Handan

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Handan

Total population

9,174,679

Coordinates36.61°, 114.49°

Demographic figures from National Bureau of Statistics of China. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Handan is a prefecture-level city located in the southwest of Hebei province, China. The southernmost prefecture-level city of the province, it borders Xingtai on the north, and the provinces of Shanxi on the west, Henan on the south and Shandong on the east. At the 2010 census, its population was 9,174,683 inhabitants of whom 2,845,790 lived in the built-up area made of 5 urban districts.By the end of 2024, the total resident population of the city is 9,182,100, and the urbanization rate of the resident population is 62.10%. Yongnian District in Handan and Shahe City in Xingtai have largely formed into a single conurbation.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

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Liu Shao

3rd century Cao Wei state official and poet

Chen Jin

Chinese badminton player

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Fang Lijun

Chinese artist (born 1963)

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Chang Yongxiang

Olympic wrestler

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Consort Fu

Grand Empress Dowager of China

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Zhenwei Wang

actor

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Sun Qingmei

association football player

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Feng Jianming

Literature scholar

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Zhou Yuan

Female Chinese volleyball player

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Li Peng

Chinese footballer

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Han Yuchen

Chinese artist and politician

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Ding Haifeng

footballer

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Liu Jiahui

Chinese rhythmic gymnast

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Zhou Chao

Chinese judoka

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Duan Qifeng

Chinese male visually-impaired track and field athlete

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Sun Weizhe

association football player

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Hebei

• Congtai
  0.4 mi away
• Xinpo
  15.3 mi away
• Feixiang
  17.7 mi away
• Ci Xian
  18 mi away · pop. 223,000
• Linzhang
  19.9 mi away · pop. 122,700
• Fengfengkuang
  20.2 mi away
• Cishan
  21.6 mi away
• Shahecheng
  22.9 mi away
• Shiliting
  25 mi away
• Yangfan
  27.5 mi away
• Jize
  29.8 mi away · pop. 121,400
• Nanshimen
  31.6 mi away

Browse all places in Hebei →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Recently spotted species

Light-vented Bulbul

Pycnonotus sinensis

Seen 2026-06-17

Neozirta eidmanni

Neozirta eidmanni

Seen 2026-06-08

Semiothisa cinerearia

Semiothisa cinerearia

Seen 2026-04-19

Euophrys kataokai

Euophrys kataokai

Seen 2026-04-18

Small Copper

Lycaena phlaeas

Seen 2026-04-18

Diabolocatantops pinguis

Diabolocatantops pinguis

Seen 2026-04-06

Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Passer montanus

Seen 2026-04-06

Crested Kingfisher

Megaceryle lugubris

Seen 2026-04-06

Common Merganser

Mergus merganser

Seen 2026-04-06

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Gallery

Geotagged photos within ~6 miles of Handan, from Wikimedia Commons contributors.

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Photos via Wikimedia Commons — see each image page for license & attribution.