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Greater administrative regions or greater administrative areas () were top-level administrative divisions of the

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-held Liberated Zone in

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and later the nascent

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that directly governed

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and

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. These were the largest-ever political divisions of China and were controlled by the

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. They were dissolved between June and November 1954.

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The greater administrative regions originated from the districts governed by governors-general () established during the late

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. The six greater administrative regions were:

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The highest officials of the greater administrative regions were known as

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(). (From this historical origin derives the term still used today for the top officials of China's autonomous regions.) The North China Region was the first to be abandoned on October 31, 1949, given the People's Republic by now had been established with

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as capital city. The provinces it governed were thenceforth directly controlled by the North China Branch () of the Government Administration Council of the

instead. In May 1952, control was again transferred, this time to the North China Administrative Council () of the Government Administration Council. Several other large-scale entities governed parts of China's territory during this time and were equivalent to greater administrative regions: *

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* Local Government of

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() ''i.e.'' (

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) * The Executive Committee of Qiongyai Minority Nationality Autonomous Region () from 1949, later assigned to Central and South China region; the predecessor of

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Except the Northeast, which was governed by a People's Government, the regions' highest government bodies were Military and Administrative Committees (), which were replaced by

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s in November 1952. Several domains in China today retain the same structure of geographic divisions as the GAAs. Military administrative regions, the divisions of some major

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s, and

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districts are still divided in the same form as the greater administrative regions.

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