Chongqing, Chengdu, Dazu and Hobbit Town (?) On a bus one day I talked to a man and I asked him where he was from. He said "I am from a small town called Jingmen". It turned out that three million people live in Jingmen making it more than twice as large as Stockholm, the largest city in Sweden. To put things in perspective you need to know that already in 1989 there were actually not less than 28 cities in China that had more than 8 million inhabitants each. It's fascinating that several of those cities are barely known outside China. You can try yourself on these: TianJing, Dalian, Qingdao, Chongqing, Wuhan and NanJing. Those cities are all in the same size as Paris, London or New York City. Still totally unknown to most people.
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