Alphabetic list of Major Cities of China.
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Beihai |
| Beihai located in the southwest area of China, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region .Due to Beihai’s advantageous position who is lying on the northeastern bank of Beibu Gulf, it is known as an excellent tourist city.It is a hub city connecting the southwest of China to Southeast Asia while lying adjacent to Guangdong, Hainan, Hong Kong, Macau and Viet Nam. | |
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Beijing |
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Beijing is the capital of the People’s Republic of China and she lies in the north of the North China Plain, at 39.6 N latitude and 116.20 E longitude.Total area of Beijing is : 16,807.8 sq. km. with the population of 15.38 million . There are 56 ethnic groups in China are found among Beijing residents, including the Han majority and Hui, Manchurian, Mongolian and other minorities. |
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Changsha |
| The largest and best-equipped airport in Hunan Province, Changsha Huanghua International Airport is also famous as one of the top 20 busiest airports in China. | |
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Chengde |
| Chengde, lying in the northeast of Hebei Province, is close to Beijing, about 230 kilometers (140 miles) away,Tianjin,Tangshan and Qinhuangdao.Chengde coordinates: 40°58′01″N 117°55′57″E , the city is home to large populations of ethnic minorities, Mongol and Manchu in particular. The name for Chengde in Manchu is Erdemu be aliha fu. | |
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Chengdu |
| Chengdu located in southwest People’s Republic of China, is the capital of Sichuan province and a sub-provincial city.Chengdu is also one of the most important economic centers and transportation and communication hubs in Southwestern China. | |
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Chongqing |
| Chongqing is the largest and most populous of the People’s Republic of China’s four provincial municipalities, and the only one in the less densely populated western region of China.With an area of 82,400 square kilometers (31, 800 square miles), Chongqing shares borders with the provinces of Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Shaanxi. | |
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Dali |
| The historic town Dali scenically situated at the foot of the Cang Shan (Cang Mountain) and overlooking Erhai Lake is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Yunnan.Most of the area’s attractions can easily be explored by bike, and good food and cheap drinks await at the end of each day on Huguo Lu. It’s not all traditional charm and romantic views. | |
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Dunhuang |
| Dunhuang is situated in the common boundary of Gansu Province, Qinghai Province and Xinjiang Province.Dunhuang, long ago referred to as ‘Sha Zhou’ (beautiful desert oasis), was the hub of middle and eastern silk routes in ancient times. | |
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Fuzhou |
| Fuzhou is the capital and the largest prefecture-level city of Fujian province, People’s Republic of China.It is also referred to as Rongcheng which means “city of banyan trees.”It is the capital of the province, and is situated on the north bank of the estuary of Fujian’s largest river, which gives access to the interior and to the neighboring provinces of Jiangxi and Zhejiang. | |
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Guangzhou |
| Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong Province.China’s ‘Southern Gateway’ to the world.Located in the southeast of Guangdong Province and in the north of the Pearl River Delta. | |
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Guilin |
| Guilin is the capital of Guangdong Province.China’s ‘Southern Gateway’ to the world.Located in the northeastern part of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, between latitude 248 and 251 north and longitude 1095 and 1100east. | |
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Hangzhou |
| Hangzhou is a sub-provincial city located in the Yangtze River Delta in the People’s Republic of China, and the capital of Zhejiang province.Located 180 kilometres (112 mi) southwest of Shanghai. | |
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Haikou |
| Haikou situated at the north of Hainan island, is the capital of Hainan Province of the People’s Republic of China and has an estimated population of 830,192 (2006), therefore by far the largest city on the island.Haikou, the provincial capital has a tropical marine climate with an average annual temperature of 20C (68F). | |
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Harbin |
| Located on the banks of the Songhua River, Harbin is the capital of Heilongjiang Province as well as the biggest city in Northeast China.Harbin is originally a Manchu word meaning ‘a place for drying fishing nets. | |
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Hohhot |
| Hohhot is the capital of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, and is home to 36 different ethnic groups.Serving as the region’s administrative, economic, and cultural centre.The city covers 17,224 square kilometers (6,650.19 square miles) with a population exceeding 1,400,000. , 11% of the city’s population is of Mongol origin . | |
