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Changsha (长沙)
Changsha (长沙), Star City, capital of Hunan Province, China; a megacity of 10.7 million on the Xiangjiang River with 3,000 years of unchanged site, GDP 1,573.782 billion CNY (2025), and a national rail hub.
Changshu
Changshu (常熟), a county-level city under Suzhou, Jiangsu, on the Yangtze; named in 540 AD for reliably fertile harvests, a 1986 National Historical and Cultural City, 2025 GDP 321.07 billion yuan.
Changyi
Changyi (昌邑市) is a county-level city of Weifang, Shandong, on Laizhou Bay; anciently Duchang, named Changyi in 962, a city since 1994; silk, salt-chemical, and new-energy industries; 2025 GDP 64.06 billion yuan.
Changzheng
Changzheng (长征镇) is a town in southwest Putuo District, Shanghai, 7.67 km², named in 1958 for the Red Army Long March; about 150,000 residents, 29 residents' committees; other Changzheng towns exist in Hainan and Guizhou.
Changzhou
Changzhou (常州, Longcheng "Dragon City") is a prefecture-level city in southern Jiangsu at the center of the Yangtze River Delta, with 5.42 million residents, a 2025 GDP of 1,115.87 billion yuan, and a designated "China's New Energy Capital" manufacturing base.
Chaoyang, Liaoning
Chaoyang (朝阳市), formerly Longcheng, is a prefecture-level city in northwest Liaoning with 19,699 km², 2 districts, 3 counties, 2 county-level cities, the Three Yan ancient capital, Niuheliang Hongshan site, and a Beijing–Shenyang high-speed rail corridor.
Chaozhou, Guangdong
Chaozhou (潮州市), prefecture-level city at Guangdong's easternmost tip on the South China Sea; historic Chaoshan cultural center named in 591, split from Shantou in 1991; 3,693 km², ~2.73 million registered people, 2024 GDP 140.283 billion yuan, China Porcelain Capital.
Chengde (承德)
Chengde (承德), historically Rehe, is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Hebei, China, home to the Qing Mountain Resort (避暑山庄) and 12 Outlying Temples, a 1994 UNESCO World Heritage Site and the dynasty's second political center.
Chengdu
Chengdu (成都), capital of Sichuan Province in southwestern China, is a new first-tier city of about 21 million people, known for the ancient Shu kingdom, the 2,250-year-old Dujiangyan irrigation system, panda conservation, teahouse culture, and a service-heavy economy.
Chengtangcun
Chengtangcun (城塘村) is an alternate name for Tengzhou, a county-level city under Zaozhuang in Shandong, China, at 35.08 N, 117.19 E, with about 1.55 million residents and a 2025 GDP of 110 billion yuan; a smaller namesake village lies in Zhejiang.
Chenzhou
Chenzhou (郴州) is a prefecture-level city in southeast Hunan, China, called Hunan's South Gate; 19,400 km2, 4.56 million people (2025), GDP 350.2 billion CNY, and China-leading tungsten, bismuth, and molybdenum reserves.
Chifeng
Chifeng (赤峰, Ulaanhad) is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Inner Mongolia, China, formerly Juu Uda League, seat of Hongshan culture jade dragons and the Liao capitals, with 3.887 million residents and 90,021 km².
Chizhou
Chizhou (池州) is a prefecture-level city in southwest Anhui, China, on the south bank of the Yangtze; founded 621 AD, a municipality since 2000, home to Jiuhua Mountain, 8,399 km², 1.324 million residents.
Chongming
Chongming (崇明区) is Shanghai's northernmost district of three Yangtze estuary islands, 1,413 km²; Chongming Island is the world's largest estuarine alluvial island and China's third largest island, developed since 2001 as a world-class eco-island.
Chongzuo
Chongzuo (崇左, Zhuang Cungzcoj) is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Guangxi, China, on the Vietnamese border. Established 2003, it is China's sugar capital, has China's largest manganese reserves, the Huashan rock art World Heritage site, and a majority Zhuang population.
Chuxiong
Chuxiong (楚雄市) is a county-level city in central Yunnan, China, and the seat of the Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, on the main road and rail corridor between Kunming and Dali.
Cixi
Cixi (慈溪市) is a county-level city of Ningbo, Zhejiang, on Hangzhou Bay's south shore, distinct from Empress Dowager Cixi. Known for household-appliance manufacturing, the 2008 Hangzhou Bay Bridge, celadon heritage, and a 2024 GDP of 292.9 billion yuan.
Dachang, Shanghai
Dachang (大场), located in northern Shanghai's Baoshan District, is a town named for a Song dynasty salt field. The town currently holds a population of 445,587.
Dalian
Dalian (大连), a sub-provincial port city on the Liaodong Peninsula between the Yellow and Bohai seas, is Northeast China's maritime gateway: 7.54 million people, 2,211 km coastline, 2024 GDP of 951.69 billion yuan, and the Dalian Commodity Exchange.
Dandong
Dandong (丹东), formerly Andong until 1965, is Liaoning's largest border prefecture-level city on the Yalu River opposite Sinuiju, North Korea; a 1906 treaty port handling most China-North Korea trade, with a 2024 World Heritage Yalu River estuary wetland.
Daqing (大庆)
Daqing (大庆, "Great Celebration") is a Heilongjiang oil city built around China's largest oilfield, discovered in 1959; it made China oil-self-sufficient in 1964, held a 27-year production plateau, and is now transitioning its economy.
Daye, Hubei
Daye (大冶市) is a county-level city under Huangshi, Hubei, founded as a county in 967 and named for smelting; a major Chinese copper and iron mining center, later a resource-exhausted city undergoing transformation.
Dazhou, Sichuan
Dazhou (达州市, Dazhou Shi) is a prefecture-level city in eastern Sichuan with 5.324 million people (2024), major natural gas reserves, Asia's largest sulfur output, Han watchtowers, and a national transport hub role.
Dengzhou, Henan
Dengzhou (邓州), Henan, a county-level city under Nanyang at the Henan-Hubei-Shaanxi junction; ancient capital of the State of Deng, made a city in 1988; 2024 GDP 52.78 billion yuan, first in Nanyang.
Dezhou
Dezhou (德州) is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Shandong, China, on the north bank of the Yellow River, known as China Solar City for its solar energy industry.
Dongguan (东莞)
Dongguan (东莞) is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong's Pearl River Delta between Guangzhou and Shenzhen, known as the world's factory: 10.47 million residents, 1.276 trillion yuan GDP in 2025, and a dense export-manufacturing and electronics cluster.
Dongtai
Dongtai (东台市) is a county-level city of Yancheng, Jiangsu, China, on the Yellow Sea coast. Established as a county in 1768 and a city in 1987, it holds 85 km of coastline, UNESCO-listed tidal-flat wetlands, and 3.2 million kW of renewable capacity.
Dunhuang (敦煌)
Dunhuang (敦煌) is a Silk Road oasis city in Gansu, China, at the western end of the Hexi Corridor, home to the Mogao Caves (492 caves, 45,000 m² of murals) and the 1900-discovered Library Cave manuscripts.
Duyun
Duyun (都匀) is a county-level city in Guizhou, China, seat of the Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. About 349,000 urban residents (2020), 65.88% urbanized, it is the planned regional central city of southern Guizhou.
Enshi
Enshi (恩施市) is a county-level city in southwest Hubei, China, seat of Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. Known as the World Selenium Capital for selenium-rich soils, Enshi Yulu steamed green tea, Tenglong Cave, and landslide-prone karst terrain.