Chongqing (chn)

Chongqing

Chongqing ranks 1,049th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Normandy, Nazareth, and Palazzo Pitti. Memorable people born in Chongqing include Sanmao, Xiao Zhan, and Chen Kun. Memorable people who died in Chongqing include Qin Liangyu, and Lin Sen. Chongqing has been the birth place of many actors, and athletes and the death place of many military personnels, and politicians. Chongqing is located in China.

Chongqing is a direct-administered municipality in Southwestern China. Chongqing is one of the four direct-administered municipalities under the Central People's Government, along with Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin. It is the only directly administrated municipality located deep inland. The municipality covers a large geographical area roughly the size of Austria, which includes several disjunct urban areas in addition to Chongqing proper. Due to its classification, the municipality of Chongqing is the largest city proper in the world by population, though Chongqing is not the most populous urban area. Read more on Wikipedia