List of cities in the People's Republic of China

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

According to the administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China (PRC), 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).

China has 12 other cities with populations of between 2 million and 2.9 million and 20 or more other cities with populations of more than 1 million persons.

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[edit] Largest cities

Beijing.
Beijing.
Tianjin.
Tianjin.
Wuhan.
Wuhan.
Hong Kong.
Hong Kong.

The PRC has dozens of major cities, including 3 of the 55 global cities.[1]

# City City population
estimate[2] (2002),
million people		 Administrative region Region
1. Shanghai 9,031,200 Shanghai Municipality East
2. Beijing 7,129,500 Beijing Municipality North
3. Hong Kong 7,012,738 Hong Kong SAR South
4. Tianjin 4,344,500 Tianjin Municipality North
5. Wuhan 3,957,500 Hubei Province Central
6. Shenyang 3,452,900 Liaoning Province Northeast
7. Guangzhou 3,433,700 Guangdong Province South
8. Harbin 2,765,400 Heilongjiang Province Northeast
9. Xi'an 2,656,500 Shaanxi Province Northwest
10. Chongqing 2,311,600 Chongqing Municipality Southwest
11. Chengdu 1,927,100 Sichuan Province Southwest
12. Changchun 1,886,700 Jilin Province Northeast
13. Taiyuan 1,832,200 Shanxi Province North
14. Nanjing 1,800,000 Jiangsu Province East
15. Jinan 1,728,400 Shandong Province East
16. Dalian 1,657,500 Liaoning Province Northeast
17. Qingdao 1,449,500 Shandong Province East
18. Lanzhou 1,434,500 Gansu Province Northwest
19. Fushun 1,384,000 Liaoning Province Northeast
20. Zhengzhou 1,347,700 Henan Province Central

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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.)

[edit] Anhui

[edit] Fujian

[edit] Gansu

[edit] Guangdong

[edit] Guizhou

[edit] Hainan

[edit] Hebei

[edit] Heilongjiang

[edit] Henan

[edit] Hubei

[edit] Hunan

[edit] Jiangsu

[edit] Jiangxi

[edit] Liaoning

[edit] Shandong

[edit] Shanxi

[edit] Sichuan

[edit] Yunnan

[edit] Zhejiang

[edit] Autonomous regions

[edit] Guangxi Zhuang

[edit] Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia)

[edit] Ningxia Hui

[edit] Xinjiang Uighur

[edit] Xizang (Tibet)

[edit] Special administrative regions

The special administrative regions have a unitary government without defined cities.

[edit] Hong Kong

Main article: List of cities and towns in Hong Kong

These are the largest urban areas:

[edit] Macau

Main article: Municipalities of Macau

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

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ All the Chinese given above in this section are in simplified Chinese characters, except for Kowloon, which is in traditional Chinese characters.
  2. ^ Butler, Rhett. Cities and urban areas in China with population over 100,000 (2003).

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