List of cities in China by population

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As of 2023, the five largest cities in China by population are Chongqing (31.91 million), Shanghai (24.87 million), Beijing (21.86 million), Chengdu (21.403 million) and Guangzhou (18.827 million).[1][2][3] As of 2024, there are 18 megacities[4][5] (cities with a population of over 10 million), including Chongqing, Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Tianjin, Xi'an, Suzhou, Zhengzhou, Hangzhou, Shijiazhuang, Linyi, Dongguan, Qingdao, Changsha and Hefei.[6][7]

Among them, the total permanent population of Chongqing, Shanghai, Beijing and Chengdu is above 20 million.[8] Shanghai is China's most populous urban area,[9][10] while Chongqing is its largest city proper, the only city in China with the largest permanent population of over 30 million.[11]

As of 2020, there were 113 Chinese cities with over 1 million people in urban areas.[12]

Definition and classification

According to the administrative divisions of China, there are three major levels of cities, namely direct-administered municipalities (Script error: No such module "Lang".), prefecture-level cities (Script error: No such module "Lang".), and county-level cities (Script error: No such module "Lang".). Not included in this administrative classification list are the special administrative regions (Script error: No such module "Lang".) of Hong Kong and Macau as well as the cities controlled by the Republic of China. Prefecture-level cities nearly always contain multiple counties (Script error: No such module "Lang".), county-level cities, and other such sub-divisions.

Municipalities and prefecture-level cities are not each a 'city' in the strictest sense of the term, but are, instead, an administrative unit comprising, typically, both the urban core (a city in the strict sense) and surrounding rural or less-urbanized areas.[13] The term "Script error: No such module "Lang"." (shì qū; "urban area") is used to distinguish a city's actual urban center from its administratively defined boundaries. However, even this term often encompasses large suburban regions, often greater than Script error: No such module "convert"., or sometimes only the urban core, whereas the agglomeration overtakes the city limits. Thus, the "urban core" would be roughly comparable to the American term "city limit", and the "shì qū", or "urban area", would be roughly comparable to a city's "metropolitan area." The municipality is a political designation defining regions under control of a municipal government, which has no comparable designation in America.

While in 2013 Chongqing had the largest population total of any special municipality, 28 million, only 4.5 million of the people were in the actual Chongqing urban area, with the remainder of the population in suburban and rural areas.[14]

List of major cities by population

The list contains all the cities with the administrative designation of "national central city" (Script error: No such module "Lang".) and "sub-provincial city" (Script error: No such module "Lang".) – including five "cities with independent planning status" (Script error: No such module "Lang".) and ten large "provincial capital cities" (Script error: No such module "Lang".), as well as some large "special economic zones" (Script error: No such module "Lang".), "open coastal cities" (Script error: No such module "Lang".), and "prefecture-level cities" (Script error: No such module "Lang".).[15] This list defines a city's population as the population of a city's urban population, rather than the entire population of its municipal boundaries.

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Locations of the 50 most populous cities in mainland China

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Cities and towns by population

China cities and towns by urban population (2020–2021)

See also

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References

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