GDP · 2025
1.28
trillion yuanNantong statistics source ↗
Municipality-wide GDP at current prices.
Cities · China in Figures
Nantong in figures
Nantong is a Yangtze River Delta port, shipbuilding and manufacturing city on the north bank of the Yangtze estuary.
Resident population · 2024
7.75
million peopleNantong resident-population source ↗
Latest archived official value, reference year 2024; no later hukou or inferred value is substituted.
Administrative area · 2026
8,001
sq kmNantong administrative-area source ↗
Official land area; separately reported maritime area is excluded.
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: Nantong statistics source ↗ · Nantong resident-population source ↗ · Nantong administrative-area source ↗ · Official Nantong statistical communiques and municipal administrative-area sources.chinainfigures.com
Urbanisation
73.1 percentNantong resident-population source ↗
Latest archived official value, reference year 2024; no later hukou or inferred value is substituted.
Disposable income
57,242 yuan per personNantong statistics source ↗
All-resident disposable income per person.
Services share
49.7 percentNantong statistics source ↗
Official tertiary-industry share of GDP.
Population
Which Nantong?
The 2025 communique does not publish year-end resident population or resident urbanisation. This profile retains the latest archived official 2024 values and does not infer population from rounded per-capita GDP.
Area
Administrative territory
The 8,001 sq km headline is official land area. The separately reported 8,701 sq km maritime area is excluded and the land area is not the compact central city.
Economy and systems
A city in context
GDP, resident income and industry structure use the 2025 statistical communique; resident population and urbanisation retain their actual 2024 reference year. Nantong's full municipal scope includes urban districts, a county and county-level cities, with major Yangtze and coastal port, shipbuilding and logistics functions.
International scale check
Compared with Pittsburgh
Selected for similar economic scale: Pittsburgh, United States.
Not a like-for-like rank
The peer MSA GDP (~US$194.2B, 2023) is close to Nantong's municipality GDP after indicative USD conversion (~US$183.7B).
Nantong uses the official full prefecture-level municipal scope; Pittsburgh uses a U.S. MSA boundary. Years, legal status and territorial coverage differ, so GDP proximity is a scale reference only.
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Nantong
Chinese municipality-wide administrative scope
Overseas peer
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA MSA
| Metric | Nantong | Pittsburgh |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 1.28trillion yuan≈ US$184B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Nantong statistics source ↗ | 194US$ billionBEA metro GDP via FRED NGMP38300, 2023 ↗ |
| Population | 7.75million peopleNantong resident-population source ↗ | 2.37million peopleU.S. Census Bureau 2020 Census metropolitan geography ↗ |
| Area | 8,001sq kmNantong administrative-area source ↗ | 13,683sq kmU.S. Census Bureau 2020 Census metropolitan geography ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 969people / sq km | 173people / 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.