China Population

China's Population Centers

With being the most populated country in the world, its surprising to find that there are a few rather large areas of china which are uninhabited. Most of China is centered around the South and South-east, which is mostly due to its first true conquerers which settled near the fertile Yellow river and Yangtze river, which even though they had very random patterns, was still an easy place to thrive for the smart people of China. As in most maps, darker areas mean more of a certain thing, in this place, the darkest areas, almost represented by black, are home to more the 900 people per km sq.

The five most populous areas of China each have over 7 million people in them, with the top four each having over 10.

1. Shanghai- With now near 20 million people shanghai started as one of the most favorable port cities that china had to offer, and it had already a good basis as before it was a fishing and textile town. It is now becoming a major tourist attraction.
2. Beijing- It is the second biggest city in China with almost 13 million people and is the current capital of China.
3. Gauangzhou- With nearly 12 million people it is the next biggest city in China. It owes its huge population to it being a port city, on the Pearl river.
4. Shenzhen-Most of its 11,700,000 people are owed in fact to the massive foreign investments given to its growth and its use as a major inland port.
5. Dongguan-One of the important cities in the Pearl River Delta, it grew mainly because of how fertile its land is, and because it is one of the most important industrial centers in China, with about 7,650,000 people.