Administrative divisions of Anhui
Anhui， With an area of 54,000 sq mi (139,900 sq km)，is a province of the People’s Republic of China。 It is located in east China, across the basins of the Yangtze River (Changjiang River) and the Huaihe River. The capital is Hefei.
The name "Anhui" derives from the names of two cities in south Anhui, Anqing and Huizhou (now Huangshan City). The abbreviation for Anhui is "Wan", because there were historically a State of Wan, a Mount Wan, and a Wan river in the province.
Administrative divisions
Anhui is divided into seventeen prefecture-level divisions, all of them prefecture-level cities:
• Hefei
• Suzhou
• Huaibei
• Fuyang
• Bozhou
• Bengbu
• Huainan
• Chuzhou
• Ma’anshan
• Wuhu
• Tongling
• Anqing
• Huangshan
• Lu’an
• Chaohu
• Chizhou
• Xuancheng
The seventeen prefecture-level divisions of Anhui are subdivided into 105 county-level divisions (44 districts, five county-level cities, and 56 counties). Those are in turn divided into 1845 township-level divisions (972 towns, 634 townships, nine ethnic townships, and 230 subdistricts).
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