2-9  Administrative Division and Population of  Minority Nationality Autonomous Areas (2003)                            
                   
  Number Cities Number Cities Total   Minority     
Provinces and of at of at Population Minority Population    
Autonomous  Prefectures Prefecture Counties County in Minority Population as Percentage to    
Regions   Level   Level  Areas   Total Population    
  (unit)   (unit)   (10 000   in Minority    
          persons)    Areas (%)    
  National Total 77 31 699 66 17214.12 8016.96 46.57
  Hebei 6 194.59 113.12 58.13 51.39 88.40
  Inner Mongolia 12 9 101 11 2379.61 505.77 21.25 4.20 19.77
  Liaoning 8 334.57 167.79 50.15 29.89 59.60
  Jilin 1 11 6 331.25 115.00 34.72 30.19 86.96
  Heilongjiang 1 24.88 5.22 21.00 401.94 1913.99
  Zhejiang 1 17.93 1.78 9.94 557.74 5608.84
  Hubei 1 10 2 443.35 239.81 54.09 22.56 41.70
  Hunan 1 15 1 481.93 352.60 73.16 20.75 28.36
  Guangdong 3 47.16 17.52 37.16 212.06 570.64
  Guangxi 14 14 109 7 4857.00 1854.00 38.17 2.06 5.39
  Hainan 6 152.23 77.07 50.63 65.69 129.75
  Chongqing 4 249.36 167.22 67.06 40.10 59.80
  Sichuan 3 51 1 639.71 354.23 55.37 15.63 28.23
  Guizhou 3 46 4 1556.35 915.87 58.85 6.43 10.92
  Yunnan 8 78 7 2097.86 1141.40 54.41 4.77 8.76
  Tibet 7 1 73 1 259.21 248.67 95.93 38.58 40.21
  Gansu 2 21 2 318.02 180.66 56.81 31.44 55.35
  Qinghai 6 35 2 314.97 190.28 60.41 31.75 52.55
  Ningxia 5 5 21 2 580.19 206.08 35.52 17.24 48.53
  Xinjiang 14 2 99 20 1933.95 1162.85 60.13 5.17 8.60
               
a) Population since 2001 is from the public security department statistics.