Cities and towns of China

Ezhou

Ezhou (鄂州), ancient Wuchang, a prefecture-level city in eastern Hubei on the Yangtze; 1,596 km², about 1.08 million people, 133 lakes, and Ezhou Huahu International Airport, the world's fourth and Asia's first professional cargo hub airport.

Feicheng, Shandong

Feicheng (肥城), county-level city in Shandong under Tai'an, at Mount Tai's western foot; 1,277 km², about 858,000 residents; industrial economy in steel, chemicals, energy storage, and the Feicheng peach.

Fengcheng, Chongqing

Fengcheng Subdistrict (凤城街道) is a subdistrict of Changshou District in Chongqing, China, on the north bank of the Yangtze River and the seat of the district government.

Fengcheng, Liaoning

Fengcheng (凤城市) is a county-level city under Dandong, Liaoning, China, named for Ming Phoenix Castle at Phoenix Mountain. Majority Manchu (75.1%), 2024 GDP 21.19 billion yuan, Dwa climate, Fenghuang Mountain scenic area.

Foshan (佛山)

Foshan (佛山) is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China, at the heart of the Pearl River Delta, bordering Guangzhou, with a 1.32 trillion yuan economy in 2025.

Fuding

Fuding (福鼎) is a county-level city in Ningde, Fujian Province, China, on the Zhejiang border, recognized as the birthplace and main production center of Fujian white tea.

Fuling

Fuling (涪陵) is a district of central-eastern Chongqing at the Yangtze–Wu River confluence, area 2,942 km², population 1.115 million; ancient Zhi, county seat since 140 BC, home of zha cai pickled mustard and the Baiheliang underwater museum. Not the Fuling medicinal fungus.

Fuqing (福清)

Fuqing (福清), abbreviated Rong (融), is a coastal county-level city of Fuzhou, Fujian, with 2,430 km² area, about 1.41 million people, 2025 GDP of 203.3 billion yuan, and the Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant.

Fuzhou

Fuzhou (福州) is the capital of China's Fujian province, a port city of 8.5 million on the Min River with over 2,200 years of history, and the mainland capital nearest Taiwan.

Ganzhou (赣州)

Ganzhou (赣州), also Gannan, is Jiangxi's largest prefecture-level city in southern China: over 95% Hakka, Song dynasty walls and Fushougou drainage, Ruijin Soviet heritage, world-leading tung and rare earth reserves, and the world's largest navel orange planting area.

Gaomi

Gaomi (高密市) is a county-level city in eastern Shandong, China, under Weifang; Qin-era county, 858,000 residents (2024), manufacturing hub, home of Nobel laureate Mo Yan and four national folk-arts heritages.

Gaoping, Sichuan

Gaoping (高坪区) is a district of Nanchong, Sichuan, on the east bank of the Jialing River; 806 km², about 600,000 people, created 1993 from Nanchong County, home of Gaoping Airport and a distinct same-named town in Guanghan.

Gaozhou

Gaozhou (高州) is a county-level city of Maoming in southwestern Guangdong, China, with about 1.29 million people on 3,276 km². Known as China's lychee homeland, it plants over 59万亩 of lychee and hosts the national lychee germplasm repository.

Ghulja

Ghulja, also known as Kulja and officially Yining, is a city in the Ili River valley in far northwestern Xinjiang, China, and seat of Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture.

Gongzhuling

Gongzhuling (公主岭市), county-level city in Changchun, Jilin, China; formerly Huaide County, named for Princess Hejing's tomb. Major corn producer, "Hometown of Corn in China", transferred from Siping to Changchun in 2020.

Guangzhou (广州)

Guangzhou, historically known in English as Canton, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China, a trading port for over 2,000 years.

Guigang

Guigang (贵港) is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Guangxi, China, on the middle Xijiang River. Known as the Lotus City, it was the birthplace of the 1851 Taiping uprising.

Guilin (桂林)

Guilin (桂林), a prefecture-level city in northeast Guangxi, China, famed for its fenglin tower karst along the Li River; its karst joined UNESCO's South China Karst World Heritage list in 2014, and it was founded as a Qin prefecture in 214 BC.

Guixi

Guixi (贵溪市) is a county-level city under Yingtan, Jiangxi, China, founded as a county in 765 AD and made a city in 1996. Known as China's Copper Capital, it hosts Jiangxi Copper's Guixi Smelter, the world's largest, producing about 10 percent of China's electrolytic copper.

Guiyang

Guiyang (贵阳), capital of Guizhou province in the eastern Yunnan-Guizhou plateau, China; a forest city and big data hub with 5.99 million people (2020), 2025 GDP over 600 billion yuan, and computing power above 150 EFLOPS.

Guli

Guli (古丽镇) was the historic county-seat town of Yongkang, Zhejiang, seat of government from 245 CE, renamed in 1946, dissolved into four subdistricts in 2001; GeoNames still labels Yongkang as Guli, distinct from Guli Town in Changshu, Jiangsu.

Guyuan

Guyuan (固原) is a prefecture-level city in semiarid southern Ningxia, China, on the Loess Plateau at the Liupan Mountains. Five counties, Silk Road hub, water-scarce agricultural region, 1.14 million residents (2024).

Haicheng

Haicheng (海城市) is a county-level city under Anshan, Liaoning, China, a magnesite industry center called the world magnesium capital, site of the predicted 1975 M7.3 earthquake, distinct from Haicheng District, Beihai, Guangxi.

Haikou (海口)

Haikou (海口), the Coconut City, is the capital of Hainan province on northern Hainan Island; a 3,119 km² city of 2.3 million, core of the Hainan Free Trade Port, with Meilan Airport and four districts.

Hami

Hami (哈密市) is a prefecture-level city in easternmost Xinjiang, China, the "gateway to Xinjiang" and home of the Hami melon, with 2025 GDP of 116.3 billion yuan growing 9.3%, energy-led industry, and UNESCO-listed Twelve Muqam heritage.

Hancheng

Hancheng (韩城) is a county-level city in Weinan, Shaanxi, on the Yellow River opposite Shanxi. Hometown of historian Sima Qian, a 3,000-year national historical and cultural city, and a coal-and-power energy industrial center.

Handan

Handan (邯郸), prefecture-level city in southern Hebei, China; ancient capital of the Zhao State, now a coal and steel industrial city of 9.36 million people (2021) known for air pollution challenges and idiom culture.

Hangu, Tianjin

Hangu (汉沽) is a coastal town and former district in eastern Tianjin, China, merged into Binhai New Area in 2009. Known for the Changlu Hangu Salt Field (Lutai salt works, founded 925), 441.5 km², Dwa climate, and the Sino-Singapore Eco-city site.

Hangzhou (杭州)

Hangzhou (杭州), capital of Zhejiang province and Southern Song capital as Lin'an, is a Yangtze River Delta city of 12.7 million people, a digital economy and AI hub centered on Alibaba, with 2.3 trillion yuan GDP in 2025.