Xiangyang, formerly known as Xiangfan, prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Hubei Province, the State Council approved the determination of the new industrial base in Hubei Province and the center of northwestern Hubei city. Xiangyang*** has three municipal districts, three counties, and three county-level cities under its jurisdiction, with a total area of 19,700 square kilometers. As of the end of 2021, Xiangyang had a resident population of 5.271 million. Xiangyang is located in central China, northwestern Hubei, and the middle reaches of the Han River, and is a provincial sub-center city, a central city in the Han River basin, and an important member of the city cluster in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.In 2021, Xiangyang's citywide GDP amounted to 530.943 billion yuan.

Xiangyang has 3 districts of Xiangcheng, Fancheng and Xiangzhou, 3 counties of Nanzhang, Baokang and Gucheng, and 3 cities of Zaoyang, Yicheng and Laohekou, and it has the state-level Xiangyang High-tech Industrial Development Zone and the provincial-level Xiangyang Economic and Technological Development Zone (Xiangyang Dongjin New District) and Yuliangzhou Economic Development Zone. The city covers an area of 19,774.41 square kilometers, with a common cultivated area of 452.2 thousand hectares, an increase of 2.6 thousand hectares over the previous year.At the end of 2013, the city's household population was 5,950,969, of which the urban population was 1,364,545 (excluding Xiangzhou District, and including Dongjin New District), accounting for 22.93% of the city's total population. The city's non-agricultural population is 3118,780, and the city's male population is 305,450. The city's resident population is 5,591,000 (referring to people who have lived in the city for more than half a year), with an urbanization rate of 54.82%. The birth rate is 11.75‰; the death rate is 3.96‰, and the natural population growth rate is 7.79‰.