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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 (People's Republic of China).

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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 what is now the Taiwan Area. The regions are:

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.

[edit] 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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