Hengshui
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) | |
Location of Hengshui City jurisdiction in Hebei | |
| 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 | |
| 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) | |
| 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 | |
| • 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. It borders Shijiazhuang City to the west, Xingtai City to the south, and Baoding City and Cangzhou City to the north. 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. It is on the Beijing–Kowloon railway.
Hengshui has a long history and profound cultural heritage. During the Three Kingdoms period, Yuan Shao once stationed millions of troops in Jizhou to compete with Cao Cao. Dong Zhongshu, a great philosopher of the Western Han Dynasty and a great master of the Confucian school, was born in Hengshui Jing County. Hengshui now has two national-level cultural relics protection units: the Jingxian Fengshi Tombs and the Relic Pagoda, plus the Houzhong Han Tomb, Shuangzhong Han Tomb, Xiyuantou Han Tomb in Jizhou, the Qinglin Temple Pagoda in the old city, and the Taocheng District There are 19 provincial key cultural relics protection units including Baoyun Temple Pagoda.