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Province · North China
Hebei is a province in North China. Eleven PreeChina city guides cover Hebei.
One Grade I national museum stands in the province. Five UNESCO World Heritage properties have a listed component there.
Counts on this page come from PreeChina's own data as of October 2026. Tickets, opening hours and reservations are not listed, so contact each venue or check its official website for accurate information.
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City Guides
Each city name opens its PreeChina guide.
Landmark Guides
In-depth guides to eight landmarks in Hebei.
Top Attractions
A pick from the Top Attractions of the city guides in Hebei. Each card opens the Top Attractions of its city.
Shijiazhuang
The Hebei Museum holds the jade burial suits of Liu Sheng and his wife Dou Wan, lifted out of the cliff tombs at Mancheng in 1968.
Tangshan
The Eastern Qing Tombs at Zunhua hold five emperors, Shunzhi, Kangxi, Qianlong, Xianfeng and Tongzhi, with fifteen empresses and over a hundred and thirty consorts, and…
Chengde
Bishu Shanzhuang means the mountain villa for escaping the heat, and it was the summer seat of the Qing for the better part of two centuries.
Qinhuangdao
At Laolongtou, the Old Dragon's Head, the Ming wall comes down out of the Yanshan hills, crosses the coastal plain and runs into the Bohai Sea, with the last tower…
Handan
Guangfu, inside its Ming walls with a wide lotus moat around them, is where Yang Luchan came from, and where Wu Yuxiang founded the style that carries his name.
Hengshui
Hengshui is the undisputed capital of inside-painted snuff bottle art, a technique in which miniature landscapes, portraits, calligraphy, and narrative scenes are…
Tangshan
On July 28, 1976, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Tangshan at 3:42 AM, killing over 240,000 people in 23 seconds, one of the deadliest natural disasters of the 20th…
Chengde
The Putuo Zongcheng temple was finished in 1771, built for Qianlong's sixtieth birthday and modelled on the Potala Palace at roughly two-thirds of its size.
Qinhuangdao
Beidaihe is long golden sand behind pine-wooded headlands on calm Bohai water, warmer and gentler than the Yellow Sea coast further south, and the pines give shade and a…
Handan
Handan has contributed more idioms (chéngyǔ) to the Chinese language than any other city, over 1,500 four-character phrases that originate in stories from the Zhao…
Hengshui
Jizhou, one of the nine ancient provinces of China as described in the classical text Yugong, has been a significant settlement for over 4,000 years, and its compact old…
Tangshan
Tangshan has been a centre of ceramic production for over 700 years and today produces more bone china than any city in the world, supplying the Qing imperial court in…
Museums
These museums are on the China Museums Association Grade I lists and appear on the museums theme page.
one museum in Hebei
World Heritage
A property is counted when UNESCO lists at least one component point inside Hebei. Long lines such as the Great Wall and coastal sites list some of their points, so the list can be shorter than the true extent.
five properties
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