# NAME

Geography::China::Provinces - To retrieve ISO 3166:CN standard Chinese provinces

# SYNOPSIS

   use Geography::China::Provinces;

   my @municipals = Geography::China::Provinces->municipals;

   my @provinces = Geography::China::Provinces->provinces;

   my @autonomous_regions = Geography::China::Provinces->autonomous_regions;

   my @special_admin_regions = Geography::China::Provinces->special_admin_regions;

   my $region = Geography::China::Provinces->iso(11);

# DESCRIPTION

This module helps retrieving ISO standard Chinese provincial level divisions.

# SEE ALSO

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces\_of\_the\_People's\_Republic\_of\_China](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_the_People's_Republic_of_China)

# INTERFACE

## all

   my @regions = Geography::China::Provinces->all;
   #=> Get all regions

## municipals

   my @regions = Geography::China::Provinces->municipals;
   #=> Get all municipal cities

## provinces

   my @regions = Geography::China::Provinces->provinces;
   #=> Get all provinces

## autonomous\_regions

   my @regions = Geography::China::Provinces->autonomous_regions;
   #=> Get all autonomous regions

## special\_admin\_regions

   my @regions = Geography::China::Provinces->special_admin_regions;
   #=> Get all special administrative regions

## areas

   my %areas = Geography::China::Provinces->areas;
   #=> Get Chinese geographic areas as a hash

## area

   my @regions = Geography::China::Provinces->area(1);
   #=> Get regions in area 1

## area\_name

   my @regions = Geography::China::Provinces->area_name('huadong');
   #=> Get regions in area `huadong'

## iso

   my $region = Geography::China::Provinces->iso(11);
   #=> Get region with ISO code 11

## category

   my @regions = Geography::China::Provinces->category('municipality');
   #=> Get municipal regions

# AUTHOR

yowcow  `<[email protected]>`

# LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2011-2014, yowcow `<[email protected]>`. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See [perlartistic](https://metacpan.org/pod/perlartistic).