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Old Posted May 15, 2018, 2:16 PM
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The one that's been bothering me lately is the widely written (in western media, anyway) 'fact' that Chongqing is China's largest city.

Sure, it's China's largest province-level municipality by population (Chongqing > Shanghai > Beijing > Tianjin) but it's also by far the largest by area (at ~80,000 square kilometres it's roughly the same size as Ireland). The actual urban population of the city of Chongqing is considerably smaller than that of both Beijing and Shanghai.
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