Langfang
Sign in to saveLangfang is a prefecture-level city of Hebei Province, China, and was known as Tianjin Prefecture until 1973. It was renamed Langfang Prefecture after Tianjin became a municipality and finally upgraded into a prefecture-level city in 1988. Langfang is located approximately midway between Beijing and Tianjin. At the 2020 census, the population of Langfang was 5,464,087, of whom 1,147,591 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of Guangyang and Anci districts; its total area is around . At the end of 2024, the registered population of the city was 4.972 million, and the resident population of
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Langfang is a prefecture-level city and big city located in Hebei, China. Its official name is 廊坊市. The city contains the administrative territorial entities of Anci District, Guangyang District, Gu'an County, and Yongqing County. It shares borders with Cangzhou, Baoding, Beijing, and Tianjin.
The area of Langfang is 6419.38, with an elevation of 15. The population is 5464087. The local dialing code is 316, and the postal code is 065000. The license plate code is 冀R. Langfang is twinned with Matsumoto.
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- Langfang
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- Prefecture-level city
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- 廊坊市
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- Clockwise from the top: Sanhe, Jingkelong, Beijing Daxing International Airport, Downtown Langfang at night
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- 7
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- Location of Langfang City jurisdiction in Hebei
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- China Hebei#China Northern Plain#China
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- Location of the city centre in Hebei
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- Country
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- People's Republic of China
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- Province
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- Hebei
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- Municipal seat
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- Guangyang District
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Official name
- 廊坊市
- Country
- China
- Population
- 5464087
- Area
- 6419.38
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Shares border with
- Tianjin
- Official website
- www.lf.gov.cn
- Image
- Aerial View South of Beijing, 2019 Beijing Daxing Airport at Top (48197858976).jpg
- Dialing code
- 316
- Licence plate code
- 冀R
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- Langfang
- topic's main category
- Category:Langfang
- postal code
- 065000
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Langfang
- category for people born here
- Category:People from Langfang
- twinned administrative body
- Matsumoto
- hashtag
- Langfang
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- Administrative divisions
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- The "Northern Three Counties" Exclave
- Climate
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- Economy
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Langfang is a prefecture-level city of Hebei Province, China, and was known as Tianjin Prefecture until 1973. It was renamed Langfang Prefecture after Tianjin became a municipality and finally upgraded into a prefecture-level city in 1988. Langfang is located approximately midway between Beijing and Tianjin. At the 2020 census, the population of Langfang was 5,464,087, of whom 1,147,591 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of Guangyang and Anci districts; its total area is around . At the end of 2024, the registered population of the city was 4.972 million, and the resident population of the city was 5.469 million at the end of the year. Langfang borders Baoding to the southwest, Cangzhou to the south (both prefecture-level cities of Hebei), Beijing to the north and Tianjin to the east. Sanhe City and Dachang Hui County are now conurbated with Beijing, so that they form part of the same built-up area. Langfang is the smallest prefecture-level city of Hebei Province by land area.
==Administrative divisions== Langfang consists of 2 county-level districts, 2 county-level cities, 5 counties, 1 autonomous county, and one economic development zone ().
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