Official website of Huangshi Municipal People's Government shows that at the end of 2022, the permanent population of Huangshi City was 2.444 million, and the urbanization rate of the permanent population reached 67.04%, ranking third in the province, which was 2.37 percentage points higher than that of the whole province and 1.82 percentage points higher than that of the whole country. So it's 2.444 million.

There are delicious foods in Huangshi: spiced eggplant noodles, sugar-free Dongkeng, banana crisp, Huangshi Laosimen lard cake, Huangshi Songhua preserved eggs, glutinous rice chicken, prince tofu, Huangshi Yijiangting soup packets, estuary crabs, Hong Kong cakes and so on.