- List of cities in the People's Republic of China by population
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For Urban Area, see List of cities in the People's Republic of China by urban population.
This list ranks cities in the People's Republic of China (PRC), including Hong Kong and Macau, by population.
According to the administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China, there are three levels of cities, namely municipalities, prefecture-level cities (地级市), and county-level cities. There are over 160 cities in China with population over one million.
Map of 10 Biggest Chinese Cities (Hong Kong is included as a Chinese city). Locations (dots) are approximate. The numbers represents overall size ranking, ex. "1" is the largest city.
Municipalities and prefecture-level cities are not each a "city" in the strictest sense of the term, but instead an administrative unit comprising, typically, both an urban core (a city in the strict sense) and surrounding rural or less-urbanized areas usually many times the size of the central, built-up core. Prefecture-level cities nearly always contain multiple counties, county-level cities, and other such sub-divisions. To distinguish a prefecture-level city from its actual urban area (city in the strict sense), the term 市区 shìqū "urban area" is used. However, even this term often encompasses large suburban regions often greater than 1,000 square miles (3,000 km2), sometimes only the urban core whereas the agglomeration overtake the city limits. Thus, the "urban core" would be roughly comparable to the US term "city limit", the "shìqū or urban area" would be roughly comparable to "metropolitan area", and the municipality is a political designation defining regions under control of a municipal government, having no comparable division.
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The cities are listed by built up area resulting from google earth observations adjusted to Local Government Authorities encompassed by built up area (ie Districts, Cities or Counties). Thus, these built up area can be made of several cities (ie : Guangzhou - Dongguan - Shenzhen, Shanghai - Suzhou, Shenyang - Fushun, Anshan - Liaoyang etc.) The population of the official chinese urban area is listed below aside. The larger municipality figure is the wider administrative area population, which includes suburban and rural areas at the 2010 census (cf. www.citypopulation.de). Sometimes they include "cities" which can have more than 1 million inhabitants, with all the features of a city, which should thus be added on this list (more than 40).
In the end, there are more than 120 built up areas with more than 1 million inhabitants.
The list contains all cities with the administrative designation sub-provincial city (副省级城市). The majority are "Provincial Capital City" (省会). "SEZ Cities" (Special Economic Zone Cities) (经济特区城市) and National Central Cities (国家中心城市) are also listed out.
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City : 2010 census Built up Area Urban Area Level Administrative Area Remarks 广州 Guangzhou 41,230,000 11,070,654 Provincial capital (National central city) 10,810,755 Incl. Shenzhen, Dongguan and part of Foshan, Jiangmen, Zhongshan and Huizhou 上海 Shanghai 25,607,016 22,265,426 Municipality (National central city) 23,019,148 Incl. part of Suzhou[1] 北京 Beijing 19,980,328 19,295,000 Municipality (National central city) 19,612,368 Incl. Zhuozhou and Sanhe cities ; Danchang Hui county in Hebei.