Autonomous prefectures of China
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Autonomous prefectures (Chinese: 自治州; pinyin: Zìzhìzhōu) are one type of autonomous areas of China, existing at the prefectural level, with either ethnic minorities forming over 50% of the population or being the historic home of significant minorities. All autonomous prefectures are mostly dominated, in population, by the Han Chinese. The official name of an autonomous prefecture includes the most dominant minority in that region, sometimes two, rarely three. For example, a Kazakh (Kazak in official naming system) prefecture may be called Kazak Zizhizhou. Like all other prefectural level divisions, autonomous prefectures are divided into county level divisions. There is one exception: Ili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture contains two prefectures of its own. Under the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, autonomous prefectures cannot be abolished.
Contents
List of autonomous prefectures
Province | Name | Simplified Chinese and Pinyin | Designated minority | Local name | Capital |
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Gansu | Linxia | 临夏回族自治州 Línxià Huízú Zìzhìzhōu |
Hui | (The Hui speak Chinese) Xiao'erjing: لٍشِا جُوِذُو ذِجِجِوْ |
Linxia |
Gansu | Gannan | 甘南藏族自治州 Gānnán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu |
Tibetan | Tibetan: ཀན་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ Kan-lho Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul |
Hezuo |
Guizhou | Qiandongnan | 黔东南苗族侗族自治州 Qiándōngnán Miáozú Dòngzú Zìzhìzhōu |
Miao and Dong | Hmong: Cheej Toob Naj Mioj Txhwj Toom Txhwj Txim Tsim Tsawb Dong: ? |
Kaili |
Guizhou | Qiannan | 黔南布依族苗族自治州 Qiánnán Bùyīzú Miáozú Zìzhìzhōu |
Buyei & Miao | Buyei: Qianfnanf Buxqyaix Buxyeeuz ziqziqzouy Hmong: Cheej Naj Pwm Yi Txhwj Mioj Txwj Txim Tsim Tsawb |
Duyun |
Guizhou | Qianxinan | 黔西南布依族苗族自治州 Qiánxī'nán Bùyīzú Miáozú Zìzhìzhōu |
Buyei & Miao | Buyei: Qianfxiynanf Buxqyaix Buxyeeuz Ziqziqzouy Hmong: Cheej Xyi Naj Pwm Yi Txhwj Mioj Txwj Txim Tsim Tsawb |
Xingyi |
Hubei | Enshi | 恩施土家族苗族自治州 Ēnshī Tǔjiāzú Miáozú Zìzhìzhōu |
Tujia & Miao | Tujia: ? Hmong: EE Si Thws Ca Txhwj Mioj Txhwj Txim Tsim Tsawb |
Enshi |
Hunan | Xiangxi | 湘西土家族苗族自治州 Xiāngxī Tǔjiāzú Miáozú Zìzhìzhōu |
Tujia & Miao | Tujia: ? Hmong: Xyaa Xyi Thws Ca Txhwj Mioj Txhwj Txim Tsim Tsawb |
Jishou |
Jilin | Yanbian | 延边朝鲜族自治州 Yánbiān Cháoxiǎnzú Zìzhìzhōu |
Korean | Korean: 연변 조선족 자치주 Yeonbyeon Joseonjok Jachiju |
Yanji |
Qinghai | Haibei | 海北藏族自治州 Hǎiběi Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu |
Tibetan | Tibetan: མཚོ་བྱང་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ Mtsho-byang Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul |
Haiyan County |
