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Shanghai is China's most populous urban area, [8] [9] while Chongqing is its largest city proper, the only city in China with the largest permanent population of over 30 million. [10] As of 2020, there were 113 Chinese cities with over 1 million people in urban areas. [11]
This article lists the largest human settlements in the world (by population) over time, as estimated by historians, from 7000 BC when the largest human settlement was a proto-city in the ancient Near East with a population of about 1,000–2,000 people, to the year 2000 when the largest human settlement was Tokyo with 26 million.
The Chinese municipality of Chongqing, which is the largest city proper in the world by population, comprises a huge administrative area of 82,403 km 2, around the size of Austria. However, more than 70% of its 30-million population are agricultural workers living in a rural setting. [6] [7]
View history; General What links here; ... Estimating population sizes before censuses were conducted is a difficult task. [1] ... China 24,000 [3] –35,000 [36 ...
According to 2017 research from the Demographia research group, there are 102 cities governed by the People's Republic of China with an "urban area" population of over 1 million. [ 4 ] List of cities
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Largest cities or municipalities in China China Urban Construction Statistical Yearbook 2020 Urban Population and Urban Temporary Population [ 1 ] [ note 1 ] [ note 2 ] Rank
Urban Population [4] (2010, in millions) Province-level Division Image 1 Shanghai: 28.2 Shanghai 2 Shenzhen: 21.7 Guangdong 3 Guangzhou: 21.0 Guangdong: 4 Beijing: 19.2 Beijing 5 Wuhan: 12.6 Hubei: 6 Tianjin: 11.6 Tianjin 7 Chengdu: 11.3 Sichuan: 8 Chongqing: 11.1 Chongqing 9 Hangzhou: 9.3 Zhejiang: 10 Nanjing: 8.3 Jiangsu: 11 Xi'an: 7.8 ...