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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] ). According to 2017 research from the Demographia research group, there are 102 cities governed by ...
List of cities in China by population. As of 2023, the five largest cities in China by population are Chongqing (31.91 million), Shanghai (24.87 million), Beijing (21.86 million), Chengdu (21.403 million) and Guangzhou (18.827 million).
Kunming [a] the capital, and largest city, of Yunnan province, China [4] is the political, economic, communications and cultural centre of the province. Kunming is also the seat of the provincial government. During World War II Kunming was a Chinese military center and the location of Headquarters American Army Forces, China, Burma, and India ...
Hangzhou. / 30.267°N 120.153°E / 30.267; 120.153. Hangzhou [a] is the capital and most populous city of Zhejiang, China. It is located in the northeastern part of the province, sitting at the head of Hangzhou Bay, which separates Shanghai and Ningbo. Hangzhou grew to prominence as the southern terminus of the Grand Canal and has been ...
Guangzhou. / 23.13000°N 113.26000°E / 23.13000; 113.26000. Guangzhou [a] is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. [8] Located on the Pearl River about 120 km (75 mi) north-northwest of Hong Kong and 145 km (90 mi) north of Macau, Guangzhou has a history of over 2,200 years and was a major terminus of ...
The People's Republic of China (PRC) shares land borders with 14 countries (tied with Russia for the most in the world): North Korea, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam. The land borders, in counterclockwise order from northeast to southwest, include the ...
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 [b] is the capital and largest city of Henan Province in the central part of the People's Republic of China. [6] Located in northern Henan, it is one of the National Central Cities in China, [7] and serves as the political, economic, technological, and educational center of the province. [8]