Qinghai | Hainan | 海南藏族自治州 Hǎinán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu |
Tibetan | Tibetan: མཚོ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ Mtsho-lho Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul |
Gonghe County |
Qinghai | Huangnan | 黄南藏族自治州 Huángnán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu |
Tibetan | Tibetan: རྨ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ Rma-lho Bod-rigs rang skyong khul |
Tongren County |
Qinghai | Golog | 果洛藏族自治州 Guǒluò Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu |
Tibetan | Tibetan: མགོ་ལོག་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ Mgo-log Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul |
Maqên County |
Qinghai | Yushu | 玉树藏族自治州 Yùshù Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu |
Tibetan | Tibetan: ཡུལ་ཤུལ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ Yul-shul Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul |
Yushu |
Qinghai | Haixi | 海西蒙古族藏族自治州 Hǎixī Měnggǔzú Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu |
Mongol & Tibetan | Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠶᠢᠰᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠲᠥᠪᠡᠳ ᠦᠨᠳᠦᠰᠦᠲᠡᠨ ᠦ ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠤ ᠵᠧᠦ Borotal a-yin mongγol ebereen öbertegen zasaqu ǰuu Tibetan: མཚོ་ནུབ་སོག་རིགས་ཆ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ Mtsho-nub Sog-rigs dang Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul |
Delhi |
Sichuan | Ngawa | 阿坝藏族羌族自治州 Ābà Zàngzú Qiāngzú Zìzhìzhōu |
Tibetan & Qiang | Tibetan: རྔ་བ་བོད་རིགས་ཆ་བ༹ང་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ Rnga-ba Bod-rigs dang Chavang-rigs rang skyong khul Qiangic: Ggabba Shbea Rrmea nyujugvez zhou |
Barkam |
Sichuan | Garzê | 甘孜藏族自治州 Gānzī Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu |
Tibetan | Tibetan: དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ Dkar-mdzes Bod-rigs rang-skyong khul |
Kangding |
Sichuan | Liangshan | 凉山彝族自治州 Liángshān Yízú Zìzhìzhōu |
Yi | Yi: ![]() Niepsha Nuosu Zytjiejux dde Zho |
Xichang |
Xinjiang | Kizilsu | 克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治州 Kèzīlèsū Kē'ěrkèzī Zìzhìzhōu |
Kyrgyz | Kyrgyz: كىزىلسۋ كىزگىز اۆتونومييالى وبلاستى Kızılsuu Kırgız avtonom oblastı |
Artux |
Xinjiang | Bortala | 博尔塔拉蒙古自治州 Bó'ěrtǎlā Měnggǔ Zìzhìzhōu |
Mongol | Mongolian: ᠪᠣᠷᠣᠲᠠᠯᠠ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠤ ᠵᠧᠦ Borotala mongγol ebereen zasaqu ǰuu |
Bole |
Xinjiang | Changji | 昌吉回族自治州 Chāngjí Huízú Zìzhìzhōu |
Hui | (The Hui speak Chinese) Xiao'erjing: چْاکِ خُوِذُوْ ذِجِجِوْ |
Changji |
Xinjiang | Bayingolin | 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州 Bāyīnguōlèng Měnggǔ Zìzhìzhōu |
Mongol | Mongolian: ᠪᠠᠶᠠᠨᠭᠣᠣᠯ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠥᠪᠡᠷᠲᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠬᠤ ᠵᠧᠦ Bayangol mongγol ebereen zasaqu ǰuu |
