![]() | This article needs to be updated. The reason given is: As of June 23, 2020 The State Council have approved the renaming of Qiaoxi and Qiaodong districts, the full annexation of Xingtai County and the character-retaining annexation of Ren County (as Renze District) and Nanhe County (as Nanhe District).(June 2020) |
Xingtai
邢台市 Hsingtai, Shunteh | |
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![]() Clockwise from top: Xingtai Liberation Monument, sculpture of Lying Bull, Xingtai Telegraph Building, city wall ruins and Huoshen Temple, Zhongxing West Street, Dakaiyuan Temple, Qingfeng Tower, statue of Guo Shoujing | |
Nickname: Sitting Bull City (卧牛城) | |
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![]() Location of Xingtai City jurisdiction in Hebei | |
Coordinates (Xingtai municipal government): 37°04′18″N 114°30′17″E / 37.0717°N 114.5048°E | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Province | Hebei |
Settled | 3500 BC |
Established | November 15, 1983 |
Area | |
• Prefecture-level city | 12,432 km2 (4,800 sq mi) |
• Urban | 114.80 km2 (44.32 sq mi) |
• Districts[1] | 132.3 km2 (51.1 sq mi) |
Population (2020 census)[2] | |
• Prefecture-level city | 7,111,106 |
• Density | 570/km2 (1,500/sq mi) |
• Urban | 971,300 |
• Urban density | 8,500/km2 (22,000/sq mi) |
• Districts[1] | 971,000 |
GDP[3] | |
• Prefecture-level city | CN¥ 223.6 billion US$ 32.4 billion |
• Per capita | CN¥ 24,256 US$3,894 |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Postal code | 054000 |
Area code | 0319 |
ISO 3166 code | CN-HE-05 |
Vehicle registration | 冀E |
Website | www |
Xingtai | |||||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 邢台 | ||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 邢臺 | ||||||||
Postal | Hsingtai | ||||||||
Literal meaning | "temple of Xing" | ||||||||
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Xingtai (simplified Chinese: 邢台; traditional Chinese: 邢臺; pinyin: Xíngtái; Wade–Giles: Hsing2-tʻai2), formerly known as Xingzhou and Shunde, is a prefecture-level city in southern Hebei province, People's Republic of China. It has a total area of 12,486 km2 (4,821 sq mi) and administers 4 districts, 2 county-level cities and 12 counties. At the 2020 census, its population was 7,111,106 inhabitants.[2] It borders Shijiazhuang and Hengshui in the north, Handan in the south, and the provinces of Shandong and Shanxi in the east and west respectively.