Huangshi

30°12′04″N 115°02′20″E / 30.2011°N 115.0390°E / 30.2011; 115.0390

Huangshi 黄石市 Hwangshih
Prefecture-level city
From top, left to right: Downtown Huangshigang; Huangshibei Railway Station; Huangshi Yangtze River Bridge; Ci Lake in Winter; Po Lin Monastery, Yangxin County
Location of Huangshi City jurisdiction in Hubei
Huangshi Location of the city center in Hubei
Coordinates (Huangshi Central Hospital (黄石市中心医院)): 30°12′46″N 115°05′04″E / 30.2129°N 115.0845°E / 30.2129; 115.0845
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Hubei
Municipal seat	Xialu District
Area
• Prefecture-level city	4,582.85 km2 (1,769.45 sq mi)
• Urban	233.80 km2 (90.27 sq mi)
• Metro	1,800.1 km2 (695.0 sq mi)
Population  (2020 census)[1]
• Prefecture-level city	2,469,079
• Density	540/km2 (1,400/sq mi)
• Urban	695,894
• Urban density	3,000/km2 (7,700/sq mi)
• Metro	1,567,108
• Metro density	870/km2 (2,300/sq mi)
GDP[2]
• Prefecture-level city	CN¥ 122.8 billion US$ 19.7 billion
• Per capita	CN¥ 50,053 US$ 8,036
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
ISO 3166 code	CN-HB-02
Licence plate prefixes	鄂B
Website	黄石市政府网 (Huangshi City Government Website) (in Simplified Chinese)

Huangshi (simplified Chinese: 黄石; traditional Chinese: 黃石; pinyin: Huángshí), alternatively romanized as Hwangshih, is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Hubei province, People's Republic of China. Its population was 2,469,079 inhabitants at the 2020 census; 1,567,108 of whom lived in the built-up (or metro) area made up of 4 urban districts plus the city of Daye, now being part of the agglomeration.