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All Cities in China with Population of 1 Million

How many cities of China can you name that have an urban agglomeration population of at least 1 million people?
Population is for the entire agglomeration, not just the city proper
According to citypopulation.de, January 2019
Try this quiz for hints on city names but without a map
Quiz by scambigol
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Last updated: December 7, 2019
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First submittedJanuary 29, 2017
Times taken24,752
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Pop
City
45.6 m
Guangzhou
(incl Shenzhen)
29.5 m
Shanghai
20.0 m
Beijing
12.7 m
Tianjin
9.80 m
Xiamen
9.30 m
Chengdu
8.70 m
Wuhan
8.25 m
Hangzhou
7.85 m
Shenyang
7.80 m
Chongqing
7.70 m
Shantou
7.35 m
Hong Kong
6.75 m
Xi'an
6.60 m
Nanjing
5.90 m
Qingdao
5.40 m
Zhengzhou
5.30 m
Harbin
5.30 m
Wenzhou
4.67 m
Hefei
4.55 m
Changsha
4.5 m
Dalian
4.22 m
Shijiazhuang
4.15 m
Fuzhou
4.15 m
Jinan
4.07 m
Nanchang
4.07 m
Taiyuan
4.05 m
Kunming
3.97 m
Ürümqi
3.65 m
Changchun
Pop
City
3.52 m
Nanning
3.45 m
Guiyang
3.40 m
Zibo
3.20 m
Ningbo
3.17 m
Wuxi
2.75 m
Huizhou
2.75 m
Lanzhou
2.72 m
Changzhou
2.72 m
Xuzhou
2.70 m
Tangshan
2.52 m
Anshan
2.45 m
Jiangyin
2.22 m
Taizhou
2.15 m
Baotou
2.12 m
Liuzhou
2.12 m
Luoyang
2.12 m
Yantai
1.97 m
Cixi
1.97 m
Nantong
1.96 m
Haikou
1.95 m
Huainan
1.95 m
Linyi
1.92 m
Huai'an
1.88 m
Weifang
1.85 m
Yangzhou
1.81 m
Hohhot
1.79 m
Baoding
1.76 m
Xiangyang
1.71 m
Hengyang
Pop
City
1.65 m
Daqing
1.60 m
Datong
1.60 m
Yiwu
1.53 m
Jiaozuo
1.52 m
Jilin
1.52 m
Zhuhai
1.48 m
Handan
1.47 m
Putian
1.47 m
Yinchuan
1.46 m
Xiangtan
1.42 m
Huaibei
1.41 m
Xingtai
1.41 m
Xinxiang
1.40 m
Xining
1.39 m
Guilin
1.38 m
Bengbu
1.38 m
Yancheng
1.37 m
Tai'an
1.36 m
Mianyang
1.35 m
Wuhu
1.33 m
Ganzhou
1.28 m
Maoming
1.28 m
Zhangjiakou
1.27 m
Zunyi
1.25 m
Yichang
1.25 m
Zhanjiang
1.23 m
Kaifeng
1.22 m
Qinhuangdao
1.19 m
Zhuzhou
Pop
City
1.18 m
Nanchong
1.16 m
Jining
1.16 m
Weihai
1.15 m
Rizhao
1.13 m
Ma'anshan
1.12 m
Baoji
1.12 m
Jingzhou
1.12 m
Lianyungang
1.11 m
Changde
1.11 m
Nanyang
1.11 m
Zhenjiang
1.10 m
Cangnan County
1.08 m
Anyang
1.08 m
Chifeng
1.07 m
Benxi
1.07 m
Wanzhou
1.06 m
Shaoyang
1.05 m
Changshu
1.05 m
Jinzhou
1.05 m
Qiqihar
1.03 m
Pingxiang
1.03 m
Qingyuan
1.01 m
Suqian
1.01 m
Yibin
1.00 m
Fuyang
1.00 m
Suzhou
1.00 m
Tengzhou
1.00 m
Yingkou
+7
Level 70
Jan 29, 2017
Can you please allow "Hohhot" as a type in for Huhehot. Everyone there refers to it as Hohhot (the Mongolian name) or Huhehote (the Mandarin name).
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Level 76
Jan 29, 2017
done, thanks for suggestion
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Level 76
Jan 31, 2017
