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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]).
This is a list of cities designated as National Famous Historical and Cultural Cities (国家历史文化名城) by the State Council of China.China approved 99 National Famous Historical and Cultural Cities in three batches in 1982, 1986 and 1994, and has approved a further 44 cities from August 10, 2001 to September 30, 2023, bringing the total to 143.
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 ...
Plot of major historical capitals of China prior to the 20th century Sorted in alphabetical order. Acheng District of the city of Harbin was the capital of the Jin dynasty from 1115 to 1153. It was called Shangjing (上京; Shàngjīng; 'Upper Capital') or Huining Prefecture at the time. It was destroyed in 1157 and reestablished as a secondary ...
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.
Flag Duration Use Description 1 July 1997 – present: Flag of Hong Kong [2]: A white, five-petal Bauhinia blakeana on a red field with 1 star on each of the petals. The Chinese name of Bauhinia × blakeana has also been frequently shortened as 紫荊/紫荆 (洋 yáng means "foreign" in Chinese, and this would be deemed inappropriate by the PRC government), although 紫荊/紫荆 refers to ...
The scope of this list is limited to capital cities of first-level administrative divisions such as provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, and special administrative regions, also including sub-provincial cities which are governed by a province but administered independently in many ways from a province.
The Old City is a combination of ancient winding streets, with some modern high-rise buildings progressively encroaching on the older areas. [1] The pond in the Old City God Temple commercial area, just outside Yuyuan Garden. In 2006, the Shanghai municipal government enacted the Protection Plan for the Old City Historical Cultural Scenery Area ...