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Hebei, a province encircling , is home to approximately 75 million residents. Situated at the heart of the expansive and flat Northern China Plain, Hebei is predominantly an industrial region overlooked by international tourists.
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is the capital of Hebei Province. It is also the main economic centre of Hebei and a relatively important city in . It can be a useful base for visiting nearby places of interest including two monasteries and a stone bridge built around 600 CE.

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is a city in Hebei. is also renowned as the country's largest steel-making city, although it has been reducing its steel output to improve air quality.

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is a prefecture-level city in central Hebei province, approximately 150 kilometres southwest of . As of the 2020 census, City had 11,544,036 inhabitants, of which 2,549,787 lived in the metropolitan area made of 4 out of 5 urban districts: Lianchi, Jingxiu, Qingyuan, and Mancheng all of which are largely conurbated.

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is a prefecture-level city located in the southwest of Hebei province, China. The southernmost prefecture-level city of the province, it borders on the north, and the provinces of on the west, on the south and on the east.

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is a city of 1.9 million people in the urban area in Hebei province. Port is the largest coal shipping port in the country. The Wildlife Park and is China's second largest wildlife park.

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is a city in Hebei. Rehe was the summer residence of the early Qing Dynasty emperors. The city maintains the fine features of this hill-side resort, such as the outer wall and large expanse of parkland that incorporates lakes, pagodas, and palaces.

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is a major city in northwestern Hebei. It is a modern year-round resort area with world-class ski resorts, hotels, and infrastructure. is also known for its refreshing summer climate, rolling grasslands, and wind farms, making it a popular destination for road trippers and outdoor enthusiasts.

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is a city of 7.4 million people in the south-eastern part of Hebei province in ，It is also the largest residence of the Hui people in North China.It is the southern gateway between Beijing and Tianjin.

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,located in Hebei province, China, is a city known for its scenic lakes and rich cultural heritage. Its peaceful environment contrasts with the hustle and bustle of larger cities like Beijing, making it a great spot for nature lovers and history enthusiasts alike.

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is a county-level city in the northeast of Hebei province, China, bordering to the west. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of . Historic sites include the Eastern Qing Tombs.

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Zhengding, formerly known by several other names, is a county in southwestern Hebei Province, , located approximately 260 km south of , capital of China.

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, Hebei is a county of Hebei Province, , bordering province to the west. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of , the provincial capital.

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is a county in the prefecture of Hebei in . Laiyuan is a rural county that is a day trip away from Beijing. It offers exciting sights including the Wulonggou Great Wall and the Baishi Mountain, the most scenic mountain in north China.
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Hebei

