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China Geography Quiz: Provinces and Regions on a Map

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China Geography Quiz: Provinces and Regions on a Map

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Write the name of each numbered province-level division.Answer key

  1. Anhui
  2. Beijing
  3. Chongqing
  4. Fujian
  5. Gansu
  6. Guangdong
  7. Guangxi
  8. Guizhou
  9. Hainan
  10. Hebei
  11. Heilongjiang
  12. Henan
  13. Hubei
  14. Hunan
  15. Inner Mongolia
  16. Jiangsu
  17. Jiangxi
  18. Jilin
  19. Liaoning
  20. Ningxia
  21. Qinghai
  22. Shaanxi
  23. Shandong
  24. Shanghai
  25. Shanxi
  26. Sichuan
  27. Tianjin
  28. Tibet
  29. Xinjiang
  30. Yunnan
  31. Zhejiang

Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2. Licence: public domain.

Each province-level division is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a province-level division is answered.

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East China 7

  1. Anhui Capital: Hefei. The Huangshan mountains are in its south. The name joins two of its old cities, Anqing and Huizhou.
  2. Fujian Capital: Fuzhou. The province lies on the Taiwan Strait. The island of Gulangyu sits just off the coast of its city of Xiamen.
  3. Jiangsu Capital: Nanjing. The most densely populated province. The classical gardens of Suzhou are here, and Shanghai was part of it until 1927.
  4. Jiangxi Capital: Nanchang. Mount Lu is in this province. So is Jingdezhen, known as the Porcelain Capital.
  5. Shandong Capital: Jinan. The name means east of the mountains. Second of the 31 by population, with 101,527,453 people in 2020. Mount Tai is here, and so is Qufu, the birthplace of Confucius.
  6. Shanghai A municipality with no capital of its own. It lies on the southern side of the Yangtze estuary. 24,870,895 people in the 2020 census. Its port is the busiest container port in the world.
  7. Zhejiang Capital: Hangzhou, the city of West Lake, where the Grand Canal ends. The province has about three thousand islands, China's most.

North China 5

  1. Beijing A municipality, so it has no capital of its own. It is the national capital. 21,893,095 people in the 2020 census, 26th of the 31.
  2. Hebei Capital: Shijiazhuang. The name means north of the river. The river is the Yellow River, and the Great Wall meets the Bohai Sea here, at Shanhai Pass.
  3. Inner Mongolia Capital: Hohhot. An autonomous region since 1947, the earliest of the five. Third of the 31 by area, it holds about two-thirds of China's border with Mongolia.
  4. Shanxi Capital: Taiyuan. The name means west of the mountains. They are the Taihang Mountains. The walled old city of Pingyao is here.
  5. Tianjin A municipality with no capital of its own, on the Bohai Sea. 13,866,009 people in the 2020 census, the fewest of the four municipalities.

Northeast China 3

  1. Heilongjiang Capital: Harbin. It is the northernmost and easternmost province. It is named for the Heilong River, the Chinese name of the Amur, and Harbin is known for its winter ice sculpture shows.
  2. Jilin Capital: Changchun. It borders both North Korea and Russia. Heaven Lake, a crater lake on Changbai Mountain, lies on the North Korean border.
  3. Liaoning Capital: Shenyang. The northernmost province with a coast. The Yalu River marks its border with North Korea.

Northwest China 5

  1. Gansu Capital: Lanzhou. The Mogao Caves at Dunhuang are here. The Hexi Corridor, a stretch of the old Silk Road, runs along the narrow neck of the province.
  2. Ningxia Capital: Yinchuan. An autonomous region since 1958. It was separated from Gansu that year and is named for the Hui people. At about 66,400 square kilometers it is the smallest of the five.
  3. Qinghai Capital: Xining. Named for Qinghai Lake, the largest lake in China. Set the five autonomous regions aside and it is the largest province by area.
  4. Shaanxi Capital: Xi'an. The Terracotta Army was found outside Xi'an in 1974. The double a in the name keeps it apart from Shanxi, which differs only in tone in Mandarin.
  5. Xinjiang Capital: Ürümqi. An autonomous region since 1955, named for the Uyghur people. The largest of the 31 by area.

South Central China 6

  1. Guangdong Capital: Guangzhou. It has the most people of the 31. The 2020 census counted 126,012,510. Shenzhen, on its coast, was China's first special economic zone.
  2. Guangxi Capital: Nanning. An autonomous region since 1958, named for the Zhuang people. It lies on the Gulf of Tonkin, and the limestone hills of Guilin are here.
  3. Hainan Capital: Haikou. It is the southernmost province, an island. It is the smallest of the 22 on this map at 34,259 square kilometers, and it was part of Guangdong until 1988.
  4. Henan Capital: Zhengzhou. The name means south of the river. The river is the Yellow River. Third of the 31 by population, with 99,365,519 people in 2020. Mount Song and its Shaolin Temple are here.
  5. Hubei Capital: Wuhan. The name means north of the lake. The lake is Dongting Lake, and the Three Gorges Dam is in this province.
  6. Hunan Capital: Changsha. The name means south of the lake. The lake is Dongting Lake.

