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Coordinates: 30°0′N, 103°0′E

Sichuan Province
Chinese : 四川省 Sìchuān Shěng
Abbreviations: 川/蜀  (pinyin: Chuān or Shǔ)
Origin of name	Short for 川峡四路 chuānxiá sìlù literally "Four circuits of rivers and gorges", referring to the four circuits during the Song Dynasty.
Administration type	Province
Capital (and largest city)	Chengdu
CPC Ctte Secretary	Liu Qibao
Governor	Jiang Jufeng
Area	485,000 km² (5th)
Population (2004)  - Density	87,250,000 (3rd) 180/km² (22nd)
GDP (2006)  - per capita	CNY 863.8 billion (9th) CNY 10,574 (25th)
HDI (2005)	0.728 (medium) (25th)
Major nationalities	Han - 95% Yi - 2.6% Tibetan - 1.5% Qiang - 0.4%
Prefecture-level	21 divisions
County-level	181 divisions
Township-level†	5011 divisions
ISO 3166-2	CN-51
Official website 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

Sichuan (help·info) (Chinese: 四川; pinyin: Sìchuān; Wade-Giles: Szŭ4-ch'uan1; Postal map spelling: Szechwan and Szechuan) is a province in western China with its capital at Chengdu. The current name of the province, 四川 (Sìchuān), is an abbreviation of 四川路 (Sì Chuānlù), or "Four circuits (political subdivisions) of rivers", which is itself abbreviated from 川峡四路 (Chuānxiá Sìlù), or "Four circuits of rivers and gorges", named after the division of the existing circuit into four during the Northern Song Dynasty.^[1]