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Hengshui
衡水市 | |
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From top, left to right: Downtown Taocheng District; Hengshui Lake; View from Hengshui Middle School; Hengshui Railway Station | |
| Nickname(s): Peach City (桃城), Lake City (水市湖城) | |
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.png) Location of Hengshui City jurisdiction in Hebei | |
  Hengshui Location of the city centre in Hebei  Hengshui Hengshui (Northern China)  Hengshui Hengshui (China) | |
| Coordinates (Hengshui municipal government): 37°44′20″N 115°40′08″E / 37.739°N 115.669°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Hebei |
| Settled | 1265 |
| Established | May 31, 1996 |
| Municipal seat | Taocheng District |
| Area | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 8,836.95 km2 (3,411.97 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 608.8 km2 (235.1 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 608.8 km2 (235.1 sq mi) |
| Population (2020 census)[2] | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 4,212,933 |
| • Density | 480/km2 (1,200/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 805,000 |
| • Urban density | 1,300/km2 (3,400/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 805,000 |
| • Metro density | 1,300/km2 (3,400/sq mi) |
| GDP[3] | |
| • Prefecture-level city | CN¥ 155 billion US$ 22.5 billion |
| • Per capita | CN¥ 27,543 US$ 4,422 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-HE-11 |
| License Plate Prefix | 2022 |
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| Simplified Chinese | 衡水 | ||||||
| Literal meaning | "horizontal river" | ||||||
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Hengshui (Chinese: 衡水) is a prefecture-level city in southern Hebei province, People's Republic of China, bordering Shandong to the southeast. As of the 2020 census its population was 4,212,933 inhabitants, out of whom 805,000 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of Taocheng urban district.[2] It is on the Beijing–Kowloon railway.
- ^ a b c Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, ed. (2019). China Urban Construction Statistical Yearbook 2017. Beijing: China Statistics Press. p. 46. Archived from the original on 18 June 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ a b "China: Hébĕi (Prefectures, Cities, Districts and Counties) - Population Statistics, Charts and Map". Archived from the original on 2015-01-02. Retrieved 2022-03-06.
- ^ https://www.citypopulation.de/en/china/hebei/admin/} [bare URL]