A report on Hebei, Beijing, Administrative divisions of China and Tianjin

Nevertheless, its built-up area, the third largest in China after Guangzhou and Shanghai, is slightly bigger, including three districts in Hebei (Sanhe, Dachang Hui and Zhuozhou) being conurbated but with Miyun and Pinggu Districts in Beijing not agglomerated yet.

Beijing is mostly surrounded by Hebei Province with the exception of neighboring Tianjin to the southeast; together, the three divisions form the Jingjinji megalopolis and the national capital region of China.

Tianjin borders Hebei Province and Beijing Municipality, bounded to the east by the Bohai Gulf portion of the Yellow Sea.

In 1421, when the Yongle Emperor moved the capital from Nanjing to Beijing, the province started to be called as "North Zhili" or just "Zhili", which means "Directly Ruled (by the Imperial Court)".

Examples are Pudong, Shanghai and Binhai, Tianjin.

The capital was also moved from Baoding to the upstart city of Shijiazhuang, and, for a short period, to Tianjin.

Municipality of China, literally "direct-controlled city" in Chinese, there being actually four: Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Chongqing

Prefecture-level city, for example, Shijiazhuang, capital of Hebei Province

Hebei is made up of eleven prefecture-level divisions: all prefecture-level cities:

Tianjin is divided into 16 county-level divisions, which are all districts.

Beijing Municipality currently comprises 16 administrative county-level subdivisions including 16 urban, suburban, and rural districts.