GDP · 2025
1.57
trillion yuanChangsha Statistics ↗
Municipality-wide GDP.
Cities · China in Figures
Changsha in figures
Hunan’s capital and a major centre for engineering machinery, advanced manufacturing, media, education and consumer services.
Resident population · 2025
10.72
million peopleChangsha Statistics ↗
Year-end resident population across the full municipality.
Administrative area · 2015
11,819
Administrative territory, not built-up area.
City profile
Economy, population and urban systems
Each value keeps its own unit. Indexed bars provide a visual summary only and are not direct unit comparisons.
Source: Changsha Statistics ↗ · Changsha area source ↗ · Official Changsha statistical releases and administrative-area sources.chinainfigures.com
Urbanisation
84.51 percentChangsha Statistics ↗
Share of resident population classified as urban.
GDP per resident
146,789 yuan per personChangsha GDP-per-resident inputs ↗
Derived from same-year official GDP and year-end resident population.
Services share
61.9 percentChangsha Statistics ↗
Derived from official GDP components.
Population
Which Changsha?
Resident population covers the full municipality, including the central districts, Changsha County, Liuyang and Ningxiang.
Area
Administrative territory
The official land-area reference covers the whole municipality and is not the built-up urban footprint.
Economy and systems
A city in context
The current profile uses official 2025 city statistics for GDP, population, income and industry structure. Changsha is a major central-China rail, aviation and logistics hub.
International scale check
Compared with Tampa
Selected for similar economic scale: Tampa, United States.
Not a like-for-like rank
The peer MSA GDP (~US$198B, 2023) is close to Changsha's municipality GDP after indicative USD conversion (~US$226B).
Changsha includes central districts, a county and county-level cities; Tampa uses a multi-county MSA. GDP proximity is a scale reference only.
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Changsha
Chinese municipality-wide administrative scope
Overseas peer
Tampa
Tampa–St. Petersburg–Clearwater MSA
| Metric | Changsha | Tampa |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 1.57trillion yuan≈ US$226B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Changsha Statistics ↗ | 198US$ billionU.S. BEA metro GDP, 2023 ↗ |
| Population | 10.72million peopleChangsha Statistics ↗ | 3.18million peopleU.S. Census Bureau metropolitan population ↗ |
| Area | 11,819sq kmChangsha area source ↗ | 6,615sq kmU.S. Census Bureau metropolitan geography ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 907people / sq km | 480people / sq km |
Used only to place Chinese municipality GDP beside peer metro GDP in USD. Not PPP, not constant-price, and not an official exchange-rate series.