[1] 汕头 Shantou 11,630,447 1,346,708 Special economic zone city 5,391,028 Incl. most districts of Jieyang and Chaozhou 深圳 Shenzhen Guangzhou 10,357,938 Special economic zone City 10,357,938 天津 Tianjin 10,290,987 11,090,044 Municipality (National central city) 12,937,954 东莞 Dongguan Guangzhou 8,220,937 Prefecture 8,220,937 杭州 Hangzhou 7,321,141 5,695,313 Provincial capital 8,700,400 Incl. part of Shaoxing 香港 Hong Kong 7,055,071 7,055,071 Special Administrative Region 7,055,071 Not yet included in Guangzhou - Shenzhen built up area 武汉 Wuhan 6,886,253 6,434,373 Provincial capital 9,785,392 南京 Nanjing 6,852,984 6,852,984 Provincial capital 8,004,680 沈阳 Shenyang 6,756,379 5,743,718 Provincial capital 8,106,171 Incl urban part of Fushun 成都 Chengdu 6,730,749 7,123,697 Provincial capital 14,047,625 西安 Xi'an 6,613,138 3,890,098 Provincial capital 8,467,837 Incl. part of Xianyang 泉州 Quanzhou 6,070,717 1,398,427 Administrative area 8,128,530 哈尔滨 Harbin 5,282,783 4,517,549 Provincial capital 9,873,742 温州 Wenzhou 5,173,324 2,312,066 Administrative area 9,122,100 厦门 Xiamen 4,984,482 1,861,289 Special economic zone city 3,531,147 Incl. part of Zhangzhou 重庆 Chongqing 4,802,511 5,402,721 Municipality (National central city) 28,846,170 青岛 Qingdao 4,345,884 3,063,492 Sub-Provincial city 8,715,100 苏州 Suzhou Shanghai 4,074,000 Prefecture 10,465,994 长沙 Changsha 4,073,645 3,093,980 Provincial capital 7,044,118 郑州 Zhengzhou 3,980,250 3,132,000 Provincial capital 8,626,505 济南 Jinan 3,922,180 3,922,180 Provincial capital 6,814,000 石家庄 Shijiazhuang 3,833,606 2,604,930 Provincial capital 10,163,788 太原 Taiyuan 3,775,360 3,212,500 Provincial capital 4,201,591 Incl. Yuci district in Jinzhong 无锡 Wuxi 3,542,319 3,542,319 Prefecture 6,372,624 淄博 Zibo 3,530,037 3,002,181 Prefecture 4,530,600 昆明 Kunming 3,353,860 3,184,580 Provincial capital 6,432,212 合肥 Hefei 3,352,076 3,352,076 Provincial capital 5,702,466 长春 Changchun 3,341,700 3,341,700 Provincial capital 7,677,089 大连 Dalian 3,266,905 3,266,905 Sub-Provincial city 6,690,432 唐山 Tangshan 3,163,352 919,082 Prefecture 7,577,284 宁波 Ningbo 3,089,180 3,089,180 Sub-Provincial city 7,605,700 福州 Fuzhou 2,921,763 2,921,763 Provincial capital 7,115,370 常州 Changzhou 3,290,548 3,290,548 Provincial capital 4,591,972 台州 Taizhou, Zhejiang 2,807,592 1,575,252 Prefecture 5,968,800 Incl. Wenling city now in built up area. 乌鲁木齐 Ürümqi 2,744,280 2,302,146 Provincial capital 3,110,280 贵阳 Guiyang 2,552,635 2,552,635 Provincial capital 4,324,561 南宁 Nanning 2,480,340 2,875,220 Provincial capital 6,661,600 徐州 Xuzhou 2,369,851 2,828,834 Prefecture-level city 8,580,500 南昌 Nanchang 2,180,100 2,012,400 Provincial capital 5,042,565 兰州 Lanzhou 2,177,130 2,177,130 Provincial capital 3,616,163 鞍山 Anshan 2,171,050 1,529,350 Prefecture 3,645,884 扬州 Yangzhou 2,146,980 1,112,526 Prefecture 4,459,760 海口 Haikou 2,046,189 2,046,189 Prefecture 2,046,189 南通 Nantong 1,994,708 1,994,708 Prefecture 7,282,835 呼和浩特 Hohhot 1,980,774 1,980,774 Provincial capital 2,866,615 吉林 Jilin City 1,975,803 1,975,803 Prefecture 4,414,681 淮南 Huainan 1,899,740 1,626,905 Prefecture 2,334,000 临沂 Linyi 1,876,770 1,876,770 Administrative area 10,039,400 湘潭 Xiangtan 1,779,960 684,600 Prefecture 2,748,552 Built up area of 2,586,948 in progress with 4 urban districts of Zhuzhou 惠州 Huizhou Guangzhou 1,746,180 Prefecture 4,597,002 包头 Baotou 1,703,700 1,779,420 Prefecture 2,650,364 南阳 Nanyang 1,672,171 1,672,171 Administrative area 10,263,006 保定 Baoding 1,665,360 1,028,000 Administrative area 11,194,379 柳州 Liuzhou 1,603,318 1,029,946 Prefecture 3,758,700 Incl. Liujiang county within built up area 泰安 Tai'an 1,594,977 1,594,877 Prefecture 5,494,200 阜阳 Fuyang 1,533,432 1,533,432 Prefecture 7,599,918 江门 Jiangmen Guangzhou 1,529,556 Sub-Provincial city 4,448,871 银川 Yinchuan 1,513,151 1,290,170 Provincial capital 