How many provinces are there in China? What are their short names?

The abbreviations of 23 provinces, 4 municipalities directly under the Central Government, 5 autonomous regions and 2 special zones in China are roughly classified as follows:

Named after mountains and rivers

Shanghai (Shanghai) Wusong River (Suzhou River) is located in the lower reaches of Shanghai, which was called "Lake Capital" in ancient times, so it is abbreviated as it.

Anhui (Anhui) is famous for Wanshan (Tianzhu Mountain).

Jiangxi (Ganzhou) is named after the Ganjiang River runs through the whole province.

Hunan (Xiang) is named after the Xiangjiang River runs through the whole province.

Fujian is named after the Minjiang River in China.

Hainan (Qiong) is named after Qiongzhou Strait.

Take one or two words from the full name to get the name.

Heilongjiang (Black) Jilin (Kyrgyzstan) Liaoning (Liao) Ningxia (Ning) Qinghai (Qing)

Inner Mongolia (Inner Mongolia) Xinjiang (New) Jiangsu (Jiangsu) Tibet (Tibet) Tianjin (Tianjin)

Beijing (Beijing) Zhejiang (Zhejiang) Taiwan Province Province (Taiwan Province) Hong Kong (Hong Kong) Macau (Macau)

Related to history

Shandong (Shandong) is called Shandong for short, because most of this province belonged to Lu in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Yunnan (Yunnan) belongs to the territory of Yunnan because it is in the east of the province.

The northeast of Guizhou (Guizhou) in Qin Dynasty was once called "Guizhou Middle Road", so it was called "Guizhou" for short.

Guangdong (Guangdong) Guangdong Province was once under the jurisdiction of South Guangdong.

Part of Hebei used to belong to Jizhou.

Henan (Henan) Henan Province is located in the ancient Yuzhou area.

Most of Gansu (Long) was under the jurisdiction of Longxi County in ancient times, so it was called Gansu for short.

Shanxi (Jin) was named after Jin established its capital here in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Shaanxi (Qin) was the land of Qin during the Warring States Period, hence its name.

Hubei (Hubei) was named after Wuchang, the former provincial capital, and Ezhou was located after the Sui Dynasty.

Guangxi (Guangxi) was named after the Qin Dynasty settled in Guilin County.

Sichuan was called Shu in ancient times, and the Three Kingdoms called it Shu.

Chongqing (Chongqing) was named after the location of Yuzhou in Sui and Tang Dynasties.

In addition, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Gansu and other provinces use Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and Gansu as abbreviations respectively.