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The list contains all the cities with the administrative designation of "national central city" (国家中心城市) and "sub-provincial city" (副省级城市) – including five "cities with independent planning status" (计划单列市) and ten large "provincial capital cities" (省会城市), as well as some large "special economic zones" (经济特区城市), "open coastal cities ...
Shanghai: China East Asia 18,400,000 2,396 6,300 ... List of cities in the People's Republic of China by GDP per capita; List of metropolitan areas in Taiwan;
Rank Name Province Pop. Rank Name Province Pop. Shanghai Beijing: 1: Shanghai: SH: 24,281,400: 11: Hong Kong: HK: 7,448,900 Guangzhou Shenzhen: 2: Beijing: BJ ...
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 .
Shanghai: 28.2 Shanghai 2 Shenzhen: 21.7 Guangdong 3 Guangzhou: 21.0 Guangdong: 4 Beijing: 19.2 ... List of cities in China by population; List of villages in China;
Shanghai is also a domestic immigration city—40.3% (9.8 million) of the city's residents are from other regions of China. [155] Shanghai has a life expectancy of 83.18 years for the city's registered population, [188] the highest life expectancy of all cities in mainland China.
The four direct municipalities, Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, and Tianjin are also considered cities even though they are officially provincial-level administrative units. It is for these reasons that Yicai Global's published list includes 338 "cities": namely all of the 334 prefectural-level units plus the 4 direct municipalities.
Because of this, prefecture-level cities often overlap in area with county-level cities. Four cities are centrally administered municipalities, which include dense urban areas, suburbs, and large rural areas: Chongqing (32.05 million [3]), Shanghai (24.87 million [3]), Beijing (21.89 million [3]), and Tianjin (13.87 million [3]).