Xingtai is a
prefecture-level city in southern
Hebei province, People's Republic of China. It has a total area of and administers 2
districts, 2
county-level cities and 15
counties. At the 2010 census, its population was 7,104,103 inhabitants whom 1,461,809 lived in the built-up (
or metro) area made of 2 urban districts and Xingtai and Nanhe Counties largely being conurbated now. 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.