Hebei

:Not to be confused with the unrelated province of Hubei

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Hebei (; Postal System Pinyin: Hopeh) is a northern province of the People's Republic of China. Its one-character abbreviation is 冀 (pinyin: j?), named after Ji Province (冀州 J? Zhōu), a Han Dynasty province (zhou) that included southern Hebei. The name Hebei means "north of the (Yellow) River".

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Zhili (Traditional Chinese: 直隸, Simplified Chinese: 直隶, Hanyu Pinyin: Zh?l?, Wade-Giles: Chih-li), meaning "Directly Ruled (by the Imperial Court)", was the name of Hebei before 1928.

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Hebei completely surrounds Beijing and Tianjin municipalities (which also border each other). It borders Liaoning to the northeast, Inner Mongolia to the north, Shanxi to the west, Henan to the south, and Shandong to the southeast. Bohai Bay of the Yellow Sea is to the east. A small part of Hebei, an exclave disjointed from the rest of the province, is wedged between the municipalities of Beijing and Tianjin.

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A common alternate name for Hebei is Yānzh?o (燕赵), after the state of Yan and state of Zhao that existed here during the Warring States Period.

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