chinese_cities_tbl_df: List of Prominent Chinese Cities

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List of Prominent Chinese Cities

Description

This dataset, chinese_cities_tbl_df, is a tibble that contains information about 367 prominent cities in China. Each row represents a city and includes geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude), administrative information, and population data. The dataset is a tibble (special type of data frame) that preserves the original structure from its source simplemaps.

Usage

data(chinese_cities_tbl_df)

Format

A tibble with 367 observations and 9 variables:

city

City name in English (character)

lat

Latitude coordinate (numeric)

lng

Longitude coordinate (numeric)

country

Country name (always "China" in this dataset) (character)

iso2

2-letter country code (always "CN" in this dataset) (character)

admin_name

Administrative division name (province or equivalent) (character)

capital

Administrative capital status (character)

population

City population estimate (numeric)

population_proper

City proper population estimate (numeric)

Details

The dataset name has been kept as 'chinese_cities_tbl_df' to maintain consistency with the naming conventions in the ChinAPIs package. The suffix 'tbl_df' indicates that this is a tibble data frame. The original content has not been modified in any way.

Source

Data obtained from simplemaps: https://simplemaps.com/data/cn-cities

ChinAPIs documentation built on Aug. 27, 2025, 1:08 a.m.