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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
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 ] ).
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. This has also caused the city to experience population aging —in 2021, 17.4% (4.3 million) of the city's registered population was aged 65 or above. [ 155 ]
An urban area can be defined by one or more of the following: administrative criteria or political boundaries (e.g., area within the jurisdiction of a municipality or town committee), a threshold population size (where the minimum for an urban settlement is typically in the region of 2,000 people, although this varies globally between 200 and ...
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.
Largest cities or municipalities in China China Urban Construction Statistical Yearbook 2020 Urban Population and Urban Temporary Population [ 1 ] [ note 1 ] [ note 2 ] Rank
Rank City Country Region Population Area (km²) Density (km²) Sources of Pop. / Area Image 1 Tokyo–Yokohama [2]: Japan East Asia 35,200,000 7,835 4,100 C / B