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List of cities in the People's Republic of China

 
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For cities in all China, see List of cities in China.

According to the administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China (PRC) as applied within its mainland, there are three level of cities, namely municipalities, prefecture-level cities, and county-level cities.

Sub-provincial cities are prefecture-level, and Sub-prefecture-level cities are county-level, but given higher degree of power than cities of the same level.

Based on 2000 census data, the largest cities are the four centrally administered municipalities, which include dense urban areas, suburbs, and large rural areas: Chongqing (30.5 million), Shanghai (16.4 million), Beijing (13.5 million), and Tianjin (9.8 million).

Other major cities are Wuhan (5.1 million), Shenyang (4.8 million), Guangzhou (3.8 million), Chengdu (3.2 million), Xi’an (3.1 million), and Changchun (3 million).

The PRC had more than 660 cities by the end of 2002, of which 10 had populations of more than 4 million each in the urban area; 23, between 2 and 4 million; 138, between 1 and 2 million; 279, between 500,000 and 1 million; 171, between 200,000 and 500,000; and 39, less than 200,000.[1]

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Largest cities

The PRC has dozens of major cities, including 3 of the 55 global cities.[2]

Further information: List of cities in the People's Republic of China by urban population
# City Urban Core Population123 Level Province-level Division
1 上海 - Shanghai 9,495,701 Municipality Shanghai
2 北京 - Beijing 7,296,962 Municipality Beijing
3 香港 - Hong Kong 6,780,000 SAR Hong Kong
4 天津 - Tianjin 5,066,129 Municipality Tianjin
5 武汉 - Wuhan 4,488,892 Sub-provincial city Hubei
6 广州 - Guangzhou 4,154,808 Sub-provincial city Guangdong
7 沈阳 - Shenyang 3,981,023 Sub-provincial city Liaoning
8 重庆 - Chongqing 3,934,239 Municipality Chongqing
9 南京 - Nanjing 2,822,117 Sub-provincial city Jiangsu
10 哈尔滨 - Harbin 2,672,069 Sub-provincial city Heilongjiang
11 西安 - Xi'an 2,588,987 Sub-provincial city Shaanxi
12 成都 - Chengdu 2,341,203 Sub-provincial city Sichuan
13 长春 - Changchun 2,223,170 Sub-provincial city Jilin
14 大连 - Dalian 2,118,087 Sub-provincial city Liaoning
15 杭州 - Hangzhou 1,932,612 Sub-provincial city Zhejiang
16 济南 - Jinan 1,917,204 Sub-provincial city Shandong
17 太原 - Taiyuan 1,905,403 Prefecture-level city Shanxi
18 青岛 - Qingdao 1,867,365 Sub-provincial city Shandong
19 郑州 - Zhengzhou 1,688,681 Prefecture-level city Henan
20 石家庄 - Shijiazhuang 1,632,271 Prefecture-level city Hebei
Note
  • 1 exclude floating Population
  • 2 exclude suburban and rural
  • 3 Estimated Population, as of June, 2008.

Municipalities

(Municipalities are provincial-level divisions.)

  • Beijing (北京) (Peking)
  • Chongqing (重庆) (Chungking)
  • Shanghai (上海)
    • Pudong (浦东新区) (sub-provincial district, strictly speaking not a city, but given the power higher than an ordinary prefecture-level city)
  • Tianjin (天津) (Tientsin)
    • Binhai (滨海新区) (sub-provincial district, strictly speaking not a city, but given the power higher than an ordinary prefecture-level city)

Provinces

(Only prefecture-level cities but not county-level cities are listed below, and only the major ones are listed, see the articles of the provinces for full lists.)

Anhui

Fujian

Gansu

Guangdong


Guizhou

Hainan

Hebei

Heilongjiang

Henan

Hubei

Hunan

Jiangsu

Jiangxi

Jilin

Liaoning


Qinghai

Shandong


Shaanxi

Shanxi

Sichuan

Yunnan

Zhejiang

Autonomous regions

Guangxi Zhuang

Main article: List of cities in Guangxi

Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia)

Ningxia Hui

Xinjiang Uighur

Main article: List of cities in Xinjiang

Xizang (Tibet)

Special administrative regions

The special administrative regions have unitary governments with no defined city.

Hong Kong

Main article: List of cities and towns in Hong Kong

These are the largest urban areas:

Macau

Main article: Municipalities of Macau

These former freguesia were defined by Portugal and still used for convenience.

See also

References

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ All the Chinese given above in this section are in simplified Chinese characters, except for Kowloon, which is in traditional Chinese characters.

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