Prefecture-level city

Prefecture-level city
Prefectural-level city
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese地级市
Traditional Chinese地級市
Literal meaningRegional-level city
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinDìjíshì
Hakka
Romanizationthi-kip-sṳ:
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingdei6 kap1 si5
Tibetan name
Tibetanས་ཁུལ་རིམ་པ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
Transcriptions
Wyliesa khul rim pa drong khyer
Tibetan PinyinSakü Rimba Chongkyêr
Mongolian name
Mongolian CyrillicДугаргийн энтэй хот
Mongolian scriptᠲᠣᠭᠣᠷᠢᠭ ᠤᠨ ᠡᠩ ᠲᠡᠢ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ
Transcriptions
SASM/GNCtoγoriγ-un en-tai qota
Uyghur name
Uyghurۋىلايەت دەرىجىلىك شەھەر‎
Transcriptions
Latin YëziqiWilayet Derijilik Sheher
A road sign shows distance to the "Huangshi urban area" (黄石市区) rather than simply "Huangshi" (黄石). This is a useful distinction, because the sign is located already within Huangshi prefectural level city (immediately upon entering its Yangxin County from the neighboring Xianning), but still 100 kilometres (62 mi) from the Huangshi main urban area.

A prefecture-level city (simplified Chinese: 地级市; traditional Chinese: 地級市; pinyin: Dìjíshì) or prefectural city is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure. It usually consists of multiple sub-prefecture-level cities or towns and the surrounding countryside.

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