Largest cities as urban agglomerations in Mainland China (1950 - 2035)

Largest cities in Mainland China (1950 - 2035)| TOP 10 Channel
Data: World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition
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Until recently, there was no harmonized definition of ‘a city’ for Asia and other countries as well. This undermined the comparability, and thus also the credibility, of cross-country analysis of cities. To resolve this problem, in this video, the term of city is defined by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs under United Nations as urban agglomeration. That is a highly developed spatial form of integrated cities. It occurs when the relationships among cities shift from main competition to both competition and cooperation.
The administrative divisions of China designate the cities into three levels. Provincial-level cities include municipalities and the country’s Special Administrative Regions, county-level cities, and prefectural-level cities. China has a total of 662 cities that fall into these three categories, with Shanghai boasting the largest population with over 22 million residents as of 2016. The country has a total of 34 provinces that house its cities.
In total, China has over 160 cities that have a population of over 1 million people. China also has metropolitan areas that encapsulate densely populated urban areas with suburban areas and rural areas that are more sparsely populated. According to 2010 data, about 674 million people reside in one of China’s many rural areas.
Cities in China are broken down into tiers, particularly when they are being discussed in the media. These tiers are designated using set criteria, including population size, infrastructure, and economic outlook. Tier I cities include the centrally-administrated municipalities of Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing, and Beijing, each of which has a population exceeding 10 million. Tier II cities include the larger cities of China including but not limited to Guiyang, Nanjing, and Qingdao. Tier III cities are not as developed as Tier II cities but many that fall into this category are considered to be economically significant. Tier IV and Tier V cities round out the majority of the country’s urban population.
As the world continues to urbanize, a handful of countries will account for much of the growth. Urban areas are the home of over 64% of the inhabitants in China. Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Wuhan are the largest cities in China.
#TOP10Channel presents the video of the Largest Cities in China (1950 - 2035) based on the most recently released by the UN population division in 2018.
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