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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.
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.
This article lists historical urban community sizes based on the estimated populations of selected human settlements from 7000 BC – AD 1875, organized by archaeological periods.
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]
China 9,236,032 Asia 2020 [1] Sub-provincial City (urban) Mexico City Mexico 9,209,944 North America 2020 [21] Distrito Federal: Luanda Angola 9,079,800 Africa 2022 [22] Province: Foshan China 9,042,509 Asia 2020 [1] Prefecture-level city (urban) Tehran Iran 9,039,000 Asia 2021 [23] Municipality (city) London United Kingdom 8,866,180 Europe ...
Largest cities or municipalities in China China Urban Construction Statistical Yearbook 2020 Urban Population and Urban Temporary Population [ 1 ] [ note 1 ] [ note 2 ] Rank
This is a list of the largest cities and towns of England ordered by population at various points during history. Until the first modern census was conducted in 1801 there was no centrally conducted method of determining the populations of England's settlements at any one time, and so data has to be used from a number of other historical ...
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