Meaning of prefecture-level municipality | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of prefecture-level city.

Examples

“Yang-ch’üan, Pinyin YANGQUAN, City, eastern Shansi Province (sheng), China. It is a prefecture-level municipality (shih) entirely surrounded by Chin-chung Prefecture (ti-ch’ü).”

“Wenzhou is a prefecture-level municipality located in the southeast of Zhejiang province.”

“Tibet was formally designated an autonomous region in 1965, as part of the separation of religion and civil administration. It is now divided into the dijishi (prefecture-level municipality) of Lhasa, directly under the jurisdiction of the regional government, and six diqu (prefectures), which are subdivided into shixiaqu (districts), xian (counties), and xianjishi (county-level municipalities).”

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