This is mostly arbitrary, but having skyscrapers helps, as does being a capital city or having a large population. This is a much stricter definition of city, being limited to the urbanized area, not the whole municipal boundary, and not the metropolitan area.
1. Hong Kong
2. Beijing
3. Shanghai
4. Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province
5. Tianjing
6. Taipei, capital of Taiwan
7. Shenzhen
8. Chongqing
9. Wuhan, capital of Hubei province
10. Macau
11. Dalian, Liaoning province
12. Changsha, capital of Hunan province
13. Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu province
14. Changchun, capital of Jilin province
15. Jinan, capital of Shandong province
16. Qingdao, Shandong province
17. Xiamen, Fujian province
18. Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province
19. Nanchang, capital of Jiangxi province
20. Kaohsiung, Taiwan
21. Shenyang, capital of Liaoning province
22. Zhuhai (near Macau)
23. Nanning, capital of Guangxi Zhuang AR
24. Shijiazhuang, capital of Hebei province
25. Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province
26. Dongguan, near Guangzhou
27. Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang province
28. Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province
29. Haikou, capital of Hainan province
30. Wenzhou, Zhejiang province
31. Taichung, Taiwan
32. Wuxi, Jiangsu province
33. Changzhou, Jiangsu province
34. Kunming, capital of Yunnan province
35. Xian, capital of Shaanxi province
36. Suzhou, Jiangsu province (near Shanghai)
37. Fuzhou, capital of Fujian province
38. Hefei, capital of Anhui province
39. Hohhot, capital of Inner Mongolia
40. Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Uyghur
41. Lhasa, capital of Tibet
42. Handan, Hebei province
43. Shantou, Guangdong province
44. Yinchuan, capital of Ningxia Hui AR
45. Ordos City, Inner Mongolia. Famous for being empty
46. Taiyuan, capital of Shanxi province
47. Foshan, Guangdong province, near Guangzhou and part of the metro area.
48. Ningbo, seaport city in Zhejiang province
49. Guiyang, capital of Guizhou province
50. Huaxi, village in Jiangsu province, famous for having 15th tallest skyscraper in the world
51. Hefei, capital of Anhui province
52. Yantai, Shandong province, borders Qingdao
53. Lanzhou, capital of Gansu province
54. Weihai, Shandong province. Former British colony.
55. Zibo, Shandong province. Borders Jinan, the capital
56. Jiangyin, Jiangsu province. Borders Huaxi.
57. Fangchenggang, Guangxi Zhuang. Port city.
58. Xining, capital of Qinghai province
59. Xuzhou, Jiangsu province
60. Zhuzhou, Hunan province
Tangshan, Hebei province has 3.2 million people in its urban area, more than Shijiazhuang does.
ReplyDeleteJiangmen, Guangdong province, has 4.48 million
ReplyDeleteZhongshan, Guangdong province, has 3.1 million