Latitude of center
39° north
Longitude of center
116° east
Population
69,900,000
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244080467
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1808773
Wiki­data ID
Q21208
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Hebei” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Hebei”
  • Afrikaans: “Hebei”
  • Arabic: “خبي”
  • Armenian: “Հեբեյ”
  • Asturian: “Hebei”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hebei”
  • Balinese: “Hebei”
  • Basque: “Hebei”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Хэбэй”
  • Belarusian: “Хэ-бэй”
  • Belarusian: “Хэбэй”
  • Bengali: “হপেই”
  • Breton: “Hebei”
  • Bulgarian: “Хъбей”
  • Catalan: “Hebei”
  • Cebuano: “Hebei Sheng”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھێبێی”
  • Chechen: “Хэбэй”
  • Chinese: “Hebei Sheng”
  • Chinese: “Hô-pak-séng”
  • Chinese: “冀”
  • Chinese: “河北”
  • Chinese: “河北省”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Hebei”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Hebey”
  • Croatian: “Hebei”
  • Czech: “Che-pej”
  • Danish: “Hebei”
  • Dutch: “Hebei”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “خباى”
  • Esperanto: “Hebejo”
  • Estonian: “Hebei”
  • Finnish: “Hebei”
  • French: “Hebei”
  • French: “Héběi”
  • French: “Province de Hebei”
  • Galician: “Hebei”
  • Gan Chinese: “河北”
  • Gan Chinese: “河北省”
  • Georgian: “ხებეი”
  • German: “Hebei”
  • Greek: “Χεμπέι”
  • Gujarati: “હેબી”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Hò-pet”
  • Hebrew: “הביי”
  • Hebrew: “חביי”
  • Hindi: “हेबेई”
  • Hindi: “हेबै”
  • Hungarian: “Hopej”
  • Icelandic: “Hebei”
  • Ido: “Provinco Hebei”
  • Indonesian: “Hebei”
  • Interlingua: “Hebei”
  • Irish: “Hebei”
  • Italian: “Hebei”
  • Japanese: “河北省 (中華人民共和国)”
  • Japanese: “河北省”
  • Kannada: “ಹೆಬಿ”
  • Khmer: “ខេត្តហឺបុី”
  • Kongo: “Hebei”
  • Korean: “허베이 성”
  • Korean: “허베이성”
  • Kurdish: “Hebei”
  • Latin: “Hebei”
  • Latvian: “Hebei”
  • Literary Chinese: “河北”
  • Literary Chinese: “河北省”
  • Lithuanian: “Hebei”
  • Lithuanian: “Hebėjus”
  • Lombard: “Hebei”
  • Macedonian: “Хебеј”
  • Malagasy: “Hebei”
  • Malay: “Hebei”
  • Malayalam: “ഹെബെയ്”
  • Manipuri: “ꯍꯦꯕꯩ”
  • Manx: “Hebei”
  • Marathi: “हपै”
  • Mazanderani: “هبئی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ò̤-báe̤k”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hô-pak-séng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hô-pak”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰებეი”
  • Mongolian: “Хэбэй муж”
  • Mongolian: “Хэбэй”
  • Nepali: “हेबेई”
  • Nepali: “हेवेई”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hebei”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hebei”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hebei”
  • Norwegian: “Hebei”
  • Novial: “Hebei”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hebei”
  • Ossetian: “Хэбэй”
  • Pampanga: “Hebei”
  • Persian: “هبئی”
  • Persian: “هه‌بئی”
  • Polish: “Hebei”
  • Portuguese: “Hebei”
  • Portuguese: “província de Hebei”
  • Quechua: “Hebei pruwinsya”
  • Romanian: “Hebei”
  • Russian: “Хэбэй”
  • Scots: “Hebei”
  • Serbian: “Хебеј”
  • Serbian: “Хубеј”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hebei”
  • Sindhi: “ھيبئي صوبو”
  • Sinhala: “හෙබෙයි”
  • Slovak: “Che-pej”
  • Slovenian: “Hebei”
  • Slovenian: “Hebej”
  • Spanish: “Hebei”
  • Swahili: “Hebei”
  • Swedish: “Hebei”
  • Swiss German: “Hebei”
  • Tagalog: “Hebei”
  • Tajik: “Ҳебей”
  • Tamil: “ஏபெய் மாகாணம்”
  • Tamil: “ஹெபெய்”
  • Telugu: “హెబీ”
  • Thai: “มณฑลเหอเป่ย์”
  • Tibetan: “ཧའོ་པེ་ཞིང་ཆེན།”
  • Turkish: “Hebei”
  • Uighur: “خېبېي ئۆلكىسى”
  • Ukrainian: “Хебей”
  • Urdu: “ہیبئی”
  • Uzbek: “Xebey”
  • Venetian: “Hebei”
  • Vietnamese: “Hà Bắc”
  • Walloon: “Hebei”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hebei”
  • Welsh: “Hebei”
  • Western Armenian: “Հըպէյ”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہوپے”
  • Wu Chinese: “河北省”
  • Yue Chinese: “冀”
  • Yue Chinese: “河北”
  • Yue Chinese: “河北省”
  • Zhuang: “Hozbaek”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Hebei”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.