Hebei, referred to as "Ji", is the provincial administrative region of the people's Republic of China and the provincial capital Shijiazhuang. Located in North China, bounded by latitude 36 ° 05′-42 ° 40 ', 113 e ° 27′-119 ° 50 '.
It is surrounded by Beijing, the capital of China. It is adjacent to Tianjin and Bohai Sea in the East, Shandong and Henan provinces in the southeast and south, Taihang Mountain and Shanxi in the west, Inner Mongolia in the northwest and North, and Liaoning in the northeast, with a total area of 188800 square kilometers. As of 0:00 on November 1, 2020, the permanent resident population of Hebei Province is 74.610235 million.
Hebei is a large province of cultural relics, with 930 cultural relics protection units at or above the provincial level, ranking first in China. It has three World Cultural Heritages: the Great Wall, Chengde summer resort and surrounding temples, and the eastern and Western tombs of the Qing Dynasty; Handan, Baoding, Chengde, Zhengding, Shanhaiguan five national historical and cultural cities.
Hebei is the longest distance, best preserved and most representative building in the Great Wall. The the Great Wall remains more than 2000 kilometers in the territory, and the essence of the old dragon, Shanhaiguan, Jinshan mountain the Great Wall and so on are all in Hebei. Chengde summer resort is the largest existing royal garden in the world, and its surrounding Waiba temples are the largest group of Royal temples in China.
The eastern tombs and the Western tombs of Qing Dynasty are the largest and most complete Royal Mausoleums in China. Zhaozhou Bridge is known as the "ancestor of the world arch bridge", and is the oldest open shoulder stone arch bridge in the world. It has a history of more than 1400 years.