GDP · 2025
0.39
trillion yuanLanzhou Statistics ↗
Municipality-wide GDP.
Cities · China in Figures
Lanzhou in figures
Gansu’s capital and a Yellow River corridor centre for petrochemicals, equipment manufacturing, research, education and northwest transport.
Resident population · 2025
4.45
million peopleLanzhou Statistics ↗
Year-end resident population across the stated municipal statistical scope.
Administrative area · 2025
13,100
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: Lanzhou Statistics ↗ · Lanzhou area source ↗ · Official Lanzhou statistical releases and administrative-area sources.chinainfigures.com
Urbanisation
86.37 percentLanzhou Statistics ↗
Share of resident population classified as urban.
GDP per resident
87,841 yuan per personLanzhou Statistics ↗
Official municipality-wide value.
Services share
65.56 percentLanzhou Statistics ↗
Tertiary-industry share of GDP.
Population
Which Lanzhou?
Resident population covers the full municipality, including five districts, three counties and the wider municipal territory.
Area
Administrative territory
The official city overview gives a rounded municipal area of 13,100 sq km; it 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, GDP per capita and industry structure. Lanzhou is a major northwest rail, road, aviation and logistics junction along the Yellow River corridor.
International scale check
Compared with Knoxville
Selected for similar economic scale: Knoxville, United States.
Not a like-for-like rank
The peer MSA GDP (~US$64B, 2023) is close to Lanzhou's municipality GDP after indicative USD conversion (~US$56B).
Lanzhou is a long, mountainous Yellow River municipality; Knoxville uses a multi-county U.S. MSA boundary. GDP proximity is a scale reference only.
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Lanzhou
Chinese municipality-wide administrative scope
Overseas peer
Knoxville
Knoxville MSA
| Metric | Lanzhou | Knoxville |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 0.39trillion yuan≈ US$56B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Lanzhou Statistics ↗ | 64US$ billionU.S. BEA metro GDP via FRED, 2023 ↗ |
| Population | 4.45million peopleLanzhou Statistics ↗ | 0.88million peopleU.S. Census Bureau metropolitan population ↗ |
| Area | 13,100sq kmLanzhou area source ↗ | 5,612sq kmU.S. Census Bureau metropolitan geography ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 340people / sq km | 156people / 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.