LIST OF CITIES IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA BY POPULATION

This list ranks 'cities in the People's Republic of China by population'.
According to administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China, there are three level of cities, namely municipalities, prefecture-level cities (), and county-level cities.
Municipalities and prefecture-level cities are not each a "city" in the strictest sense of the term, but instead an administrative unit comprising, typically, both an urban core (a city in the strict sense) and surrounding rural or less-urbanized areas usually many times the size of the central, built-up core. Prefecture-level cities nearly always contain multiple counties, county-level cities, and other such sub-divisions. To distinguish a prefecture-level city from its actual urban area (city in the strict sense), the term shìqū ("urban area") is used. However, even this term often encompasses large suburban regions often greater than , but doesn't include rural areas. Thus, the "urban core" would be roughly comparable to our "city limit", the "shìqū or urban area" would be roughly comparable to our "metropolitan area", and the municipality is an political designation defining regions under control of a municipal government, having no comparable division.
The population of the urban area is listed below; the larger figure municipality figure is the wider administrative area population, which includes suburban and rural areas.
This list contains all cities with the administrative designation sub-provincial city ().
# Shanghai 9,838,000 (2001) Municipality: 20,600,000 (2006)
# Beijing 10,300,000 (2006) Municipality: 15,850,000 (2006)
# Hong Kong 7,300,000 (2006)
# Guangzhou 6,560,500 Sub-provincial city: 15,000,000 (2006)
# Shenzhen 6,200,000 Sub-provincial city: 13,300,000 (2006)
# Tianjin 6,000,000 Municipality: 11,500,000 (2006)
# Xi'an 6,000,000 Sub-provincial city: 10,500,000 (2006)
# Shenyang 6,000,000 Sub-provincial city: 7,500,000 (2006)
# Nanjing 5,900,000 Sub-provincial city: 7,100,000 (2006)
# Wuhan 5,000,000 Sub-provincial city: 9,400,000 (2006)
# Harbin 4,800,000 Sub-provincial city: 9,700,000 (2006)
# Hangzhou 4,200,000 Sub-provincial city: 7,000,000 (2006)
# Chongqing 4,100,000 Municipality: 32,700,000 (2006)
# Chengdu 4,100,000 Sub-provincial city: 11,300,000 (2006)
# Tangshan 3,200,000 Prefecture-level city: 7,600,000 (2006)
# Zhengzhou 3,200,000 Prefecture-level city: 7,500,000(2006)
# Changchun 3,000,000 Sub-provincial city: 7,400,000 (2006)
# Zibo 2,900,000 Prefecture-level city: 4,500,000 (2006)
# Qingdao 2,800,000 Sub-provincial city: 8,000,000 (2006)
# Nantong Prefecture-level city: 8,100,000 (2006)
# Jinan 2,650,000 Sub-provincial city: 6,300,000 (2006)
# Fuzhou 2,600,000 Prefecture-level city: 7,000,000 (2006)
# Wuxi 2,400,000 Prefecture-level city: 4,800,000 (2006)
# Suzhou 2,400,000 Prefecture-level city: 6,400,000 (2006)
# Xuzhou 1,900,000 Prefecture-level city: 9,600,000 (2006)
# Hohhot 1,700,000 Prefecture-level city: 3,000,000 (2006)
# Luoyang 1,500,000 Prefecture-level city: 6,700,000 (2006)
# Shantou 1,300,000 Prefecture-level city: 5,000,000 (2006)
# Kaifeng Prefecture-level city: 4,800,000 (2004)
# Hefei 4,650,000 (2006)
# Lianyungang Prefecture-level city: 5,000,000 (2006)
# Chuzhou Prefecture-level city: 4,500,000 (2006)
# Shaoxing Prefecture-level city: 4,347,200 (2004)
# Taiyuan Prefecture-level city: 4,000,000 (2006)
# Lanzhou Prefecture-level city: 3,400,000 (2006)
# Shijiazhuang 2,300,000 Prefecture-level city: 9,500,000 (2006)
# Changsha 2,024,000 Prefecture-level city: 6,103,000 (2004)
# Nanchang 1,990,184 Sub-provincial city: 4,507,000
# Jilin City 1,900,751 Prefecture-level city: 4,350,000
