Administrative Divisions (34):
*Province: 23 (including Taiwan) *Autonomous Region: 5 (Tibet, Xinjiang Uyghur, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia Hui, Guangxi Zhuang) *Municipality: 4 (Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing) *Special Administrative Region: 2 (Hongkong, Macau) ***Taiwan (claimed by the PRC, controlled by the Republic of China) >The People's Republic of China (PRC), established in 1949, commonly known as China, has control over mainland China and the largely self-governing territories of Hong Kong (since 1997) and Macau (since 1999) as well as many islands. >The Republic of China (ROC) established in 1912 in mainland China, now commonly known as Taiwan, since 1945 has had control over the island of Taiwan and a few other outlying islands.
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