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Shijiazhuang

Shijiazhuang is the capital and most populous city of China's Hebei Province, located 266 kilometres (165 mi) southwest of Beijing.

Shijiazhuang
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The place

Shijiazhuang is the capital and most populous city of China's Hebei Province, located 266 kilometres (165 mi) southwest of Beijing. It administers eight districts, three county-level cities and eleven counties, and is east of the Taihang Mountains, which extend over 400 km (250 mi) from north to south with an average elevation of 1,500 to 2,000 m.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Shijiazhuang

7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Hebei Normal University

    Hebei Normal University is a public research university in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, China. It is a provincial key university with more than 100 years of history.

    5.1 km · university in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Tianshan Gate of the World Plots 27 and 28

    Tianshan Gate of the World Plots 27 and 28 is a mixed-use supertall skyscraper in Shijiazhuang, China, by the Tianshan Gate of the World Block A, International Finance Center. It will be 450 metres tall.

    8.3 km · building in Tianshan Gate of the World Plots 27 and 28, China · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Hebei Library

    Hebei Library is a library located in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China. The library first opened in 1909, changed its name and location several times since then, and also did not exist from 1961 to 1987.

    800 m · library in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Hebei Museum

    The Hebei Museum is located in Shijiazhuang, the capital city of Hebei Province, China. It first opened in April 1953 in Baoding.

    1.2 km · museum in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Hebei Medical University

    Hebei Medical University is a university in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China, under the provincial government. It was established in 1894, making it one of the oldest in China, and is an AAA graded medical school in China.

    2.2 km · university in China · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Shijiazhuang Tiedao University

    Shijiazhuang Tiedao University is a national key university in China, specialised in transportation science, engineering and technology and information technology, etc. STDU is currently under the joint administration of the People's Government of Hebei Province, the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence of the People's Republic of China and National Railway Administration of the People's Republic of China.

    4.5 km · university in Hebei, China · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Hebei GEO University

    Hebei Geo University, is a provincial public university in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China.

    4.3 km · The university is well known for the Geological deparment , but also include other majors. · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

There are a number of sightseeing places in the area, both natural and historic. Most are not in the city.

  1. 01
    Bailin Monastery
  2. 02
    North China Military Martyrs Cemetery

    A large park with multiple memorials to those who fought and died in the anti-Japanese war.

  3. 03
    Pilu Monastery
  4. 04
    Zhaozhou Bridge
  5. 05
    Hebei Museum
  6. 06
    Shijiazhuang Museum

From Wikivoyage: Shijiazhuang, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

Tianshan Sea World (天山海世界), 116 Tianshan Ave (桥东区高新技术产业天山大街116号). A family themed water park.

From Wikivoyage: Shijiazhuang, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Shijiazhuang

Airports
Shijiazhuang Zhengding (SJW), 31 km · Taiyuan Wusu (TYN), 168 km · Beijing Daxing (PKX), 231 km
Stations
Shijiazhuang railway station, 4.7 km · Shijiazhuang North railway station, 5.2 km
  • Taiyuan → Shijiazhuang
    169 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · ¥85–110
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  • Beijing → Shijiazhuang
    266 km · quickest by road, 4h 10m · ¥115–150
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  • Datong → Shijiazhuang
    250 km · quickest by road, 5h 41m · ¥140–185
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Shijiazhuang

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Shijiazhuang. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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  2. 02
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  4. 04
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Around it

Next door to Shijiazhuang

Shijiazhuang is 21 km from Luancheng, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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