This is a list of villages in China. A

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

is a clustered

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community A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, tow ...

, larger than a

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but smaller than a town, with a population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. In China, an

administrative village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

() is a type fifth-level administrative division, underneath a township, county, city, and province. There are more than six hundred thousand administrative villages in China. Some villages are not administrative villages but natural villages, which are not administrative divisions. The below list is divided by province, and ideally lists the name of the village followed by the three higher-administrative divisions (e.g. township, county, and city) to which it belongs administratively.

Villages in China

Beijing

Cuandixia Cuandixia (), also spelled Chuandixia (), is a historic village dating from the Ming dynasty located in Zhaitang (), Mentougou District in Beijing, China. It is a popular tourist attraction known for its well preserved courtyard homes. Overview ...

, Zhaitang, Mentougou *

Huanghuacheng Huanghuacheng () is a village in the town of Jiuduhe (), in the Huairou District of northern Beijing. Lakeside Great Wall The village is home to a tourist section of the Great Wall officially called the Lakeside Great Wall. The section derives i ...

, Jiuduhe, Huairou

Tianjin

* Taitou, former village in Gaocun, Wuqing (now a

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)

Hebei Province

Donglü Donglü (), also written as Donglu, is a village in Donglü Township (), in Qingyuan County, Baoding, Hebei province, China. It has become known for the apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, known as Our Lady of China, witnessed there in 19 ...

, Donglü, Qingyuan, Baoding *

Shengyou Shengyou () is a village in Kaiyuan () south of the Dingzhou City in Hebei Province, China. On the night of April 20, 2005 and later in the early morning of June 11, 2015, occurred incidents in which over two hundred allegedly hired thugs descend ...

, Dingzhou, Baoding *

Taizicheng Taizicheng () is a village in Sitaizui (), Chongli District of Zhangjiakou in the northwest of Hebei Province, China. Its name means "City of the Crown Prince", and archaeological excavations carried out between May and November 2017 uncovered ...

, Sitaizui, Chongli, Zhangjiakou

Shanxi Province

* Daiyang village, Jinchang, Dingxiang, Xinzhou *

Dingcun Dingcun () is an old village located in Xincheng (), Xiangfen County, approximately 28 kilometers south of Linfen, in southern Shanxi Province, China. Site description Historical residential courtyards in Dingcun consist of a number of "foursq ...

, Xincheng, Xiangfen, Linfen * Xinguangwu, Zhangjiazhuang, Shanyin, Shuozhou

Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

In addition to villages, a ''gaqa'' ( 嘎查, ᠭᠠᠴᠠᠭ᠎ᠠ) is another type of fifth-level administrative division, found only in Inner Mongolia; the name is derived from the

Mongolian language Mongolian is the official language of Mongolia and both the most widely spoken and best-known member of the Mongolic language family. The number of speakers across all its dialects may be 5.2 million, including the vast majority of the residen ...

.http://www.nmgdj.gov.cn/bj_ztlm/zt_lwhj/ldjhhdjb/201506/t20150612_1371614.html * Hanggai, Tiemao, Tumot Left Banner, Hohhot

Liaoning Province

*Former

Pingdingshan (village) Pingdingshan was a village in Dongzhou District, Fushun City, Liaoning Province Liaoning () is a coastal province in Northeast China that is the smallest, southernmost, and most populous province in the region. With its capital at She ...

, Dongzhou, Fushun

Jilin Province

Fangchuan Fangchuan () is a village in Jingxin ( / 경신진), Hunchun, Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin, China. It is located along the Tumen River, near the China–North Korea–Russia tripoint where the borders of China, North Korea and Ru ...

, Jingxin, Hunchun, Yanbian

Heilongjiang Province

Sanjiazi Sanjiazi (; (Manchu:, Möllendorff: ilan boo) is a village or Ilanbotokso in Youyi Daur, Manchu, and Kirghiz Ethnic Township (), Fuyu County, Heilongjiang, China.} The village is about 22 km southwest of the administrative center of Fuyu, a ...

, Youyi, Fuyu, Qiqihar

Shanghai Municipality

Jiangsu Province

* Huaxi, Jiangyin, Wuxi * Wangtan, Jieji, Sihong, Suqian *

Zhufan Zhufan (, local accent:zhuf, or Juf) also called West Zhufan or Xizhufan () , is an administrative village governed by Shilianghe Town () of Donghai County, in the north of Jiangsu Province, China. The village lies to the west of Ganyu of Li ...

