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List of cities in China

List of cities in China

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According to the administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China, including Hong Kong and Macau,[clarify] there are three levels of cities: provincial-level cities[1] (consisting of municipalities and Special Administrative Regions[failed verification][clarify][2]), prefecture-level cities, and county-level cities. As of January 2024, the PRC has a total of 707 cities: 4 municipalities, 2 SARs, 293 prefectural-level cities (including the 15 sub-provincial cities) and 408 county-level cities (including the 38 sub-prefectural cities and 12 XXPC cities). This list does not include any cities in the disputed Taiwan Province and portions of Fujian Province, which are claimed by the PRC under the One China Policy, as these areas are controlled by the Republic of China (see the List of cities in Taiwan).

This article is about cities in the People's Republic of China (Taiwan is not included). For cities controlled by Republic of China after 1949, see List of cities in Taiwan. For historical prefectural-level divisions of China, see List of fu prefectures of China.
Cities in the People's Republic of China

Prefecture-level cities nearly always contain multiple counties (县), county-level cities, and other such sub-divisions. 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]).

According to 2017 research from the Demographia research group, there are 102 cities governed by the People's Republic of China with an "urban area" population of over 1 million.[4]

List of cities

Contemporary cities

Types of cities

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Tier system

Main article: Chinese city tier system

The Chinese central government introduced a ranking system in the 1980s to facilitate the staged rollout of infrastructure and urban development throughout the country. Cities were ranked by tier according to the government's development priorities.[5] The tier system began as a bureaucratic classification, but has since the later 1990s acquired new salience from the perspectives of real estate development, commercial vitality and cosmopolitanness, besides the old notions of population, economic size, and political ranking. It has now become a proxy for demographic and social segmentation in China, especially relevant to those college-educated seeking non-governmental employment.[6][7][8]

It is the general consensus that four cities, namely Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, belong to the first tier, while tier II includes other major cities. Small and medium cities are grouped into tier III or IV.[9]

Republic of China (1912–1949)

Note: All names are transliterated in pinyin.
Fu (府) cities
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References

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    "一二三四线城市最新划分弄清楚了！你家乡是什么级别？ ——凤凰网房产北京". house.ifeng.com (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2018-07-10. Retrieved 2018-07-12.
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    Mali Chivakul; Raphael W. Lam; Xiaoguang Liu; Wojciech Maliszewski; Alfred Schipke (April 28, 2015). "Understanding Residential Real Estate in China" (PDF). imf.org. International Monetary Fund. pp. footnote 6, page 4. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 14, 2015. Retrieved June 11, 2015. Chinese cities are generally grouped into four categories: Tier I cities include Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen; Tier II cities include Beihai, Changchun, Changsha, Chengdu, Chongqing, Dalian, Fuzhou, Guiyang, Haikou, Hangzhou, Harbin, Hefei, Huhhot, Jinan, Kunming, Lanzhou, Nanchang, Nanjing, Nanning, Ningbo, Qingdao, Sanya, Shenyang, Shijiazhuang, Suzhou, Taiyuan, Tianjin, Urumqi, Wenzhou, Wuhan, Wuxi, Xiamen, Xi'an, Yinchuan, cities.
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