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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 ...
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 .
List of top municipalities and prefecture-level divisions by GDP [5] Nominal GDP is based on the official annual average exchange rate at CN¥ 6.3527 per US dollar in 2021 ; CN¥4.173 per Int'l. dollar (according to World Economic Outlook published by IMF in October 2021 publication) [ 6 ] [ 7 ]
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;
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.
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]).
Hong Kong has the second highest GDP per capita in China (US$53,606). Karamay in Xinjiang has the third highest GDP per capita in China (US$26,223).. According to the administrative divisions of China, there are three level of cities: municipalities, prefecture-level cities, and county-level cities.