Guangzhou has a population of 16,096,724, making it the 4th largest place we list in China. It is in Guangdong.
Guangzhou holds 1.1% of China's 1,412,914,089 people. Shanghai, the largest place we list there, is 1.5 times its size.
16,096,724
population
#4
in China
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Shanghai | Shanghai | 24,874,500 |
| Beijing | Beijing | 18,960,744 |
| Shenzhen | Guangdong | 17,494,398 |
| Chengdu | Sichuan | 13,568,357 |
| Tianjin | Tianjin | 11,090,314 |
| Wuhan | Hubei | 10,392,693 |
Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.