Top 10 most populous Chinese regions

By Zhang Junmian
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China's mainland population has increased to 1.34 billion by Nov.1 last year, a 73.9 million increase from the previous census in 2000, according to the preliminary results from the sixth census released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) late in April.

Of the 31 provincial regions, Guangdong replaced Henan as the most populous province with 104.3 million people, or 7.79 percent of the total population of the Chinese mainland. Shandong and Henan ranked second and third, with 95.79 and 94.02 million people, respectively.

China started the national population census every 10 years since 1990, and the very first census was dated back to 1953.

The following is the list of the top 10 most populous Chinese regions.

Rank

Region

Population

Proportion (%)

2000

2010

 

National total

1,339,724,852

100

100

1

Guangdong

104,303,132

6.83

7.79

2

Shandong

95,793,065

7.17

7.15

3

Henan

94,023,567

7.31

7.02

4

Sichuan

80,418,200

6.58

6.00

5

Jiangsu

78,659,903

5.88

5.87

6

Hebei

71,854,202

5.33

5.36

7

Hunan

65,683,722

5.09

4.90

8

Anhui

59,500,510

4.73

4.44

9

Hubei

57,237,740

4.76

4.27

10

Zhejiang

54,426,891

3.69

4.06

 

Also see Top 5 reasons for living on Chinese mainland

                Top 10 nationalities of foreigners on Chinese mainland

                Top 10 Chinese regions with non-mainland residents

                Top 10 least populous Chinese regions 

   
 
 
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