TOP 50 MOST POPULATED CITIES

This list ranks the 50 most populated cities in China. It refers to the urban area. 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.

1 上海 24,500,000

2 北京 21,500,000

3 广州 20,800,654

4 重庆 18,384,000

5 成都 17,677,122

6 天津 15,500,000

7 深圳 12,357,938

8 哈尔滨 12,000,000

9 武汉 10,670,000

10 苏州 10,349,090

11 杭州 9,018,000

12 西安 8,627,500

13 沈阳 8,255,921

14 东莞 8,220,937

15 南京 8,216,000

16 佛山 7,197,394

17 济南 7,067,900

18 温州 6,642,592

19 青岛 6,188,100

20 泉州 6,107,475

21 汕头 5,346,708

22 长沙 5,288,800

23 郑州 4,253,627

24 大连 4,087,733

25 昆明 3,583,429

26 无锡 3,542,319

27 厦门 3,531,347

28 长春 3,530,115

29 宁波 3,491,597

30 南宁 3,437,171

31 太原 3,426,522

32 合肥 3,352,076

33 常州 3,290,548

34 唐山 3,187,171

35 中山 3,142,300

36 徐州 3,053,778

37 贵阳 3,037,159

38 乌鲁木齐 3,029,372

39 淄博 2,980,800

40 石家庄 2,861,784

41 福州 2,707,294

42 淮安 2,633,420

43 临沂 2,600,200

44 兰州 2,492,325

45 扬州 2,399,079

46 南昌 2,357,838

47 惠州 2,344,507

48 南通 2,273,326

49 襄阳 2,199,689

50 枣庄 2,125,136


