GDP · 2025
1.02
trillion yuanWenzhou statistics source ↗
Municipality-wide GDP at current prices.
Cities · China in Figures
Wenzhou in figures
Wenzhou is a private-economy, county-industry and international-trade centre on the southern Zhejiang coast.
Resident population · 2025
9.9
million peopleWenzhou statistics source ↗
Official resident population across the full municipal statistical scope.
Administrative area · 2025
12,102.7
sq kmWenzhou administrative-area source ↗
Official land area; separately reported maritime territory 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: Wenzhou statistics source ↗ · Wenzhou administrative-area source ↗ · Official Wenzhou statistical communiques and municipal administrative-area sources.chinainfigures.com
Urbanisation
76.7 percentWenzhou statistics source ↗
Official resident-population urbanisation rate.
Disposable income
73,660 yuan per personWenzhou statistics source ↗
All-resident disposable income per person.
Services share
61.7 percentWenzhou statistics source ↗
Official tertiary-industry share of GDP.
Population
Which Wenzhou?
The 2025 resident-population value is an official estimate based on the national 1 percent population sample survey and covers the full municipality.
Area
Administrative territory
The 12,102.65 sq km headline is official land area. The separately reported 8,649 sq km maritime territory is excluded and the land area is not contiguous urban fabric.
Economy and systems
A city in context
GDP, resident population, urbanisation, resident income and industry structure use official 2025 values. Wenzhou's municipal economy spans urban districts, county-level cities, mountainous counties and islands, linked through coastal ports, rail, expressways and aviation.
International scale check
Compared with Raleigh
Selected for similar economic scale: Raleigh, United States.
Not a like-for-like rank
The peer MSA GDP (~US$133.1B, 2023) is close to Wenzhou's municipality GDP after indicative USD conversion (~US$146.5B).
Wenzhou uses the official full prefecture-level municipal scope; Raleigh 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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Wenzhou
Chinese municipality-wide administrative scope
Overseas peer
Raleigh
Raleigh–Cary, NC MSA
| Metric | Wenzhou | Raleigh |
|---|---|---|
| Gross product | 1.02trillion yuan≈ US$147B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Wenzhou statistics source ↗ | 133US$ billionBEA metro GDP via FRED NGMP39580, 2023 ↗ |
| Population | 9.9million peopleWenzhou statistics source ↗ | 1.41million peopleU.S. Census Bureau 2020 Census metropolitan geography ↗ |
| Area | 12,103sq kmWenzhou administrative-area source ↗ | 5,487sq kmU.S. Census Bureau 2020 Census metropolitan geography ↗ |
| Density (derived) | 818people / sq km | 258people / 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.