Chinese Provinces Quiz

1. A rail journey from eastern China to Ürümqi ends in which large autonomous region in the far northwest?

2. You are labeling Xi’an on a provincial map. Which province should receive the label?

3. Taiyuan is the capital of the province immediately east of Shaanxi. Which province is it?

4. A train traveling south from Hebei reaches Zhengzhou, the capital of which province?

5. A hiking itinerary features Huangshan, also called the Yellow Mountains. Which province should the traveler visit?

6. A traveler visiting Qingdao and the Shandong Peninsula is in which province?

7. Which southwestern province has Kunming as its capital and borders Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar?

8. Someone visiting Chengdu and its well-known giant panda research center is in which province?

9. A winter itinerary includes Harbin and a land border with Russia. Which province fits both clues?

10. Hangzhou is the capital of which coastal province directly south of Shanghai?

11. Nanjing and Suzhou belong to which eastern coastal province?

12. A traveler follows China’s coast west from Guangdong and enters an autonomous region that borders Vietnam and the Gulf of Tonkin. Which region have they entered?

13. Which list correctly names all five of China’s autonomous regions?

14. Lhasa is the administrative capital of which Chinese autonomous region?

15. A Yangtze River trip stops in Wuhan and then continues toward the Three Gorges Dam near Yichang. Which province contains both cities?

16. Which island province lies across the Qiongzhou Strait from the Leizhou Peninsula?