In 2022, there are more than 4 million people in 5000 provinces, including more than 9000 million in Guangdong. The urbanization rate of 9 provinces has exceeded 70%.
7 are located in the developed eastern coastal areas, namely the three municipalities directly under the central government of Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai. The other two provinces are Liaoning in the northeast and Chongqing, the only municipality in the central and western regions. The top ten provinces with a total permanent population of more than 5000 million are all large provinces with urban populations of over 4 million.