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Although official data is not yet available, the population of Shanghai in 2024 is estimated to be just over 24.1 million people. This makes Shanghai the largest city in China, and the largest city proper in the world today. Rapid population growth in Shanghai over recent years has been driven by immigration. The city’s natural…

The population of Japan continues to fall and is currently 125,416,877. Despite this fall, Japan remains the sixth largest country in Asia, and the 11th largest in the world. How many people live in Japan? Despite a fall in population over the past year, and almost one million people over the previous five years, Japan…

Depending on whether you are counting the city proper, or the wider urban area, or the municipal area, the population of Chongqing is either 9.5 million (the city proper), 22.25 million (the wider urban area) or 32.1 million (the municipal area). This confusion has led to some people calling Chongqing the largest city in China,…

Our estimate of the Guangzhou population is 13,476,852. Based on the 2014 population of 13.08 million Guangzhou is the third largest city in China, after Shanghai (24 million) and Beijing (21 million). Guangzhou, previously known as Canton, is the largest city in Guangdong province, and is a part of the Pearl River Delta Mega City. This massive…

Our list of the largest cities in China includes the largest city in the world (Shanghai), 10 cities with a population of more than ten million people (see top ten below), and 145 cities with a population more than one million people (see table below).  On this page you will find information about the ten largest cities in China which, together, have a…

The population of Hong Kong is estimated by the Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department to be 7,498,100.  With a population of 7.35 million people, Hong Kong makes up 0.53% of the total population of China and is the sixteenth largest city in China. Hong Kong used to be a British colony, but since 1997 it has been…

The latest UN estimate puts the population of North Korea at 26,072,217 people. The last official North Korean Government data comes from the 2008 North Korean census which recorded a population of 24,052,231 people. Today, North Korea (formally known as the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea) is the 51st largest country in the world…