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TOP 50 MOST POPULATED CITIES


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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-shanghai

上海 24,500,000


2-bis-beijing

2 北京 21,500,000


3-guangzhou

3 广州 20,800,654


4-chongqing

4 重庆 18,384,000


5-chengdu

5 成都 17,677,122


6-tianjin

6 天津 15,500,000


7-shenzhen

7 深圳 12,357,938


8-harbin

8 哈尔滨 12,000,000


9-wuhan

9 武汉 10,670,000


10-suzhou

10 苏州 10,349,090


11-hangzhou

11 杭州 9,018,000


12-xian

12 西安 8,627,500


13-shenyang-liaoning

13 沈阳 8,255,921


14-dongguan

14 东莞 8,220,937


15-nanjing-jiangsu

15 南京 8,216,000


16-foshan

16 佛山 7,197,394


17-jinan-shandong

17 济南 7,067,900


18-wenzhou-zhejiang

18 温州 6,642,592


19-qingdao

19 青岛 6,188,100


20-quanzhou-fujian

20 泉州 6,107,475


21-shantou-guangdong

21 汕头 5,346,708


22-changsha

22 长沙 5,288,800


23-zhengzhou-henan

23 郑州 4,253,627


24-dalian-liaoning

24 大连 4,087,733


25-kunming

25 昆明 3,583,429


26-wuxi-jiangsu

26 无锡 3,542,319


27-xiamen-fujian

27 厦门 3,531,347


28-changchun-jilin

28 长春 3,530,115


29-ningbo-zhejiang

29 宁波 3,491,597


30-nanning-guangxi

30 南宁 3,437,171


31-taiyuan-shanxi

31 太原 3,426,522


32-hefei-anhui

32 合肥 3,352,076


33-changzhou-jiangsu

33 常州 3,290,548


34-tangshan-hebei

34 唐山 3,187,171


35-zhongshan-guangdong

35 中山 3,142,300


35-bis-xuzhou-jiangsu

36 徐州 3,053,778


36-guiyang

37 贵阳 3,037,159


37-urumqi

38 乌鲁木齐 3,029,372


38-zibo-shandong

39 淄博 2,980,800


39-shijiazhuang-hebei

40 石家庄 2,861,784


40-fuzhou-fujian

41 福州 2,707,294


41-huaian-jiangsu

42 淮安 2,633,420


42-linyi-shandong

43 临沂 2,600,200


43-lanzhou-gansu

44 兰州 2,492,325


44-yangzhou-jiangsu

45 扬州 2,399,079


45-nanchang-jiangxi

46 南昌 2,357,838


46-huizhou-guangdong

47 惠州 2,344,507


47-nantong-jiangsu

48 南通 2,273,326


48-xiangyang-hubei

49 襄阳 2,199,689


49-zhaozhuang-shandong

50 枣庄 2,125,136