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prefecture-level city

prefecture-level city noun: 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.).

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...
    • (3) Prefecture-level Cities
      A prefecture-level city is a large or medium-sized city, smaller than an MDUCG and sub-provincial city. It generally has an urban, non-agricultural population of over 250,000, which includes over 200,000 in the seat of the city government; a total industrial output value...2004, Fengchun (杨凤春) Yang, “Local Governments”, in 中国政府 [Chinese Government], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 260–261

prefecture-level city meaning in Vietnamese

prefecture-level city in Vietnamese

administrative division
địa cấp thị

Examples of prefecture-level city in a sentence

  • Presently, Yueyang is a prefecture-level city in the northeast corner of Hunan province on the southern shores of Dongting Lake2012, Healing, Romance & Revolution, Book Publishers Network, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 43:
  • In 2012, China set up a prefecture-level city named Sansha on Woody Island, soon unveiling structures such as a school and a hospital and even setting up a 4G mobile signal network.2017 July 24, Adam Taylor, “On a disputed South China Sea island, Beijing unveils a high-tech cinema”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN...

Synonyms of prefecture-level city

Forms of prefecture-level city

pluralprefecture-level cities

Origin of prefecture-level city

Calque from Chinese 地級市／地级市 (dìjíshì, literally “prefecture (地區／地区)-level city”)

Questions about prefecture-level city

What does prefecture-level city mean?
Prefecture-level city means 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.).
What is prefecture-level city in Vietnamese?
Prefecture-level city in Vietnamese is địa cấp thị. See Prefecture-level city meaning in Vietnamese.
How do you use prefecture-level city in a sentence?
Presently, Yueyang is a prefecture-level city in the northeast corner of Hunan province on the southern shores of Dongting Lake
What part of speech is prefecture-level city?
Prefecture-level city is a noun.
What is the plural of prefecture-level city?
The plural of prefecture-level city is prefecture-level cities.

Words near prefecture-level city in the dictionary

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

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