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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.
Rank City 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
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 ...
City Chinese Pinyin Province Population (2010); Urban Population (2010) Administrative Population (2010); Shanghai: 上海: Shànghǎi: Municipality: 22,315,426 ...
This is a list of the largest cities in Asia ranked according to population within their city limits. It deals exclusively with the areas within city administrative boundaries ( municipalities ) as opposed to urban areas or metropolitan areas , which are generally larger in terms of population than the main city.
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]).
UNICEF defines city proper as, "the population living within the administrative boundaries of a city or controlled directly from the city by a single authority." A city proper is a locality defined according to legal or political boundaries and an administratively recognised urban status that is usually characterised by some form of local ...
Shanghai. This list contains all cities with one million or more inhabitants. Cities are defined in the political-geographic sense (city proper).The population figures given therefore refer to the city or municipality in the political-administrative sense.