tightened slightly this month compared with August.2019 September 3, Min Zhang, Tom Daly, “China iron ore, steel futures rise on lenient output curbs”, in Sherry Jacob-Phillips, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2022, Metals News
- Synonyms:
- county-level municipality
Synonyms of county-level city
Forms of county-level city
| plural | county-level cities |
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Origin of county-level city
Calque from Chinese 縣級市／县级市 (xiànjíshì, literally “county-level city”)
Questions about county-level city
- What does county-level city mean?
- County-level city means an administrative division of China immediately below the prefecture level.
- What part of speech is county-level city?
- County-level city is a noun.
- What is the plural of county-level city?
- The plural of county-level city is county-level cities.
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