GDP · 2025
0.62
trillion yuanHarbin Statistics ↗
Municipality-wide GDP.
Cities · China in Figures
Harbin in figures
Heilongjiang’s capital and a northeast centre for equipment manufacturing, agricultural services, ice-and-snow tourism and trade with Russia.
Resident population · 2025
9.89
million peopleHarbin Statistics ↗
Year-end resident population across the full municipality.
Administrative area · 2025
53,100
sq kmHarbin area source ↗
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: Harbin Statistics ↗ · Harbin area source ↗ · Official Harbin statistical releases and administrative-area sources.chinainfigures.com
Urbanisation
72.15 percentHarbin Statistics ↗
Share of resident population classified as urban.
GDP per resident
62,592 yuan per personHarbin GDP-per-resident inputs ↗
Derived from same-year official GDP and year-end resident population.
Services share
67.9 percentHarbin Statistics ↗
Tertiary-industry share of GDP.
Population
Which Harbin?
Resident population covers the full municipality, including central districts, county-level cities, counties and rural territory.
Area
Administrative territory
The official overview gives a rounded municipal area of 53,100 sq km; this is not the continuously built-up urban footprint.
Economy and systems
A city in context
The current profile uses the official 2025 statistical communique for GDP, population, income and industry structure. Harbin is a major northeast rail, aviation and logistics gateway with strong links to Russia.
International scale check
Compared with New Orleans
Selected for similar economic scale: New Orleans, United States.
Not a like-for-like rank
The peer MSA GDP (~US$102B, 2023) is close to Harbin's municipality GDP after indicative USD conversion (~US$89B).
Harbin is a very large sub-provincial municipality with counties and rural territory; New Orleans uses a multi-parish MSA boundary. GDP proximity is a scale reference only.
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Harbin
Chinese municipality-wide administrative scope
Overseas peer
New Orleans
New Orleans–Metairie MSA
| Metric | Harbin | New Orleans |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 0.62trillion yuan≈ US$89B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Harbin Statistics ↗ | 102US$ billionU.S. BEA metro GDP via FRED, 2023 ↗ |
| Population | 9.89million peopleHarbin Statistics ↗ | 1.27million peopleU.S. Census Bureau metropolitan population ↗ |
| Area | 53,100sq kmHarbin area source ↗ | 9,023sq kmU.S. Census Bureau metropolitan geography ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 186people / sq km | 141people / 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.