Ville-district

A county-level municipality (), county-level city or county city, formerly known as prefecture-controlled city (1949–1970: ; 1970–1983: ), is a county-level administrative division of the People's Republic of China. County-level cities have judicial but no legislative rights over their own local law and are usually governed by prefecture-level divisions, but a few are governed directly by province-level divisions. A county-level city is a "city" () and "county" () that have been merged into one unified jurisdiction. As such, it is simultaneously a city, which is a municipal entity, and a county, which is an administrative division of a prefecture. Most county-level cities were created in the 1980s and 1990s by replacing denser populated counties. County-level cities are not "cities" in the strictest sense of the word, since they usually contain rural areas many times the size of their urban, built-up area. This is because the counties that county-level cities have replaced are themselves large administrative units containing towns, villages and farmland. To distinguish a "county-level city" from its actual urban area (the traditional meaning of the word "city"), the term "市区" (shìqū) or "urban area", is used. In France, an equivalent of a county-level city is an agglomeration community. While the idea of a "city" being a unit consisting of several "towns" is not a common one in English-speaking world, a somewhat similar naming convention is used for local government areas in some parts of Australia. For example, in New South Wales such a unit may often be called a "city" (rather than a traditional "shire"), and consist of "towns". E.g. City of Blue Mountains is made of a number of towns (Katoomba, Springwood, etc.). Another example would be "municipal government" in the Canadian province of Ontario. Small municipalities (cities) and towns, along with urban, sub-urban and rural areas were merged or integrated into a "super" area, in part to obtain economies in administrative overhead by not having for each city and town individual library commissions, fire fighting units, health care, and other social services common to all areas.

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Xinxiang

Xinxiang (新乡 ; pinyin : Xīnxiāng) est une ville du nord de la province du Henan en Chine. Selon le rencensement de 2010, la préfecture compte sur une superficie de et la ville compte environ sur une superficie de . On y parle le dialecte de Xinxiang du jin yu. Xinxiang date de la dynastie Sui (581-618) et était une petite ville marchande jusqu'à son développement industriel dans les années 1950. Elle a été capitale de l'éphémère province de Pingyuan entre 1949 et 1952. La ville est un nœud ferroviaire, et le port navigable amont de la .

Weifang

Weifang () est une ville-préfecture du centre de la province du Shandong en Chine. En 2005, le PIB total a été de de yuans, et le PIB par habitant de . Tous les ans, au moins d'avril, a lieu à Weifang, le plus grand rassemblement international de cerf-volant.

Qufu

Qufu () est une ville de la province du Shandong en Chine. C'est une ville-district placée sous la juridiction de la ville-préfecture de Jining. Elle abrite le temple, le cimetière et la demeure de famille de Confucius, inscrits en 1994 sur la liste du patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO. La population du district était de en 1999. Anciennement Qufu était nommé Yan (奄) pendant la dynastie Shang et fut la capitale du royaume Shang, à partir du roi Nan Geng jusqu'au roi Pan Geng.