2.9 China Administrative Division and Population of Minority Nationality Autonomous Areas (2003) @ The China Perspective

2-9 Administrative Division and Population of Minority Nationality Autonomous Areas (2003)

	Number	Cities	Number	Cities	Total		Minority
Provinces and	of	at	of	at	Population	Minority	Population
Autonomous	Prefectures	Prefecture	Counties	County	in Minority	Population	as Percentage to
Regions		Level		Level	Areas		Total Population
	(unit)		(unit)		(10 000		in Minority
					persons)		Areas (%)

National Total	77	31	699	66	17214.12	8016.96	46.57
Hebei			6		194.59	113.12	58.13	51.39	88.40
Inner Mongolia	12	9	101	11	2379.61	505.77	21.25	4.20	19.77
Liaoning			8		334.57	167.79	50.15	29.89	59.60
Jilin	1		11	6	331.25	115.00	34.72	30.19	86.96
Heilongjiang			1		24.88	5.22	21.00	401.94	1913.99
Zhejiang			1		17.93	1.78	9.94	557.74	5608.84
Hubei	1		10	2	443.35	239.81	54.09	22.56	41.70
Hunan	1		15	1	481.93	352.60	73.16	20.75	28.36
Guangdong			3		47.16	17.52	37.16	212.06	570.64
Guangxi	14	14	109	7	4857.00	1854.00	38.17	2.06	5.39
Hainan			6		152.23	77.07	50.63	65.69	129.75
Chongqing			4		249.36	167.22	67.06	40.10	59.80
Sichuan	3		51	1	639.71	354.23	55.37	15.63	28.23
Guizhou	3		46	4	1556.35	915.87	58.85	6.43	10.92
Yunnan	8		78	7	2097.86	1141.40	54.41	4.77	8.76
Tibet	7	1	73	1	259.21	248.67	95.93	38.58	40.21
Gansu	2		21	2	318.02	180.66	56.81	31.44	55.35
Qinghai	6		35	2	314.97	190.28	60.41	31.75	52.55
Ningxia	5	5	21	2	580.19	206.08	35.52	17.24	48.53
Xinjiang	14	2	99	20	1933.95	1162.85	60.13	5.17	8.60


a) Population since 2001 is from the public security department statistics.

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