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Zhengzhou in figures

A central-China rail, aviation, logistics and advanced-manufacturing hub with a large metropolitan administrative territory.

Resident population · 2025

13.14

million peopleZhengzhou Statistics ↗

Year-end resident population across the full municipality.

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.

Latest official values
Source: Zhengzhou Statistics ↗ · Zhengzhou area source ↗ · Official Zhengzhou statistical releases and administrative-area sources.chinainfigures.com

Population

Which Zhengzhou?

Resident population covers the full municipal administrative territory, including county-level cities and rural areas.

Area

Administrative territory

Administrative area is much larger than the continuously built-up urban footprint and must be compared with visible boundary notes.

Economy and systems

A city in context

The current profile uses the official 2025 statistical communique for GDP, population and industry structure. Zhengzhou is a major national railway junction, air-cargo centre and inland logistics hub.

International scale check

Compared with Orlando

Selected for similar economic scale: Orlando, United States.

Not a like-for-like rank

The peer MSA GDP (~US$219B, 2023) is close to Zhengzhou's municipality GDP after indicative USD conversion (~US$219B).

Zhengzhou is a large central-China administrative city and transport hub; Orlando uses a multi-county MSA boundary. GDP proximity is a scale reference only.

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Zhengzhou

Chinese municipality-wide administrative scope

Overseas peer

Orlando

Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford MSA

At least GDP, population and area; density is derived from population ÷ area.
MetricZhengzhouOrlando
Gross product1.52trillion yuan· 2025≈ US$219B (Indicative conversion only (≈ CNY 6.97 per USD))Zhengzhou Statistics ↗219US$ billion· 2023U.S. BEA metro GDP, 2023 ↗
Population13.14million people· 2025Zhengzhou Statistics ↗2.67million people· 2020U.S. Census Bureau metropolitan population ↗
Area7,568sq km· 2025Zhengzhou area source ↗9,044sq km· 2020U.S. Census Bureau metropolitan geography ↗
Density (derived)1,736people / sq km296people / 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.