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prefecture-level cities

prefecture-level cities is the plural of prefecture-level city.

Meaning of prefecture-level city

Noun

prefecture-level city (plural prefecture-level cities)

  1. An administrative division of China immediately below the province level and above the county level, often comprising a central urban area, a large surrounding rural area, and smaller towns and cities. (Most of China proper today is part of a prefecture-level city.)
    • The majority of migrants in Zhejiangcun came from two areas under the jurisdiction of a prefecture-level city, Wenzhou, in Zhejiang province: Yueqing, a county-level city, and Yongjia, a rural county.2001, Li Zhang, “Commercial Culture, Social Networks, and Migration Passages”, in Strangers in the City: Reconfigurations of Space, Power, and Social Networks Within China's Floating Population...

Questions about prefecture-level cities

What is prefecture-level cities the plural of?
Prefecture-level cities is the plural of prefecture-level city.

Words near prefecture-level cities in the dictionary

  1. prefectual
  2. prefectural
  3. prefecturally
  4. prefecturals
  5. prefecture
  6. prefecture-level cities
  7. prefecture-level city
  8. prefecture-level municipalities
  9. prefecture-level municipality
  10. prefectures
  11. prefecturewide

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