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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 2024
Try this quiz for hints on city names but without a map
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First submittedJanuary 29, 2017
Times taken46,148
Average score21.7%
Rating4.82
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Pop
Agglomeration
70.1 m
Guangzhou
(incl Shenzhen)
40.8 m
Shanghai
21.2 m
Beijing
17.3 m
Chengdu
14.9 m
Xiamen
13.9 m
Hangzhou
12.8 m
Xi'an
12.2 m
Wuhan
11.5 m
Tianjin
11.0 m
Changsha
10.9 m
Chongqing
9.80 m
Zhengzhou
9.30 m
Nanjing
8.70 m
Shenyang
8.00 m
Shantou
7.80 m
Hefei
7.45 m
Qingdao
7.30 m
Ningbo
7.25 m
Hong Kong
6.55 m
Jinan
6.50 m
Kunming
6.20 m
Shijiazhuang
5.95 m
Taiyuan
5.45 m
Harbin
5.30 m
Dalian
5.30 m
Nanning
5.10 m
Wenzhou
5.05 m
Changchun
5.05 m
Guiyang
4.98 m
Nanchang
4.85 m
Urumqi
4.65 m
Fuzhou
4.45 m
Linyi
3.88 m
Zibo
3.60 m
Luoyang
Pop
Agglomeration
3.50 m
Lanzhou
3.35 m
Nantong
3.18 m
Weifang
3.10 m
Jiangyin
3.08 m
Xuzhou
2.83 m
Handan
2.73 m
Hohhot
2.70 m
Tangshan
2.68 m
Haikou
2.60 m
Xinxiang
2.58 m
Taizhou (Zhejiang)
2.58 m
Yiwu
2.55 m
Zhuhai
2.50 m
Yantai
2.43 m
Liuzhou
2.40 m
Yinchuan
2.35 m
Anshan
2.25 m
Yangzhou
2.18 m
Baotou
2.18 m
Jiaxing
2.18 m
Xining
2.15 m
Baoding
2.08 m
Ganzhou
2.03 m
Pingdingshan
1.95 m
Datong
1.94 m
Bengbu
1.94 m
Zunyi
1.91 m
Anyang
1.90 m
Huai'an
1.87 m
Huainan
1.85 m
Daqing
1.84 m
Jining
1.84 m
Zaozhuang
1.84 m
Zhanjiang
1.79 m
Wuhu
Pop
Agglomeration
1.77 m
Cangnan
1.77 m
Xiangyang
1.76 m
Guilin
1.74 m
Mianyang
1.69 m
Huzhou
1.68 m
Qinhuangdao
1.67 m
Puyang
1.67 m
Shangqiu
1.64 m
Xingtai
1.61 m
Jilin
1.61 m
Nanyang
1.60 m
Jiaozuo
1.54 m
Yulin
1.53 m
Jinhua
1.52 m
Shangrao
1.52 m
Tai'an
1.50 m
Heze
1.47 m
Weihai
1.46 m
Taizhou (Jiangsu)
1.43 m
Yancheng
1.43 m
Zhangjiakou
1.41 m
Maoming
1.39 m
Nanchong
1.37 m
Yichang
1.36 m
Xuchang
1.35 m
Fuyang
1.31 m
Dazhou
1.31 m
Huaibei
1.31 m
Kaifeng
1.30 m
Qingyuan
1.29 m
Luzhou
1.26 m
Yibin
1.24 m
Dezhou
1.24 m
Lu'an
Pop
Agglomeration
1.24 m
Rizhao
1.23 m
Changzhi
1.23 m
Hengyang
1.23 m
Jinzhou
1.20 m
Changde
1.20 m
Yueyang
1.19 m
Baoji
1.19 m
Suqian
1.19 m
Zhenjiang
1.18 m
Liaocheng
1.18 m
Xinyang
1.16 m
Chifeng
1.16 m
Ezhou
1.16 m
Wanzhou
1.13 m
Lianyungang
1.13 m
Zhaoqing
1.11 m
Qujing
1.08 m
Shuyang
1.06 m
Yongkang
1.05 m
Beihai
1.05 m
Jiujiang
1.05 m
Shaoyang
1.05 m
Zhoukou
1.04 m
Huludao
1.04 m
Shiyan
1.03 m
Chuzhou
1.03 m
Dongying
1.03 m
Langfang
1.03 m
Qiqihar
1.02 m
Guigang
1.02 m
Hengshui
1.02 m
Panjin
1.00 m
Linfen
1.00 m
Liuyang
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89 Comments
Jiaozira
+10
Level 72
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).
scambigol
+4
Level 80
Jan 29, 2017
done, thanks for suggestion
Tramp
