Abstract: Abstract: Recent years, the administrative division research experiences thinking shift and rapidly growth. The theoretical system has been improved, and the practice of exploration has also attracted highly attention. Promoting the upper building to adapt to the economic base necessitates deepening the reform of the administrative system, optimizing the administrative level and administrative division. This paper adopted CiteSpaceⅢ to mining the research team, knowledge base, research theme, change of the path and its cutting edge of the administrative division. It is found that, ① the number of related literatures of administrative division has changed significantly in the past two decades, and the year 2006 is certain period which the number of published literatures is the largest. The related research has focused on the field of economics, and the economic geography journals are the headquarters of administrative division; ② The main research team has gradually formed. According to the region, they can be divided into five categories, namely, North China, East China, South China, South China and Southwest; its common knowledge base is clear, and have not yet formed a strong branch of discipline; ③ Literature cited analysis shows that works of Junde Liu takes the largest proportion in the classic literatures, which accounts 40%, he is a well-deserved thumb in this field; ④ Research hotspot shows that its development path is broadly divided into administrative divisions-adjustment and reform, regionalization-urbanization, zoning-the regional economy and zoning - historical category. Corresponding main research contents are reformation, local system, efficiency, urban agglomeration, urbanization, regional development, scale effect and historical zoning, discipline development; ⑤Research frontier is divided into urbanization（during the year of 1999-2002）, regional urbanization（during the year of 2004-2009）and system reformation（during the year of 2010-2014）.