GDP · 2025
0.62
trillion yuanNanning Statistics ↗
Municipality-wide GDP.
Cities · China in Figures
Nanning in figures
Guangxi’s capital and a major China–ASEAN gateway for trade, logistics, services and regional administration.
Resident population · 2025
9.02
million peopleNanning Statistics ↗
Year-end resident population across the full municipality.
Administrative area · 2019
22,099
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: Nanning Statistics ↗ · Nanning area source ↗ · Official Nanning statistical releases and administrative-area sources.chinainfigures.com
Urbanisation
72.4 percentNanning Statistics ↗
Share of resident population classified as urban.
GDP per resident
69,071 yuan per personNanning Statistics ↗
Official municipality-wide value.
Services share
70.1 percentNanning Statistics ↗
Tertiary-industry share of GDP.
Population
Which Nanning?
Resident population covers the full municipality, including central districts, counties and county-level territory.
Area
Administrative territory
The stored 22,099 sq km area is converted from the third national land survey’s approximately 2.2099 million hectares; it is not built-up area.
Economy and systems
A city in context
The current profile uses the official 2025 statistical communique for GDP, population and industry structure. Nanning is a major south-China rail, aviation and road gateway to the Beibu Gulf and ASEAN markets.
International scale check
Compared with Louisville
Selected for similar economic scale: Louisville, United States.
Not a like-for-like rank
The peer MSA GDP (~US$98B, 2023) is close to Nanning's municipality GDP after indicative USD conversion (~US$89B).
Nanning is a regional-capital municipality using land-survey area; Louisville uses a bi-state MSA boundary. GDP proximity is a scale reference only.
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Nanning
Chinese municipality-wide administrative scope
Overseas peer
Louisville
Louisville/Jefferson County MSA
| Metric | Nanning | Louisville |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 0.62trillion yuan≈ US$89B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Nanning Statistics ↗ | 98US$ billionU.S. BEA metro GDP via FRED, 2023 ↗ |
| Population | 9.02million peopleNanning Statistics ↗ | 1.29million peopleU.S. Census Bureau metropolitan population ↗ |
| Area | 22,099sq kmNanning area source ↗ | 10,322sq kmU.S. Census Bureau metropolitan geography ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 408people / sq km | 125people / 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.