🇨🇳 People's Republic of China 32 administrative divisions

32 first-level administrative divisions (states, provinces, regions or counties, depending on the country) and 24,582 cities and towns, each with latitude and longitude. Public domain, free to download, no API key.

The country

ISO 3166-1: CN · CHN · 156
Capital: Beijing
Continent: Asia
Currency: CNY, renminbi
Calling code: +86
Internet domain: .cn
Divisions: 32
Cities and towns: 24,582

Divisions

The 32 divisions of People's Republic of China

32 of them carry an ISO 3166-2 code. Counts are cities and towns inside each division.

Division	ISO 3166-2	Cities and towns	Population
Anhui	CN-AH	1,078	60,300,000
Beijing	CN-BJ	253	21,893,095
Chongqing	CN-CQ	649	32,054,159
Fujian	CN-FJ	754	41,540,086
Gansu	CN-GS	950	25,575,254
Guangdong	CN-GD	1,220	126,012,510
Guangxi	CN-GX	862	50,126,804
Guizhou	CN-GZ	996	38,562,148
Hainan	CN-HI	188	9,171,300
Hebei	CN-HE	1,424	74,610,235
Heilongjiang	CN-HL	680	38,312,224
Henan	CN-HA	1,287	94,130,000
Hubei	CN-HB	823	57,752,557
Hunan	CN-HN	1,322	65,683,722
Inner Mongolia	CN-NM	558	24,706,321
Jiangsu	CN-JS	846	84,748,016
Jiangxi	CN-JX	929	44,567,475
Jilin	CN-JL	466	27,462,297
Liaoning	CN-LN	712	43,746,323
Ningxia	CN-NX	113	6,301,350
Qinghai	CN-QH	154	5,930,000
Shaanxi	CN-SN	1,067	37,327,378
Shandong	CN-SD	1,197	95,793,065
Shanghai	CN-SH	128	24,870,895
Shanxi	CN-SX	674	36,500,000
Sichuan	CN-SC	2,403	81,100,000
Taiwan	CN-TW	0	23,140,000
Tianjin	CN-TJ	202	13,866,009
Tibet Autonomous Region	CN-XZ	690	3,180,000
Xinjiang	CN-XJ	495	21,813,334
Yunnan	CN-YN	710	47,420,000
Zhejiang	CN-ZJ	699	54,426,891

A further 53 places could not be matched to a division and are listed separately in the API as "unassigned": true.

Get it

Both files, in one request each

# every division of People's Republic of China
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/regions/CN.json

# the cities and towns of one division (id from the file above)
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/cities/CN/<id>.json

No key, no account, no rate limit. The endpoints · try it live.