This list of tallest buildings in Chongqing ranks skyscrapers in Chongqing, China by height. The tallest building in Chongqing is currently the Chongqing World Trade Center, which rises 283 m (929 feet).
Chongqing is one of the largest cities in China and the only provincial-level municipality ( which means the municipal jurisdiction covers an entire administrative region and there is no separate provincial government ) in western and central China, with more than 7 million people living in the urban area and total population of 30 million in the administrative region.
Chongqing is the political, financial and cultural centre of Western China, it is one of China's major industrial cities, and along with the other major industrial centres of China, it is experiencing rapid urban growth accompanied by a construction boom.
With twelve buildings with a height more than 200 meters, all of them built in the last decade, Chongqing's skyline is rapidly rising, and is now ranked among the world's twenty-five tallest.
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