As a large country with a population of 1.4 billion, China's population is unevenly distributed, due to the influence of economic development, geographical location and other factors, the population distribution of various places is very different, and the population of some counties has exceeded 1 million. At present, there are more than 2,000 county-level administrative regions in China, and counties with a population of 40-700,000 are called medium-sized counties, and more than 1 million are counties with large populations
Fifth place: Cixi City, Zhejiang.
Cixi City has a permanent population of 18650,000, with an area of 1,361 square kilometers, 14 towns and 5 streets, is a county-level city managed by Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, located in the northeast of Zhejiang Province, bordering the East China Sea. Cixi is an important industrial and commercial city in the southern wing of the Greater Shanghai Economic Circle in the Yangtze River Delta region, and is also a coastal economic open zone approved by China. Cixi is also known as the "home appliance capital", and is known as China's three major appliance production bases along with Qingdao and Shunde. In 2022, Cixi City achieved a GDP of 948300 million yuan, ranking fifth among all counties in the country.
Fourth place: Yiwu City, Zhejiang.
The population of Yiwu is 188With 80,000 people and an area of 1,103 square kilometers, it is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, located in the central part of Zhejiang Province, in the eastern part of Jinqu Basin. Yiwu is China's first county-level city and national-level comprehensive reform pilot city, and has been recognized as the world's largest market by the United Nations, the World Bank and other international authoritative institutions. Yiwu is an important base of China's private economy and an important hub for China's commodity circulation. In 2022, Yiwu will achieve a GDP of 1096300 million yuan, ranking second among all counties in the country.
Third place: Puning City, Guangdong Province.
The total area of Puning City, Guangdong Province is 162005 km², population 248With 310,000 people, it is the most populous county in Guangdong Province and even in the whole country.
Puning City is a county-level city in the eastern part of Guangdong Province, managed by Jieyang City, located at the western edge of the Chaoshan Plain, leaning on the remaining veins of the Lotus Mountains in the southwest, and ninety percent of the whole territory is located in the south of the Tropic of Cancer. Puning has the reputation of "China's Shoe Capital" and "China's Tea Town", and is an important footwear production base and tea distribution center in China. Puning is also one of the top 100 industrial counties in China, and its total economic output ranks first among all counties in Guangdong Province.
Second place: Jinjiang City, Fujian.
Jinjiang City, Fujian Province has a permanent population of 2.06 million, located in the southeast coast of Fujian, because during the Yongjia period of the Western Jin Dynasty, the people of the Central Plains moved south to avoid war and chaos, and lived in the river. The land area is 649 square kilometers, the sea area is 957 square kilometers, and the coastline is 121 kilometers long.
Jinjiang City is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Fujian Province, managed by Quanzhou City, located in the southeast coast of Fujian Province, on the south bank of the lower reaches of the Jinjiang River, facing the sea on three sides. Jinjiang City is an important hometown of overseas Chinese and the garment capital of China, and it is said that "there are 5 million Jinjiang people at home and abroad". Jinjiang is also a model for the development of China's private economy, with a GDP of 3,207 in 20224.3 billion yuan, the basic competitiveness of the county economy ranked fourth in the country for five consecutive years, and the county economic strength ranked first in Fujian Province for 29 consecutive years.
First place: Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province.
The population of Kunshan City in Jiangsu Province has reached 209With an area of 250,000 and an area of 931 square kilometers, it is the first in the ranking of China's top 100 counties and cities in terms of comprehensive strength, and is known as "China's strongest county".
Kunshan is a county-level city managed by Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, located in the southeast of Jiangsu Province, between Shanghai and Suzhou. Kunshan has a long history and a rich collection of humanities, and is the birthplace of Kunqu Opera, the "ancestor of a hundred operas". Kunshan is an important node city in the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, and is also a pioneer and innovator of China's reform and opening up. In 2022, Kunshan's GDP reached 1,057500 million yuan, ranking first among all counties in the country.