# Xinyang 1,732,000 Prefecture-level city: 7,425,000
# Dalian 1,657,500 Sub-provincial city: 6,200,000 (2005)
# Datong 1,426,000 (2004) Prefecture-level city: 3,119,000 (2005)
# Nanning 1,400,000 Prefecture-level city: 3,200,000 (2006)
# Baotou 1,400,000 Prefecture-level city: 2,400,000 (2006)
# Handan 1,390,000 (2004) Prefecture-level city: 8,499,000
# Ürümqi Prefecture-level city: 2,500,000 (2006)
# Fushun 1,384,000 Prefecture-level city: 2,300,000
# Xiamen Sub-provincial city: 1,370,000
# Zhuhai Prefecture-level city: 1,332,000 (2004)
# Kunming 1,300,000 Prefecture-level city: 4,200,000 (2006)
# Anshan 1,285,849 Prefecture-level city: 3,584,000
# Yangzhou 1,125,200 (2003) Prefecture-level city: 4,536,100 (2003)
# Zhoukou Prefecture-level city: 1,060,000
# Xining 1,029,400 administrative area: 2,095,000 (2006)
# Zhenjiang 1,013,600 Prefecture-level city: 2,672,100 (2004)
# Liuzhou 950,000 Prefecture-level city: 3,512,000
# Baoding 920,000 administrative area: 11,000,000 (2006)
# Qiqihar 900,000 administrative area: 6,000,000 (2006)
# Pingdingshan 891,814 (2006) Prefecture-level city: 4,800,000 (2000)
# Nanping Prefecture-level city: 2,860,000
# Wenzhou 873,000 administrative area: 7,777,000 (2006)
# Quanzhou administrative area: 7,520,000 (excluding Quemoy)
# Guiyang 848,166 Prefecture-level city: 3,320,000
# Ningbo 820,000 Sub-provincial city: 6,070,000
# Nanyang, Henan 800,000 administrative area: 11,000,000 (2006)
# Langfang 763,000 Prefecture-level city: 3,910,000 (2004)
# Hengyang 761,888 Prefecture-level city
# Xinxiang Prefecture-level city: 5,505,000
# Anyang Prefecture-level city: 5,250,000 (2002)
# Qinhuangdao 759,000 Prefecture-level city: 2,758,000
# Yinchuan 736,300 administrative area: 1,377,000
# Guilin 670,000 Prefecture-level city: 2,534,000 (2006)
# Guilin 670,000 Prefecture-level city: 1,300,000
# Linyi administrative area: 11,300,000 (2006)
# Anqing 650,000 Prefecture-level city: 6,500,000 (2006)
# Dandong 643,000 Prefecture-level city: 2,390,000 (2001)
# Changzhou Prefecture-level city: 3,489,000 (2004)
# Bengbu 585,000 Prefecture-level city: 3,469,700 (2004)
# Jiamusi 555,000
# Cangzhou 550,000 (2004) Prefecture-level city: 7,100,000 (2006)
# Macau 520,400 (2007)
# Huainan 400,000 Prefecture-level city: 2,335,798 (2004)
# Wuhu Prefecture-level city: 2,245,600 (2004)
# Lhasa 257,400 Prefecture-level city: 521,500
# Beihai 135,500 Prefecture-level city: 1,450,000 (2001)
# Karamay Prefecture-level city: 290,000 (2002)
# Lijiang City Prefecture-level city: 1,126,646 (2000)

★ Benxi prefecture-level city

★ Huangshi prefecture-level city

★ Jinzhou prefecture-level city

★ Fuxin prefecture-level city

★ Hegang prefecture-level city

★ Yingkou prefecture-level city

★ Mudanjiang prefecture-level city

★ Liaoyang prefecture-level city

★ Kashgar Prefecture-level city

★ Altay Prefecture-level city

★ Aksu Prefecture-level city

★ Zhoushan Prefecture-level city

★ Taizhou Prefecture-level city

★ Qufu

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See also

★ List of cities by population

★ List of metropolitan areas by population

★ List of cities in the People's Republic of China

★ List of cities in the People's Republic of China by GDP per capita

★ List of China administrative divisions by population

★ List of cities and towns in Hong Kong

★ List of cities in Australia by population

★ List of Taiwanese counties and cities by population

★ List of United States cities by population

★ List of English cities by population

★ List of cities and towns in Russia by population

★ List of Japanese cities by population

★ Prefecture-level city

★ Sub-provincial city

★ Global city

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★ Largest Cities in China