🇨🇳 People's Republic of China 32 administrative divisions

32 first-level administrative divisions — states, provinces, regions or counties, depending on the country — and 24,557 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: 24,557

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
Sichuan	CN-SC	2,403	81,100,000
Hebei	CN-HE	1,423	74,610,235
Hunan	CN-HN	1,322	65,683,722
Henan	CN-HA	1,284	94,130,000
Guangdong	CN-GD	1,214	126,012,510
Shandong	CN-SD	1,196	95,793,065
Anhui	CN-AH	1,077	60,300,000
Shaanxi	CN-SN	1,066	37,327,378
Guizhou	CN-GZ	996	38,562,148
Gansu	CN-GS	950	25,575,254
Jiangxi	CN-JX	928	44,567,475
Guangxi	CN-GX	862	50,126,804
Jiangsu	CN-JS	846	84,748,016
Hubei	CN-HB	823	57,752,557
Fujian	CN-FJ	753	41,540,086
Liaoning	CN-LN	712	43,746,323
Yunnan	CN-YN	710	47,420,000
Zhejiang	CN-ZJ	699	54,426,891
Tibet Autonomous Region	CN-XZ	690	3,180,000
Heilongjiang	CN-HL	680	38,312,224
Shanxi	CN-SX	672	36,500,000
Chongqing	CN-CQ	649	32,054,159
Inner Mongolia	CN-NM	555	24,706,321
Xinjiang	CN-XJ	492	21,813,334
Jilin	CN-JL	465	27,462,297
Beijing	CN-BJ	253	21,893,095
Tianjin	CN-TJ	202	13,866,009
Hainan	CN-HI	188	9,171,300
Qinghai	CN-QH	154	5,930,000
Shanghai	CN-SH	128	24,870,895
Ningxia	CN-NX	113	6,301,350
Taiwan	CN-TW	0	23,140,000

A further 52 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.