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Hangzhou in figures

Zhejiang’s capital explained through its digital economy, trade, population and broad municipality-wide geography.

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.

Latest official values
Source: Hangzhou Government ↗ · Hangzhou Government ↗ · Official city releases and administrative overview.chinainfigures.com

Population

Which Hangzhou?

The profile keeps the 2024 resident-population total and the 2025 population-survey urbanisation rate as separately dated official points.

Area

Administrative territory

The municipality includes dense urban districts, suburban districts, counties and county-level cities.

Economy and systems

A city in context

GDP reached 2.3011 trillion yuan in 2025; services accounted for about 73.9 percent based on official component values. Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport handled more than 50 million passengers in 2025.

International scale check

Compared with Madrid

Selected for similar economic scale: Madrid, Spain.

Not a like-for-like rank

Madrid metro GDP (~US$342B, 2024) is close to Hangzhou’s municipality GDP after USD conversion (~US$330B).

Hangzhou’s administrative area is large relative to many European metros; read population density and area together with the boundary labels.

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Hangzhou

Chinese municipality-wide administrative scope

Overseas peer

Madrid

Madrid metropolitan area / Community of Madrid scale

At least GDP, population and area; density is derived from population ÷ area.
MetricHangzhouMadrid
Gross product2.3trillion yuan· 2025≈ US$330B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Hangzhou Government ↗342US$ billion· 2024Wikipedia list of metropolitan areas by GDP ↗
Population12.62million people· 2024Hangzhou Government ↗6.87million people· 2024INE / Community of Madrid population figures ↗
Area16,850sq km· 2024Hangzhou Government ↗8,028sq km· 2024Community of Madrid official area ↗
Density (derived)749people / sq km856people / 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.