List of cities in China
The list of cities in the People's Republic of China provides an overview of the development of the population of the larger urban settlements of the People's Republic of China, so the cities in a geographical sense. Listed are also the largest cities in their administrative boundaries, and the area 's largest cities of the country.
Overview
The Administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China covers provinces, direct-controlled cities, special administrative regions and autonomous areas. The provinces and autonomous regions are divided predominantly in prefecture-level cities. Since 1983 their number increased, as gradually the most government districts and unions were converted into prefecture-level cities. Currently, in China only 50 administrative districts, federations and autonomous districts remained. The administrative area of a prefecture-level, as well as a centrally-administered city, often the size of German federal states. It includes both the actual urban area and the surrounding Greater Region, so expansive areas with rural settlement structure. Therefore, among these cities, besides boroughs, usually also county-level cities and counties ( banners in Inner Mongolia ).
Also the territory of a district-free city, the lowest level city in China, usually covers the entire area of a circle, not just urban areas. Overall, there are cities in China at three levels ( government directly, district -free and acyclic ). In all three cases, the administrative regions are much larger than the actual city in the sense of an urban settlement area. Therefore, almost all prefecture-level cities have at least 500,000 inhabitants in their administrative boundaries and almost all urban districts at least 100,000 inhabitants. If the political boundaries taken as a basis, the direct-controlled municipality of Chongqing has a population of 32 million (2007 ) is the largest city in the world. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, which is considered politically and administratively as a city that is geographically from several urban areas.
At 31 December 2006 there were in the People's Republic of China:
- 4 direct-controlled cities (直辖市zhíxiáshì )
- 283 prefecture-level cities (地 级 市dìjíshì )
- 369 county-level cities (县级 市/县级 市xiànjíshì )
Metropolitan areas by population
The table shows the largest metropolitan areas in the People's Republic of China (as of 1 January 2009).
Urban settlements by population
The following table contains all urban settlements, which according to extrapolation on 1 January 2009 had more than 200,000 inhabitants, as well as their names in German transcription and in Chinese, as well as the results of the censuses ( VZ ) from 1 July 1990 and November 1, 2000. it also urban settlements were listed, such as Hailar that are legally no cities, but instead subdivisions of major cities ( in this case, Hulun Buir ).
Listed is also the parent administrative unit at the provincial level ( province, autonomous region, city government Direct, Special Administrative Region ), to which the urban settlement belongs. Capital of the People 's Republic of China and the second largest urban settlement in the country (after Shanghai) is Beijing. In Hong Kong and Macau, a census was conducted in 1991 and 2001. The results can be found in the column for 1990 and 2000. The population figures refer to the respective urban settlement - the core city - not the city or municipality in their political boundaries (see district -free city).
( VZ = census, B = calculation)
Cities by population
The following table contains all the cities in the People's Republic of China with more than five million inhabitants, whose name in German transcription and in Chinese, as well as the results of the census of 1 November 2000. In Hong Kong 2000 was not carried out census, that is why on this day an estimate of the National Bureau of Statistics in China indicated. The population figures include in addition to the residents registered with permanent residence (户口, hùkǒu ), the temporary residents (流动 人口, Liudong rénkǒu ) with fixed-term residence permit (暂住 证, zànzhùzhèng ) with a. Listed is also the parent administrative unit at the provincial level ( province, autonomous region, city government Direct, Special Administrative Region ), to which the city belongs. All information related to the cities in their administrative boundaries.
The administrative areas of cities often have the size German federal states such as Hesse, Thuringia and Saarland. They extend geographically over several urban settlements and usually include large areas of rural settlement structure. The population density of Chinese cities is therefore often lower than they have cities in Germany. The 30.5 million inhabitants Chongqing, China's largest city, distribute, for example, on an area that is roughly the size of Austria. The population density is 370 inhabitants per square kilometer. In Berlin, the largest city in Germany with a population of 3.4 million, live comparison 3,800 inhabitants per square kilometer.
Source: National Bureau of Statistics
Cities by area
The largest city in the People's Republic of China to Hulun Buir surface is in Inner Mongolia with 263 953 square kilometers. It is bigger than the state of the UK with 242 910 square kilometers. Ranked follows two Jiuquan ( Gansu Province) with 191 230 square kilometers and finished third Golmud ( Qinghai Province ) with 123 460 square kilometers. Hulun Buir, Jiuquan and Golmud are therefore also the largest by area three cities in the world. It was only in fourth place followed by a non-Chinese city with the Australian city of Kalgoorlie - Boulder ( 95 575 square kilometers).
The following table contains all the cities in the People's Republic of China with an administrative area of over 20,000 square kilometers. Listed is also the parent administrative unit ( province and autonomous region ), to which the city belongs. Apart from the government immediacy city of Chongqing as well as the cities of Delhi and Golmud ( Haixi Autonomous Prefecture ) and accumulation ( Regierungsbezirk accumulation ) have all the places in the table the status of a prefecture-level city.
Source: National Bureau of Statistics, China