+9
Level 79
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.
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Feb 15, 2017
That one does seem weird. I removed that as an answer.
rphxx
+17
Level 71
Aug 26, 2019
You know it's China when there are two Cities above a Million in population close to your city
smoceany
+6
Level 51
Oct 20, 2021
well i live in nj near both Philadelphia and new york so id say you could be in America too
Nevson64
+5
Level 67
Nov 21, 2023
america an L tho
JackintheBox
+3
Level 82
Feb 25, 2021
I live in Suzhou!
550WMOSS
+3
Level 31
May 9, 2022
I live in Hong Kong!
mmkhong
+4
Level 37
May 5, 2024
I live in London!
PeppaPepsi
+1
Level 42
May 22, 2024
I live in Stockholm!
JustinRS
+1
Level 60
Jun 5, 2024
I live in Galgenen!
randommonke
+9
Level 33
Jul 19, 2024
I live in Pyongyang!
Hockputer
+1
Level 56
Aug 3, 2024
I live in Edmonton
ethanc
+5
Level 72
Sep 16, 2025
I'm a convicted felon
Boukou
+1
Level 69
Dec 23, 2024
I live in Patras
Hadi5160
+1
Level 56
Mar 19, 2025
I live in Beirut!
ProbablyANerd
+1
Level 46
Dec 15, 2025
I live in Brussels!
plattitude
+9
Level 94
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.
Tramp
+10
Level 79
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.
Jiaozira
+1
Level 72
Apr 8, 2017
or Hohhot/Huhehaote
Tramp
+5
Level 79
May 3, 2017
Yeah, Hohhot is in Inner Mongolia
dasubergeek
+1
Level 82
Mar 19, 2018
Or Wulumuqi for Urumqi.
Tramp
+9
Level 79
Jul 17, 2018
Again, Urumqi is in Xinjiang
Yamaneko
+7
Level 78
Apr 22, 2017
Wow it appears that some badasses aced this quiz, I barely beat 90% of people with 66 good answers!
Ryanlee
+2
Level 77
May 26, 2017
102/102 with the help of one China map and prediction.
Billahhh
+20
Level 58
May 7, 2020
What? You just used a map?
550WMOSS
+1
Level 31
Apr 19, 2022
Me too.BUT the map is in Chinese.I get 63.
550WMOSS
+1
Level 31
May 9, 2022
71 this time
Yossarian
+19
Level 62
Jun 25, 2017
Poor little Urumqi...all alone out there
cuotak
+2
Level 70
Jun 25, 2017
Changshu should be further north on the map. It's located east of Wuxi and south of Nantong.
Zefyrinus
+2
Level 74
Jun 30, 2019
And Haikou should be on the island of Hainan, not on the mainland.
Quizzy56234
+3
Level 17
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
Wachipunk
+1
Level 61
Jun 18, 2018
Check out my quizz about Persian Emperors! https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/249043/persian-emperors/stats
fitheach
+2
Level 58
Jun 26, 2017
That's a lot of cities...
Yamaneko
+3
Level 78
Aug 29, 2017
Why isn't Suzhou included? Some typically byzantine Chinese administrative reason?
wuqijun
+7
Level 80
Aug 30, 2017
Suzhou got lumped together with Shanghai. Also, Shenzhen got lumped together with Guangzhou.

