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- #ISO CHINESE ABBREVIATION FULL#
- #ISO CHINESE ABBREVIATION REGISTRATION#
- #ISO CHINESE ABBREVIATION ISO#
The overall rank of Chinese Journal of Medical Imaging Technology is 31146.Īccording to SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), this journal is ranked 0.101. It is published by Editorial Board of Chinese Journal of Medical Imaging Technology. This table identifies the official name of each China 'province' in Simplified Chinese, Pinyin and English:Īs you can see from the pinyin above, the names for Hong Kong (Xiānggǎng), Inner Mongolia (Nèi Měnggǔ), Macau (Àomén) and Tibet (Xīzàng) are different in Mandarin Chinese to English.About Chinese Journal of Medical Imaging TechnologyĬhinese Journal of Medical Imaging Technology is a journal covering the technologies/fields/categories related to Physiology (medical) (Q4) Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging (Q4). In addition to these provinces, there are also two Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau), five Autonomous Regions (Guangxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Tibet and Xinjiang) and four Municipalities (Beijing, Chongqing, Shanghai and Tianjin). There are in fact only 23 official provinces in China (22 if you don't include the independently-governed island of Taiwan).
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Technically-speaking the term "provincial-level administrative division" would be more appropriate. This is partly because we have used shortened versions of their official names.īut it is also because we have used the word 'province' rather loosely. Official China Province NamesĮagle-eyed readers might have noticed that many of the province names we use in the previous table are actually abbreviations themselves! The characters are also frequently used just in general Chinese language, to indicate that something originates from a particular province.įor example, seven of China's "8 Great Cuisines" include a province abbreviation in their widely-used Chinese name.
#ISO CHINESE ABBREVIATION REGISTRATION#
Known in Chinese as 省份别称 ("province nicknames") or 省份简称 ("province abbreviations"), the single character province abbreviations are widely used and acknowledged as being a part of the Chinese language, meaning that they do not need to be defined by a standard.Īdidas China's website has an ICP registration number starting with 苏 (sū) to indicate Jiangsu provinceĪnother example we have seen of their usage is the numbering of China law court records. China Province Single Character Abbreviations If you are working on geocoding or working with some datasets you may encounter these codes, but generally speaking it is quite rare to see these two-letter abbreviations being used. We sometimes find these abbreviations used in the URLs of Chinese government websites that are divided into different province sections, for example the various province-level company search websites.
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#ISO CHINESE ABBREVIATION ISO#
Prior to 2017, this ISO standard used 2-digit numeric codes (which we didn't consider to be abbreviations) rather than 2-letter codes, so the change is quite recent. These codes are based on Chinese standard GB/T 2260-2007, as used in the China-specific section of international standard ISO 3166-2. More details on each abbreviation method below: China Province Two-letter Codes This table identifies these abbreviations for each province of China: There are two main methods for abbreviating Chinese province names: Having a character specific to each province helps to provide concise information, whilst saving space on many types of documents and media. Whilst China can't quite match America's number of states, there are still 34 different provinces in China, and having an abbreviation for each certainly makes a wide range of tasks easier.Īlthough one method of China province abbreviation closely resembles the 2-letter system used in the United States, the most commonly used method (at least within China itself) is to have a single Chinese character to represent each province. Why are China Province Abbreviations Needed?įamously, the United States has a 2 letter abbreviation for each of her 50 states - think "CA" for California, "NY" for New York and "TX" for Texas.
#ISO CHINESE ABBREVIATION FULL#
This article introduces these methods as well as providing a full list of each China province abbreviation, from Anhui to Zhejiang. Not only can all provinces in China be abbreviated to a two-letter code, but there is also a single Chinese character used to represent each. Did you know that China province abbreviations can be made using both Chinese and English languages?