| Hint | Province | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Is a special administrative region | Hong Kong | Macau | 100%
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| Borders Russia | Jilin | Heilongjiang | Inner Mongolia | Xinjiang | 100%
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| Has the Yangtze River flowing through it | Qinghai | Yunnan | Sichuan | Hubei | Hunan | Jiangxi | Anhui | Jiangsu | Chongqing | Shanghai | Tibet | 100%
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| Borders a country in Indochina | Tibet | Yunnan | Guangxi | 100%
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| Is less than 80% Han Chinese | Inner Mongolia | Guangxi | Guizhou | Yunnan | Tibet | Qinghai | Ningxia | Xinjiang | 86%
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| Has a name (officially on JetPunk) that is not derived from Chinese | Inner Mongolia | Tibet | 86%
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| Is guessed less than 40% of the time of the "Provinces of China" quiz | Ningxia | Zhejiang | Jiangxi | Guizhou | 86%
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| Is more than 400,000 km and less than 1,000,000 km in area | Qinghai | Sichuan | Heilongjiang | Gansu | 86%
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| Is landlocked and does not border another country | Qinghai | Sichuan | Ningxia | Shanxi | Shaanxi | Chongqing | Guizhou | Hunan | Hubei | Jiangxi | Anhui | Henan | Beijing | 86%
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| Is a municipality | Beijing | Shanghai | Tianjin | Chongqing | 71%
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| Has an HDI of 8 or more | Hong Kong | Macau | Beijing | Shanghai | Tianjin | Jiangsu | Zhejiang | 71%
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| Has a GDP between $500 billion and $750 billion | Hunan | Anhui | Shanghai | Hebei | Beijing | 71%
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| Is an autonomous region | Inner Mongolia | Ningxia | Xinjiang | Tibet | Guangxi | 71%
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| Has a density rate of over 600 people per square km and is not a municipality or contain a city of over 18 million people | Jiangsu | Shandong | Zhejiang | Henan | 71%
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| Has a population of over 100 million | Guangdong | Shandong | 57%
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| Is home to a city with over 15 million people (not including municipalities) | Guangdong | Sichuan | 57%
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| Has a capital that starts with H (excluding Hong Kong) | Hainan | Zhejiang | Heilongjiang | Anhui | Inner Mongolia | 57%
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| Has a name that differs from another province by one letter | Shanxi | Shaanxi | Hebei | Hubei | Henan | Hunan | 57%
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| Is in a cardinal direction pair | Guangdong | Guangxi | Hebei | Henan | Hubei | Hunan | Shandong | Shanxi | 43%
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| Has a natural growth rate (births-deaths) of under .1% | Heilongjiang | Jilin | Liaoning | 29%
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