Overview
Updated: 2025-02-07
Population: 34.66 million (2023)
Location: North China
Area: 156,700 square kilometers
Administrative divisions:
Shanxi province governs 11 prefecture-level cities. Taiyuan, the capital city, sits in the middle of the province and the remaining 10 cities from North to South are: Datong, Shuozhou, Xinzhou, Yangquan, Lyuliang, Jinzhong, Changzhi, Jincheng, Linfen, and Yuncheng. The 11 prefecture-level cities are sub-divided into 117 county-level divisions (26 districts, 11 county-level cities, and 80 counties).
International relations:
| Intl Sister Cities/Regions | Date Signed | Friendly Partnership | Date Signed |
Saitama Prefecture, Japan | October 1982 | Komi Republic | May 1993 |
Idaho, USA | Oct 28, 1985 | Almaty, Kazakhstan | May 1998 |
| Tennessee, USA | Dec 24, 1986 | Wyoming, USA | June 2004 |
Derbyshire, UK | April 4, 1987 | Santiago del Estero, Argentina | April 9, 2006 |
Abruzzo, Italy | Sept 16, 1992 | North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany | 2011 |
| Canelones, Uruguay | Nov 12, 1992 | Phu Tho province, Vietnam | August 2011 |
Mureș County, Romania | July 23, 2000 | Sverdlovsk oblast, Russia | Nov 20, 2013 |
Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia | July 2001 | Santa Catarina, Brazil | March 18, 2015 |
Solnock, Hungary | Sept 10, 2009 | South Australia, Australia | 2017 |
| West Virginia, USA | June 2015 | Bangkok, Thailand | March 2018 |
| Jeollanam-do, South Korea | November, 2017 | Souss-Massa, Morocco | March 2018 |
Moravia Silesia Region, Czech Republic | April 9, 2018 | Luang Prabang, Laos
| April 2018 |
Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan | April 13, 2018 | Analamanga, Madagascar | April 2018 |
Dundgovi Province, Mongolia | Nov 14, 2018 | Siem Reap Province, Cambodia | May 2018 |
Mombasa, Kenya | Nov 14, 2018 | Batangas, Philippines | May 2018 |
| Lori province, The Republic of Armenia | April 25, 2019 | East Mindoro Province, Philippines
| May 2018 |
| Mantua province, Italy | Oct 22, 2019 | Salta province, Argentina | May 9, 2018 |
| Pomona, USA | June 17, 2012 | Central Macedonia, Greece | June 2018 |
| Marmande, France | Sept 16, 2012 | Limpopo, South Africa | July 2018 |
| Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyz Republic | Sept 16, 2018 | ||
| Nikolayev, Ukraine | Sept 16, 2018 | ||
| County Roscommon, Ireland | Sept 2018 | ||
| Region of Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins, Chile | Nov 4, 2018 | ||
| Rondônia, Brazil | Nov 4, 2018 | ||
| Paysandú, Uruguay | Nov 19, 2018 | ||
| Agolida Oblast, Greece | December 2018 | |
Seine-et-Marne, France | March 24, 2019 | ||
Naryn Province, Kyrgyzstan | May 13, 2019 | ||
Corrientes Province, Argentina | Sept 2019 | ||
| São Paulo State, Brazil | Sept 2019 | ||
| Brest, Belarus | November 2019 | ||
| Tigray Region, Ethiopia | Dec 19, 2019 |
