Linfen City in Shanxi Province actually has 17 county-level administrative units, and Xinzhou City also has 14 county-level administrative units.
Linfen has 14 counties, 2 county-level cities and 1 municipal district. The jurisdiction area is 20,301 km², and the population of Qipu is 3,976,500, with an average of only 233,900 people per county-level unit.
Xinzhou has 12 counties, 1 county-level city and 1 municipal district. It has an area of 25,154 km² and a population of 2,689,700, with an average of 192,100 people per county-level unit.
These two cities must need a lot of civil servants, after all, each county-level unit needs a lot of administrative personnel. But I feel that the government's financial pressure must be very great!
