Hebei Province surrounds the capital Beijing. It covers a total area of 197693 square kilometers. Its provincial capital is Shijiazhuang City. It is 283 kilometers away from Beijing in the north, adjoins Tianjian and abuts on the Bohai Sea in the east, holds in the mouth the two provinces of Shangdong and Henan in the southeast and the south, lies at the back of Taihang Mountains and neighbors Shanxi Province in the west, has a common boundary with the Mongolia Autonomous Region in the northwest and the north and borders on Liaoning Province in the northeast.
The topography of Hebei Province is high in the northwest and low in the southeast. It slopes from the northwest to the southeast with complicated and varied landforms. It is the sole province with seashore, plain, lake, hill and plateau. It has large quantities of natural resources with a complete variety.
Tourist Resources
The province has Shanhaikuan, “the First Pass Under Heaven”, Chengde Summer House, the largest royal garden in the country, Eastern and Western Qing Tombs with grand vigor and exquisite stone sculpture, tombs of the Han Dynasty in Mancheng, which is well known in the world for the excavation of clothing, and the religious relics such as the northern and southern Xiangtang Mountains and the Qiaolou (Bridge-tower) Hall of the Cangyan Mountain. Chengde and Baoding has been fixed as the national famous historical and cultural cities.
Scenic spots such as Eastern Qing Tomb, Western Qing Tomb, Shanhaikuan, Xin’ao Underwater World in Qinhuangdao, Qinhuangdao Wildlife Park, Chengde Summer House, Puning Temple, the Temple of the Potaraka Doctrine and Wuqiao Circus World has been evaluated as the first 4A level tourist areas of the highest grade in the country.
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