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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]
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 administration of the ...
Xi'an [a] is the capital of Shaanxi Province. A sub-provincial city on the Guanzhong Plain, [7] the city is the third most populous city in Western China, after Chongqing and Chengdu, as well as the most populous city in Northwest China. [8] Its total population was 12,952,907 as of the 2020 census.
This is a list of cities designated as National Famous Historical and Cultural Cities (国家历史文化名城) by the State Council of China.China approved 99 National Famous Historical and Cultural Cities in three batches in 1982, 1986 and 1994, and has approved a further 44 cities from August 10, 2001 to September 30, 2023, bringing the total to 143.
Suzhou is a highly developed economic region in China and is the economic centre, industrial, commercial and logistical hub city of Jiangsu province, as well as an important financial, cultural, artistic, educational and transportation centre.