Chinese regions database

Chinese regions database in sqlite3 format(NBSC last-update: 2014-01-16)

Getting Started

to install nodejs dependencies:

npm --registry=http://registry.cnpmjs.org install

and type following command to dump database into json files:

node dump.js

Example projects

chineserp

basic API for region picker.

chineserp-jquery

a jQuery plugin which provides sets of wonderful user experience.

Database schema

regions table

  id TEXT PRIMARY KEY ASC, 
  parent_id TEXT, 
  name TEXT, 
  alias TEXT, 
  pinyin TEXT, 
  abbr TEXT, 
  zip TEXT, 
  level INTEGER

dumped JSON object struct:

{
  i: '310000', //ID, the unique code of region
  n: '上海市', //Name, the fullname of region
  a: '上海', //Alias, the simplfied name of region
  b: 'SH', //Abbr, the simplfied chinese Pinyin of region
  y: 'ShangHai', //Pinyin, the chinese Pinyin of region
  z: '200000', //Zipcode, the post-code of region
}

Stats

Version	Provinces	Cities	Suburbs	Total
20130831	34	469	2814	3317
20140116	34	469	2816	3319

Changes of v2014.01.16

New Regions:

扎赉诺尔区,扶余市,溧水区,高淳区,姜堰区,清新区,潮安区,揭东区,临桂区,龙圩区,福绵区,江州区,前锋区,达川区,恩阳区,观山湖区,弥勒市,双湖县,海东市,乐都区,平安县,民和回族土族自治县,互助土族自治县,化隆回族自治县,循化撒拉族自治县,玉树市,阿拉山口市

Removed Regions:

扶余县,白下区,下关区,溧水县,高淳县,姜堰市,四方区,胶南市,清新县,潮安县,揭东县,临桂县,蝶山区,江洲区,达县,小河区,弥勒县,海东地区,平安县,民和回族土族自治县,乐都县,互助土族自治县,化隆回族自治县,循化撒拉族自治县,玉树县

Use the upgrade_to_20140116.sql to upgrade your database.

Reference

最新县及县以上行政区划代码（截止2013年8月31日） National bureau of statistics of china

最新县及县以上行政区划代码（截止2012年10月31日）National bureau of statistics of china