Southwest China 5

  1. Chongqing A municipality with no capital of its own. It is the only one of the four that lies inland, and it was split off from Sichuan on March 14, 1997. 32,054,159 people in the 2020 census.
  2. Guizhou Capital: Guiyang. Huangguoshu Waterfall is at Anshun in this province. It is 77.8 meters high and 101 meters wide.
  3. Sichuan Capital: Chengdu. Large giant panda reserves are in this province. It was the most populous province until Chongqing was split off in 1997.
  4. Tibet Capital: Lhasa, where the Potala Palace stands. An autonomous region since 1965. Second of the 31 by area and last by population, with 3,648,100 people in 2020.
  5. Yunnan Capital: Kunming. It borders Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam. The Tropic of Cancer crosses its southern part, and the Stone Forest, a field of limestone pinnacles, is here.

How this list was compiled: Names, kinds, capitals, 2020 census populations and areas were checked again on 2026-10-01 against the table at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincial-level_divisions_of_China (all 31 names and all 27 capitals agree), and the list of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities against the State Council's own page, Administrative Division, https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/china_abc/2014/08/27/content_281474983873401.htm (updated Aug 26, 2014; read 2026-10-01), which is the list this page follows for the mainland. That list also counts Taiwan as a province and Hong Kong and Macao as special administrative regions; the drawing follows Natural Earth, where those three are land that cannot be tapped, and they are not among the 31 parts asked. The fact in each detail line was first written and checked on 2026-09-19 and was read again on 2026-10-01 in the Wikipedia article of that province, region or municipality (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anhui through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhejiang; Tibet in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet_Autonomous_Region), with the waterfall in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huangguoshu_Waterfall and the Terracotta Army in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army; lines the articles did not bear out that day were cut or softened. The years the five autonomous regions were set up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_regions_of_China (2026-09-19). The six groups: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_of_China (2026-09-19). Area and population ranks were worked out from the table. Neighbors and coasts named in the hints were worked out from the drawing itself. Disputed areas: the drawing follows Natural Earth's default view (Aksai Chin is drawn within Xinjiang and Tibet), and the page describes no border. Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_50m_admin_1_states_provinces_lakes (scale 1:50,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_50m_admin_1_states_provinces_lakes.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Surrounding land from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_50m_admin_0_countries_lakes (scale 1:50,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_50m_admin_0_countries_lakes.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Albers equal-area conic projection, central meridian 104°E, standard parallels 25°N and 47°N. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

How it works

This China geography quiz is a blank map of 31 shapes: the 22 provinces, 5 autonomous regions and 4 municipalities of the mainland. Shanghai and Tianjin are too small to tap, so each has a numbered ring out at sea.

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Six regions, from three shapes to seven

Xinjiang, Tibet and Inner Mongolia fill the west and north, and the slips come in the crowded east. The quiz goes one region at a time, starting with East China (7 shapes), and the map zooms in to match; Start from holds all six regions and all 31 together. A wrong tap earns a hint before the second try, and after the round one button replays only the ones you missed.

Three kinds of shape

The line after each answer says which kind you found. Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Tibet, Ningxia and Xinjiang are autonomous regions. Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Chongqing are municipalities, cities that rank with provinces and have no capital. The other 22 are provinces, each with a capital.

  • Two names differ by one letter. Shanxi touches Hebei. Shaanxi, with the double a, is one shape farther west.
  • The names are a map: Hebei and Henan mean north and south of the river, Hubei and Hunan north and south of the lake.
  • Walk the coast from north to south: Liaoning, Hebei, Tianjin, Shandong, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, then the island of Hainan.

Questions and answers

How many provinces does China have?

This quiz asks 31 province-level divisions of the mainland: 22 provinces, 5 autonomous regions and 4 municipalities. The Chinese government's own list counts Taiwan as a province, and Hong Kong and Macao as special administrative regions. Those three are drawn as land and not asked.

Are the borders on this map official?

Some borders on this map are disputed. The map follows Natural Earth, a public-domain map source, and does not take a side. The quiz asks only for the 31 named shapes and describes no border.

Which Chinese province is the largest?

By area it is Xinjiang, an autonomous region, then Tibet and Inner Mongolia; Qinghai is the largest of the 22 provinces. By people, Guangdong comes first with 126,012,510 in the 2020 census, then Shandong and Henan.

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