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According to the administrative divisions of China including Hong Kong and Macau, there are three level of cities, namely provincial-level (consists of municipalities and SARs〔City-state〕), prefectural-level cities, and county-level cities. As of October 2015 the PRC has a total of 657 cities: 4 municipalities, 2 SARs, 291 prefectural-level cities (including the 15 sub-provincial cities) and 360 county-level cities (including the 10 sub-prefectural cities and 8 XXPC cities) not including any cities in the claimed province of Taiwan. Sub-provincial cities are prefecture-level, and Sub-prefectural cities are county-level, but given higher degree of power than cities of the same level. Based on 2010 census data, the largest cities are the four centrally administered municipalities, which include dense urban areas, suburbs, and large rural areas: Chongqing (28.84 million), Shanghai (23.01 million), Beijing (19.61 million), and Tianjin (12.93 million). Other major Sub-provincial cities are Chengdu (14.04 million), Guangzhou (12.70 million), Harbin (10.63 million), Shenzhen (10.35 million), Wuhan (9.78 million), Qingdao (8.71 million), Hangzhou (8.70 million), Xi’an (8.46 million), Shenyang (8.10 million), Nanjing (8 million), Changchun (7.67 million), Ningbo (7.60 million), Jinan (6.81 million), Dalian (6.69 million), and Xiamen (3.53 million). The PRC had more than 660 cities by the end of 2002, of which 10 had populations of more than 4 million each in the urban area; 23, between 2 and 4 million; 138, between 1 and 2 million; 279, between 500,000 and 1 million; 171, between 200,000 and 500,000; and 39, fewer than 200,000 people.〔()〕 ==The tier system== References are sometimes made in the media to "tier 1, tier 2, tier 3, or tier 4" cities. A clear official definition is hard to find, but generally: *"Tier I cities include Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen; *Tier II cities include Beihai, Changchun, Changsha, Chengdu, Chongqing, Dalian, Fuzhou, Guiyang, Haikou, Hangzhou, Harbin, Hefei, Huhhot, Jinan, Kunming, Lanzhou, Nanchang, Nanjing, Nanning, Ningbo, Qingdao, Sanya, Shenyang, Shijiazhuang, Suzhou, Taiyuan, Tianjin, Urumqi, Wenzhou, Wuhan, Wuxi, Xiamen, Xi'an, Yinchuan, and Zhengzhou; *other small and medium cities are grouped into Tier III or IV cities." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of cities in China」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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