Xingtai 邢台市

Xingtai (simplified Chinese:邢台; traditional Chinese:邢臺 or 邢台; pinyin:Xíngtái; Wade–Giles:Hsing-tai) is a prefecture-level city in southern Hebei province, People's *****************. It has a total area of 12,486 square kilometres (4,821 sq mi) and administers 2 districts, 2 county-level cities and 15 counties. At the 2010 census, its population was 7,104,103 inhabitants whom 1,461,809 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of 2 urban districts and Xingtai and Nanhe Counties largely being conurbated now. 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.