Chongqing
About Chongqing
Chongqing, previously romanized as Chungking, is a direct-administered municipality in Southwestern China. Chongqing is one of the four direct-administered municipalities under the Central People's Government, along with Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin. It is the only direct-administered municipality located deep inland. The municipality covers a large geographical area roughly the size of Austria, which includes several disjunct urban areas in addition to Chongqing proper. Due to its classification, the municipality of Chongqing is the largest city proper in the world by population, though it is not the most populous urban area.
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Chongqing is full of winding alleyways and steps where cars and bikes can't go, so porters called bang bang men carry huge loads on a stick, a trade covered in a documentary called The Last Generation of Bang Bang.
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More facts about Chongqing
Chongqing has a metro station set high up like a monorail, and one line's path ran straight through where a building stood, so it goes through it.
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Students in Chongqing used to play a drinking game where you drink whenever you spot one of the bang bang porters.
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