Nanchong (chn)

Nanchong

Nanchong ranks 5,952nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Azamgarh, Żnin, and Nord-Odal. The most famous people from Nanchong are Chen Shou, Sima Xiangru, and Luo Ruiqing. Nanchong has been the birth place of many politicians, and writers. Nanchong is located in China.

Nanchong is a prefecture-level city in the northeast of Sichuan province, China, with an area of 12,479.96 km2 (4,818.54 sq mi). At the 2020 census it was home to 5,607,565 people, of whom 1,936,534 lived in the built-up area made of three urban districts. It is the second most populated city of Sichuan Province, after Chengdu. The administrative center is Shunqing District. At the end of 2024, the resident population of the city was 5.489 million, a decrease of 22,000 from the previous year. The resident population of urban areas is 2.949 million, and the resident population of rural areas is 2.54 million. The urbanization rate of the resident population is 53.73%, an increase of 0.9 percentage points over the previous year. At the end of the year, the registered population of the city was 6.977 million, a decrease of 55,000 compared with the end of the previous year. Read more on Wikipedia