Korla |
Xinjiang | Ili (Altay) (Tacheng) |
伊犁哈萨克自治州 Yīlí Hāsàkè Zìzhìzhōu (阿勒泰地区) (Ālètài Dìqū) (塔城地区) (Tǎchéng Dìqū) |
Kazakh | Kazakh: ىله قازاق اۆتونومىيالى وبلىسى İle Qazaq awtonomïyalıq oblısı (Kazakh: ئالتاي ۋىلايىتى) (Altay aymağı) (Kazakh: تارباعاتاي ايماعى) (Tarbağatay aymağı) |
Yining (Altay) (Tacheng) |
Yunnan | Dehong | 德宏傣族景颇族自治州 Déhóng Dǎizú Jǐngpōzú Zìzhìzhōu |
Dai & Jingpo | Tai Nüa - ![]() Zaiwa:Sikung Sam Zaizo Byumyu Yumsing Upkang Mau |
Mang |
Yunnan | Nujiang | 怒江傈僳族自治州 Nùjiāng Lìsùzú Zìzhìzhōu |
Lisu | Lisu: ![]() Nolmut lisu shit jilqait guatshit zhou |
Lushui County |
Yunnan | Dêqên | 迪庆藏族自治州 Díqìng Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu |
Tibetan | Tibetan: བདེ་ཆེན་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ Bde-chen Bod-rigs rang-skyong khul |
Shangri-La |
Yunnan | Dali | 大理白族自治州 Dàlǐ Báizú Zìzhìzhōu |
Bai | Bai: Darl•lit Baif•cuf zirl•zirl•zox | Dali |
Yunnan | Chuxiong | 楚雄彝族自治州 Chǔxióng Yízú Zìzhìzhōu |
Yi | Yi: ? ? Nuosu Zytjiejux dde Zho |
Chuxiong |
Yunnan | Honghe | 红河哈尼族彝族自治州 Hónghé Hānízú Yízú Zìzhìzhōu |
Hani & Yi | Yi: ? ? ? Nuosu Zytjiejux dde Zho Hani: Haoqhoqzel |
Mengzi |
Yunnan | Wenshan | 文山壮族苗族自治州 Wenshān Zhuàngzú Miáozú Zìzhìzhōu |
Zhuang & Miao | Zhuang: Munzsanh Bouxcuengh Myauzcuz Swcicouh Hmong: Veej Sa Tsuaam Txhwj Mioj Txhwj Txim Tsim Tsawb |
Wenshan |
Yunnan | Xishuangbanna | 西双版纳傣族自治州 Xīshuāngbǎnnà Dǎizú Zìzhìzhōu |
Dai | Tai Lü: ![]() |
Jinghong |
Ethnic composition of autonomous prefectures (2010)
- Note: * - denotes as the second titular ethnic group
Autonomous Prefecture |
Year created |
Province | Titular ethnic group |
% | Other minorities |
% | Han % | Total population |
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Bayingolin Prefecture | 1954 | Xinjiang | Mongol | 3.40 | Uyghur | 31.83 | 59.29 | 1,323,028 |
Bortala Prefecture | 1954 | Xinjiang | Mongol | 5.66 | Uyghur | 13.32 | 64.96 | 482,615 |
Changji Prefecture | 1954 | Xinjiang | Hui | 9.52 | Kazakh | 9.33 | 75.31 | 1,412,844 |
Chuxiong Prefecture | 1958 | Yunnan | Yi | 26.70 | Lisu | 1.98 | 66.94 | 2,615,109 |
Dali Prefecture | 1956 | Yunnan | Bai | 32.19 | Yi | 13.02 | 50.69 | 3,525,706 |
Dehong Prefecture | 1953 | Yunnan | Dai | 28.88 | Jingpo* | 11.09 | 51.93 | 1,124,432 |
Dêqên Prefecture | 1957 | Yunnan | Tibetan | 32.36 | Lisu | 26.72 | 18.34 | 357,528 |
Enshi Prefecture | 1983 | Hubei | Tujia | 47.50 | Miao* | 5.01 | 45.32 | 3,976,081 |
Gannan Prefecture | 1953 | Gansu | Tibetan | 54.64 | Hui | 6.25 | 38.70 | 723,521 |
Garzê Prefecture | 1950 | Sichuan | Tibetan | 78.29 | Yi | 2.66 | 18.24 | 1,060,632 |
Golog Prefecture | 1954 | Qinghai | Tibetan | 91.86 | Hui | 0.96 | 6.57 | 173,541 |
