The Largest Cities in the World

Guangzhou - 13.5 million

Guangzhou is recognized as the educational, economic, technological, and cultural hub of southern China. Its location on the Pearl River facilitated its growth as a port hub. Its history stretches for more than 2200 years, and it was an important terminus on the Silk Road. The city's administrative region had approximately 13,501,100 residents in 2015, and it is recognized as an Alpha- Global city. Foreign expatriates, as well as illegal immigrants, have been trooping into Guangzhou in the recent years from the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Eastern Europe earning the city the reputation of the "Capital of the Third World."