, Shilianghe, Donghai, Lianyungang

Zhejiang Province

* Fujiang, Tonggong, Changshan, Quzhou * Huangnitang, Zhoutang, Tianma, Changshan, Quzhou * Shangjing, Tangxi, Wucheng, Jinhua *

Xinye Village Xinye () is a historic village in Daciyan Town (), Jiande City, Hangzhou, in the west of Zhejiang Province. Founded in the Southern Song dynasty, Xinye is noted for its well-preserved Ming and Qing era architecture and ancient residential build ...

, Daciyan, Jiande, Hangzhou *

Yuanjia'ao Yuanjia'ao (袁家嶴) is a village in Fenghua municipality, Zhejiang province, China. Situated at approx. 280m above sea level in the Tiantai Mountain range, its main products are bamboo and timber. The village is traditionally considered the an ...

, Xiaowangmiao, Fenghua, Ningbo *

Zhuge Zhuge in Chinese, Jegal in Korean, Gia Cát in Vietnamese or Morokuzu in Japanese is a compound surname in East Asia. It is ranked 314th in ''Hundred Family Surnames'' in China. The surname has often been synonymous with wisdom in Chinese culture ...

, Zhuge, Lanxi, Jinhua

Anhui Province

Hongcun Hongcun () is a village in Hongcun Town, Yi County, Huangshan City in the historical Huizhou region of southern Anhui Province, China, near the southwest slope of Mount Huangshan. Together with Xidi, the village became a UNESCO World Heritage ...

, Hongcun, Yi, Huangshan *

Xidi Xidi () is a village in Xidi Town (), Yi County, Huangshan City of the historical Huizhou region of Anhui province, China. Xidi and the nearby town of Hongcun are known for their exceptional preservation of rural Anhui architecture and city ...

, Xidi, Yi, Huangshan * Xiaogang, Fengyang, Chuzhou

Fujian Province

* Qiaodou, Huangshi, Licheng, Putian * Sanji, Chengjiao, Shaowu, Nanping * Xiaori, Nanri, Xiuyu, Putian

Jiangxi Province

Likeng Village Likeng Village is a village in Wuyuan County, Jiangxi, Wuyuan county, Jiangxi, eastern China. It supposedly is populated only by people with the last name "Li (surname 李), Li". With a history of more than a thousand years, it was first built i ...

, Jiangxi, Wuyuan

Shandong Province

Nanjusi Nanjusi () is a village in the town of Chengguo ( 程郭镇), Laizhou, Shandong, China. It has 225 households, with a population of 670. The cultivated area there is 965 Chinese acres. History Tang founded the village. The key communication li ...

, Chengguo, Laizhou, Yantai * Shui Dong, Luohe, Ju County, Rizhao * Xia Tun, Guozhuang, Ju County, Rizhao * Zhuangjiashan, Ju, Rizhao * Zhujiayu, Guanzhuang, Zhangqiu, Jinan

Henan Province

* Dingzhai, Dongsong, Luoning, Luoyang *

Nanjie Nanjie () is a village under the administration of the town of , Linying County, Henan. It is widely reported as being the last Maoist village in China, and has attracted considerable global attention due to its unique political and economic sy ...

, Chengguan, Linying, Luohe * Shangfeng, Yangce, Biyang, Zhumadian

Hubei Province

Hunan Province

* Changqi, Anjiang, Hongjiang, Huaihua * Ganzi Village, Hanpu Subdistrict, Yuelu District, Changsha *

Guoliang Village Guoliang () is a village of Tongguan Subdistrict in Wangcheng District, Changsha City, Hunan Province Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle re ...

, Tongguan, Wangcheng, Changsha *

Paibi Paibi (), a village in Paibi Township (), Huayuan County, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture Hunan, China, is the location of the Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) which marks the boundary between the third and Furongia ...

, Paibi, Huayuan, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture *

Zhangguying Village Zhangguying Village () is an ancient village. Located in '' Zhangguying Town'', Yueyang County, Hunan Province, the village is named after the forefather ''Zhang Guying''. it is famous for its ''ancient building complex'' () in the Ming and Qing ...

, Zhangguying, Yueyang, Yueyang

Guangdong Province

Boshe Boshe () is a village in Jiaxi, Lufeng, Shanwei, Guangdong province of China. The village has been in existence from at least the 13th century. As of January 2014, Boshe's population totaled about 14,000. The village has attracted internation ...

