🇨🇳 China’s Guangdong Province Has 17 Cities With 1M+ Residents

What We’re Showing

This map shows the 107 cities with 1 million+ residents in each Chinese province and region, according to 2020 census data.

Key Takeaways

• China’s Guangdong province has 17 cities with a population size of 1 million or more. It is also China’s most populous province, home to 120 million people. This makes it comparable to the size of Japan, the 12th most populous country in the world.
• Two-thirds of the 1M+ cities are located in coastal provinces. China's four eastern provinces, which occupy an area six times the size of Texas, are home to only five cities that surpass 1 million people.
• Some of China’s most populous cities—Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, and Chongqing—are administered directly as municipalities by the central government, and do not fall under provincial control.