Xingtai

Xíngtái (simplified Chinese: 邢台; traditional Chinese: 邢臺 or 邢台; Wade–Giles: Hsingtai) is a city in southern Hebei province, North China. The prefecture-level city of Xingtai, with a total area of 12,486 square kilometres (4,821 sq mi), administers 2 districts, 2 county-level cities and 15 counties. In 2004 it had an urban population of 561,400 and a total population of 6.73 million. 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.