GDP · 2025
0.81
trillion yuanNanchang Statistics ↗
Municipality-wide GDP.
Cities · China in Figures
Nanchang in figures
Jiangxi’s capital and a centre for aviation manufacturing, electronics, automobiles, services and regional transport.
Resident population · 2024
6.67
million peopleNanchang population source ↗
Year-end resident population across the full municipality.
Administrative area · 2025
7,195
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: Nanchang Statistics ↗ · Nanchang area source ↗ · Nanchang population source ↗ · Nanchang GDP-per-resident inputs ↗ · Official Nanchang statistical releases and administrative-area sources.chinainfigures.com
Urbanisation
79.9 percentNanchang population source ↗
Official 2024 resident urbanisation rate.
GDP per resident
116,940 yuan per personNanchang GDP-per-resident inputs ↗
Derived from same-year official GDP and year-end resident population.
Services share
55.3 percentNanchang Statistics ↗
Official 2025 tertiary-industry share of GDP.
Population
Which Nanchang?
GDP and industry structure use 2025, while resident population and urbanisation use the official 2024 population release. The page keeps those years visible.
Area
Administrative territory
The official 2025 investment guide gives a municipal area of 7,195 sq km; this is not the built-up urban footprint.
Economy and systems
A city in context
The current formal GDP and industry-structure values use the official 2025 economic release. Nanchang is a major central-China rail, aviation and logistics hub.
International scale check
Compared with Jacksonville
Selected for similar economic scale: Jacksonville, United States.
Not a like-for-like rank
The peer MSA GDP (~US$129B, 2023) is close to Nanchang's municipality GDP after indicative USD conversion (~US$117B).
Nanchang is a provincial-capital municipality; Jacksonville uses a five-county MSA. Nanchang GDP and population currently use different reference years. GDP proximity is a scale reference only.
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Nanchang
Chinese municipality-wide administrative scope
Overseas peer
Jacksonville
Jacksonville MSA
| Metric | Nanchang | Jacksonville |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 0.81trillion yuan≈ US$117B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Nanchang Statistics ↗ | 129US$ billionU.S. BEA metro GDP via FRED, 2023 ↗ |
| Population | 6.67million peopleNanchang population source ↗ | 1.61million peopleU.S. Census Bureau metropolitan population ↗ |
| Area | 7,195sq kmNanchang area source ↗ | 8,291sq kmU.S. Census Bureau metropolitan geography ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 927people / sq km | 194people / 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.