1,993,088 Incl. Helan county within built up area 潍坊 Weifang 1,512,584 1,512,984 Prefecture 9,086,200 珠海 Zhuhai 1,500,000 761,200 Special economic zone city 1,560,229 Incl. Macao and southern part of Zhongshan 黄石 Huangshi 1,498,053 621,654 Prefecture 2,429,318 Incl. Daye city 六安 Lu'an 1,482,729 1,482,729 Prefecture 5,612,000 洛阳 Luoyang 1,455,500 1,527,250 Prefecture 6,549,486 漳州 Zhangzhou 1,453,135 596,165 Prefecture 4,809,983 大同 Datong 1,447,550 1,570,035 Prefecture 3,318,057 湛江 Zhanjiang 1,400,685 1,400,685 Prefecture 1,392,493 盘锦 Panjin 1,392,493 635,037 Prefecture 1,392,493 Incl. 2 urban districts plus Dawa and Panshan counties partly in built up area 宿迁 Suqian 1,382,049 1,382,049 Prefecture 4,715,553 邯郸 Handan 1,371,399 946,159 Prefecture 9,174,679 马鞍山 Maanshan 1,366,302 633,940 Sub-Provincial city 1,366,302 营口 Yingkou 1,340,993 897,515 Prefecture 2,428,534 Incl. Dashiqiao city now in built up area 抚顺 Fushun Shenyang 1,340,205 Prefecture 2,138,090 菏泽 Heze 1,300,541 1,300,541 Prefecture 8,287,800 亳州 Bozhou 1,261,670 1,261,670 Prefecture 4,851,000 Built up area probably smaller because of the huge city area (2,226 km²) 常德 Changde 1,232,182 1,232,182 Prefecture 5,717,218 烟台 Yantai 1,229,718 1,747,494 Sub-Provincial city 6,968,200 Neijiang 1,225,424 1,225,424 Prefecture 3,702,847 西宁 Xining 1,198,304 1,198,304 Administrative area 2,208,708 绍兴 Shaoxing Hangzhou 1,195,797 Prefecture 4,912,200 宜昌 Yichang 1,180,300 1,231,175 Prefecture-Level city 4,059,686 Jingzhou 1,154,086 1,154,086 Prefecture 5,691,707 襄阳Xiangyang 1,121,000 1,121,000 Prefecture 5,500,307 赤峰 Chifeng 1,094,970 1,094,970 Prefecture 4,341,245 Built up area probably smaller because of the huge city area (7,012 km²) 贵港 Guigang 1,084,065 1,084,065 Prefecture 4,118,800 金华 Jinhua 1,082,974 1,082,974 Prefecture 5,361,600 邢台 Xingtai 1,067,772 1,067,772 Prefecture 7,104,114 Incl. Xingtai county now in built up area 莱芜 Laiwu 1,047,000 1,298,500 Prefecture 1,298,500 Gangcheng urban district not yet in built up area 大庆 Daqing 1,042,902 1,323,252 Prefecture 2,904,532 Datong urban district not yet in built up area 济宁 Jining 1,035,615 1,035,615 Prefecture 8,081,900 桂林 Guilin 1,032,657 694,872 Prefecture 4,748,000 茂名 Maoming 1,028,500 1,028,500 Prefecture 5,817,753 绵阳 Mianyang 985,586 985,586 Prefecture 4,613,862 本溪 Benxi 959,610 959,610 Prefecture 1,709,538 安阳 Anyang 950,131 950,131 Prefecture 5,172,834 平顶山 Pingdingshan 932,790 932,790 Prefecture 4,904,367 衡阳 Hengyang 886,424 936,789 Prefecture 7,141,462 锦州 Jinzhou 886,008 886,008 Prefecture 3,126,463 东营 Dongying 881,010 643,815 Prefecture 2,035,300 Incl. Kenli county partly within built up area 枣庄 Zaozhuang 868,445 2,125,136 Prefecture 3,729,300 Xuecheng, Shanting and Tai'erzhuang urban districts not in built up area 日照 Rizhao 865,032 1,143,078 Prefecture 2,801,100 Lanshan urban district not in built up area 芜湖 Wuhu 864,932 1,009,824 Prefecture 2,263,123 咸阳 Xianyang Xian 859,520 Prefecture 5,096,006 佳木斯 Jiamusi 850,750 850,750 Prefecture 2,552,097 绥化 Suihua 849,033 849,033 Prefecture 5,416,339 齐齐哈尔 Qiqihar 847,388 1,395,090 Prefecture 5,611,000 焦作 Jiaozuo 838,050 838,050 Prefecture 3,539,860 开封 Kaifeng 826,961 826,961 Prefecture 4,676,159 秦皇岛 Qinhuangdao 820,800 820,800 Prefecture 2,987,605 株洲 Zhuzhou 806,988 806,988 Prefecture 3,855,609 Built up area of 2,586,948 in progress with 3 urban districts of Xiangtan 牡丹江 Mudanjiang 805,584 805,584 Prefecture 2,798,723 蚌埠 Bengbu 802,575 802,575 Prefecture 3,164,467 舟山 Zhoushan 796,979 796,979 Prefecture 1,121,300 安庆 Anqing 780,000 780,000 Prefecture 5,311,000 新乡 Xinxiang 779,775 914,936 Prefecture 5,707,801 Fenqquan urban district not yet linked to built up