I live near Cangnan (in Wenzhou), and was surprised when it turned out to be an answer. Cangnan is a county belonging to Wenzhou. I understand not including Cangnan in Wenzhou's population, but there are two other cities near Wenzhou, that are actually cities (Yueqing/Ruian) that both have over a million people living there.
+2
Level ∞
Feb 15, 2017
That one does seem weird. I removed that as an answer.
+7
Level 71
Aug 26, 2019
You know it's China when there are two Cities above a Million in population close to your city
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Level 52
Oct 20, 2021
well i live in nj near both Philadelphia and new york so id say you could be in America too
+1
Level 49
Nov 21, 2023
america an L tho
+2
Level 79
Feb 25, 2021
I live in Suzhou!
+1
Level 31
May 9, 2022
I live in Hong Kong!
+6
Level 92
Feb 15, 2017
As a Cantonese speaker, the hardest part of these quizzes is always getting the Romanization right. Especially as there is a lot of inconsistency in spelling the same characters.
+7
Level 76
Feb 15, 2017
The only place names with some inconsistency nowadays are places in Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and Tibet, where local names are sometimes used. Everywhere else uses pinyin nowadays. There are also a few places like Harbin/Haerbin Qiqihar/Qiqihaer which usually omit the "e", but they're few and far between.
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Level 70
Apr 8, 2017
or Hohhot/Huhehaote
+4
Level 76
May 3, 2017
Yeah, Hohhot is in Inner Mongolia
+1
Level 74
Mar 19, 2018
Or Wulumuqi for Urumqi.
+5
Level 76
Jul 17, 2018
Again, Urumqi is in Xinjiang
+7
Level 73
Apr 22, 2017
Wow it appears that some badasses aced this quiz, I barely beat 90% of people with 66 good answers!
+2
Level 77
May 26, 2017
102/102 with the help of one China map and prediction.
+14
Level 58
May 7, 2020
What? You just used a map?
+1
Level 31
Apr 19, 2022
Me too.BUT the map is in Chinese.I get 63.
+1
Level 31
May 9, 2022
71 this time
+14
Level 64
Jun 25, 2017
Poor little Urumqi...all alone out there
+2
Level 67
Jun 25, 2017
Changshu should be further north on the map. It's located east of Wuxi and south of Nantong.
+2
Level 71
Jun 30, 2019
And Haikou should be on the island of Hainan, not on the mainland.
+2
Level 18
Jun 25, 2017
Hey guys, great quiz by the way, please could you check out some of my quizzes as i am new and need people to play my quizzes, many thanks
+1
Level 51
Jun 18, 2018
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+1
Level 59
Jun 26, 2017
That's a lot of cities...
+2
Level 73
Aug 29, 2017
Why isn't Suzhou included? Some typically byzantine Chinese administrative reason?
+5
Level 77
Aug 30, 2017
Suzhou got lumped together with Shanghai. Also, Shenzhen got lumped together with Guangzhou.

