Talk:Prefecture-level city

Prefecture-level city vs. municipality

In case anyone was interested, as of today, "prefecture-level city" (or its plural) had ~12,100 Google hits, compared with ~260 for "prefecture-level municipality" (or plural)--mostly Encyclopedia Britannica and some Chinese official sites. ~ Dpr

Same name as the city?

"A prefecture-level city is not a "city" in the usual sense of the term (i.e. a large continuous urban settlement), but instead an administrative unit comprising, typically, a main central urban area (a city in the usual sense, with the same name as the prefecture-level city)" -- I've looked at articles on Chinese prefecture-level cities on Wikipedia but none of them had subdivisions with the same name. What makes up the urban core does not appear to be well-defined either. Someone the Person (talk) 17:43, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

@Someone the Person agreed. I alao checked a couple of them (plus translating post-1900 history sections of their zhWiki counterparts). It appears it is a practice in China to remove any immediate references to the former incarnations of cities (when those were still county level). For example, Hami Prefecture in Xinjiang became a PLC in 2016, while the former original Hami (CLC) was abolished and replaced by Yizhou District. Another one, Turpan PLC of today was the former original prefecture, while the original city proper (CLC) has been abolished and replaced by Gaochang District. Some others have more nuanced incarnation histories, like Huanggang in Hubei. Based on the history section of the zhWiki equivalent, Huanggang PLC was born in 1995 comprising Huanggang Prefecture and Huangzhou CLC. Huangzhou itself was established in 1990 replacing Huanggang County. Both Tuanfeng County and Huangzhou District comprise the former (1995) city of Huanggang, a tiny portion (Western merger standards) of the larger PLC today. One can say Tuanfeng and Huangzhou comprise the "urban core" of Huanggang (the "city proper" in western standards). JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 23:51, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

"Prefecture-level cites of the People's Republic of China" listed at Redirects for discussion

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