Yes, very dumb.

Yamaneko
+1
Level 78
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

wuqijun
+2
Level 80
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.
IceIceIceIceIce
+2
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.
Yeeee123
+4
Level 40
Feb 6, 2019
That's a lot of cities.
kogatora
+1
Level 96
Feb 28, 2019
Western china really is empty in comparison
kogatora
+5
Level 96
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
Tramp
+5
Level 79
Nov 27, 2019
You shouldn't have included Sichuan in your comparison - 81 million people live there!
kogatora
+4
Level 96
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.
bakainu
+2
Level 70
Mar 1, 2019
Mountains and desert, lots of mountains and desert
Zaakna
+4
Level 53
Mar 1, 2019
I got 8%, i'm happy
bakainu
+3
Level 70
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
willmowill
+2
Level 83
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!
joanie97
+5
Level 71
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?
Tomtrific
+2
Level 80
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.
wehraboo
+3
Level 70
Dec 15, 2021
Zhou is originally more like "shire" in England, I think.
Iluvbread123
+3
Level 79
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

IsleAuHaulte
+6
Level 92
Mar 6, 2019
And it looks like the final score is 113 East to 1 West.
EytanMelech
+1
Level 66
Feb 26, 2020
Shouldn't Zhangjiajie be on here?
Billahhh
+1
Level 58
May 7, 2020
Yeah I thought this too
sacheth9
+3
Level 65
Nov 25, 2020
This quiz uses urban population, so it only has 225.7k people.
KingEureka
+5
Level 63
Sep 17, 2020
This quiz is not approved by the CCP.
Maximirb13
+2
Level 78
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.
hello1122
+2
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
Memoryz
+1
Level 2
Apr 2, 2023
Pourquoi quand je tape Pékin ça ne me le note pas ?
Jato
+1
Level 70
Apr 8, 2024
French (Français) quiz
Iluvbread123
+2
Level 79
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.

Iluvbread123
+2
Level 79
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.

Cape9527
+1
Level 74
Dec 19, 2023
91/114. Why Cangnan is not included? It’s my hometown :(
Thisisreal
+1
Level 91
Apr 8, 2024
This quiz is just getting more difficult every update… thought memorizing 100 cities was great achievement, now its 138 :-)
Jerry928
+2
Level 76
Apr 8, 2024
Honestly, did 6% of quizzers actually know every one of these 138 answers?
uoiunion
+3
Level 66
Apr 13, 2024
For Chinese quizzers, very possible.
YancieXiao
+1
Level 66
Oct 1, 2024
True,I'm Chinese and I just missed ONE city called Yongkang :p
WanderLust
+2
Level 99
Apr 8, 2024
As an introvert, I just have to say that I'm glad I don't live in China.
cuotak
+2
Level 70
Apr 9, 2024
Check out my blog series if you'd like to learn more about the Chinese cities:

https://www.jetpunk.com/blog-series/cuotak/every-chinese-1m-city

TeaMonarchy
+1
Level 66
Apr 10, 2024
:) Easy for Chinese native, although I only got 96.
KanzazKyote
+3
Level 92
Apr 10, 2024
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?
Zockid
+1
Level 58
Mar 19, 2025
Look on satellite imagery an you'll see why it actually makes a lot of sense
uoiunion
+3
Level 66
Apr 13, 2024
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.
DumbNiko
+1
Level 60
Apr 21, 2024
finally got it after reading the blog post
Elan
+1
Level 66
May 5, 2024
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.
JeromesNiece
+5
Level 77
May 5, 2024
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.
Elan
+1
Level 66
May 5, 2024
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?
Scheri
+1
Level 23
May 7, 2024
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.
Zockid
+1
Level 58
Mar 19, 2025
https://www.citypopulation.de/en/world/agglomerations/

This is the source

Anderis
+1
Level 76
Nov 4, 2024
Interesting that Zhangjiakou is not more popular after the 2022 Winter Olympics.
In2restingFacts
+2
Level 27
Feb 11, 2025
TIL that Macau is waayyyyy smaller than i thought
DoktorApplejuce
+1
Level 76
Mar 14, 2025
Isn't Putian missing? It's not part of another city's agglomeration as best I can tell.
Zockid
+1
Level 58
Mar 19, 2025
Putian is part of the Xiamen Agglomeration
mike34ism
+1
Level 37
Aug 26, 2025
It's so hard to wrap my head around the fact that there's a metro with 70 million people. That's literally the population of the UK.
Kinnara02
+1
Level 42
Sep 21, 2025
Thank you for creating the quiz. This helped me learn all the 138 cities of China with over 1 million population.
Axesteel
+1
Level 67
Jan 4, 2026
Why is Jiangyin (A county in Wuxi city) on the list, but Wuxi itself isn't?
Orangelotl
+1
Level 42
Apr 7, 2026
Tomorrow will be 2 years since the last update. You should update it!
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