Departments/Provinces - Correspondence between English and Chinese

United States of America is a country on the continent North America, her capital is Washington. Here is the hierarchy of the United States of America administrative divisions: United States of America is subdivided into states, that are at their turn subdivided into counties, that are at their turn subdivided into cities, towns and 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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