GDP · 2025
0.47
trillion yuanUrumqi Statistics ↗
Municipality-wide GDP.
Cities · China in Figures
Urumqi in figures
Xinjiang’s capital and a major far-western centre for trade, aviation, logistics, energy services and regional administration.
Resident population · 2025
4.15
million peopleUrumqi Statistics ↗
Year-end resident population across the full municipality.
Administrative area · 2024
12,941.4
sq kmUrumqi area source ↗
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: Urumqi Statistics ↗ · Urumqi area source ↗ · Official Urumqi statistical releases and administrative-area sources.chinainfigures.com
Urbanisation
97.4 percentUrumqi Statistics ↗
Official resident-population classification.
GDP per resident
112,485 yuan per personUrumqi Statistics ↗
Official municipality-wide value.
Services share
71.3 percentUrumqi Statistics ↗
Tertiary-industry share of GDP.
Population
Which Urumqi?
Resident population covers the full municipal statistical territory.
Area
Administrative territory
The stored area is the 2024 land total excluding Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps land; it differs from the rounded administrative overview figure.
Economy and systems
A city in context
The current profile uses the official 2025 statistical communique for GDP, population and economic structure. Urumqi is a major aviation, rail, road and inland-port gateway for Xinjiang and Central Asian trade.
International scale check
Compared with Omaha
Selected for similar economic scale: Omaha, United States.
Not a like-for-like rank
The peer MSA GDP (~US$76B, 2023) is close to Urumqi's municipality GDP after indicative USD conversion (~US$67B).
Urumqi is a far-western regional capital whose stored land area excludes XPCC land; Omaha uses a bi-state MSA. GDP proximity is a scale reference only.
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Urumqi
Chinese municipality-wide administrative scope
Overseas peer
Omaha
Omaha–Council Bluffs MSA
| Metric | Urumqi | Omaha |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 0.47trillion yuan≈ US$67B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Urumqi Statistics ↗ | 76US$ billionU.S. BEA metro GDP, 2023 ↗ |
| Population | 4.15million peopleUrumqi Statistics ↗ | 0.97million peopleU.S. Census Bureau metropolitan population ↗ |
| Area | 12,941sq kmUrumqi area source ↗ | 11,345sq kmU.S. Census Bureau metropolitan geography ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 321people / sq km | 85people / 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.