prefecture-level city
nounEtymology
Calque from Chinese 地級市／地级市 (dìjíshì, literally “prefecture (地區／地区)-level city”)
Definitions
An administrative division of China immediately below the province level and above the…
An administrative division of China immediately below the province level and above the county level, often comprising a central urban area, a large surrounding rural area, and smaller towns and cities. (Most of China proper today is part of a prefecture-level city.)
- The majority of migrants in Zhejiangcun came from two areas under the jurisdiction of a prefecture-level city, Wenzhou, in Zhejiang province: Yueqing, a county-level city, and Yongjia, a rural county.
- Presently, Yueyang is a prefecture-level city in the northeast corner of Hunan province on the southern shores of Dongting Lake
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