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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]).
In China, a national central city (国家中心城市) is a municipality or city with regional, national, and international importance.There are nine national central cities: Beijing, Tianjin, Chongqing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Wuhan, Xi'an, and Zhengzhou.
Xi'an is a world leading city for scientific research and as of 2023, it ranked among the world's top 20 cities and China's top 10 cities by scientific research output by the Nature Index. [14] It ranked first in West China region, with a combined population of almost 300 million. The city also hosted the 2011 World Horticultural Exposition. [138]
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.
Changsha [a] is the capital of Hunan, China.It is the 15th most populous city in China with a population of 10,513,100, [6] the third-most populous city in Central China, and the most livable city in China, [7] located in the lower reaches of the Xiang River in northeastern Hunan.
Quanzhou is a prefecture-level port city on the north bank of the Jin River, beside the Taiwan Strait in southern Fujian, People's Republic of China. [a] It is Fujian's largest most populous metropolitan region, with an area of 11,245 square kilometers (4,342 sq mi) and a population of 8,782,285 as of the 2020 census.
Zhengzhou East railway station, the main high-speed railway station in the city Zhengzhou North Classification Yard serves as the major transition hub of China Railway system Zhengzhou is the junction of the Longhai Railway ( Lianyungang , Jiangsu – Lanzhou , Gansu ) and the Beijing–Guangzhou Railway as well as a major national railway hub ...