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Four cities are centrally administered municipalities, which include dense urban areas, suburbs, and large rural areas: Chongqing (32.05 million [3] ), Shanghai (24.87 million [3] ), Beijing (21.89 million [3] ), and Tianjin (13.87 million [3] ). According to 2017 research from the Demographia research group, there are 102 cities governed by ...
The five largest cities in China by population are Shanghai (21 million), Beijing (19 million) , Shenzhen (17 million), Guangzhou (16 million) and Chengdu (14 million). As of 2021, there are 17 megacities (cities with a population of over 10 million), including Chongqing, Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Xi'an, Suzhou, Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Hangzhou, Linyi, Shijiazhuang ...
Shanghai [a] is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of China. The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flowing through it. The population of the city proper is the third largest in the world, with around 29.2 million inhabitants in 2023, while the urban area is the most populous in ...
Guangzhou [a] is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. [8] Located on the Pearl River about 120 km (75 mi) north-northwest of Hong Kong and 145 km (90 mi) north of Macau, Guangzhou has a history of over 2,200 years and was a major terminus of the Silk Road. [9]
Ekistics. Shinjuku skyscrapers (foreground) and Mount Fuji (background) in Tokyo, the world's most populous city. List of largest cities. List of cities proper by population density. Conurbation. Megacity. Megalopolis. Settlement hierarchy. Cities portal.
Báe̤k-gĭng. Beijing, [a] alternatively romanized as Peking, [b] is the capital of China. With more than 22 million residents, [9] Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city as well as China's second largest city after Shanghai. [10] It is located in Northern China, and is governed as a municipality under the direct ...
List of urban areas in China. This list of the twenty largest urban areas in China by population in 2010 uses data compiled by the OECD based on its methodology to determine economically linked areas of high population density in China it calls "functional urban areas." [1] It is an adaptation of methodology the OECD uses to determine ...
Quanzhou is a prefecture-level port city on the north bank of the Jin River, beside the Taiwan Strait in southern Fujian, People's Republic of China. [a] It is Fujian's largest most populous metropolitan region, with an area of 11,245 square kilometers (4,342 sq mi) and a population of 8,782,285 as of the 2020 census.