What is the main city of Chongqing?

Chongqing's main urban areas include Yuzhong District, Jiangbei District, Nan 'an District, Jiulongpo District, Shapingba District, dadukou district, Beibei District, Yubei District and Banan District, commonly known as "the nine main urban areas".

The main urban area of Chongqing refers to Chongqing as the main body of the city in the sense of urbanism and sociology, and it is a regional scope in the sense of taking Chongqing as a city with urban-rural duality, which is different from Chongqing municipality directly under the central government in the administrative sense.

In the history of Chongqing, these nine districts are traditional administrative districts established earlier in Chongqing. Chongqing officials also use "metropolitan area" as the official title of this area. According to the strategy of "Five Functional Zones in Chongqing", it is subdivided into "Urban Function Core Zone" and "Urban Function Expansion Zone".

Yuzhong District is the mother city of Chongqing and the seat of Chongqing Municipal Government. Shapingba District is a cultural and educational district in Chongqing. Beibei District is the relocation area of Chongqing, the capital of the Republic of China. It was once the seat of the Executive Yuan and the Presidential Palace of the Republic of China. Banan District and Yubei District were originally Ba County and Jiangbei County, which are the mother counties of Chongqing, and their status is similar to Minhang District and Baoshan District in Shanghai or Fengtai District and Tongzhou District in Beijing.