Cangzhou is a
prefecture-level city in eastern
Hebei province, People's Republic of China. At the 2010 census, Cangzhou's built-up (
or metro) area made of Yunhe, Xinhua districts and Cang County largely being conurbated had a population of 1,205,814 inhabitants, while the prefecture-level administrative unit in total has a population of 7,134,062. It lies approximately from the major port city of
Tianjin, and from
Beijing.