question: Which Chinese city had the higher population in the 2010 census, Bengbu or Taishan?
answer: Bengbu
context: Title: Blagoveshchensk
  Passage: Blagoveshchensk (Russian: Благовещенск ; ] , lit.  "the city of the Annunciation", , Manchu: ; Möllendorff: "Hailan Boo"; Abkai: "Hailan Bou" ) is a city and the administrative center of Amur Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Amur and Zeya Rivers, opposite to the Chinese city of Heihe.  Population:  (2010 Census) ;  (2002 Census) ;  (1989 Census)
  Title: Canton (village), New York
  Passage: Canton is a village in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States.  The village is centrally located in both the town of Canton and the county of St. Lawrence.  The population was 6,314 at the 2010 census.  It is the county seat of St. Lawrence County.  The name comes from the Chinese city, Canton.
  Title: Huaihua
  Passage: Huaihua () is a prefecture-level city in the south western Hunan, China.  it covers 27,564 km2 and is bordered by Xiangxi to the northern west; Zhangjiajie, Changde to the north; Yiyang, Loudi and Shaoyang to the east; Guilin and Liuzhou of Guangxi to the south; Qiandongnan, Tongren of Guizhou to the southern west.  It has 4,741,948 of population (2010 census), shares 7.22% of the province.  According to 2010 Census, there are 2,909,574 Han Chinese, Han shares 61.4% of the population, 1,832,289 population of minorities, 38.6%; Dong, Miao, Tujia, Yao and Bai are major native minorities.  Huaihua is the central region of Dong ethnic population, there lives 816,481 Dong people (2010 census), it shares 28.35 per centage of Chinese Dong ethnic group.
  Title: Demographics of Shanghai
  Passage: The 2010 census put Shanghai's total population at 23,019,148, a growth of 37.53% from 16,737,734 in 2000.  20.6 million of the total population, or 89.3%, are urban, and 2.5 million (10.7％) are rural.  Based on population of total administrative area, Shanghai is the second largest of the four direct-controlled municipalities of China, behind Chongqing, but is generally considered the largest Chinese city because Chongqing's urban population is much smaller.
  Title: Taishan
  Passage: Taishan, formerly romanized in Cantonese as Toishan, in local dialect as Hoisan, and formerly known as Xinning or Sunning, is a county-level city in southwestern Guangdong, China.  It is administered as part of the prefecture-level city of Jiangmen.  During the 2010 census, there were 941,095 inhabitants, of which 394,855 were classified as urban.  Taishan calls itself the "First Home of the Overseas Chinese".  An estimated half a million Chinese Americans are of Taishanese descent.
  Title: Bengbu
  Passage: Bengbu () is a mid-sized city in northern Anhui Province, China.  Its built-up ("or metro") area made of 4 urban districts has nearly one million residents, though the Prefecture-level city under its jurisdiction had 3,164,467 registered residents at the 2010 census.  Its name means "Oyster Wharf" in Chinese, echoing its former reputation as a freshwater pearl fishery.
  Title: Xianyang
  Passage: Xianyang () is a Chinese city that was the capital of China in the Qin dynasty.  It is a prefecture in modern-day Shaanxi province, on the Wei River, and is located a few kilometers upstream (west) from Xi'an.  Integrated into the Xi'an metropolitan area, one of the main urban agglomerations in inland China, with more than 7.17 million inhabitants, its built-up area made of 2 urban districts (Qindu and Weicheng) was 945,420 inhabitants at the 2010 census.  It has a total area of 10213 km2 .
  Title: Ishpeming, Michigan
  Passage: Ishpeming is a city in Marquette County in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.  The population was 6,470 at the 2010 census.  This is down from a higher population in the 1950s and 1960s when the economically supportive iron ore mines employed more workers.  A statue of a Native American figure, erected in 1884 in the small town square, is referred to as "Old Ish".
  Title: Harbin
  Passage: Harbin (   ) is the capital and largest city of Heilongjiang province in the northeastern region of the People's Republic of China.  Holding sub-provincial administrative status, Harbin has direct jurisdiction over nine metropolitan districts, two county-level cities and seven counties.  Harbin is the eighth most populous Chinese city and the most populous city in Northeast China.  According to the 2010 census, the built-up area made of seven out of nine urban districts ("all but Shuangcheng and Acheng not urbanized yet") had 5,282,093 inhabitants, while the total population of the sub-provincial city was up to 10,635,971.  Harbin serves as a key political, economic, scientific, cultural, and communications hub in Northeast China, as well as an important industrial base of the nation.
  Title: Central Falls, Rhode Island
  Passage: Central Falls is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States.  The population was 19,376 at the 2010 census.  With an area of only 1.29 sqmi , it is the smallest and most densely populated city in the smallest state, and the 27th most densely populated incorporated place in the United States.  It is also one of only four incorporated places in New England that have a higher population density than the city of Boston (ranking fourth, behind the Massachusetts cities of Somerville, Chelsea and Cambridge, all inner suburbs of Boston).  The city takes its name from a waterfall on the Blackstone River.
citations: Bengbu Taishan