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Hongkong |
| Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China.Following British rule from 1842 to 1997, China assumed sovereignty under the ‘one country, two systems’ principle. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region’s constitutional document, the Basic Law, ensures that the current political situation will remain in effect for 50 years. | |
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Jinan |
| Ji’nan, the provincial capital of Shandong province, is located in the central west area of Shandong province.Lying in a basin surrounded by mountains, the city has a population of 5.49 million people. Jinan covers an area of 8,177 square kilometers with 3,257 square kilometers of urban area. | |
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Jingdezhen |
| Jingdezhen is known as the “Porcelain Capital” and is located in northeastern Jiangxi.During the Jingde Period (1004-1007) of the Southern Song dynasty, emperor Jingde decreed all the pieces made for court to be marked ‘made in the Jingde period and subsequently the city changed its name from Xinpin to Jingdezhen. | |
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Jiujiang |
| Jiujiang , formerly called is a prefecture-level city located on the southern shores of the Yangtze River (Changjiang) in northwest Jiangxi Province, China.Jiujiang covers an area of 18.8 thousand square km with the total population of approximately 4,500,000, of whom approximately 500,000 are urban. | |
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Kaifeng |
| Kaifeng located on the alluvial plains on the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, , it is a key tourism city along the banks of the river.kaifeng is under the direct jurisdiction of the Henan provincial government. | |
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Kashgar |
| Kashgar located to the southwest of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.Kashgar lies between latitude 350 to 408 north and longitude 730 to 797 east in the southern part of Xinjiang to the northeast of the Pamir Plateau, on the rim of Taklamakan desert, it borders Shufu county on the east and Shule on the south, rests on Gumatag mountain and Atush city on the north. | |
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Kunming |
| Kunming city is the provincial capital of Yunnan Province, which has an area of 15.6 thousand square kilometers and a population of 3.6 million.people : Predominately Han Chinese with considerable quantities of Dai, Bai, and other ethnic minorities .nming is the focal point of Yunnan minority culture. | |
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Lanzhou |
| Lanzhou is the capital of Gansu Province, the second biggest city in the northwest of China, and an important joint on the New Euro-Asian Continental Bridge.Lanzhou covers an area of 1631.6 square kilometers (629.96 square miles) with the population of 3.14 million. | |
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Lijiang |
| The old town of Lijiang China, which was a famous city in the past, is located Northwest of Yunnan Province, blessed with beautiful scenery.The old town has a long history, and a brilliant culture. It’s also an old city of national minorities rarely found in China, which has been preserved intact. | |
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Luoyang |
| Luoyang is a prefecture-level city in western Henan province.It borders the provincial capital of Zhengzhou to the east, Pingdingshan to the southeast, Nanyang to the south, Sanmenxia to the west, Jiyuan to the north, and Jiaozuo to the northeast. | |
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Macau |
| Macau Special Administrative Region is located on the southeastern coast of China, at latitude 22o4′ North and longitude 113o5′ East.The territory comprises a peninsula and two islands in the Pearl River Delta of Guangdong Province. | |
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Nanchang |
| Nanchang is the capital city of Jiangxi province is a productive area, a part of the flat, fertile Gan Jiang River Basin, that has been populated since the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD).The total area of Nanchang is 7,372 km² with the population of 3,934,445 people and a metropolitan area consisting of 4,990,184 people. | |
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Nanjing |
| Nanjing is the capital of Jiangsu Province. It is situated on the vast plain of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.It belongs to the northern subtropical monsoon climate zone where the four seasons are clearly demarcated, the annual mean temperature is 16°C, the annual even precipitation is 1,106 mm and the frost-free period is 237 days. | |
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Qingdao |
| Qingdao is located at the southern tip of the Shandong Peninsula (35′35′ ~ 37′09′N, 119′30′~ 121′00′E).Qingdao has a total coastline (including its islands) of 870 kilometers, 730 kilometers of which are continental coastline, accounting for one fourth of the total length in Shandong Province. | |
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Qufu |
