User:AyaseHarukazeboy

I am not native speaker of English

I can not converse Chinese language. I can not understand listening the voices of Chinese language. I can not pronounce Chinese language. But I know the meanings of some Chinese characters, and some else characters of the rest I don't know them.

Chinese cities
One day I transcribed some data into my notebook from the UNSTAT site. The next day I went to a library bringing the notebook, and check up with a book titled 《中国1990年人口普查资料 第一册》Tabulation on the 1990 population census of The People's Republic of China (ISBN 7-5037-1093-4). I transcribed many Chinese characters of some cities' names from the table number 2-4 of the census-book. And I spent about one week to compare them with en:Wikipedia.

The differences on the UNSTAT-site
As a result, I noticed some unpresumable differences of spelling (misspellings or variants of romanization) between the UNSTAT-site and en:Wikipedia, as below.

Unpresumable different spellings
This table does not contain (1) apostrophe before "an", such as Xi'an, Ji'an, (2) "er" and "r", such as Haerbin/Harbin (3) following 13 cities Akesu/Aksu, Aletay/Altay, Atushi/Artux, Hami/Kumul, Hetian/Hotan, Huhehaote/Hohhot, Kashi/Kashgar, Kelamayi/Karamay, Kuerle/Korla, Lasa/Lhasa, Tulufan/Turfan, Wulumuqi/Ürümqi, Xilinhaote/Xilinhot,

Different population of city proper
And also I noticed three differences of population between the UNSTAT-site and the census-book, besides Foshan/Feshan.

Some cities have renamed
The below table includes 'Establishment of new prefectual-level city and Changing former county-level city to district'.