| Province or Autonomous Region | Name | Chinese (S) | Pinyin | Designated minority | Local name | Capital |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gansu | Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture | 临夏回族自治州 | Línxià Huízú Zìzhìzhōu | Hui | ''(The Hui speak Chinese)'' | Linxia |
| Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture | 甘南藏族自治州 | Gānnán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu | Tibetan | Tibetan - དཀར་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ / Dkar-lho Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul | Hezuo | |
| Guizhou | Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture | 黔东南苗族侗族自治州 | Qiándōngnán Miáozú Dòngzú Zìzhìzhōu | Miao and Dong | ? | Kaili |
| Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture | 黔南布依族苗族自治州 | Qiánnán Bùyīzú Miáozú Zìzhìzhōu | Buyei and Miao | ? | Duyun | |
| Qianxinan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture | 黔西南布依族苗族自治州 | Qiánxīnán Bùyīzú Miáozú Zìzhìzhōu | ? | Xingyi | ||
| Hubei | Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture | 恩施土家族苗族自治州 | Ēnshī Tǔjiāzú Miáozú Zìzhìzhōu | Tujia and Miao | ? | Enshi |
| Hunan | Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture | 湘西土家族苗族自治州 | Xiāngxī Tǔjiāzú Miáozú Zìzhìzhōu | Tujia and Miao | ? | Jishou |
| Jilin | Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture | 延边朝鲜族自治州 | Yánbiān Cháoxiǎnzú Zìzhìzhōu | Korean | Korean - 연변 조선족 자치주 / Yeonbyeon Joseonjok Jachiju | Yanji |
| Qinghai | Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture | 海北藏族自治州 | Hǎiběi Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu | Tibetan | Tibetan - མཚོ་བཡྣང་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ / Mtsho-byang Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul | Haiyan County |
| Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture | 海南藏族自治州 | Hǎinán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu | Tibetan - མཚོ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ / Mtsho-lho Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul | Gonghe County | ||
| Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture | 黄南藏族自治州 | Huángnán Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu | Tibetan - རྨ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་/ Rma-lho Bod-rigs rang skyong khul | Tongren County | ||
| Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture | 果洛藏族自治州 | Guǒluò Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu | Tibetan - མགོ་ལོག་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་/ Mgo-log Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul | Maqên County | ||
| Gyêgu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture | 玉树藏族自治州 | Yùshù Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu | Tibetan - ཡུལ་ཤུལ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་/ Yul-shul Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul | Gyêgu County | ||
| Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture | 海西蒙古族藏族自治州 | Hǎixī Měnggǔzú Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu | Mongol and Tibetan | Tibetan - མཚོ་ནུབ་སོག་རིགས་ཆ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ / Mtsho-nub Sog-rigs dang Bod-rigs rang-skyong-khul | Delingha | |
| Sichuan | Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture | 阿坝藏族羌族自治州 | Ābà Zàngzú Qiāngzú Zìzhìzhōu | Tibetan and Qiang | Tibetan - རྔ་བ་བོད་རིགས་ཆ་བ༹ང་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ / Rnga-ba Bod-rigs dang Chavang-rigs rang skyong khul | Barkam County |
| Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture | 甘孜藏族自治州 | Gānzī Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu | Tibetan | Tibetan - དཀར་མཛེས་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ / Dkar-mdzes Bod-rigs rang-skyong khul | Kangding County | |
| Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture | 凉山彝族自治州 | Liángshān Yízú Zìzhìzhōu | Yi | Yi: ꆃꎭ/''Niep Sha'' | Xichang | |
| Xinjiang | Kizilsu Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture ? | 克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治州 | Kèzīlèsū Kē'ěrkèzī Zìzhìzhōu | Kyrgyz | Kyrgyz - كىزىلسۋ كىزگىز اۆتونومييالى وبلاستى (Cyrillic: Кыргыз Кызылсу aвтономиялы oбласты) | Artux |
| Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture | 博尔塔拉蒙古自治州 | Bó'ěrtǎlā Měnggǔ Zìzhìzhōu | Mongol | (Mongolian in Cyrillic script: ''Борталын Монгол өөртөө засах тойрог'') | Bortala | |
| Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture | 昌吉回族自治州 | Chāngjí Huízú Zìzhìzhōu | Hui | ''(The Hui speak Chinese)'' | Changji | |
| Bayin'gholin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture ? | 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州 | Bāyīnguōlèng Měnggǔ Zìzhìzhōu | Mongol | (Mongolian in Cyrillic script: ''Баянголын Монгол өөртөө засах тойрог'') | Korla | |
| Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture | 伊犁哈萨克自治州 | Yīlí Hāsàkè Zìzhìzhōu | Kazakh | Kazakh: ىله قازاق اۆتونومىيالى وبلىسى (Cyrillic: ''Іле Қазақ автономиялы облысы''); Uyghur: Ili Ķazaķ aptonom oblasti | Yining | |
| Yunnan | Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture | 德宏傣族景颇族自治州 | Déhóng Dǎizú Jǐngpōzú Zìzhìzhōu | Dai and Jingpo | ? | Luxi |
| Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture | 怒江傈僳族自治州 | Nùjiāng Lìsùzú Zìzhìzhōu | Lisu | ? | Liuku Town, Lushui County | |
| Dêqên Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture | 迪庆藏族自治州 | Díqìng Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu | Tibetan | Tibetan - བདེ་ཆེན་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ / Bde-chen Bod-rigs rang-skyong khul | Shangri-La County | |
| Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture | 大理白族自治州 | Dàlǐ Báizú Zìzhìzhōu | Bai | Bai: Darl•lit Baif•cuf zirl•zirl•zox | Dali | |
| Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture | 楚雄彝族自治州 | Chǔxióng Yízú Zìzhìzhōu | Yi | ? | Chuxiong | |
| Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture | 红河哈尼族彝族自治州 | Hónghé Hānízú Yízú Zìzhìzhōu | Hani and Yi | ? | Mengzi County | |
| Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture | 文山壮族苗族自治州 | Wenshān Zhuàngzú Miáozú Zìzhìzhōu | Zhuang and Miao | ? | Wenshan County | |
| Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture | 西双版纳傣族自治州 | Xīshuāngbǎnnà Dǎizú Zìzhìzhōu | Dai | Sipsongpanna | Jinghong |