| Qufu is located in the southwest of Shandong Province, It covers an area of 896 sq km.and it has a population of 630,000.Qufu is the hometown of the great thinker, statesman and educator. It is listed in the first group of 24 national famous cities of historical and cultural relics designated by the State Council. | |
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Sanya |
| Lying in the southernmost tip of Hainan Island Chian, a beachfront tropical city where the mountains, rivers, sea and sky are matched in perfect unison.Sanya boasts magic sunshine and sea, as well as old traces of fishing waters. | |
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Shanghai |
| Shanghai is the largest city in China in terms of population and one of the largest urban areas in the world, with over 20 million people in its extended metropolitan area. Located on China’s central eastern coast at the mouth of the Yangtze River, the city is administered as a municipality with province-level status. | |
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Shigatse |
| Shigatse (also Xigatse ) means “fertile land” is a county-level city and the second largest city in Tibet, with a population of 80,000 about 280 km southwest of Lhasa. | |
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Suzhou |
| Suzhou is located in the center ofthe Yangtze Delta, in the south of Jiangsu Province, with Shanghai to the east, Zhejiang Province to the south. | |
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Tianjin |
| It is located in the middle of the Golden Seashore in North China. To the north is Yan Mountain and to the east is Bo Sea.It borders Beijing and is the gateway to the sea of the vast northern and northwestern part of China. It has the semi humid continental monsoon climate of the Temperate Zone. | |
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Turpan |
| Turpan ( Turfan ) is located in eastern Xinjiang, China. it is 189 km driving distance from Urumqi - the provencial capital of Xinjiang . It has an area of 69,324 km² and a population of 570,000 . Lying in the Turpan Basin, the elevation of most of the places in the area is below 500 meters . | |
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Urumqi |
| Urumqi is the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and in the northwest of the China. Urumqi ocated in a green oasis between the lofty ice-capped Boghda Peak, the vast Salt Lake in the east, the rolling pine-covered Southern hill and the alternating fields and sand dunes of Zunggar ( Gunggar ). | |
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Weifang |
| Weifang is a prefecture-level city in central Shandong province renowned as the “Kite Capital of the World”.It borders Dongying to the northwest, Zibo to the west, Linyi to the southwest, Rizhao to the south, Qingdao to the east, and looks out to the Laizhou Bay to the north. | |
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Wuhan |
| Wuhan is the capital of Hubei Province . It lies at the confluence of the Changjiang River (Yangtze River and Hanjiang Rivers .it consists of three towns: Wuchang , Hankou and Hanyang that face each other across the two rivers and are linked by two giant bridges. | |
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Wuxi |
| Wuxi is an old city in Jiangsu province, Wuxi borders Changzhou to the west and Suzhou to the east.The northern half looks across to Taizhou to the north over the Yangtze River, while the southern half also borders the province of Zhejiang to the south. | |
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Xiamen |
| Xiamen is a coastal sub-provincial city in southeastern Fujian province, People’s Republic of China.It looks out to the Taiwan Strait and borders the cities of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou to the north and south respectively. | |
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Xian |
| Xian called Chang’an(ever-lasting peace) in ancient times and suited in the middle of the Guanzhong Plain, is the capital of Shaanxi province.And it was recognized as one of the “Four Ancient Civilizations of the World, together with Rome, Ahens,and Istanbul. | |
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Xining |
| Xining is the capital of Qinghai Province , located on the eastern edge of Qinghai-TibetPlateau and the upper reaches of Huangshui River.The total are of Xining is 73,737 km² with the population of 2,100,000 , There are about 37 nationalities living here. | |
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Xishuangbanna |
| Xishuangbanna is an autonomous prefecture in southern Yunnan Province, People’s Republic of China.The capital city is Jinghong, the largest settlement in the area and one that straddles the Lancang (Mekong) river. The prefecture has an area of 19700 km². | |
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Yinchuan |
| Yinchuan is the capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China, and former capital of the Western Xia Empire of the Tanguts. | |
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Zhengzhou |
| Zhengzhou is the capital of Henan Province, has jurisdiction over 6 districts, 5 county-level cities and 1 county, covers a total area of 7446.2 square kilometers and presently owns a total population of 6.977 million. |
