As of 2021, the Chinese city of Shanghai had the highest density of subway routes at 1.5 kilometers per city area square kilometers. Three other Chinese first-tier cities, namely Chongqing, Beijing, and Hangzhou had subway line densities exceeding one kilometer per square kilometer of the city area.
Subway route density in China's first-tier cities as of 2021 (in km per city area km2), by city
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Density in kilometers per city area square kilometer
*Including new first-tier cities beside the four typical first-tier cities Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
This statistic is based on the analysis of collected data from Baidu map service.
The cities tiers were defined according to the city categorization from CBNweekly.
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