Yes, very dumb.

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Level 73
Sep 7, 2017
Nope, because I finally see what they did there! They treated Suzhou and Jinhua roughly as districts and included "cities" inside them in the quiz. So, would it be a good suggestion to accept Suzhou for Changshu, Jinhua for Yiwu, and scrap Cixi and Jiangyin altogether because they're part of respectively Ningbo and Wuxi?

That's the big problem about administrative divisions in China, we could face some "cityception" problems, with some "county-level city" (like Changshu or Yiwu) inside a "prefecture-level city" (like Suzhou and Jinhua).

The problem here, is that it creates a double standard. If we consider Changshu and Yiwu to be our definition of cities, we have to do the same about Yueqing (instead of Wenzhou), Liuyang and Ningxiang (instead of Changsha), and countless others.

On another note, the quiz is also missing one Taizhou (the one south of Ningbo) :p

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Level 77
Sep 13, 2017
Not at all. Again, Suzhou was counted as part of Shanghai metro, just like Shenzhen being counted as part of Guangzhou metro.
+1
Level 48
Dec 20, 2017
I am a Chinese-born Australian, but geez, this was difficult. 54 was all I could muster. Great quiz though, made me think a lot.
+2
Level 41
Feb 6, 2019
That's a lot of cities.
+1
Level 93
Feb 28, 2019
Western china really is empty in comparison
+3
Level 93
Feb 28, 2019
The 5 provinces in the west (Gansu, Xinjiang, Tibet, Qinghai and Sichuan) together have 135M people (which includes a few of the cities here on the eastern edge eg Chengdu) but that leaves nearly 1.3Bn in the rest of China
+4
Level 76
Nov 27, 2019
You shouldn't have included Sichuan in your comparison - 81 million people live there!
+2
Level 93
Dec 2, 2021
To clarify then, western Sichuan is very empty - About half of the province is Aba and Ganzi with just over 2M people. That's about 16 people per km^2. I was in fact too generous in saying 135M people above because most of those are in eastern Sichuan.
+2
Level 67
Mar 1, 2019
Mountains and desert, lots of mountains and desert
+4
Level 51
Mar 1, 2019
I got 8%, i'm happy
+3
Level 67
Mar 1, 2019
Am I the only one who started to put random prefixes and suffixes together? Add -zhou often enough and you'll get a hit
+2
Level 80
Mar 1, 2019
I've been trying to find this data on the city population website, but am unable to. Where did you find it on there? Thanks!
+4
Level 72
Mar 5, 2019
So many city names end in "zhou" - does that mean something in Mandarin? Like how places in English speaking areas often end in "ville" or "burg" etc?
+1
Level 82
Sep 3, 2019
Zhou was going to be my question, as well. Thank you for clearing that up. Thought it might have meant like Kansas Zhou or Oklahoma Zhou or Sioux Zhou.
+2
Level 68
Dec 15, 2021
Zhou is originally more like "shire" in England, I think.
+2
Level 75
Jul 9, 2023
Late answer but, better late than never, right?

It was more like state / land in the past but in the present it is more or less a suffix of prefectures / cities that used to be called ___zhou.

So yes it would be equivalent to ville, burg, grad, or whatever term of that sort nowadays

+5
Level 88
Mar 6, 2019
And it looks like the final score is 113 East to 1 West.
+1
Level 67
Feb 26, 2020
Shouldn't Zhangjiajie be on here?
+1
Level 58
May 7, 2020
Yeah I thought this too
+2
Level 55
Nov 25, 2020
This quiz uses urban population, so it only has 225.7k people.
+4
Level 62
Sep 17, 2020
This quiz is not approved by the CCP.
+2
Level 75
May 30, 2021
The updated version of citypopulation's urban agglomerations doesn't include Wuxi or Changzhou, so that, and maybe all the numbers, should be updated on this quiz.
+1
Level 15
Nov 13, 2022
106/114 on my first try, The only hard part about this is that some of the cities are not prefecture level cities, such as wanzhou which is technically just a district of chongqing, making it much harder
+1
Level 3
Apr 2, 2023
Pourquoi quand je tape Pékin ça ne me le note pas ?
+2
Level 75
Jul 9, 2023
As someone from Taizhou (Zhejiang), this quiz surely is missing something.

The prefecture is loosely packed though, but even in that case two county level cities (Wenling and Linhai) have over 1m population. Jiaojiang as well as parts of Luqiao and Huangyan are often considered to be Taizhou proper which should be well over 1m too.

Oh and it also has more people than Taizhou (Jiangsu). Not sure how it didn't make it.

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Level 75
Jul 9, 2023
Yeah so I had a look and it appears that you used the population figures of the city in Zhejiang and mistakenly placed the dot in Jiangsu.

I'm assuming the one in Jiangsu was not on that list back when this map was made.

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Level 69
Dec 19, 2023
91/114. Why Cangnan is not included? It’s my hometown :(