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Shanghai is China's most populous urban area, while Chongqing is its largest city proper, the only city in China with the largest permanent population of over 30 million. As of 2020, there were 113 Chinese cities with over 1 million people in urban areas.
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 ...
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 functional urban areas in OECD member ...
Shenzhen, in Guangdong province, is the third biggest Chinese city in GDP terms (US$482 billion) Chongqing is the city with the fourth highest GDP in China (US$433 billion) Guangzhou, in Guangdong province, is the fifth largest city in China in economic terms (US$429 billion)
Beijing, [a] previously romanized as Peking, [b] is the capital of China. With more than 22 million residents, [11] Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city as well as China's second largest city after Shanghai. [12] It is located in Northern China, and is governed as a municipality under the direct administration of the State ...
The Chinese municipality of Chongqing, which is the largest city proper in the world by population, comprises a huge administrative area of 82,403 km 2, around the size of Austria. However, more than 70% of its 30-million population are agricultural workers living in a rural setting. [6] [7]
Hong Kong has the second highest GDP per capita in China (US$53,606). Karamay in Xinjiang has the third highest GDP per capita in China (US$26,223). According to the administrative divisions of China, there are three level of cities: municipalities, prefecture-level cities, and county-level cities. A prefecture-level city ( 地 级 市) is not ...
Guangzhou. / 23.13000°N 113.26000°E / 23.13000; 113.26000. 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 ...