Editing Pinyin (section)

=== <span class="anchor" id="Minority"></span>Special names ===
{{See also|SASM/GNC romanization|Tibetan pinyin|Guangdong Romanization}}
In accordance to the ''Regulation of Phonetic Transcription in Hanyu Pinyin Letters of Place Names in Minority Nationality Languages'' ({{zhi|s=少数民族语地名汉语拼音字母音译转写法 |t=少數民族語地名漢語拼音字母音譯寫法}}) promulgated in 1976, place names in non-Han languages like [[Mongolian language|Mongolian]], [[Uyghur language|Uyghur]], and [[Standard Tibetan|Tibetan]] are also officially transcribed using pinyin in a system adopted by the State Administration of Surveying and Mapping and Geographical Names Committee known as [[SASM/GNC romanization]]. The pinyin letters (26 Roman letters, plus {{angbr|ü}} and {{angbr|ê}}) are used to approximate the non-Han language in question as closely as possible. This results in spellings that are different from both the customary spelling of the place name, and the pinyin spelling of the name in Chinese:

{| class="wikitable"
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! Customary !! Official pinyin !! Characters
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| [[Shigatse]] || Xigazê || {{zhi|t=日喀則|s=日喀则|p=Rìkāzé}}
|-
| Urumchi || [[Ürümqi]] || {{zhi|t=烏魯木齊|s=乌鲁木齐|p=Wūlǔmùqí}}
|-
| [[Lhasa (city)|Lhasa]] || Lhasa || {{zhi|t=拉薩|s=拉萨|p=Lāsà}}
|-
| [[Hohhot]] || Hohhot || {{zhi|t=呼和浩特|s=呼和浩特|p=Hūhéhàotè}}
|-
| [[Golmud]] || Golmud || {{zhi|t=格爾木|s=格尔木|p=Gé'ěrmù}}
|-
| [[Qiqihar]] || Qiqihar || {{zhi|t=齊齊哈爾|s=齐齐哈尔|p=Qíqíhā'ěr}}
|}