Sichuan

Sichuan
Cheenese	四川
Hanyu Pinyin	Sìchuān
Sichuanese Pinyin	Si4cuan1
Transcriptions
Hakka
- Romanisation	Si-tshôn
Mandarin
- Hanyu Pinyin	Sìchuān
- IPA	[sɨ̂tʂʰwán]
- Postal Map	Szechwan or Szechuan
- Sichuanese Pinyin	Si4cuan1
Min
- Hokkien POJ	Sù-chhoan
Wu
- Romanisation	sy3tshoe1
Cantonese (Yue)
- Jyutping	sei3cyun1

Sichuan Province
	Sichuan Province
Cheenese :	四川省
	Sìchuān Shěng
	Sichuanese: Si4cuan1 Sen3
	Abbreviations: 川 or 蜀 (pinyin: Chuān or Shǔ; Sichuanese: Cuan1 or Su2)
Oreegin o name	Short for 川峡四路 chuānxiá sìlù; literally "The Fower Circuits; o the Rivers an Gorges",; referrin tae the fower circuits durin the Song Dynasty
Admeenistration type	Province
Caipital; (an lairgest ceety)	Chengdu
CPC Ctte Secretary	Liu Qibao
Governor	Jiang Jufeng
Aurie	485,000 km2 (187,000 sq mi) (5t)
- Latitude	25° 58' to 34° 19' N
- Longitude	97° 21' to 108° 32' E
Population (2010); - Density	80,418,200 (4t); 180 /km2 (470 /sq mi) (22nt)
GDP (2011); - per caipita	CNY 2.15 trillion; US$ 340 billion (9th); CNY 21,182; US$ 3,129 (25t)
HDI (2008)	0.763 (medium) (24t)
Ethnic composition	Han - 95%; Yi - 2.6%; Tibetan - 1.5%; Qiang - 0.4%
Leids an dialects	Sichuanese Mandarin
Prefectural level	21 diveesions
Coonty level	181 diveesions
Tounship level*	5011 diveesions
ISO 3166-2	CN-51
	Offeecial wabsteid; http://www.sichuan.gov.cn/; (Simplified Chinese)
	Source for population and GDP data: 《中国统计年鉴—2005》 China Statistical Yearbook 2005; ISBN 7503747382 Source for nationalities data: 《2000年人口普查中国民族人口资料》 Tabulation on nationalities of 2000 population census of China; ISBN 7105054255 *As at December 31, 2004
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This airticle conteens Cheenese text. Ithoot proper renderin support, ye micht can see quaisten merks, boxes, or ither seembols insteid o Cheenese chairacters.

Sichuan^? (Cheenese: 四川, kent umwhile in the Wast bi its postal map spellins o Szechwan or Szechuan) is a province in Soothwast Cheenae wi its caipital in Chengdu. The current name o the province, "四川", is an abbreviation o "四川路" (Sì Chuānlù), or "Fower circuits o rivers", which is itsel abbreviatit frae "川峡四路" (Chuānxiá Sìlù), or "Fower circuits o rivers an gorges", namit efter the diveesion o the existin circuit intae fower durin the Northren Song Dynasty.^[1]