, Jiaxi, Lufeng, Shanwei *

Cuiheng Cuiheng () is a village of the town of Nanlang, Zhongshan, Guangdong province. Cuiheng is best known as the birthplace of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the " Father of the Nation" of the Republic of China. Cuiheng is southeast of downtown Zhongshan, and n ...

, Nanlang, Zhongshan * Dongzhou, Cheng, Shanwei *

Fengjian ''Fēngjiàn'' ( zh, c=封建, l=enfeoffment and establishment) was a political ideology and governance system in ancient China, whose social structure formed a decentralized system of confederation-like government based on the ruling class consis ...

, Xingtan, Shunde, Foshan * Shangba, Xinjiang, Wengyuan, Shaoguan *

Taishi Taishi may refer to: Names *Taishi (surname), Chinese family name *Taishi (given name), Japanese given name Ranks * Grand Preceptor, ancient Chinese top civilian position: ''taishi'' () in Chinese *Taishi, an alternate name of the Japanese Daij� ...

, Dongchong, Nansha, Guangzhou * Wangtang, Jianggu, Sihui, Zhaoqing *

Wukan Wukan () is a coastal fishing village in (), in the county-level city of Lufeng, Guangdong. It has a population of approximately 13,000 residents, and is located approximately east of Hong Kong near the South China Sea coast.Ewing, Kent"Guangdo ...

, Donghai, Lufeng, Shanwei *

Xiqi Xiqi (, 665–651 BC) was briefly the ruler of the Jin (Chinese state), State of Jin during the Spring and Autumn period of ancient China. He was the son of Duke Xian of Jin and his favored concubine Li Ji (concubine), Li Ji, and later replaced ...

, Shuaibu, Taishan, Jiangmen

Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

* Wangtang, Chaotian, Lingchuan, Guilin

Hainan Province

Most counties in Hainan are not subordinate to a prefecture-level subdivision (see

List of administrative divisions of Hainan Hainan uses a slightly different administrative system from other administrative regions of China. Most other provinces are divided entirely into prefecture-level divisions, each of which is then divided entirely into county-level divisions, wh ...

), and so some entries below list only the town and county-level divisions to which the village belongs. * Luokan, Hongmao, Qiongzhong * Tianweiban, Donglu, Wenchang * Tree Island, Yongxing Dao, Xisha, Sansha * Yagong Island, Yongxing Dao, Xisha, Sansha

Chongqing Municipality

Sichuan Province

Guizhou Province

* Zhongdong, Ziyun, Anshun

Yunnan Province

Baishuitai Baishuitai () is located in Baidi (白地村), a village between Lijiang and Shangri-La County in Sanba Township (三坝乡), Shangri-La County, Dêqên Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, northwestern Yunnan province, China. Slightly north of Haba ...

, * Bamê, Foshan, Dêqên, Dêqên * Mijiazhuang, *

Zhengying Zhengying () is an historic village located in Baoxiu (), Shiping County, in the south of Yunnan province, China. See also *Tuoshan village of Jianshui Jianshui County (; Hani: ''Jeifsyu'') is a city in Honghe prefecture, Yunnan province, Chin ...

, Baoxiu, Shiping, Honghe

Tibet Autonomous Region

* Gejizhen

Shaanxi Province

* Dangjia, Xizhuang, Hancheng, Weinan * Hongliutan, Zhenchuan, Yuyang, Yulin

Gansu Province

Tai'an Tai'an () is a prefecture-level city in Western Shandong Province of the People's Republic of China. Centered on Mount Tai, the city borders the provincial capital of Jinan to the north, Zibo to the east, Linyi to the southeast, Liaocheng to ...

, Beiwan, Jingyuan, Baiyin *

Zhelaizhai Zhelaizhai () is a village on the edge of the Gobi desert in Gansu province, China. The area was renamed after Liqian, an ancient county, and is located in Jiaojiazhuang township, Yongchang County. Some of the modern-day residents of Zhelaizhai, ...

, Yongchang, Jinchang

Qinghai Province

Taktser Taktser or Tengtser (; meaning 'Place on the Heights'") or Hongya Village () is a village in , Ping'an District, Haidong, in the east of Qinghai province, China, (also known as Amdo or Kokonor). Tibetan, Han and Hui Chinese people populate the vil ...

, Shihuiyao, Ping'an, Haidong

Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

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Yanglingang Yanglingang () is a small fishing village located on the border between Shanghai and Jiangsu province, China. The village has approximately fifty families, who obtain their sustenance by fishing and obtaining drinking water from the Yangtze River, ...

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