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Accurately look up subordinate administrative units using a parent region ID to get key data like names, levels, and coordinates.
Enter a 2-, 4-, or 6-digit Chinese administrative division code to view its immediate subdivisions. For provincial-level 6-digit codes, the last four digits are 0.
Overview
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This lookup takes a code for a Chinese province-level, prefecture-level, or county-level division and shows its immediate children when they are present in the page’s data. A province-level code opens a list of prefecture-level entries; a prefecture-level code opens its county-level entries. The result shows the matched Chinese name and level, the name path above it, and a table of child codes and names. It is designed for navigating a hierarchy, rather than searching by English place name or producing a full national export.
The input accepts the short 2-, 4-, or 6-digit hierarchy forms shown in the interface. For example, 11 can be used to look up Beijing’s province-level entry, 1101 for a prefecture-level entry, and 110101 for a county-level entry if that code is present in the dataset. These examples illustrate the format; the actual lookup response is determined by the included records. Codes are identifiers: keep them as text so their digits and length are preserved.
“Direct children” means the next represented level only. A province result does not jump straight to every county, and a city result does not include township or village records. Select a row’s drill-down action to use that child as the next lookup input; copy a row’s code when you need to carry it into another form or data file.
China’s National Bureau of Statistics explains that codes for administrative divisions at county level and above follow the national administrative division code standard, while statistical codes below county level are compiled under separate rules. A code that looks related is not automatically interchangeable across administrative, statistical, address, or business datasets. This page’s short hierarchy input should not be confused with the longer statistical code that adds township and village segments.
The result area identifies the matched record, shows its path from the province-level name, and lists child code/name pairs if the record has children. A county-level match has no further list in this tool, so the page reports that it has no subdivisions. A code that is not found means it did not match the data available to this lookup; that message alone does not establish whether a code is officially invalid, historical, or absent from another code system.
Guide
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Paste a 2-, 4-, or 6-digit code in the field. The quick-select buttons can fill one of the listed province-level examples, or you can enter a code you already use in your China data workflow.
Choose Search or press Enter. Check the displayed Chinese name path and level before using the results, especially when several place names are similar.
For a province-level record, review its listed prefecture-level children. For a prefecture-level record, review the county-level children. Copy a row’s code or choose View Subdivisions to continue from that row.
If no record is found, check that the code is complete and belongs to the expected hierarchy. If a county-level record has no children, the tool has reached its represented depth; it does not provide the lower statistical divisions.
Use cases
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A developer preparing province, city, and county options can expand a parent code one level at a time, then copy the codes and names into a working draft for review against the project’s official source.
When an imported record contains a region code, look it up to confirm the matched level and visible name path before mapping it to a parent or child field in an application.
An analyst who already knows a prefecture-level code can retrieve its listed county-level entries without scanning a nationwide table, then copy only the rows needed for a preliminary dataset.
Q&A
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No. The lookup field is for a supported code, and matched names are shown as stored in the data. It does not provide a name search or promise romanized names.
No. It only means the entered text did not match a record available here. Check the full code and the code system and date required by your source; historical codes or records outside the included data may not match.
No. The lookup ends at county-level records. China’s statistical code rules include separate below-county segments, but those lists are not shown by this page.
Notes
Review scope, result limitations, and important precautions before use.
This page is a convenient hierarchy lookup, not an official certification of a region code or a complete administrative register.
Administrative divisions and code lists can change, and this page does not identify a verified release date for its included records. For production master data, reporting, contracts, government submissions, or another date-sensitive workflow, verify the code against the current source and code system required by the responsible Chinese authority or your data provider. The displayed names and parent-child relationships do not define geographic boundaries, postal service areas, or coordinates.
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