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The town in which the county level government, and usually the division's main urban area), are located is often not marked on less-detailed maps, because its location is usually labeled with the name of the county level division rather than the name of the actual town into which this urban area
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A typical provincial map would merely show a town as a circle centered at its urban area and labeled with its name, while a more detailed one (e.g., a map of a single county-level division) would also show the borders dividing the
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Similarly to a higher-level administrative units, the borders of a town would typically include an urban core (a small town with the population on the order of 10,000 people), as well as rural area with some
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On the other hand, more detailed maps - e.g., maps of individual prefecture-level cities in a provincial atlas - would label the county seat location with both the name of the county (e.g.,
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Intercity buses, trains, or riverboats destined to, or stopping at a county seat may designate its destination either by the name of the county or the name of the county-seat township.
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Compare e.g. the provincial map and individual prefectures' maps in the Road Atlas of Hubei (
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classifies towns as third-level administrative units, along with, for example,
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In contrast to the PRC, in the official translation adopted in the
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Town (China)
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Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
other Mandarin
Xiao'erjing
Tibetan
Wylie
Tibetan Pinyin
Zhuang
Hangul
Revised Romanization
McCune–Reischauer
Mongolian Cyrillic
Mongolian script
SASM/GNC
Uyghur
Latin Yëziqi
Manchu script
Möllendorff
Administrative divisions
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Province-level (1st)
Municipalities
Provinces

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