Special administrative region (Republic of China)

This article is about administrative units of the Republic of China when it administered Mainland China. For the present special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China (Hong Kong and Macau), see Special administrative region.
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In the subdivision of the Republic of China (ROC), "special administrative regions" (simplified Chinese: 特别行政区; traditional Chinese: 特別行政區; pinyin: tèbié xíngzhèngqū) were historically used to designate special areas, most of which were eventually converted into provinces. All were suspended or abolished after the end of the Chinese Civil War, with the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the ROC government's retreat to Taiwan. The regions were:

Name Created Became
province 		Current status
Suiyuan 1914 1928 part of Inner Mongolia
Chahar 1914 1928 distributed into Inner Mongolia, Beijing and Hebei
Rehe (Jehol) 1914 1928 distributed into Hebei, Liaoning and Inner Mongolia
Chuanbian1 1914 19352 part of Sichuan
Dongsheng 1924 part of Inner Mongolia
Weihaiwei 1930 part of Shandong
Hainan 1944 In preparation in 1949 province
1 Postal: Chwanpien; simplified Chinese: 川边; traditional Chinese: 川邊; pinyin: Chuānbiān; Wade–Giles: Ch'uan-pien.
2 As Xikang Province.

Chahar

Chahar was made a special administrative region in 1914 by the Republic of China, as a subdivision of the then Zhili Province, with 6 banners and 11 counties. In 1928 it became a province, with 5 of its counties partitioned to Suiyuan, and 10 counties were included from Hebei.

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