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Hohhot in figures

Inner Mongolia’s capital and a regional centre for dairy, energy services, data industries, education and grassland-facing administration.

Resident population · 2025

3.66

million peopleHohhot Statistics ↗

Year-end resident population across the stated municipal statistical scope.

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: Hohhot Statistics ↗ · Hohhot area source ↗ · Official Hohhot statistical releases and administrative-area sources.chinainfigures.com

Population

Which Hohhot?

Resident population covers the full municipality, including four districts, four counties, one banner and development zones.

Area

Administrative territory

The official city overview gives a rounded total area of 17,200 sq km; the built-up area is only a small part of that territory.

Economy and systems

A city in context

The current profile uses the official 2025 statistical communique for GDP, population, GDP per capita and industry structure. Hohhot is a major rail, aviation and logistics hub linking central Inner Mongolia with northern China.

International scale check

Compared with Tulsa

Selected for similar economic scale: Tulsa, United States.

Not a like-for-like rank

The peer MSA GDP (~US$68B, 2023) is close to Hohhot's municipality GDP after indicative USD conversion (~US$61B).

Hohhot is a regional-capital municipality with districts, counties and a banner; Tulsa uses a multi-county U.S. MSA boundary. GDP proximity is a scale reference only.

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Hohhot

Chinese municipality-wide administrative scope

Overseas peer

Tulsa

Tulsa MSA

At least GDP, population and area; density is derived from population ÷ area.
MetricHohhotTulsa
Gross product0.43trillion yuan· 2025≈ US$61B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Hohhot Statistics ↗68US$ billion· 2023U.S. BEA metro GDP via FRED, 2023 ↗
Population3.66million people· 2025Hohhot Statistics ↗1.02million people· 2020U.S. Census Bureau metropolitan population ↗
Area17,200sq km· 2025Hohhot area source ↗16,066sq km· 2020U.S. Census Bureau metropolitan geography ↗
Density (derived)213people / sq km63people / 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.