area 廊坊 Langfang 777,632 777,632 Prefecture 4,358,839 Sanhe City and Danchang Hui county included in Beijing built up area 镇江 Zhenjiang 769,560 1,189,320 Prefecture 3,113,384 丹东 Dandong 760,800 760,800 Prefecture 2,444,697 葫芦岛 Huludao 759,190 759,190 Prefecture 2,623,541 宜宾 Yibin 673,413 672,413 Prefecture 4,472,001 阜新 Fuxin 669,317 669,317 Prefecture 1,819,339 Qujing 659,925 659,925 Prefecture 5,855,055 Zhanyi county nearly in built up area 贺州 Hezhou 653,080 1,216,080 Prefecture 2,893,500 Nanxun urban district not in built up area 铁岭 Tieling 647,928 305,966 Prefecture 2,717,732 Incl. Tieling county in built up area 滨州 Binzhou 628,172 628,172 Prefecture 3,748,500 邵阳 Shaoyang 615,321 615,321 Prefecture 7,071,826 阿克苏 Aksu 599,464 599,464 Prefecture 2,370,887 Incl. largely rural areas 威海 Weihai 591,982 591,982 Prefecture 2,804,800 阳江 Yangjiang 589,050 589,050 Prefecture 2,421,812 德州 Dezhou 580,260 580,260 Prefecture 5,568,200 岳阳 Yueyang 571,670 977,036 Prefecture 5,477,911 Junshan and Yunxi urban districts not yet in built up area 泰州 Taizhou 571,516 571,516 Prefecture 4,618,558 滁州 Chuzhou 562,321 562,321 Prefecture 3,937,868 九江 Jiujiang 545,616 545,616 Prefecture 4,728,763 澳门 Macau Zhuhai 541,200 Special Administrative Region 541,200 辽阳 Liaoyang Anshan 527,850 Prefecture 1,859,758 沧州 Cangzhou 514,074 514,074 Prefecture 7,134,053 濮阳 Puyang 512,652 512,652 Prefecture 3,598,494 鹤岗 Hegang 489,232 489,232 Prefecture 1,058,665 Dongshan district not yet in built up area 连云港 Lianyungang 460,012 628,996 Prefecture 4,393,914 玉林 Yulin 456,136 456,136 Prefecture 3,351,437 Incl. largely rural areas 潮州 Chaozhou Shantou 452,472 Prefecture 2,669,844 南平 Nanping 423,605 423,605 Prefecture 2,645,549 北海 Beihai 405,600 572,000 Prefecture 1,539,300 喀什 Kashgar 396,795 396,795 Prefecture 3,979,262 丽水 Lishui 328,757 328,757 Prefecture 2,117,000 周口 Zhoukou 308,173 308,173 Prefecture 8,953,172 阿勒泰 Altay 216,890 216,890 Prefecture 603,280 拉萨 Lhasa 262,918 262,918 Prefecture 559,423 克拉玛依 Karamay 234,600 234,600 Prefecture 391,008 丽江 Lijiang 155,540 155,540 Prefecture 1,244,769 -
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See List of prefecture-level divisions of China for a complete list of prefecture-level cities (283).
See also
List of TOP Chinese cities by GDP- List of cities in the People's Republic of China by urban population
- List of cities in the People's Republic of China by GDP per capita
- List of cities in the People's Republic of China
- List of province-level capitals and sub-provincial cities in the People's Republic of China
- List of twin towns and sister cities in China
- Prefecture-level city
- Sub-provincial city
- List of China administrative divisions by population
- List of cities by population
- List of metropolitan areas by population
- List of cities in Asia
List of cities and towns in Hong Kong
List of cities in Macao
List of cities in Australia by population
List of Japanese cities by population
List of cities and towns in Malaysia by population
List of cities and towns in Russia by population
List of cities in South Korea by population
List of Taiwanese counties and cities by population
List of largest United Kingdom settlements by population
List of United States cities by population- Global city
References
- ^ a b "Topographic Features". Basic Facts. Shanghai Municipal Government. http://www.shanghai.gov.cn/shanghai/node23919/node24059/node24061/userobject22ai36485.html. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
External links
Most populous metropolises in the People's Republic of China Categories:- Metropolitan areas of China
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