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Village (China)

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{{Chinese

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|title=formally
Village-level divisions

|t=村級行政區

|s=村级行政区

|p=Cūn Jí Xíngzhèngqū

|title2=Township (Xiang)

|c2={{linktext|村}}

|p2=Cūn

|c3=嘎查

|p3=Gāchá

|mon=тосгон (typical villages, 村)
гацаа (gatsaa) translate as Gaqa(嘎查)

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{{MongolUnicode|ᠭᠠᠴᠠᠭ᠎ᠠ}}

|monr=togson
gaqaa

|tib=གྲོང་ཚོ

|wylie=grong tsho

|zwpy=Chongco

|uig=كەنت

|uly=kent

|zha=Cunh

|lang1 = kk

|lang1_content = {{lang|kk-Arab|قىستاق}}
{{lang|kk|қыстақ}}
{{transliteration|kk|qıstaq}}

|lang2 = ky

|lang2_content = {{lang|ky-Arab|قىشتاق}}
{{lang|ky|кыштак}}
{{transliteration|ky|kıştak}}

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Villages ({{zh|s={{linktext|村}}|hp=Cūn}}), formally village-level divisions ({{zh|s=村级行政区|hp=Cūn Jí Xíngzhèngqū|links=no|labels=no}}) in China, serve as a fundamental organizational unit for its rural population (census, mail system). Basic local divisions like neighborhoods and communities are not informal, but have defined boundaries and designated heads (one per area). In 2000, China's densely populated villages (>100 persons/square km) had a population greater than 500 million and covered more than 2 million square kilometers, or more than 20% of China's total area.{{sfn|Ellis|2004}} By 2020, all incorporated villages (with proper conditions making it possible) had road access, the last village to be connected being a remote village in Sichuan province's Butuo County.{{Cite web|url=http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-07/01/c_139180923.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200705153521/http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-07/01/c_139180923.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 5, 2020|title = Paved road links China's "last village" with outside world - Xinhua | English.news.cn}}

Types of villages

=Urban=

  • Residential community ({{zh|s={{linktext|社区}}|t={{linktext|社區}}|p=shèqū}})
  • Residents' committee ({{zh|s=居民委员会|t=居民委員會|p=jūmín wěiyuánhuì}})
  • Residential groups ({{zh|s=居民小组|t=居民小組|p=jūmín xiǎozǔ}}

;Note: Urban village ({{zh|c=城中村|p=chéngzhōngcūn}}) one that spontaneously and naturally exists within urban area, which is not an administrative division.

=Rural=

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  • Administrative village or Village ({{zh|c=行政村 or 村|p=xíngzhèngcūn or cūn}})
  • Hamlet or Band ({{zh|c=屯|p=tún}})
  • Gacha ({{zh|c=嘎查|p=gāchá}}) only for Inner Mongolia.
  • Ranch ({{zh|c=牧委会|p=mùwěihuì}}) only for Qinghai.
  • Ethnic village ({{zh|c=民族村|p=mínzúcūn}}) only for village populated by Ethnic minority.
  • Village committees ({{zh|s=村民委员会|t=村民委員會|p=cūnmín wěiyuánhuì}})
  • Villager groups ({{zh|s=村民小组|t=村民小組|p=cūnmín xiǎozǔ}})

;Note: Natural village ({{zh|c={{linktext|自然村}}|p=zìráncūn}}) one that spontaneously and naturally exists within rural area, which is not an administrative division.

Lists of village-level divisions

;Villages ({{lang|zh|{{linktext|村}}}})

List of villages in China

;Provinces

; Autonomous areas

;Municipalities

See also

References

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;Bibliography

  • {{Cite book |last1=Ellis|first1=E.C. |title=Ecosystems and Land Use Change |chapter=Long-term ecological changes in the densely populated rural landscapes of China |series=Geophysical Monograph Series |editor1-first=R. S.|editor1-last=DeFries|editor2-first=G. P.|editor2-last=Asner|editor3-first=R. A.|editor3-last=Houghton|pages=303–320|year=2004|publisher=American Geophysical Union|volume=153|location=Washington, D.C.|doi=10.1029/153GM23|bibcode=2004GMS...153..303E|isbn=0-87590-418-1|url=http://www.ecotope.org/people/ellis/papers/ellis_2004.pdf}}
  • {{cite book|author1=Joseph Esherick|author2=Mary Backus Rankin|author3=Joint Committee on Chinese Studies (U.S.)|title=Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x1EMdDZ8T7QC&q=rolls+bannermen+zhang+zuolin|year=1990|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-06763-9}}
  • {{cite book|author=Roxann Prazniak|title=Of Camel Kings and Other Things: Rural Rebels Against Modernity in Late Imperial China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7jMeQ-wHXKAC&q=rolls+bannermen+zhang+zuolin|date=1 January 1999|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-8476-9007-7}}

External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20090121110605/http://chinarural.org/ Chinese Village Government Information Network]
  • [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/31/AR2006073101399.html Two Chinese Villages, Two Views of Rural Poverty]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20100306015411/http://ecotope.org/blogs/post/Chinas-villages-are-changing-the-world.aspx Long-term changes in China's village landscapes are changing the world]

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