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Prefecture-level cities nearly always contain multiple counties (县), county-level cities, and other such sub-divisions. Municipalities and prefecture-level cities are not each a 'city' in the strictest sense of the term, but are, instead, an administrative unit comprising, typically, both the urban core ( a city in the strict sense ) and ...
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]).
A city can be defined as a conditionally contiguous urban area, without regard to territorial or other boundaries inside an urban area. UNICEF defines urban area as follows: The definition of "urban" varies from country to country, and, with periodic reclassification, can also vary within one country over time, making direct comparisons difficult.
This entry includes top 50 cities in the mainland China in terms of nominal GDP, plus Hong Kong SAR which is a larger city with economic size. As of 2024, the total nominal GDP of the 50 cities (excluding Hong Kong [ 1 ] ) is 10.241 trillion US dollars with accounting for 54.06% of the mainland in the year.
Compared with prefecture-level cities, the economic size and population size of a county-level city are not on the same order of magnitude. Including China's county-level cities and prefecture-level cities in the same set of comparative data is like including U.S. states and U.S. counties in the same set of data for comparison. In fact, they ...
Other Illinois cities to make the Top-25 include Rockford, which is ranked eighth overall, and Springfield, which came in at No. 14. Rockford is making waves as one of the best short-term rental ...
This list of the twenty largest urban areas in China by population in 2010 uses data compiled by the OECD based on its methodology to determine economically linked areas of high population density in China it calls "functional urban areas."
In fact, according to a Bank of America Research team led by China and Asia Economist Miao Ouyang, China’s outstanding mortgages alone amount to 31% of its GDP, and 59% of the nation’s ...