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Sichuan Province
四川省 | |
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| Name transcription(s) | |
| • Chinese | 四川省 (Sìchuān Shěng) |
| • Abbreviation | SC / 川 or 蜀 (pinyin: Chuān or Shǔ Sichuanese: Cuan1 or Su2) |
| • Sichuanese | Si4cuan1 Sen3 |
.svg) Map showing the location of Sichuan Province | |
| Coordinates: 30°08′N 102°56′E / 30.133°N 102.933°E | |
| Named for | Short for 川峡四路 Chuānxiá sì-lù literally "The Four Circuits of the Plains and Gorges", referring to the four circuits during the Song dynasty |
| Capital (and largest city) | Chengdu |
| Divisions | 21 prefectures, 181 counties, 5011 townships |
| Government | |
| • Secretary | Peng Qinghua |
| • Governor | Yin Li |
| Area | |
| • Total | 485,000 km2 (187,000 sq mi) |
| • Rank | 5th |
| Highest elevation | 7,556 m (24,790 ft) |
| Population (2013)[2] | |
| • Total | 81,100,000 |
| • Rank | 4th |
| • Density | 170/km2 (430/sq mi) |
| • Rank | 22nd |
| Demographics | |
| • Ethnic composition | Han - 95% Yi - 2.6% Tibetan - 1.5% Qiang - 0.4% |
| • Languages and dialects | Southwestern Mandarin (Sichuanese dialects), Khams Tibetan, Hakka Chinese |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-SC |
| GDP (2017) | CNY 3.70 trillion USD 547.71 billion (6th) |
| • per capita | CNY 44,651 USD 6,613 (22nd) |
| HDI (2016) | 0.780[3] (high) (23rd) |
| Website | www |
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| Postal | Szechwan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | "Four Rivers"[4] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Tibetan | སི་ཁྲོན་ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Yi | ꌧꍧ syp chuo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sichuan (Chinese: 四川; pinyin: Sì Chuān; 
listen) is a province in western China with its capital at Chengdu. It is also informally called 蜀 (pinyin: Shǔ). Its Governor is Wei Hong and its CPC Ctte Secretary is Wang Dongming. With a population of 87,250,000 (2006), Sichuan is the third most populated administrative division of China. Sichuan used to be the province with the most people in China before Chongqing was separated from it, making Henan the most populous. However, when including migrants, Guangdong has more people than Henan.
- ↑ "Doing Business in China - Survey". Ministry Of Commerce - People's Republic Of China. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
- ↑ "Communiqué of the National Bureau of Statistics of People's Republic of China on Major Figures of the 2010 Population Census [1] (No. 2)". National Bureau of Statistics of China. 29 April 2011. Archived from the original on 27 July 2013. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
- ↑ 《2015中国人类发展报告》 (PDF) (in Chinese). United Nations Development Program China. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-11-29. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
- ↑ An abbreviation of "the four circuits of the Rivers and Gorges" The four circuits consist of Yizhou, Lizhou, Zizhou, & Kuizhou.