Haibei Prefecture | 1953 | Qinghai | Tibetan | 24.36 | Hui | 31.52 | 35.88 | 283,230 |
Hainan Prefecture | 1953 | Qinghai | Tibetan | 66.31 | Hui | 6.84 | 24.84 | 446,849 |
Haixi Prefecture | 1954 | Qinghai | Mongol | 5.53 | Tibetan* | 10.93 | 66.01 | 390,743 |
Honghe Prefecture | 1957 | Yunnan | Hani | 17.55 | Yi* | 23.19 | 42.85 | 4,408,699 |
Huangnan Prefecture | 1953 | Qinghai | Tibetan | 68.55 | Mongol | 13.98 | 6.08 | 254,033 |
Ili Prefecture | 1954 | Xinjiang | Kazakh | 21.53 | Uyghur | 26.88 | 35.22 | 2,814,980 |
Kizilsu Prefecture | 1954 | Xinjiang | Kyrgyz | 27.32 | Uyghur | 64.68 | 6.78 | 539,849 |
Liangshan Prefecture | 1952 | Sichuan | Yi | 49.13 | Tibetan | 1.39 | 47.55 | 4,789,421 |
Linxia Prefecture | 1956 | Gansu | Hui | 31.59 | Dongxiang | 25.99 | 39.70 | 2,103,259 |
Ngawa Prefecture | 1953 | Sichuan | Tibetan | 54.50 | Qiang* | 17.58 | 24.56 | 898,846 |
Nujiang Prefecture | 1954 | Yunnan | Lisu | 48.21 | Bai | 26.04 | 12.35 | 520,765 |
Qiandongnan Prefecture | 1956 | Guizhou | Miao | 41.57 | Dong* | 29.02 | 21.73 | 4,535,015 |
Qiannan Prefecture | 1956 | Guizhou | Buyei | 31.22 | Miao* | 12.69 | 44.84 | 4,037,887 |
Qianxinan Prefecture | 1982 | Guizhou | Buyei | 27.56 | Miao* | 7.08 | 60.62 | 3,398,147 |
Wenshan Prefecture | 1958 | Yunnan | Miao | 13.68 | Zhuang* | 29.20 | 42.69 | 3,703,008 |
Xiangxi Prefecture | 1957 | Hunan | Tujia | 42.73 | Miao* | 33.85 | 22.85 | 2,547,833 |
Xishuangbanna Prefecture | 1953 | Yunnan | Dai | 27.89 | Hani | 19.01 | 30.03 | 942,844 |
Yanbian Prefecture | 1952 | Jilin | Korean | 32.45 | Manchu | 2.52 | 64.55 | 2,190,763 |
Yushu Prefecture | 1951 | Qinghai | Tibetan | 96.49 | Hui | 0.22 | 3.09 | 373,427 |
Former autonomous prefectures of China
- Hainan Li and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (1952–1988) in Guangdong
- Qianjiang Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (before 1997) in Sichuan
Administrative prefecture level units with a population of 30% or more of ethnic minorities
- Excluding prefecture level units of autonomous regions in 2000.
- Hebei: Chengde (Han - 55.32%, Manchu - 39.87%)
- Liaoning: Benxi (Han - 66.84%, Manchu - 30.22%), Dandong(Han - 64.11%, Manchu - 32.99%)
- Hunan: Zhangjiajie (Tujia - 68.40%, Han - 22.81%), Huaihua (Han - 61.33%, Dong - 17.42%, Miao - 15.63%)
- Guizhou: Anshun (Han - 61.6%, Buyei - 16.92%, Miao - 14.27%), Tongren (Tujia - 37.81%, Han - 31.76%, Miao - 14.87%, Dong - 11.41%)
- Yunnan: Yuxi (Han - 68,18%, Yi - 19,32%), Pu'er (Han - 40,92%, Hani - 16,98%, Yi - 16.58%, Lahu - 11.47%), Lijiang (Han - 42.71%, Nasi 20.51%, Yi - 18.68%, Lisu - 9.62%), Lincang (Han - 61.22%, Dai - 15.77%, Lahu and Va - 9.76%)
- Qinghai: Haidong (Han - 56.33%, Hui - 20.38%, Tibetan - 9.2%, Tu - 8.06%)
See also
- List of prefecture-level divisions of China
- Tusi Native Chieftain System