Chinese City Help?

[clipper]

I find it hard to believe that anything that useful could be found at this late stage, but I just regged these, populations are from wikipedia, so are questionable:

平度市.net Pingdu (1.3m)
平度市.com Pingdu
平度.net Pingdu
赣州市.net Ganzhou (8.5m?)
鹤岗市.net (1.1m)
鹤岗市.com

I know there's the whole issue of with/without "市", I don't know if there's been a consensus ruling on that in Chinese.

Any comments you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

[touchring]

Seems to vary from city to city.

Example, baidu gives no result for tier 1 cities like guangzhou-shi, shanghai-shi and beijing-shi, but returns some score for tier 2 cities like nanjing-shi, tianjing-shi, wuhan-shi.

Note that there are like 666 "shi"s in china.

[clipper]

Thanks for the feedback.

Originally Posted by touchring

Seems to vary from city to city.

Yes, I've noticed that. I take it as a good thing that the Wikipedia pages on these without the shi redirects to the page with shi.

Originally Posted by touchring

Note that there are like 666 "shi"s in china.

That's why I've shied away from China geos in the past. With a population of 1 billion, there are probably close to 1,000 geographic areas with over 1 million. How many, though, will be significant enough to command a premium?

[touchring]

Originally Posted by clipper

Thanks for the feedback.

Yes, I've noticed that. I take it as a good thing that the Wikipedia pages on these without the shi redirects to the page with shi.

That's why I've shied away from China geos in the past. With a population of 1 billion, there are probably close to 1,000 geographic areas with over 1 million. How many, though, will be significant enough to command a premium?

You can refer to this list - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._by_population

There are about 100 cities.