Top 10 most populous Chinese regions
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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 |
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