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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
The numbers on this quiz make very little sense. Guangzhou-Shenzhen is a single area but Chongqing-Wanzhou are different despite literally being the same city?
As a Chinese, I get full marks, but I have a little doubt about typein. First of all, when I entered Luzhou, Sichuan, I also lit up Hefei, Anhui. However, Luzhou is just an ancient name for Hefei. Nowadays, almost no one refers to it this way in daily language; at the same time, Lu'an next to Hefei can also be read as liuan . Although there is some controversy, typein is used to cover controversial content? So I think Hefei should not accept Luzhou, while Lu'an should accept Liuan.
Actually, the statistics used in this quiz are not true. I know the figure you're referring to, and it's a projection of 15 years from now. China is agrarian. Urbanizing fast? You betcha. But still agrarian.
Not true. The source is listed in the description. https://www.citypopulation.de/. It is not a projection for 15 years from now, they are estimates of urban agglomeration population as of January 2023.
Um, actually, do you really think manufacturing is an indication of where the world is heading in 2011? Do you know the comparative expansion of, say, the information sector? I'd say that's far more relevant. Wouldn't you agree?
Do you have a direct link to your source? All I could find were the administrative divisions/, but that census was from 2020. I also checked, the last update on citypopulation for China was back in November 2022, so I'd love to know where you managed to find that.
Yes, very dumb.
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
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
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.
I'm assuming the one in Jiangsu was not on that list back when this map was made.
https://www.jetpunk.com/blog-series/cuotak/every-chinese-1m-city