Shijiazhuang is the capital and most populous city of China's Hebei Province. A prefecture-level city about 266 kilometres southwest of Beijing, it administers eight districts, three county-level cities and eleven counties. At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 11,235,086, with 6,230,709 in the built-up area comprising all urban districts except Jingxing District and Zhengding County, the twelfth largest in mainland China.