Everyone knows China has the world’s largest population and is an economic giant. But did you know China has well over 100 cities of over a million people? India and the USA don’t even come close with just over 50 urban areas (not individual cities) of over a million people each. See China's Top Large Cities.
China's Large Cities — A World Comparison
China has 5 megacities (urban areas of 10 million inhabitants). This compared to 3 in India, 2 in the USA, Japan, and Brazil, and 1 in 14 other countries.
China has 14 cities of over 5 million people (Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Taipei, Chengdu, Hong Kong, Nanjing, Wuhan, Shenyang, Hangzhou, and Chongqing), whereas the USA has 8, India 7, Japan and Brazil 3, and 31 other countries have 1. So China has 21% of the world's 5-million-person cities.
China has 41 cities of over 2 million people, 20% of the world total, compared with the USA's 21, India's 15, Brazil's 12, and Japan's 6.
China has 79 (16.5%) of the world's 478 largest built up areas (i.e. city and connected suburbs), compared to 55 for India, 53 for the US and 50 for the EU. China has over 100 built up areas of over 1 million people!
China has half of the world's top 6 city clusters (a.k.a. megalopolises or megaregions):
The Pearl River Delta (Population: 120 million, including Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Hong Kong, Foshan, Zhuhai, and Macau)
The Yangtze River Delta (88 million, including Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Suzhou)
The Bohai Rim (66 million, including Beijing, Tianjin, Shenyang, Dalian, Dandong, Yantai, Jinan, Qinhuangdao, Qingdao, and Weihai)
The other three are The Indo-Gangetic Plain (200 million), The European Backbone (90 million), and The Tokyo Region (80 million).
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